Thanks, to Asa and everyone else involved, for their quick response.

Good to see a rapid turnaround from Mozilla.org as we've come to expect. I think (apart from the unwilling leak) this was very well handled, especially considering the severity.

Good job everyone... Now all I need is a portable firefox version for it...

Any particular reason the Firefox installer *still* tries to hijack one's homepage? Shouldn't it detect if there is a previous install and then default to that homepage, instead of requiring the user to opt out?

Very good job indeed. And a smooth auto upgrade.
Btw, Asa, is your xerox going hot and your wires melting as you are busy sending PR msgs and press releases around the globe??? Let the press know that a week is about it to handle criticals. And, don't forget to phone Bill in M$ and tell him about effective deployment.

"Any particular reason the Firefox installer *still* tries to hijack one's homepage?"

Yes. Bug 263595 hasn't been fixed yet. Got a patch? ;-)

Great work on getting the fix posted so quickly! I had some problems getting the update download to start, but I closed the other tabs and reactivated software installs and it worked like a charm. I've already blogged it to help get the word out.

I'm not sure what fyo is referring to about hijacking the start page. When the installation was done it asked if I wanted to set Firefox Start as the home page but I said no. When I launched Firefox 1.0.4 the first time I got my normal, customized start page with no problem.

Anyway, the finest bagels and muffins in all the land to the guys (and gals) who got 1.0.4 out what may be record time! And someone get these guys some pie.

Uggghhh! My long lived profile seems to be wiped out...very depressing.

Is it a known defect that the 'auto update' process bypasses the convoluted 'install in new directory' step, which in turn causes the install to default to the 'standard install' step which then will overwrite the previous install directory- thus the 'auto update' quite nicely helps people ignore the new directory step. This seems to be a long way away from end user friendly. Users can never be expected (or even be asked?) to install an update in a new directory- this is poor.

1.0.4 Apple quicktime plugin issue:

Sequence:
1. click on [Click here to download plugin]
2. PFS (Plugin Finder Service) dialog comes up:
The following plugins avaiable:
[x] Apple Quicktime 6.5.1

3. Click on [Next]

4. PFS - Completing the Plugin Finder service diaglog comes up:
------------------------------------------------------------
Firefox finished installing the missing plugins:
Apple Quicktime 6.5.1 Not Avaliable [Manual Install]

[Finish]
-------------------------------------------------------------

This will be totally confusing to the users. We may need a fix for this.
Asa, please let me know your views on this.

Uggghhh! Don't try to change my start page :(

A small issue with 1.0.4:
when I right click on a picture to save, and choose 'save image as', the 'save image' box is displayed.
1. I can click on save, and the picture is saved with no problem.
2. If I want to save onto a different folder, I can click on the folder name to switch folder, then save, and everything is honky dory.
3. If I want to save onto a different folder, and if I click on a shortcut of that folder, Firefox now try to save the picture on top of the shortcut instead of inside the folder! I don't have the problem with the base version 1.0.
Is there a fix for this problem?

Hi Daruku,
If you deselect
[x]Make Firefox start page has homepage

in the install dialog (almost post-install dialog)
Firefox 1.0.4 maintains your old home page as start page.

HardinComp,

Check out bug #263595 as referrenced by Steve. The description and discussions there explain the situation.

Interestingly enough, Asa posted a comment on the bug 3 weeks ago indicating that a fix was in the works. This is the only reason I posted anything here :-). I do realize, of course, that the situation regarding the security issues required an expedient patch release, far outweighing such relatively minor issues as the homepage hijacking.

Why anyother update so soon? 1.0.3 i was expecting, 1.0.4 just come out of no where... Are you guys going to ever just make a patch instead of having to redownload firefox just for the updates?

-Jmack.

Firefox 1.0.4 on Redhat 9 has emitting these assertion messages:

*** loading the extensions datasource

(Gecko:3790): GLib-CRITICAL **: file ghash.c: line 225 (g_hash_table_lookup): assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed

(Gecko:3790): GLib-CRITICAL **: file ghash.c: line 291 (g_hash_table_insert): assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed

JMack - binary patching is being worked on and hopefully will land in time for 1.1.