Firefox 1.5 for Hoary?

[Darryl Clarke]

On 12/8/05, Max Andersen <max at militant.dk> wrote:
> Darryl Clarke wrote:
>
> >Dapper still doesn't have 1.5 (it's at RC3) so once Dapper gets a
> >build, I'm sure it'll find it's way into breezy-backports and
> >hoary-backports... maybe.
> >
> >Time though, who knows.  Seeing as it doesn't apply to the security
> >release policy and it's just a "nice to have" update, it shows up when
> >it shows up. :)
> >
>
> Exactly. I can't see version 1.5 should be issued as a security update
> since a DoS might have been released yesterday.
>
> http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/73
>
> This is a more detailed test, but I haven't actually tested it myself:
>
> http://www.securityfocus.com/comments/newsbriefs/73/269/threaded#269

Man, that sucks. I tested it on a box with 1.5  It doesn't have an
effect right away, but after you restart firefox it causes it to be
really slow.

Basically, it makes firefox write a very, very long title to the url
in question making the history file huge.

But, this is a fine example as to why I can wait for 1.5(.1?) to show
up in the repos :)


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