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Firefox 1.07 released
Release Notes
Firefox 1.0.7 is a security and stability release. We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.
This version includes several security and stability fixes, including a fix for a reported buffer overflow vulnerability and a fix for a Linux shell command vulnerability.
Specific changes in Firefox 1.0.7
* Fix for a potential buffer overflow vulnerability when loading a hostname with all soft-hyphens
* Fix to prevent URLs passed from external programs from being parsed by the shell (Linux only)
* Fix to prevent a crash when loading a Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) script that uses an “eval” statement
* Fix to restore InstallTrigger.getVersion() for Extension authors
* Other stability and security fixes
Changing text case using Word (upper case to lower case)
A client recently gave me text all formatted in uppercase letters. You can convert the text easily in Word by selecting the text, selecting ‘format’ in the menu and selecting ‘change text’. I chose ’sentence case’ and it worked perfectly (capitalizes the first letter of every sentence.
Another post that will probably never be referenced.
downloading mac newsgroup files on a pc…
had an issue today with downloading some mac binaries off of a newsgroup on my windows machine. fixed it by:
- uncompressing the files using stuffit
- joining the files with hjsplit
- uncompressing (again) with stuffit
it looks like just a few posters are choosing to post this way (splitting the files with split&concat).
there’s a readme on the server, under the mac directory, with more info.
