Firefox 1.0.4 available

[unixronin]

Firefox 1.0.4 has been released (get it from getfirefox.com).  It fixes three Javascript security vulnerabilities that are considered critical; see the Mozilla.org security page for details.

Also, technoshaman clued me in to Tab Mix, a Firefox extension that is basically Tabbrowser Preferences on steroids.  It does everything TBP does, plus a bunch more like letting you re-order tabs by dragging them.  If you liked the tab handling in Galeon, you'll like Tab Mix.  (It even allows you to restore the last complete session with all the tabs you had open when you closed Firefox, if that kinda thing makes your motor run.)  Download it from Mozilla.org (you'll have to save it to disk and manually install it by dragging the XPI file to your Firefox window, since the Mozilla.org folks have disabled automatic extension installation from mozilla.org temporarily until they resolve a possible installation exploit) or install it directly from ExtensionsMirror.

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UPDATE:  I've learned that Tab Mix is suffering from developer-of-the-week syndrome, as it is complex and difficult to maintain.  I've also found that the one important-to-me thing Tabbrowser Preferences does, which Tab Mix does NOT, is allow capturing URLs sent from other applications and open them in a new tab instead of a new window.  You may want to keep these factors in mind before deciding whether or not to use Tab Mix.  For myself, I've decided I don't care enough about any of the extra stuff it does to give up the ability to capture external URLs.  About the only extra feature I found worth turning on was sizing tabs to their label content, and that only partially works.  (To be fair, I didn't try the multi-row tab bar feature.)

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[kendaer.livejournal.com]

On the unix version (Linux) of firefox 1.0.3, under edit/preferences menu, the advanced tab has the following

Tabbed browsing:

Open links from other applications in:
... a new window
... a new tab in the most recent window
... the most recent tab/window

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

On the Win2K port (I don't have a Linux machine available right now), Advanced and Tabbed Browsing are separate prefs sections. I don't remember whether the "Links from other applications" pref is present in Tabbed Browsing without the Tabbrowser Preferences extension loaded, or whether it's added by TBP.