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Mozilla 1.7, Firefox 0.9 Release Candidates Out
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."
...is here.
FWIW, CVS 1.11.17 - the security release that happened this morning - is up there too.
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Debian is still shipping Netscape 4.7...
THe linux gtk installer version of this RC tells me to exit all Windows programs before running Setup.
DONE!
My main gripe with Mozilla is that when you leave it alone for about 30 minutes or so and come back, it takes like 15-50 seconds to be active again, which is extremely annoying (loading it from virtual mem ?). They really need to fix that
Also, some pages like WashingtonPost.com have a problem where it is constantly reloading itself (perhaps a JS error).
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Had I known that installing both these packages would cause a new version release the next day, I would have done it much sooner.
Time to go wash my car.
So, what will be the name of Firefox's new version? (I vote for Powercthüllu. Got to love Firesomething :)
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Anyone wanna seed the firefox d/l?
Anyone notice that there are editor holy wars (vi emacs), distro holy wars, but no 'browser' holy wars (yeah, ie vs mozilla, but that windows vs linux... I'm talking all in linux). Stuff like 'theme isn't finished' would be jumped on by the 'other browser' elitists. So linux needs a second open source free browser project so we can have a browser holywar.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Has anyone noticed differences between the HTML engines in Mozilla? Using Mozilla/Firefox on a Linux distro, there are certain style sheets that do not display correctly (mostly hidden behind a graphic or otherwise), but seem to work fine under Mozilla/Firefox in Windows. An example is www.aicipc.com.
I'm very disappointed. I was under the impression that open source and the ingenuity of a team of dedicated, enthusiastic developers could finally push Rapid NameChange(TM) technology into the mainstream.
Huh? You mean insecure, bloated, and integrated into your OS? Just use IE? Or change your habits?
It was just discussed earlier today that some users cant install Mozilla on restricted systems but you can download the zip files on run from any directory. So there is no need to patch IE. Just start with mozilla.
Some option you will want to use are under edit -> preferences -> Navigator:
+ Tabbed browsing - turn on Load Links in background, Add, Tabs, Middle click and ctrl-enter
+ Smart browsing - Enable Internet Keywords, Auto complete, Domain Guessing
The key for someone new is to try it. Don't listen to everyone one trying to shove Mozilla at you, but simply check it out for say 3 days. If you don't like it then that is ok but I bet you will start saying that it's a great browser.
Since spyware has gone cross-platform thanks to the XPI extensions, they've now implemented a whitelist (see What's New) in retaliation.
This really is open source at its best. Microsoft has not responded to the same problems involving ActiveX.
Is Camino still being worked on at all? It's been 0.8b since like early 2003.
Why do they put a default theme that is "nowhere near finished" in a product that's "due very soon"?
Yes, I know Firefox is "for those on the cutting edge", and I guess we shouldn't expect cutting-edge products to be completely finished in every respect, but Firefox is the only open source product most of my Windows-using friends are willing to even try. It would be a shame to hamper its continued spread by making the default theme an unfinished one.
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There is a luna theme availible, but it doesn't appear to be maintained anymore. It breaks some features in Firefox 0.8, but if the IE look is all you care about, there you are.
There's been an ie skin for mozilla in the usual places, I was playing with it at least a year ago...
It's a hilarious hack, and makes it look a _lot_ like ie, but it's not a perfect emulation since there are no viruses, and popups are blocked, but otherwise, a pretty fair approximation.
Am I the only one confused by a "release candidate" for version 0.9?
It's not even 1.0 yet, you can't rely on it to be stable (although I have found 0.8 to work better than IE, which is supposedly stable).
Why not call it 0.85 if it's not 0.9?
What about Konqueror, you jackass.
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I'd like to help the community and I could actually install mozilla on several dozen of the PCs that I administer but the curve is too high for non-geeks. I will continue to use IE and endorse it with this kind of response.
My girlfriend is as non-geek as you can get. When I removed IE from the Desktop and replaced it with a Firefox Icon, she didn't even miss a beat. As long as all her bookmarks imported she could care less what was displaying the site.
That said, I don't think I've ever seen anyone miss a beat when using Firefox as opposed to IE. To most people, a browser, is a browser, is a browser...
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I keep coming back to Konqueror simply because the font rendering is simple the best looking. I really hope Firefox's font rendering get's addressed before 1.0.
Shh.
Heh?! I convinced some randomer from archery to install firefox, and not only did he not get lost and isn't a geek, but he also said he found it much better than IE.
I can't remember Mozilla, but Firefox is incredibly easy and intuitive.
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Hey,
you can get the qute theme from its designer's website here.
yours ever, fz.
Change the following items in classic.jar/skin/classic/browser/browser.css and the default theme looks WAY better:
.toolbarbutton-menubutton-button { padding: 3px; }
.toolbarbutton-1[open="true"], .toolbarbutton-menubutton-button[checked="true"], .toolbarbutton-menubutton-button[open="true"] { padding: 4px 2px 2px 4px !important; }
.toolbarbutton-1,
.toolbarbutton-1[checked="true"],
The spacing is less annoying and the icons look a lot better.
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Mozilla is more than just a Web browser. It has a mailer, chatzilla, some class of editor and a browser... firefox is essentially nothing more than the browser refactored and cleaned up. If you only use Mozilla as a browser, you would be as well moving to Firefox. If you want all the stuff that comes bundled with Mozilla, go about your business same as ever :)
Hope that's useful.
"Thats right buddy, the large print giveth, and the small print taketh away."
If you liked the theme from 0.8 (qute) better you can download it for 0.9. The author completely revamped qute for 0.9 and it's better than ever.
I don't know about the rest of you but this new theme doesn't look as nice to me. The icon's aren't as detailed or polished and it feels a little clunky compared to the old one.
Also, shame on the Mozilla folks for not letting the Qute author know all his hard work to support their project wouldn't be included.
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Screenie of the new "Winstripe" theme
Many users will whine on and on about the most trivial differences. Case in point:
We used to use Eudora around here. I don't know why, it was before I got hired. Well we have lots of people that STILL USE IT! Version 3 even. We try to push them towards Thundirbird. I mean there is nothing I can think of that Eudora does that Thundirbird doesn't (other than suck) and lots of things it can't do. Also an e-mail client is an e-mail client. I mean they all get your mail, list it, and let you reply.
Nope. There is man who bitch and whine and refuse to change. It's too hard to learn, they say. A Eudora skin would make my life much easier, though I'd reeally rather they learn the new interface (it takes what, 10 seconds to learn?)
So never say "people won't care because it's a little different. They can, and will, for some damn reason.
It's not 0.9 yet because it isn't 0.9. It will be 0.9 when the final release is made.
Remember, this is a release candidate.
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A company that I consult for still uses *a lot* of Win 95 Machines. Of course, like everyone in the win32 world, they are begining to have lots of problems with spyware, adware and various other sorts of crapware that seem to do little more than destablize their computers.
/. confirm that this is a known issue that'll be fixed or there exists a work-around for?
Long story short: I did a fresh install of Win 95 C (the latest and greatest version of 95) and proceeded to download Mozilla 1.6 stable and 1.7rc3 and Firefox. However, none of these browsers would work... just a brief start-up splash-screen and then... nothing.
I know 95 is old, but Mozilla is a must these days. I'm no bug-hunting, bug-reporting expert, but could anyone on
Thanks
Firefox has great standards compatability, but has piss poor HCI.
URL fails to load -> url blanked
Switch from one tab to another while url loading -> old url displayed.
Page fails to load because of DNS lookup -> stored in the menu bar cache!.
Download -> gets sent somewhere whithout asking, doesn't tell the user that anythings happended.
Download again -> creates a new file blar+1 no continue/overwrite prompt or anything.
Close browser while downloading -> canceles all your downloads.
Download more than one extension -> get anoying prompts that are incorrect!
etc... etc.... etc.... etc.....
Firefox has to be one of the most anoying pieces of software I have ever used.
I only use it because it's more standards complient and faster than the alternitives.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Go to:
about:config
Find "image.animation_mode"
Change it to "once" or "none"
Man, I don't want to know how many people think that Debian _reall_ still ships Netscape 4.7... Here's the truth:
;-)
1. Debian has never, nor ever will include Netscape 4.7 in the default branch, because it doesn't meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
2. Debian is actually one of the more up to date distros I've used. Just run unstable and you get almost everything just a few days after release, virtually always working.
I am sick of tired about people bashing Debian because they make every conceivable effort to guarantee that their stable distribution Just Works, even avoiding incompatibilities between versions of the same package.
At the same time, their unstable distribution gives you the latest software as soon as is feasible while still maintaining unmatched quality, and has (to my knowledge) the largest collection of packages of any distro, compiled for several architectures.
Combine all that with package management that is so good that other distros have eventually given up trying to match it and are now adopting apt one by one, and you have a distro that can turn intelligent people into zealots like me. Get on your knees and apologize!
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Looking at the release notes on the Mozilla side of the browers, I see they've added support for CSS opacity, very cool. Not something I'd incorporate into the core design of my pages yet, but I might toss it in as a bonus to Moz users.
For anyone who's interested, Firefox 0.9 now supports the ability to run from a USB key without any major changes AND be able to take your entire profile with you. I've repackaged the Firefox 0.9 Release Candidate as a ZIP that will create an 8.1Mb install of Firefox on your USB key, complete with a built-in profile. Full details of the changes (if you're curious, or so you can try it yourself) as well as a ZIP are available here:
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http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox
Any commentary or questions on this new feature can be addresses in this thread on mozillaZine.
Portable versions of Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice, etc
I like to grab there inages and email them ack to them..
"Are these the images you don't want me to get?"
heh... I got a lot of angry responses. I like the ones where they call me stupid.
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Hmm..
gay
adj. gayer, gayest
1) Showing or characterized by cheerfulness and lighthearted excitement; merry.
2) Bright or lively, especially in color: a gay, sunny room.
Whether or not this was the meaning the original poster intended, it seems to describe the 0.9 theme quite well.
I think the only thing worse than insensitive people are you over-sensitive, paranoid bastards. Lighten up!
Haha, silly debian users...I run Gentoo. I'll let you guys know what 0.9 is like next week, when it finishes compiling. ;)
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