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Mozilla Project Officially Releases Firefox 0.9
_xeno_ writes "The last release candidate was apparently good enough, because Mozilla Firefox 0.9 has now been officially released. New features since 0.8 are, of course, basically the same as in the Release Candidate, including the new Pinstripe theme for Windows and the GTK+ installer for Linux users. The biggest change since the Release Candidate is that this release should ask you to migrate your profile instead of just trashing it. So head over to the Firefox homepage and get downloading, or check out the Release Notes to find out exactly what's new."
mE123 adds "You can get it from plain old HTTP or from fancy new BitTorrent", and points out that (compared to 0.8), "this release includes tons of bug/stability fixes, a %3 speed up, a new theme and plugin management system, a new standard windows theme, and a smaller windows installer."
Well I love Firefox and have used it as my main browser for the last year or so. But honestly, I loaded the website both IE and Firefox 0.9 and really didn't see a difference.
Download my free songs!
I'm also back to 0.8. The main issue I had with 0.9RC was that it took over the right mouse button. When you click the right mouse button and drag, it scroll the page. That may be fine for some, but it break all extensions that uses the right mouse button for mouse gesture (RadialContext and another one which I don't remember the name). The RadialContext menu do popup, but when you release the button, it does nothing.
Also, with RadialContext for Firefox 0.9, the [back] gesture get you to the previous site and not the previous page as it used to do (I don't know if it's a change in RadialContext or an issue with Firefox 0.9 though).
So 0.8 is it for me. Anyway, I find it to be very stable and fast enough.
Get the old default theme back (it's called Qute.)
Watch out too, if you get hit by extensions that cause your browser to start with "Firefox is finishing installing extensions. This could take a minute..." (esp. on Windows) - this page (Google cached) offers some suggestions and links to relevant bug reports.
No, not really. They are still backwards.
Do you like the button order?
What about for check boxes?
[ ] Bush
[ ] Nader
[*] Gore
Whouldn't it make sense to always start left?
[ ] Bush
[ ] Nader
[*] Gore
Did Apple come up with the backwards buttons at the same time that they decided that untrained monkeys could use a single button mouse easier (in combination with the ctrl, shift and apple keys)?