Yes, it is here! After years of waiting, many developer releases and many betas, Mozilla 1.0 has finally been released. Everyone give it a try! Unfortunately, most of the mirrors do not seem to carry the final 1.0 version yet, and the main server seems already loaded.
Mozilla 1.0 Released
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Perhaps some of the projects on mozdev.org will be able to move forward now.
and if the API’s have finally frozen we should have some plugin stability..
i went to go download it.. but the release candidate 3 is still up, and under the download page of 1.0.. is release candidate 3 the 1.0 release?
haha! no more windows
I bet mozzilas happy and lots
Clean up your browser’s or your Proxy’s cache and history on your browser. Mozilla 1.0 is there, on the link found in the story, not RC3. I always put my cache on my browsers as “Everytime I view the page” (in order to look for the new pages and not older ones)
clearin the browser cache’s helped. thanks!
This is great!!
Even on BeOS, could you believe it!?!
These guys ROCKS.
This is funny! I just install RC3 a few days ago… the same thing happend when RC3 came out (i just installed RC2). lol…
they do rock!
Do you guys know that explorer STILL doesnt even support PNG images fully? i was gonna use PNG’s for my graphics design website, and explorer couldn’t handle PNG’s with the alpha channel. It just put an ugly grey background on them. they look real nice in mozilla however.
my page also works in just about every other browser.. even the mac version of IE displays it correctly, its just the windows version of IE that doesnt support png. I thought that was kinda funny.
Found it here, very fast download.
http://archive.progeny.com/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.0/
Where did you find the Bezilla 1.0 (None of the RC)??????
Check the Download page, not the Dailybuilds!!!!!
To Philippe: .. nice work with OBOS =)
Regards!
/Konrad
it seems like this download (osx client) is 16 megs. 16 megs of what?!!?! how bloated is this…
I have been using Mozilla off and on for about a year or so. With the features and such present in Mozilla 1.0 they have kicked IE’s rosey buttocks.
My favorite features are:
1) Ability to kill popup and popunder adds.
2) Tabbed browsing.
3) Bookmark functionality.
4) The Search tab in the sidebar.
5) Speed.
Now I know there are going to be complaints about at least the last item on the list, but for all the features present, I find it quite peppy.
Also, I am on a Windows box right now and I’m using Opera because it has been 5 months since a fresh reinstallation of Windows, et al. and Explorer is taking forever to render pages.
Kudos to all the contributors of Mozilla who made this release possible!
Well, I think the lynx project may have a fairly recent release. If I remember correctly, its under a meg.
Now we just need some nice looking skins to use, the default one is really ugly IMHO. Especially on MacOS X mozilla sticks out like a sore thumb. I guess I’ll just have to wait for Chimera to stabalize.
I am a happy Mozilla user for more than a year. 🙂
Congrats not just for a great product but also taking the time to get it right, something rare these days.
I’ve been using Mozilla for 2 years now, I used to use a lot of daily builds because it tended to be a bit flakey but that changed, it became stable and I used the point releases.
I like the cross platform abilities, I switched from Linux to Windows and back to Linux and I could take my bookmarks with me, I even use them in BeOS.
I’ll have to wait a few days for a BONE build to get my hands on 1.0 🙁
Note to BeOS users: Moz on BONE/DANO crahes a LOT if you use the normal builds but Stripzilla (see bebits) has BONE builds which work fine.
I have the BeOS build of 1.0 on my box at home. I got the email about the release about a week ago, but they never said when the actual release date would be, and that there might be more changes, so I was waiting for possible changes. Anyway, the build should be posted tonight.
I know software “can never be perfect” (or as I say it “software never works”) but several of the “known issues” make me wonder why this is a 1.0 release instead of another candidate. I mean “double right-clicking on page can disable keyboard…” That’s not exactly trite.
And yes, I do take issue with people listing “speed” as a plus. Honestly, the only reason I will be using it is because it’s my only option for a “modern” browser on BeOS.
I know, I know… “If you want something better, code it yourself, you @$&%#! lamer!!” Funny thing is that Microsoft never uses that response; they just deny the problems ever affecting any users.
In the Appearance section of the preferences, you can choose between classic and modern. Modern looks just like Netscape 6. Blue might not be for everyone but it’s still better than the ugly grey. And I love the pretty buttons in the Mozilla mail client.
Why don’t you use the net installer? Download only the components you need.
“Note to BeOS users: Moz on BONE/DANO crahes a LOT if you use the normal builds but Stripzilla (see bebits) has BONE builds which work fine.”
It seems to me like the net_server Stripzilla works a lot better than the ordinary build too. The regular BeZilla was relatively unstable for me. StripZilla, on the other hand, seems a bit faster and stable.
Dutch_Cup
To make netserver vanilla Mozilla crashes less frequent, try two things:
1)Reduce number of simultaneous connections (see all.js preference file somewhere in Mozilla subfolders)
2)In Preferences->Provacy & Security ->Images enable image download only from originating server.
It isn’t radical fix, but may help a bit
This is a very very good browser. Now I only use the Mozilla browser. I trash the Internet Explorer, never more.
Thanks Mozilla!!!. Welcome to web standard design.
This is not a very very good browser. Now I only use the IE browser. I trash the Mozilla, never more.
Thanks IE!!!. Welcome to web standard design.
Mozilla will eventually beat IE because it rocks with lots of cool features and it’s crossplatform.
Hi,
I’ve put up Mozilla 1.0 on my page as I’ve got some bandwith left:
http://bezip.de
Hopefully the BeOS version will come soon!
Ciao,
Sebastian
Yeah, I’d say Mozilla is a decent browser, but the people who go on and on about how cool the pop-up killer feature is obviously have never heard of Proxomitron
I use Mozilla every once in awhile when I desire tabbed browsing (something Opera has had for years) but other than that, I don’t have much use for it.
I think most people who run Mozilla (on the Windows platform) do so because ‘it wasn’t made my M$.’
Or in order to have replacement for systems with totally removed IE (98Lite/Micro or Sleek = stability and speed – in this grade which is possible at all for 9*/ME platform)
For a 1.0 non-developer release, shouldn’t they remove the build ID from the titlebar?
Mozilla builds are always developer oriented, no matter if they are nightlies or releases.
For the person who mentioned the Netscape 6-looking Modern theme:
Try GrayModern. It’s the same as the Modern theme except that its colored gray instead of blue. You can get it at MozDev (http://www.mozdev.org/)
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Congratulations to all the developer. Mozilla is an excellent piece of software.
try that theme is great for most of the WN themes around
Most of the available themes are there :
http://themes.mozdev.org/
Orbit 3 is my favorite one.
Mac users, there is a special theme for you which uses OSX native widgets :
http://www.kmgerich.com/pinstripe/pinstripe.html
not as slow as it was, but it’s still very sluggish.
mozilla does browse faster.. it supports http1.1 pipelining .. and explorer does not. nearly all sites support pipelining, but it is disabled by default.. as it can cause problems with certain sites.. but i haven’t had any problems with pipelining enabled..
to turn it on go to edit, preferences, advanced, http networking, then click enable pipelining.
Yes, the Orbit theme rocks and I like the Skypilot theme too. Has anybody else noticed how much faster 1.0 loads compared to 1.0RC3? Can’t wait to try this babe on BeOS.
MacOS X, Mac OS9, and WinXP Pro versions all looking great.
Three years of hard work and it was worth it! My hats off to all the guys and gals at mozilla.org!!
One of reasons I switched to Mozilla (fully since 0.9.8 release) was – its mailer. I used Netscape mailer before and I can value plain text storage.
After last virus attacks we are switching all our pop3 account users here to Mozilla instead of Outlook (some 10 users only, as we have mainly Lotus Notes here) And if you will try to tell me that I can adjust that MS crap to behave properly – I don’t care, I have enough …
As for browser itself – Mozilla is more pleasant for me to use than IE and I am pretty used to use both browsers.Just a personal preference, nothing more, – not judging which one is better or worse …
-pekr-
I think most people who run Mozilla (on the Windows platform) do so because ‘it wasn’t made my M$.’
Maybe, but it’s not true for me.
I used it (and will again, when I rebuild this machine), because it
* Can disable images on a site by site basis
* Can disable pop-ups
* Has tabs
* Doesn’t give me the stupid JavaScript errors that IE keeps doing
* Loads pages in the background
* Is free
* Is feature rich
No other browser offers all of those.
After the install, I opened the program and I was asked if I want Mozilla to be my default browser. Any answer I choose hangs the computer. Surprisingly I didn’t found uninstall possibility not in the control panel/add/remove and not in the program icons. So I open the Mozilla directory and there is “uninstall” directory and there is “MozillaUninstall.exe”, but when I tried to use it I had an error massage “uninstall log was not found” SO not everything is so bright in Mozilla kingdom.
and i just downloaded RC3. heck, I’m not using moz anyway, its just nice, but not for me.
I don’t like software that is software independent. Yeah, sure, Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Be OS etc. release come in the same time, but none of the releases take any advantage of the operating system it uses. So there isn’t any difference running it under OS X or Windows or Linux. Just the same :-).
It may be good to some, but I rather have something that is build for the operating system it uses. That’s why when GNOME 2.0 and Galeon for it has stablized, I’m moving over, cause Galeon would be able to take advantage of GNOME 2.0 (and GNOME 2.0 is quite good, but I would move cause there isn’t any KDE Galeon around, a Konqueror is underfeatured.)
But heck, it’s just my ranting. Opera also stop taking advantage of the platform, though Opera 6.0 is really cool, it could be better if it does something to take advantage of the platform it is running on. If Opera get’s some senses, they would have made their Linux version under Qt3 having pure Unicode support.
That’s odd. You should be able to uninstall from the Add/Remove Programs Windows thingie. I’ve done it every time before installing a new version of Mozilla. Maybe you should file a bug?
It is certainly nice that an app is cross platform, but since 97% of the market are MS dominated, I cannot see where all those hords of cross platform users would come from to make the world a better place (TM)…
I installed it ones more and then I could uninstall it from control panel.
I like SlowZilla!
cross platform means that people will have an easier time moving between platforms, which really benefits “alternative” os’s.
1 feature that’s missing : crash recovery like Opera6, where you can just resume browsing from the point just before the crash. It’s an excellent browser though (IMHO the best at this point in time)
I don’t think a webbrowser alone makes people switch platform. And if they do, they’ll prolly check it wasn’t worth it, coz it’s a) too complicated to configure, b) there are no counterparts to their apps used before, c) if there are counterparts, they’re crappy. Thus they will go back to Windows.
The Mozilla community really did an excellent job. Keep on going!
Great browser, runs on multiple platforms so I always feel right at home no matter what box I’m on. This is what software should be. I love the tabbed browsing, the popup killer and I’m even enjoying some chatzilla! Great job guys!
What I always liked about the Netscape/Mozilla, Opera, interfaces was the preferences & the x platform for all 4 WinBeLinMac, I can understand everything I want to control & not be intimidated by it & of course similar on all platforms.
Although IE maybe more/less powerfull (still have to check out streaming media useage), IE intimidates me out of the prefs “like why the f__k are you messing with me, leave the cookies, spyware, pops up on or else”. I want that all that stuff off, the wife needs it all on.
Combined with the cable modem, Mozy really rocks!!!!
Speaking of which, are the spyware dots an issue with Mozilla?
1 feature that’s missing : crash recovery like Opera6, where you can just resume browsing from the point just before the crash. It’s an excellent browser though (IMHO the best at this point in time)
Which really was useful during the 6.0 betas. And 6.0 final for Windows (yes, it was that unstable).
cross platform means that people will have an easier time moving between platforms, which really benefits “alternative” os’s.
So, just say all the user does is use Mozilla, so it means, other that politcal reasons, there isn’t any reason to use one OS over another, right? Besides, it has been proven time and time again that native is faster than cross platform – Galeon 1.2.3 runs faster than RC3, Chimera runs very fast (but because it is alpha software…) and so on. These two versions also takes advantage of the native features in GTK+ and Cocoa respectively.
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The tabs in Mozilla sucks. Maybe it is nice if you use IE, and never tasted Opera’s tabs. But if you are from opera, the tabs sucks. It looks like a rushed job. Multizilla is much better, and should be made a part of the standard Mozilla installations. It is eons ahead of Mozilla’s tab support. (BTW, I’m using RC3, but I doubt there is any difference between RC3 and 1.0 for tabs)
to rajan r:
“I don’t like software that is software independent. Yeah, sure, Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Be OS etc. release come in the same time, but none of the releases take any advantage of the operating system it uses. So there isn’t any difference running it under OS X or Windows or Linux. Just the same :-).”
GCC IS software independent. I must ask, if you don like it, what compiler do you use to build your system ?
I am wondering what ANSI C means to you as well.
1 the crash recovery is a mozdev project, you can try and use it
2 if you are using it on linux and don’t like the AA you have to disable it by editing the mozilla/defaults/unix.js file
(thanks to Jago for sparing me the headache to find it)
3 the native svg is great =)
Excellent browser. I am even sure there I can see an improvement ove RC1. And who cares if there are stupid programmers out there to only write sites fir IE. This should teach tme.
2 rajan
It may be unbelievable, but when i was forced to use P-100 with 32 MB (Win98Lite platform) – i choosed Mozilla over Opera 6.* for backgound intensive tabbed browsing.
Despite i’m big fan of Opera since 2.0 and it is main main browser on Windows.
They (Opera Software) made version 6.0 far more irresponsible in that sence. Famous hourglass after Ctl+Shift+Click – until some part of page is loaded. And even after hourglass disappears, it frequently replaces current page with Ctrl+Shift clicked – instead creating new page. (On slow computers. ) I was really surprized that bloatzilla does it much better with middle-click on such very-low-end system
I wanted to post an inquiry about Mozilla vs. Opera, but now I have a big issue with Opera’s ad banner. They’re starting to allow those cursed casino banners that flash unceasingly again. I wrote to them once before, explaining that they’re wiping out months of loyalty in mere minutes by allowing those ads, I tried explaining that bright red flashing at that frequency gives a certain percentage of the population epileptoid migrains, but I guess they’re too stupid to understand. Right now I have a copy of notepad minimized and stretched to cover the flashing banner, and my thoughts have turned from the possibility of registering Opera to thoughts on how to defeat the ad banner. If Mozilla now has Opera style crash recovery and is no longer slow, maybe I’ll endure the time it will take to download a copy. At least it won’t put me into a blind rage by flashing red lights in my eyes.
GCC IS software independent. I must ask, if you don like it, what compiler do you use to build your system ?
GCC is a compiler, Mozilla is an app. The difference is GCC doesn’t need to use libraries and widgets from the underlying platform to increase speed. If there were a GUI, I hope it would be made for each platform, as opposed to one platform only.
Besides, for GCC 3.x, I haven’t seen a port to non-UNIX OSes, unless the ports are made by the project itself. The Windows version of GCC, BTW, contain a library to emulate UNIX calls GCC makes and translate them into DOS calls (and that’s why it doesn’t work on NT). So, I don’t think the GCC you speak of is portable.
I am wondering what ANSI C means to you as well.
Most (if not all) the C apps I have seen don’t follow the ANSI C standards as they add features and toolkits to it, and use 3rdd party libraries not available for other platforms. (BTW, portable code was created in order to make it easier to port applications between platforms)
I wanted to post an inquiry about Mozilla vs. Opera, but now I have a big issue with Opera’s ad banner. They’re starting to allow those cursed casino banners that flash unceasingly again. I wrote to them once before, explaining that they’re wiping out months of loyalty in mere minutes by allowing those ads, I tried explaining that bright red flashing at that frequency gives a certain percentage of the population epileptoid migrains, but I guess they’re too stupid to understand. Right now I have a copy of notepad minimized and stretched to cover the flashing banner, and my thoughts have turned from the possibility of registering Opera to thoughts on how to defeat the ad banner. If Mozilla now has Opera style crash recovery and is no longer slow, maybe I’ll endure the time it will take to download a copy. At least it won’t put me into a blind rage by flashing red lights in my eyes.
I have used Opera for a long time, after awhile I forget about the existance of the banner ads.
But if you don’t want certain types of ads, open Opera, click Preferences from the File menu, click Advertising on the tab on the left, and pick the one you like best! (tip: click on COmputer/Games would give you a Opera banner ad begging you to register most of the time).
But if you really like Opera, buy it, its $40. I’m planing to buy it, I’m saving up money (unlike the US, $40 here is a lot of money). But to me, it’s worthit. Plus, you get to upgrade to Opera 7 FOC and Opera 8 for a minimal charge, and opera 9 FOC, and Opera 10 for a minimal charge etc.
It may be unbelievable, but when i was forced to use P-100 with 32 MB (Win98Lite platform) – i choosed Mozilla over Opera 6.* for backgound intensive tabbed browsing.
Okay, I just tried both Mozilla RC3 and Opera 6.0 (the only versions of Linux I have for the moment) and install it on Linux Mandrake 7.1 with Qt2. Opera 6.0 worked fine, on the Internet and all, and Mozilla choked here and there. This is especially browsing Flash and Java intensive sites (my computer is slow, my dial-up is slow, what was I think). When opening a new tab on Mozilla, it so darn slow. To it’s credit, Multizilla was so much faster. Mozilla’s tab support seemed like a rushed job to me. (However, the first Opera 6.0 release for Windows was a stable as a rodeo bull, should have never been released, they show have released 6.01 as the first version). (Besides, there isn’t any Ctrl-Shift-Click like feature in Mozilla)
One thing I don’t quite like about the Linux version on an old machine is each time you use a mouse gesture, you would have to wait for half a minute for it to response, to it became more convinient to just press the icons. I would try that Optimizilla or whatever (the one that gives Mozilla mouse gestures) when I have time…
Mozilla’s tabs ARE multizilla’s just an early implementation..
ever heard of cygwin?
ever heard about the fact that mozilla uses at least 3 different tookits for the rendering?
…..
why does mozilla try to open ports?
Mozilla’s tabs ARE multizilla’s just an early implementation..
Sorry, I didn’t read the history behind the products. I just compare two products. multizilla is obviously better.
ever heard of cygwin?
Is it that extremely slow UNIX API layer for Windows?
ever heard about the fact that mozilla uses at least 3 different tookits for the rendering?
Argh! You arne’t getting my point! My point is that Opera and Mozilla didn’t try to take advantage of the platform they are targeting. I’m sure one day web browsers would be like Chimera and Galeon.