Firefox 1.0 PR at last :)

Stark

It's been a month delayed but Firefox 1.0 PR is out. Download it from www.mozilla.org

1.0 Final should be out mid-October.

Edit: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 and Mozilla 1.7.3(a security update) are also out now.

seamus

That's some...eh....scarily quick work there Stark. I downloaded 0.9.3 twice this morning from that front page.....

Have to give this a go....

(Actually, I checked my files and it would seem I downloaded 0.9.3 at 9.30, and then 1.0RC at 10.15, I just didn't notice the front page had changed. I was wondering why it looked so much funkier.)

OfflerCrocGod

1.0 Final still has about 300 bugs or so to go before release - if we see it this year it will near x-mas day Oct is when the RCs will be released.

Creamy Goodness

got this on sunday morning, it's good, and i haven't come across any of these said 300 bugs yet.

pickarooney

grr, all the extenions and themes are gone

Creamy Goodness

most popular themes/extensions have been updated check for updates.

also another way to get round this is type about:config into the address bar.

find "app.extensions.version" and change it's value from .10 to .9

Mutant_Fruit

Aaawww, i loved my Mozilla Firebird, and mozilla Spider, and Mozilla Waterfowl. When will i get you back!

**does the about:config thingy**

Thats the stuff. Thats a GOOD tip

Syth

Cr3m0 wrote:

most popular themes/extensions have been updated check for updates.

also another way to get round this is type about:config into the address bar.

find "app.extensions.version" and change it's value from .10 to .9

That's a good tip. It got my 'Add Bookmark Here' Extension back working.

Now all I have to do is get that spell checker working. It broke when I went from 0.9 to 0.9.3. Grr..

tman

seems to make better use of my dsl connection when starting from a fresh cache.
love the way they copied ms with the new popup blocker location
and the plugin installer is so goddamned handy. no more trawling around macromedia.com/the nether regions of my hard drive to find flashplayer installer

unklerosco

It doesnt work with packetnews/mirc... Wont let me paste into mirc. Mind u theres prob something im doin wrong as ive never used it before. Tis a hell of allot better than IE, love that tab feature n the way u can load up with as many websites as u want as ur homepage. Its the Simple things that matter....

OfflerCrocGod

Cr3m0 wrote:

got this on sunday morning, it's good, and i haven't come across any of these said 300 bugs yet.

AY this the sign of good open sauce software where ye cant find the wee little buggies at all. Another way of installing extensions when they are not updated/not installing is to download them to a folder and then drag and drop them into the extensions pop-up window. The extention will install but it *may* not show up in the extension window, so you may have to go into Tools --> Options --> Extensions to change options etc..

Creamy Goodness

tman wrote:

love the way they copied ms with the new popup blocker location

afaik firefox had that position before MS.

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also firefox totally integrates with my irc no problem

tab feature has been a feature ever since i started using firefox 0.7 (AKA Firebird)

zAbbo

The integration with Thunderbird is a brilliant touch, Tools > Read Mail )

Creamy Goodness

bazH wrote:

The integration with Thunderbird is a brilliant touch, Tools > Read Mail )

yeh i just noticed that, it's well cool

uberwolf

unklerosco wrote:

Tis a hell of allot better than IE, love that tab feature n the way u can load up with as many websites as u want as ur homepage. Its the Simple things that matter....

That's cool, cos I was going to post next week when I take delivery of my laptop as to how I could sort it that clicking on that firefox icon I could arrange this very thing. Now I don't have to. yay. \0/

X-SL

I'll wait for the full realease.

Bri

Just got it and despite my joy at seeing Auto-detect connection settings...it can't pick up my wifi network connection and I don't have any manual settings. Pity cos I'm stuck with IE6 which can pick up the settings itself.

Boo Hiss.

Stark

X-SL wrote:

I'll wait for the full realease.

Why? It's totally stable, and at least as stable as 0.9.3 which was also a pre-release. It rates far higher than Mozilla and Internet Explorer.

unkel

I switched from netscape to IE in '95 and have used that as my main browser since early this year when trying Firefox. Tabs rule :cool:

uberwolf

Any word on when the OS X version will be available?

suppafly

what new features and stuff those this new version have? Can u still use the noia extreme theme in the 1.0 version?

Bri

I've Noia 2.0 on the new version working fine. Crashed first time I tried it though.

RobertFoster

bazH wrote:

The integration with Thunderbird is a brilliant touch, Tools > Read Mail )

What's with that? I don't have Thunderbird, yet it shows that I have "1 new mail" - when I click it it opens Outlook, but I don't have a new email

Creamy Goodness

suppafly wrote:

what new features and stuff those this new version have? Can u still use the noia extreme theme in the 1.0 version?

well i updated from 0.93 and the main difference i saw is the live bookmarks for news feeding from RSS sites.

the read mail link under Tools menu.

RobertFoster wrote:

What's with that? I don't have Thunderbird, yet it shows that I have "1 new mail" - when I click it it opens Outlook, but I don't have a new email

maybe it's that welcome to outlook mail?

Winters

A few things I noticed after I instaleld Firefox on longhorn here.

The "Find on this page" gives a toolbar on the bottom and removed the page search from the search box. Also highlights partial words. I never noticed if that was in 0.93 so correct me if I am wrong.

Some more new/modified icons. Direct default windows mail link. The Tools > Read Mail will open your default mail client/whatever you have it set to in Windows. Also the "promote firefox" under the Help menu seems new.

All they need to do is install some Mouse Guestures as default and I'll be super happy

aidan_walsh

Winters wrote:

A few things I noticed after I instaleld Firefox on longhorn here.

Umm...

I have to say that one feature I love is the new installation for plugins like Flash or Shockwave. Letting Firefox handle the whole thing, and then run without having to restart is a work of genius... Can't find a link to suggest a few of the more esoteric unsupported ones, though...

Creamy Goodness

tbh i'd rather them sticking in the installers for flash and shockwave actually come to think about it why don't they?

off topic: winters is that some php code you use for your sig?

Winters

The Plugin installer, and also the popup notification like that of Internet Explorer on SP2 is very nice. Some nice changes.

Cr3m0, its bordem and manually changed every few hours.

doodle_sketch: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10"

suppafly

i think i might go off and get the new version so

Bri

On a side note: Am I missing something here? I thought you could get firefox to keep an eye on bookmarks to see if they were updated back in the 0.9 series. I can't find it in the new release but I don't remember if it existed or I'm just dreaming?

Winters

They did mention something of the sort but I havent noticed it in the 0.10 release.

Just check http://update.mozilla.org and find yourself an extension though. That should sort it out.

Bri

A fair few of the extensions are still not updated...I guess I'll have to use my mouse! Bah.

Capt'n Midnight

Bri wrote:

Just got it and despite my joy at seeing Auto-detect connection settings...it can't pick up my wifi network connection and I don't have any manual settings. Pity cos I'm stuck with IE6 which can pick up the settings itself.

Boo Hiss.

How about the proxy switcher extension
Tip don't install the extensions, save them to a folder and associate .xpi with firefox and then you can double click then when you move to a new pc / reinstall etc , no more seaching

RobertFoster

Bri wrote:

On a side note: Am I missing something here? I thought you could get firefox to keep an eye on bookmarks to see if they were updated back in the 0.9 series. I can't find it in the new release but I don't remember if it existed or I'm just dreaming?

RSS? You can do it with certain sites, for example, www.steampowered.com

Bri

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

How about the proxy switcher extension
Tip don't install the extensions, save them to a folder and associate .xpi with firefox and then you can double click then when you move to a new pc / reinstall etc , no more seaching

Thanks for that - actually just got it working with a auto-config URL.

Robert - I don't follow how you do that on the Steam website? :eek:

Creamy Goodness

when on a site with RSS content available look at the bottom right of your firefox statusbar you'll see RSS click it and follow instructions

Bri

Ah! I still thought there was something in the bookmarks you could do to tell it how often to check and how to notify. Maybe it was an extension but I didn't think so.

Hobbes

This is cute...

http://weatherfox.mozdev.org/

Hobbes wrote:

http://members.boards.ie/plugins/boardsie.zip

Just unzip the files in the zip to

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins

After that restart Firefox.

Creamy Goodness

Hobbes wrote:

This is cute...

http://weatherfox.mozdev.org/

cheers i had this when i had 0.9.3 but had to get rid of it when installing .10

i love this plug-in

suppafly

whats the boardsie thing?

Hobbes

suppafly wrote:

whats the boardsie thing?

The google search area on Firefox, you can add more engines to it.

So I made one that allows you to search boards.ie from within Firefox (dont need to be on the site).

Capt'n Midnight

Hobbes wrote:

The google search area on Firefox, you can add more engines to it.

So I made one that allows you to search boards.ie from within Firefox (dont need to be on the site).

Drop the unzipped files into C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins folder

unklerosco

unklerosco wrote:

It doesnt work with packetnews/mirc... Wont let me paste into mirc. Mind u theres prob something im doin wrong as ive never used it before.

You've got to change a setting in about:config....I cant remember offhand...just search the support forums.

I don't get the fascination with FF....its a memory hog, takes up loads of disk space, you have to go off finding and downloading loads of extensions to make it worth using and worst of all it doesnt have a decent note taking extension like the note feature in Opera...

Someone please tell me why is it sooo good?

Hobbes

Deleted User wrote:

I don't get the fascination with FF....its a memory hog,

38,000K with 6 pages open in tabs. Compare that to IE of 50,000K with 4 windows open.

takes up loads of disk space,

15MB on disk. How much disk space do you have?

you have to go off finding and downloading loads of extensions

Select Extensions from the tools, click get more extensions. It is worth using without the extensions.

doesnt have a decent note taking extension like the note feature in Opera...

It has two but they are in the process of being updated. Quicknote I know offhand, there is another that attaches post it notes to websites.

Someone please tell me why is it sooo good?

Faster, safer then IE. Some of the extensions are really nice. Browsing has never been so painless.

I also surfed to a dodgy site that attempted to do pop-ups and install software on my machine. FF stopped it in its tracks. The site also had the scrollbar exploit which was plainly obvious.

hmmm

I've used the quicknote extension and I think most people would agree that its a little clunky...

Can you suggest some good extensions? Besides the really obvious ones such as allinonegestures, single window etc

Hobbes

bugmenot
adblock
single window
weatherfox
ieview
diggler
googlepreview
context highlighter

There is also one I found before (but lost) that puts icons beside links to tell you if they are popup/pdf/jpeg/mailto links.

Also Stumbleapon is supposed to be good but I have never used it.

suppafly

i heard that firefox 1.0 has live bookmarks. Can someone tell me how that actually works?

Bri

I see there's a gmail notifier or two out there too - can't seem to find an updated version though. Never heard of this till now although I have the mailto extension which lets you mail from gmail etc straight off the webpage your browsing.

Google have a notifier too but I'd rather get a firefox extension than clutter up my system tray. http://toolbar.google.com/gmail-helper/ <--- the URL puts me off!
Anyone got either?

Fenster

Deleted User wrote:

You've got to change a setting in about:config....I cant remember offhand...just search the support forums.

I don't get the fascination with FF....its a memory hog, takes up loads of disk space, you have to go off finding and downloading loads of extensions to make it worth using and worst of all it doesnt have a decent note taking extension like the note feature in Opera...

Someone please tell me why is it sooo good?

Its the signed.applets.codebase_principal_support string. Set it to true. However, this gives websites read/write access to your clipboard as long as its open and Firefox 1.0 pr allows this opening feature anyways. Now I offically have no reason to use IE at all. :cool:

Creamy Goodness

basically they work by the site when a site updates it's news it's updates in your live bookmark folder

see attachment to see what they look like.

some sites that i know who offer this RSS service

www.steampowered.com
www.sk-gaming.com
www.enemydown.co.uk
http://news.bbc.co.uk/

pickarooney

The linux installer is totally counter-intuitive. First, there's no documentation supplied with (and not much useful on the site). Second, it doesn't check (or ask) for a previous installation. Thirdly, when you unpack the tarball, then run ./firefox-installer its default installation path is where you run it from, eg:
~/tmp/firefox-installer/. If you accept this (and I imagine a foo number of users would), it dumps all the files into the temporary directory, and doesn't add the binary to your path.

It used to be you just unpacked the files, then moved them in one go to /usr/share/firefox for example, but this method makes no sense whatsoever.

And none of the extensions work or update automatically, you have to go download them all again. I know it's not a final release, but it seems to be a step backwards in many ways. (I know there's a button for it, but when I click on Update, it downloads an extension, tries to install it and then tells me it's not compatible with version 1.0)

Ack, I started ranting, so I might as well finish - what's with the new google toolbar - it's mental! First few random searches just displayed the index page of the first result, i.e. a search for "time" opens up www.time.com instead of a list of search results. The next search brought up a list of links entirely in Chinese (the page itself was partly in chinese).