Keep up the good work Asa & Firefox team =)

One quick question: now that I have only one instance of Firefox showing in Add/Remove Programs in Windows (at last! well done guys) If I unintall it, will Firefox 1.0.2 still be there, or will I need to reinstall it from scratch?

(I like to wait until the offcical candidates come out, that way I can check to see how good the auto-update notifier is)

1.0.3 is very solid build. I had download manager problems with first release candidate on macosx. The latest works awesome on winXP and Mac.

Is there any way we can help to increase the publicity given to Microsoft's latest IE vulnerabilities, discovered by eEye? So far they haven't patched it for 19 days, which seems to be far longer than the Firefox time-to-patch.

Mr Lizard: I believe 1.0.2 should be truly gone.

Is it supposed to fix

http://secunia.com/advisories/14820/

??

> Is it supposed to fix ? http://secunia.com/advisories/14820/

It is patched both in trunk and aviary.

So, I guess this makes the first 1.0.x release that I will use the update for (with it removing previous versions and all...) ;-)

1.0.3 RC2 is very solid and working smooth here :)

Firefox is a big crap, very slow and unstable !

Please ensure you link to a comprehensive change-list when 1.0.3 is released, this would be much appreciated by the community in explaining why it is we must download another five meg only weeks after doing so for 1.0.2!

Also, sorry if this has already been fixed, but has 1.0.3 fixed the following two issues:

1. Clicking on the throbber takes you to http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/start/ which provides only a download link and nothing else, rather redundent considering the user is already using Firefox. Could you link to http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central instead or a better Help page?

2. Clicking the "Release Notes" link in "Help" > "Help Contents" takes you to an outdated release notes page.

Just some really minor things, sorry.

Kroc I guess you are experimenting a specific bug or you have tweaked the throbber URL. I'm using 1.0.2 and the throbber takes me to Firefox Central.

Help/Help Contents -> Release Notes in fact takes me to http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.0.html which indeed is outdated.

Kroc, We're not really concerned about the release notes link since these are only minor updates with no new features. When we ship 1.1 I suspect that we will update that link.

As for the throbber, I can only assume that you've got an old profile or you've overridden the default which is http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central

- A

Hi Asa!

Been reading your blog for awhile, but never commented. My cousin and I both use FF and love it, but he brought up a good point: is it possible for you (aka MoFo) to release FF upgrades in the form of patches instead of full downloads? It might help out those 56k'ers you and Me_at_work were debating about.

(btw, I'm in the NYTimes ad! :-D I also donate $10 monthly)

Thanks!
Dan

Daniel: At the moment Firefox doesn't have the necessary system for real 'patching'. Sometimes an update can be delivered as an xpi patch, but usually that's not possible.

Hi!
Does the installer still create an empty folder in the start menu, if you dicide to have no start menu entry during installation?

"As for the throbber, I can only assume that you've got an old profile or you've overridden the default which is ">http://www.~/central

Thanks for pointing this out Asa, I was unaware that the throbber URL was part of the profile. I'm still using the same profile since my 0.8 Installation!

"Kroc, We're not really concerned about the release notes link since these are only minor updates with no new features. When we ship 1.1 I suspect that we will update that link."

This I can understand given limited resources, I wish I could help some more than just pointing out obvious issues, but a number of people are getting disparaged by the lack of information (as far as they can see) about these 5MB Firefox updates that appear to be no different.

Perhaps it would be wise to update the release-notes link and the release notes page to provide a definitive list of updates 1.0.2 > 1.0.3 to stop the amount of quite aggressive compaints occuring on your blog every release. (and link to these release notes on the home page below the download link)

using 1.0.3RC for two days without any probelm. It is also looks more stable and I feel it a bit faster :)