Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 Released - MozillaZine Talkback

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 Released - MozillaZine Talkback

Good news and not-so-good news. I was about to encourage everyone to upgrade to the latest Firefox, released just yesterday, but after reading the talkback on MozillaZine I'm going to caution everyone to wait a week or two. I've read posts about a couple of bugs (one occurs when entering an URL into the address bar and pressing [Enter] rather than clicking the [Go] button, the other has to do with memory consumption, i.e. possible memory leak). It's possible these are specific to the users running the program or having to do with the way they installed it. 17 million people have downloaded Firefox 1.0 so it won't be long before many of them upgrade. We'll find out soon enough if it's advisable to upgrade.

If you decide to upgrade it's best to uninstall 1.0 before installing 1.0.1. Your preferences and bookmarks will still be left in tact in your user directory and will still be available after you install the new version (I tested this with no obvious problems). Technically you could install the new version over the top of the old version but this is not recommended. Let me know how it goes if you decide to do this.

See the announcements or get the new version (if you're ready) at Mozilla.org.

Terry