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Subject: Fedora Core 3 Update: firefox-1.0.1-1.3.1 Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Fedora This update fixes several security vulnerabilities in Firefox 1.0. It is recommended that all users update to Firefox 1.0.1. Additionally, this update backports several fixes from rawhide.
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-182
2005-02-26
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Product     : Fedora Core 3
Name        : firefox
Version     : 1.0.1
Release     : 1.3.1
Summary     : Mozilla Firefox Web browser.
Description :
Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards
compliance, performance and portability.

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Update Information:

This update fixes several security vulnerabilities in Firefox 1.0.
It is recommended that all users update to Firefox 1.0.1.

Additionally, this update backports several fixes from rawhide.

This update enables pango font rendering by default.

This update enables smooth scrolling by default.  On slower machines, 
this may cause scrolling to lag.  If this is the case for you, you may 
disable smooth scrolling by going to Edit>Preferences>Advanced and 
uncheck "Use smooth scrolling".

This update also fixes the issue with downloads going to the user's home 
directory instead of the desktop, as expected.

See full changelog below for more.


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* Thu Feb 24 2005 Christopher Aillon  0:1.0.1-1.3.1

- Update to 1.0.1 fixing several security flaws.
- Temporarily disable langpacks to workaround startup issues (#145806)
- Request the correct system colors from gtk (#143423)
- Make sure we get a URL passed in to firefox (#138861)
- Mark some generated files as ghost (#136015)
- Don't have downloads "disappear" when downloading to desktop (#139015)
- Add RPM version to the useragent
- BuildRequires pango-devel
- Fix spacing in textareas when using pango for rendering
- Enable pango rendering by default.
- Enable smooth scrolling by default
- Add StartupWMClass patch from Damian Christey (#135830)
- Use system colors by default (#137810)
- Re-add s390(x)

* Mon Nov 22 2004 Christopher Blizzard  0:1.0-3.fc3

- Add patch that uses pango for selection


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This update can be downloaded from:
   http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

e9f5b21298df212d6cc47e364934918d  SRPMS/firefox-1.0.1-1.3.1.src.rpm
0a86d5989d53af754799c858c4741e5e  x86_64/firefox-1.0.1-1.3.1.x86_64.rpm
9a3408d083d8a977e3511d3dd79c3af1 
x86_64/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.0.1-1.3.1.x86_64.rpm
7ee72bdf58dce3d953e5594759caff14  i386/firefox-1.0.1-1.3.1.i386.rpm
af64694ab6ad0a3efa8c95ea2dce642b 
i386/debug/firefox-debuginfo-1.0.1-1.3.1.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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