Mozilla 1.0 Officially Here

hhg writes "People of the world, rejoice! At last, the long awaited Mozilla 1.0 is released, and has emerged on the ftp.mozilla.org ftp-server. Let the release parties loose!" And there's even an Ann Arbor party now ;) Congratulations to all the developers that contributed to the mighty lizard. And bahtama writes "The latest IE gopher hole patch is out! :) ... Check the release notes and then grab it from here."

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mozillazine

[cetan]

http://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article2278.ht ml pretty much says it all :)

Congrats to all the hackers on the moz project. Fantastic job and well worth the wait.

Please!! Count to ten and then decide

[_LORAX_]

Cm'on if you have 1.0_rc3 and you are not having problems, please do everyone a favor and DON'T download today...

Unless you are having problems.. try this weekend after the mirrors have had time to catch up!

Re:Please!! Count to ten and then decide

[anthony_dipierro]

Or use gnutella. The MD5 is 684461f4bef2888271cb05bd3d80af28 for mozilla-win32-1.0-installer.exe.

Beonex Communicator 0.8-stable based on Mozilla 1

[benb]

Beonex also just released the Mozilla 1.0-based browser Beonex Communicator 0.8-stable.

While the ultimate goal of the Mozilla project is to produce source code that can be used by other projects and companies, the Open-Source project Beonex tries to make a browser for end-users out of it. (See Beonex vs. Mozilla). Beonex Communicator stays relatively true to Mozilla. Special emphasis is being put on security and privacy. The software is configured defensively, to avoid security holes to appear in the first place. For example, it sanitizes incoming HTML-email to the largest part.

The current version is available for Windows und Linux and bases on the final Mozilla 1.0 source code.

BTW: Congratulations to the whole Mozilla project!

Disclaimer: I am a member of the Beonex project.
I hope, Slashdot will also run this as main news article.

User discussion newsgroups

[Nicopa]

Please, don't use the developer groups for your questions. A good place for user discussion where you can ask for support or discuss and propose features is the new newsgroup:

snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla. user.general

(Note that slashdot adds a space inside the link)

Sorry to be the ungrateful user, but...

[Eric Seppanen]

I really, really wish someone would have fixed the obnoxious file-extension mangling bug. It's rapidly soaring toward the top of the most-frequently reported bug list, and was introduced at 1.0rc1 back in April. It's bug 120327 if anyone's interested in reading 183 (mostly repetitive) comments.

This bug is why mozilla insists on adding .exe extensions to anything delivered as application/octet-stream, .txt to text/plain, and likes to fool around with lots of other extensions depending on your exact setup (on my machine it tries to rename every mp3 file to .mpga).

Thank You!

[asa]

I want to personally thank everyone that downloaded Milestone and nightly testing builds and contributed feedback in the form of Bugzilla bug reports, TalkBack crash reports, comments in the newsgroups and at mozillaZine.org. And a special thanks to those people that gave a hours, weeks, months or years of their lives to the care and feeding of our bug database (triage and testcasing bug reports). Without Mozilla's amazing QA and testing community we wouldn't be where we are today.
Oh, and all the developers too ;-)

Re: ftp mirror...

[Aanallein]

Please do not use the above mirror. It's primarily for use by the developers. If it becomes unusable they won't be able to get any work done.

Re:The ONLY thing annoying me...

[thesolo]

P.S. I replaced the splash with one of the splash screens found here:
http://www.lotekk.net/index.php?page=moz&sub=splas h

Very professional, and very fitting!

Re:strange choice of releases

[asa]

I notice they're using the May 31st 1.0-branch build as 1.0 . I'm on the 2nd of June 1.0-branch build right now. Maybe they decided to junk several days' work due to mistakes.

Actually, we're already moving forward to Mozilla 1.0.1 :-)

--Asa

WARNING - do not upgrade to Mozilla from Netscape

[Animats]

Mozilla 1.0 went out the door with Bug 137164 unfixed.

Near the end of the release notes, there is the warning

• Do not share a profile between Netscape and Mozilla builds. Doing this can lead to unpredictable results, some of which may include loss of Search settings and preferences and unchecked growth of the Bookmarks file (large enough to freeze your system). It is best to create a new profile for each or manually copy (and change the name) an existing profile.

The bug report itself contains this pathetic comment:

• If you point someone to a door with 'Enter' on it and the handle shocks them when they touch it - maybe they shouldn't do that, but that still makes you a pretty mean bastard.

  that is to say... If Netscape can't use a Mozilla profile(and vice-versa) without causing nasty corruption then it shouldn't be trying. We should offer to import and create a new one without harming the old one - just like we do with other browsers that we like/share users with/ and support but with which we have incompatible profiles. (uhh 4.x)

  Believe me, I'm overjoyed to mark bugs that stem from this behavior as invalid (and I will) but that doesn't strike at the core issue. Lots of users, QA, and developers have spent a ton of time chasing down these demons - no one knew of this incompatibility. Isn't there something to be done?

Re:Talkback packages only

[edwdig]

Under the directory on the ftp server with the stub, there's an XPI directory which has the packages for the individual components. The install also has an option to save the downloaded files.

Re:WARNING - do not upgrade to Mozilla from Netsca

[David Gerard]

FAQ section 7 tells you how to work around this.

NOTE: you can't start the profile manager unless Mozilla is fully shut down.