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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."

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  1. Big deal by trotski · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Internet explorer is still so much more superior to Mozilla/Firefox. I mean, the load times are out of this world compared to Mozilla. Furthermore, with google toolbar you can block pop ups just as effectivly as with mozilla. I used Mozilla for a while, but after using IE with google toolbar I'm never going back.

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    "Entropy is the bad-guy, and he is everywhere"
  2. 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.

    1. Re:Not impressed... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      STFU fag.

  3. Re:Very clean! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    How is the above a troll, you retarded moderators? Trolling means you are trolling for trouble with your comments. In that case, the original valid and appropriate post drew trouble by stupid moderators which in turn drew a hateful reply to the moderators and then was again marked troll by the moderators.

    So if you follow that succession, it is clear that the MODERATORS are the trolls here.

  4. 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.