Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Mozilla 1.7, Firefox 0.9 Release Candidates Out

Posted by timothy on from the happy-browsing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "mozilla.org have released what are expected to be the final release candidates for their next versions: Mozilla 1.7RC3 (MozillaZine article; download) should iron out any final bugs in what will replace 1.4 as the new stable branch and Firefox 0.9RC (MozillaZine article; download) features the new default theme ported from Mac OS on Windows (though please bear in mind that the theme is nowhere near finished yet). The final releases of these versions are due very soon."

2 of 642 comments (clear)

  1. Not impressed... by hendridm · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1. Downloaded FirefoxSetup-0.9rc.exe. Ran setup (which said "Thank you for installing Firefox 0.8"). Installed over old version.
    2. Double-clicked exacutable. Firefox caught in an infinite startup loop.
    3. Restart the computer to break the loop.
    4. Try again, assuming my computer was just acting wacky.
    5. Firefox caught in an infinite loop again. Restart computer again.
    6. Try downloading the ZIP (Firefox-win32.zip) and extracting to a brand new folder.
    7. Launched from the new folder. Firefox opened fine.
    8. Went to About -> Firefox. Reports version as being 0.8.

    Yippie! Not only did it not upgrade to 0.9 (although it appears to be build 20040609), but it also comes with a theme that is quite gay in comparison to the old one. Nice.

  2. What about Opera? by bonch · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's not Open Source, but there's a Linux version, and I'm sorry, but Opera beats the pants off of Mozilla in all departments.