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I really hate educating people how to do the following, but a bit of an explanation around this. Mozilla Firefox 3.5 now does not play nice with wildcard SSL certificates where you do things like service.servername.example.com when you only have a wildcard SSL certificate for *.example.com - the guys at Mozilla have marked the bug as "Won't Fix" which basically means that one now needs to teach people how to bypass this warning.

The latest version of Mozilla Firefox 3.5 has issues with wildcard SSL certificates and is giving warnings that "This Connection is Untrusted" when visiting https://service.servername.example.com/ - this is unfortunately an issue with the Mozilla Firefox 3.5 web browser. You will need to click on the "Add Exception..." link, ignore the warning about "You are about to override how Firefox identifies this site. Legitimate banks, stores, and other public sites will not ask you to do this.". Click on "Get Certificate" and then click on "Confirm Security Exception". A bug is being filled with Mozilla about this regression in their software.

Hopefully Mozilla can release a patch Firefox 3.5.1 which reverts this regression in their software.

Anyway here is the list of bugs I'm going to be keeping an eye on for this issue:

• Bug 495339 - wildcards in SSL certificates no longer match multiple levels of subdomain
• Bug 159483 - cert name matching: RFC 2818 vs. backwards compatibility (wildcards)
• Bug 491406 - *.wiki.sourceforge.net not valid site for *.sourceforge.net SSL certificate

Posted by Jacques Marneweck at 4:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Are you a Flock Star? I've upgraded Flock (an open source web-browser based on Firefox).

I just love the built in "Feed Reader". It's what Firefox 1.5.0.4 is missing.

Go and download a copy of Cardinal, Flock 0.7
today! It's great. It's more nippier than Firefox, has features which Firefox is missing.

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Mozilla has released release candidate 3 of Mozilla Firefox.

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Flock is the new Firefox. Interesting direction taken to produce their own web-browser based on Firefox.

Meet the flockers. Some of them like Bart have been contributing to the Mozilla codebase for quite some time, including Jon Hicks who designed the Firefox logo.

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Andrei Zmievski posted the following Firefox tip on his blog which is quite useful for pasting links which go over two lines in mutt:

Here's another Mozilla/Firefox tip: if you copy a URL wrapped over multiple lines from somewhere and try to paste it into the address bar, you will end up only with the first line of it. To fix it, go to about:config and change editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines setting to 3 or add:

user_pref("editor.singleLine.pasteNewlines", 3);

to your user.js file. Now all the line breaks will be removed upon pasting.

Posted by Jacques Marneweck at 7:37 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Just days after the release of Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5, Thunderbird 1.0.6 is now available for download. This latest version should resolve the extension problems that were accidentally introduced in Thunderbird 1.0.5. In particular, the popular Enigmail PGP add-on should now work correctly.

To get Thunderbird 1.0.6, head to the Thunderbird product page or the Thunderbird 1.0.6 directory on ftp.mozilla.org. More information about the changes in this version can be found in the Thunderbird 1.0.6 Release Notes.

Posted by Jacques Marneweck at 10:55 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 has been released. As we reported previously, API changes in last week's Firefox 1.0.5 broke some extensions. This version should resolve the problems.

Firefox 1.0.6 can be downloaded from the Firefox product page or the Firefox 1.0.6 directory on ftp.mozilla.org. Consult the Firefox 1.0.6 Release Notes for more information.

Posted by Jacques Marneweck at 10:51 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

For some odd reason Firefox 1.0.4 has been feeling slow of late. So I've upgraded to Deer Park RC1 which is moving towards becoming Firefox 1.1.0. So far so good. Deer Park seems to be using a lot less memory when browsing the .net and having numerous tabs opened to various websites.

About Deer Park

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Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 is out! It fixes a few security problems so it is worth the download.

On another note, I've started using the Afrikaans language pack for Firefox.

Daar is ook 'n Firefox Plakaat.

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Ben has been explaining about his changes the Firefox Extension management system which he had commited (or landed) last week.

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For those of you who have not heard yet! Mozilla Firefox 1.0 has been released!

The wait is over. Firefox 1.0 empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser. Join more than 8 million others and make the switch today — Firefox imports your Favorites, settings and other information, so you have nothing to lose.

Some blogs linking to the Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Release:

• Ben Goodger on Firefox RTM - Take Back the Web
• Sly like a fox

In the Press

• Firefox browser takes on Microsoft
• Mozilla Launches Firefox 1.0 - PC World
• Mozilla releases Firefox 1.0 - The Inquirer
• Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Final released

Posted by Jacques Marneweck at 5:47 PM | Permalink

This is prob better classed as a UI issue considering that the middle mouse button is inconsitent across platforms. It turns out that under using the middle mouse button under unix is supposed to be an easy way to paste a URL apparently which can be disabled via the following option in your prefs.js file

Which removes that annoying pasting misfeature and fixes the middle mouse button to being consistent when using Firefox over multiple operating systems.

Posted by Jacques Marneweck at 1:27 AM | Permalink

We keep hearing about exploits for Windows Internet Explorer doing the rounds.

• Watch out there's an IE bug about
• Vulnerability Note VU#842160 - Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerable to buffer overflow via FRAME and IFRAME elements

I would suggest that people rather start using firefox which is a more secure webbrowser. It has many features which IE does not have including:

• Tabbed browsing
• Popup blocker
• Better find text in document support

Just to name a few.

Posted by Jacques Marneweck at 2:48 PM | Permalink

I'm wondering when Mozilla Firefox is going to start behaving like a decent webbrowser like earlier versions of Firefox which did not crash as often as the 0.1.0 RC1. It would be a good start!

Maybe it's just me but it's sort of highly annoying that this happens as you normally tend to have lots of tabs open while working and doing research for work based projects and what not.

Maybe Firefox should render a page that informs you that the site you are viewing has badly written HTML etc. etc. and stop parsing?

Posted by Jacques Marneweck at 7:25 PM | Permalink

XUL is cool! Mozilla Amazon Browser is quite cool! Actually imagine if FNB redevelops their Ebucks website to allow users who use Mozilla Firefox to like get a XUL version of Ebucks while IE and others get the normal HTML version of the site. Looks like the way of the future!

Posted by Jacques Marneweck at 6:40 PM | Permalink

I've updated the Firefox package for FreeBSD 4.X which is once again downloadable.

Posted by Jacques Marneweck at 1:36 PM | Permalink

I've updated the Firefox package for FreeBSD 4.X which is once again downloadable.

Download firefox-0.9.3_1.tgz

It contains the patches for the various recently reported security vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox.

Patch the various recently reported security vulnerabilities in Mozilla. This is being done instead of the update to 1.0 PR 1 since we're in a ports freeze, and too many big changes is not a good idea.

This update covers the following Mozilla bugs:

250862
255067
256316

Thanks to nectar for scraping all of these patches together.

Obtained from: Mozilla CVS
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)

Posted by Jacques Marneweck at 3:17 PM | Permalink

I've also built a FreeBSD package for Mozilla Thunderbird version 0.7.3 seeing that there is currenlty no package available via the FreeBSD project, similar to a previous post about Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3.

Download thunderbird-0.7.3.tgz

Posted by Jacques Marneweck at 6:46 PM | Permalink

Seeing that there is not FreeBSD package available for Mozilla Firebird 0.9.3 I've decided to roll one and release it from here for FreeBSD 4.X.

Download firefox-0.9.3.tgz

Below is a list of all the dependencies which make package returned for Mozilla Firefox.

Posted by Jacques Marneweck at 6:11 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

There are some wallpapers (a.k.a. promotional material) available from Take back the web which is aimed at Firefox users from what I can gather.

These wallpapers were made by Jon Hicks who created the Firefox logos.

Posted by Jacques Marneweck at 5:28 PM | Permalink

I've upgraded my Mozilla Firefox 0.8 release to 0.9.1 via the FreeBSD ports collection and everything went smoothly using a command as simple as:

Posted by Jacques Marneweck at 4:02 PM | Permalink

It's good to hear that Mozilla Firefox is progressing towards the big 1.0 release!

We've been hearing about the volunteers who have been volunteering their graphics and advertising skills. What is still needed is someone who has a way with words via Blake Ross.

Also remember to download your copy of Firefox to replace that copy of Internet Exterminator that you are running!

Posted by Jacques Marneweck at 9:48 AM | Permalink

Mozilla 1.3 is out. It was released a couple days ago on the 13th March 2003, and I've managed to get round to downloading it. The layout looks decent, they've even got a new logo, which reminds me of Netscape's Navigator and Communicator series logo.

Continue reading "Mozilla 1.3 is out!" »

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