Problems with recent Firefox security update

[djp]

Dennis Kaarsemaker Wrote: 
> On vr, 2005-07-22 at 16:54 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:

> > Dear Hoary users,

> > 

> > yesterday a security update for Mozilla Firefox was relased

> > (USN-149-1). Many users seem to have problems with the new version,
> it

> > crashes very often.

> > 

> > The problem is that one of the security patches changed the API (the

> > interface that extensions use to integrate with the browser), which

> > breaks many extensions. Similar problems happen with the upstream

> > release 1.0.6, so using that does not help very much.

> 

> Odd enough, downloads aren't handled good too, if a server sends a

> "Content-disposition: attachment; filename=foo" header, mozilla does

> nothing with the file, it gives no output at all.

> 

> I downgraded to ubuntu5.3 :)

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Same here. Following a link for example, to an ogg file, would normally
result in a prompt to open in the default application or save it to
disk. However since the security update, it just does nothing.


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djp