Finally, the much anticipated version 1.0 of Firefox are out on its first preview. Read more from here and proceed to download. Also, new versions of Mozilla suite, Thunderbird were posted. Here’s another article too: How to migrate from Ximian Evolution to Mozilla Thunderbird.
Mozilla released FireFox 1.0 preview
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Firefox has really come on recently. I thought the 0.9 release was “feature complete”, but they’ve actually added some brilliant enhancements since then. For a while, I still preferring the Mozilla suite to Firefox, but now I’ve pretty much made the switch.
Anyway, get out there and help with the marketing campaign at http://www.spreadfirefox.com – they’re aiming for 1 million downloads in 10 days following the release of 1.0. Ambitious, but they certianly deserve to achieve it!
The Mac version still has an annoying bug – when you start it up after shutting it down, it always starts in the top left of the screen. It never remembers where it was. I don’t have any other Mac program that does that.
I’ve been using it all day and it works like a charm. I’m still waiting for the bookmark sort add-on though.
I’ve never played around with RSS .. is their RSS tool that’s built into the preview release worth using, or are there better alteernatives available for Win32?
Why in the world would I want to migrate from Evolution to Thunderbird?
when Firefox will start using the GTK 2.4 fileselector?
Right now it works in the Mozilla nightly builds.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v64/super_science_monkey/mozilla_…
There is a bug on firefox’s RSS feeds, and it loads the osnews RDF feed with the wrong order (the 15th news item shows as first, and so on). I filed a bug report yesterday.
firefox + webdev + doubleclick tabclose + tab position + adblock for flash + google bar + a beautifull women and i dont ask anything more if its to spent the rest of my life on a desert island
Considering they use a non-standard file saving method (i.e. dump stuff to $HOME by default) at this point I’d say it’s unlikely for them to switch to the gtk2 file selector.
I’m still undecided on the file-saving issue. It makes it convenient to be able to just save without thinking to a default directory, but then sometimes I end up having to move stuff out later.
will firefox support gnome’s file selector as well?
mozilla’s own really sucks…
sorry, didn’t read first posts
I’ve never played around with RSS .. is their RSS tool that’s built into the preview release worth using, or are there better alteernatives available for Win32?
Hum…just downloaded the Preview Release, and wanted to try out the rss reader/live bookmarks. Its okay. In checking blogs (e.g. livejournal) it produces a bookmarks folder of each individual page. It doesn’t yet seem to have a feature that displays if you have already read/visited that webpage. However, livebookmarks is an interesting feature, we’ll see how it goes.
P.s. the find feature is a little different. The top right hand toolbar is devoted to the search engine extensions (google, ebay…).
Why everybody think that firefox should use gnome filechooser?
Firefox is not a gnome application so why should it choose its filechooser?
There are other gecko based gnome-browsers that do that.
The file selector is in gtk not in gnome. Firefox for Linux uses gtk so it would make sense to also use its file selector.
Seems to break the Neomail WebMail client (v1.26 at least) giving the old “cookie doesn’t match session” error (not due to the /var partition being full as it works in 0.9.3)
Otherwise pretty nice, need some extensions updated due to the stupid use of versions.
I actually like the search feature, and thank goodness you can turn off the popup blocked notification toolbar!
I think it would be better if it was able to auto-detect your environment and uses this file selector instead. Firefox under Windows uses the Win32 dialog, I don’t see why it wouldn’t be able to use a QT one.
Any link o Mirror for download firefox-pre.10 for linux
There’s been a lot of KDE/Qt integration going on with Mozilla recently. What you’re asking for will hopefully be available pretty soon.
http://dot.kde.org/1094924433/
“I don’t see why it wouldn’t be able to use a QT one.”
Why waste dev time on bloat? Firefox, for better or for worse, is using GTK+. It is not going to kill you to use the GTK+ file selector, especially seeing as how the new one doesn’t suck anymore. Adding QT in is only going to make things messy for no reason whatsoever.
-Erwos
Why waste dev time on bloat? Firefox, for better or for worse, is using GTK+. It is not going to kill you to use the GTK+ file selector, especially seeing as how the new one doesn’t suck anymore. Adding QT in is only going to make things messy for no reason whatsoever.
Bloat can be subjective. For example, I consider theming as bloat (although useful for my situation)…
I would agree with you if GTK+ is calling the native dialogs in Windows. However, I am not sure as the button order in the Windows builds seem to be “normal” (e.g. matching the Win32’s look & feel). If they bother to call the Win32, they could do the same thing in Linux. The whole application doesn’t have to be in QT.
Niran: Yeah I read about it some days ago but I wonder if it’s only a proof-of-concept or if they will actually do something useful with it. Anyway, Firefox with gtk-qt-engine and the Plastikfox theme look like a genuine KDE application, apart from that file dialog and the button order.
In the future, Firefox will be using many of the GNOME libraries. It already uses gnome-vfs last time I checked. You’d have the option to compile with(out) the GNOME and/or GTK+ related libraries, as it is done today.
That’s good news for me, because Epiphany has severe security related issues. Frankly, I wouldn’t mind Firefox replacing Epiphany as the default browser on GNOME. Firefox is already being HIGified, by the way. Once, Firefox can inherit my icon themes, it will become a GNOME application from my perspective.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150680
I heard that they were bitching about the bandwidth problems the servers are experiencing. There is a solution: BitTorrent. Just add a torrent link to the normal downloads. Even NASA used BitTorrent for their Maestro downloads.
PS: Opera Rules!
http://www.mozilla.org/mirrors.html is a list of pretty snappy mirrors. enjoy and hope that helps!
I moved to amd64 its a shame that only suse works on my laptop. And it certainly does not help to find that I am still running thunderbird 0.5 and mozilla 1.6. Gentoo people came up with a half cooked amd64 port I am positive they are using the latest.
…seems to have improved vastly. i don’t know if this is just because i uninstalled the old extensions/themes and installed the new ones/updated ones, or if firefox 1.0PR is really faster.
(this is on a win98 machine celeron 566 with 160MB RAM)
I know in past versions of Firefox, if you wanted to upgrade, you pretty much had to back up your bookmarks, uninstall Firefox and remove any left over files manually, then bring back your bookmarks (sometimes).
Anybody have Firefox 9.3 then upgraded by just double-clicking the installer? Any problems upgrading? I am on Windows XP.
“PS: Opera Rules!”
The topic is about Firefox, keep Opera out of this.
As far as Firefox 1.0PR is a great improvment over 0.9.3
RSS integration is a great new addition.
the Findbox take a bit getting used to but is a really good addition.
I am only waiting for All In one Mouse guesture
p.s. : my Gmail account doesn’t stop loading under Firefox 1.0PR but works correctly does anyone having same problem ?
I really like the “Find” funtion in Firefox, especially the “Highlight”. You gotta to try it.
I installed 1.0PR on top of 0.9.3 and it works just fine. Even my old extensions work. I’ve heard people complaining on that, here’s not the case.
You might wanna have a look at Zack Rusin’s blog (he’s one of the guy porting gecko/firefox to Qt/KDE):
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/view/615
Especially note his answer no. 3, now thats gonna be kool.
Does anybody know any cool 1.0-compliant themes? (The default one is ugly IMO…)