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Firefox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1 Released
Dave writes "The Mozilla Foundation has just made available interim releases of Firefox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1. Apparently: 'These releases are designed to address early issues found in the new extension manager and automatic upgrade system as well as making changes to the new Firefox theme based on initial feedback.'"
I just upgraded from 9.0 without uninstalling.
It worked fine. However it's only been like 3 minutes since i've been using 9.1.
I just installed it this morning and it installed flawlessly over 0.9
Yes
First, for these preview releases it is strongly recommended that you uninstall any previous version of Firefox first
Firefox 0.9 has been quite unstable on my (Win) system compared to earlier relases. Hopefully this release addresses some of the issues.
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I really cannot congratulate the Mozilla developers and FireFox teams on this immense effort.
I noticed a little 'downloads available' popup, very nice.
I would like to see the tab-wrapping, where tabs do not reduce in size, but wrap onto a new line, that is handy for people who have about 8 tabs open at once (any more and they should resize)
Great work!
Adblock does rule - but it doesn't work until you go into their message board and use their recommended ruleset (which then works incredibly). They should make that default, or at least question the user upon installation if they would like to use that as default setup.
Berto
In previous versions of Firefox (when I tried 0.8, for example) Adblock was available as the most recommended extension. Now, after I've advised others try Firefox, and they have installed 0.9, the Adblock extension is no-longer available. I've heard that this was due to compatibility problems with the extension manager - though I've no inside knowledge.
Extensions for 0.9.x can be found here
It seems installing over 0.9.0 will keep your old extentions and themes
install firesomething too its the best extention there is
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I see this too (Linux) remember this is the first time that the upgrade system has been tested in the public so some teething erros like this may occur.
It's good that this is happening now before 1.0 or even 1.0beta is released.
It could be either an error on the server side or the client side, if it's the client side then just hold tight, if it's the server side they'll surely fix it asap.
It's a know bug as they kept the internal version number at 0.9 so they didn't break lots of extentions.
The nightly builds of AdBlock seem to work fine for me under FireFox .9 and .9.1. .9 install -- but .9.1 fixes that issue)
(Although I did run into the "please wait while Mozilla finishes installing your extension" bug when upgrading from a previous version of AdBlock on my Mozilla
Get the AdBlock nighly builds at http://adblock.mozdev.org/dev.html
Kormac
You'll have to copy and paste, Mozilla doesn't like slashdot linking to their bugs:
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http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/mozilla/
http://mozilla.gnusoft.net/
These worked for me. (Posted as AC to avoid whore-accusations. :) )
The theme in 0.9 was a work in progress released early in the hope to gain some feedback, the 0.9.1 release just is updated with the current progress of that theme.
The original theme in 0.8 and below was removed for licensing reasons. You can still install it by going to the themes secion of update.mozilla.org (also accessible from the Theme Manager in the Tools menu)
There is an extension to use your old extensions. I had adblock working and I still have it after upgrading and installing that other extension.
Errr, that's more or less the whole point of Firefox.
Compared to Mozilla; no Composer, no email client, no IRC client, no spaceship landing dock - JUST the browser.
So yes, of course it doesn't consume as much resources as it's big brother.
Did anyone else notice the CSS/Drawing bug on Slashdot where the side panel overlapped the side panel slightly. That bug has been fixed in this release.
:D
I love firefox
Si.
If you're having weird problems with Firefox it might be because there was a bug in some of ther nightly builds and maybe the release candidates (?) that could cause problems with your profile. If you've got nothing critical in your profile (bookmarks, passwords etc) then just try deleting all traces off it and starting again.
In Windows your profile will live in the %APPDATA% directory which in 9x is usually c:\windows\application data and in 2k/XP C:\Documents and Settings\user\application data\ (folder may be hidden).
In this directory delete the directories Phoenix, Firefox and the Firefox directory within Mozilla if it exists.
As this is pre-1.0 software, sometimes problems may occur.
FF .9 appears to not run properly on Win95. Now the interesting thing is that Mozilla initially stated that .8 was for 98 and later. However, it turned out to run fine on 95. So the web pages were changed to reflect that.
.9, it just didn't work right. So I went back to .8. But now several versions of Bookmark Link Checker fail to work, i.e., no UI (no buttons or menu choices appear).
.9 would fail, *I would've just kept using .8 and having the Link Checker work!*
This time, it said "98 and later" and I assumed that they'd made the same error again. But when I tried
Wish they hadn't established the ambiguity in the first place. Had I known that
You must not have liked it too much to have given up so easily. Deleting your profile, either via the profile manager or manually and then reinstalling would have most likely solved your problem. Considering Firefox takes 1 minute to install, it's not that big a deal.
"The problem with internet quotations is that many are not genuine" -Abraham Lincoln
A few nitpicks:
-0.9rc is a release candidate so expect it to be buggy. In fact it's not even 1.0 so even the FireFox team considers current releases to be pre-releases.
-You can set the install directory if you select Custom in the Setup Type dialog
I'm currently trying to make an MSI installer out of 0.9.1 so I can deploy it across the network using GPOs. Anyone had success with this?
I'm sorry if I haven't offended anyone
That's funny. I'm running 0.9 right now with AdBlock and have been since the day it was released.
I don't believe that AdBlock is listed as an extension if you go to the 0.9 extensions page. But sonce Firefox helpfully imported all of my bookmarks from 0.8, I just went to the old extensions page and installed it from there. I had zero problems with the installation and zero problems with running it.
"The legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts as are injurious to others." Thomas Jefferson.
I agree with your point, but you'll save time in the longrun by changing HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\ProgramFilesDir to "D:\Program Files" in the registry.
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You can also get the theme by going to the author's website (see sig).
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My sig became obsolete, and I lack the imagination to create a new one.
0.9 had a lot of new features and so it was expected a lot of small bugs would be found once it was released due to widespread testing so most people anticipated this release. It fixed the most annoying bugs in 0.9 so the developers can now concentrate on 1.0 beta
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ - click on the roadmap link when you goto this page
I found that Adblock works fine on my 0.9. However, I did also install the Show Old Extensions extension which has been a god-send for re-enabling stuff that 0.9 blocked.
I say we take off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...
Firebird 0.9 is completely buggy under Mac OS X.
Extensions are loaded one out of 10 times,
lots of UI bugs etc.
I actually had to download the old 0.8 version,
which was the best (again, under Max OS X that
is)
I hope this new version will fix the tons of
bugs...
I upgraded without uninstalling too. It worked fine... until I closed the browser and tried to open it again. Then the splash screen would disappear without a trace.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
"I'm not sure if the theme is switched back to Qute, which I like, but all I know is that the 0.9 theme just wasn't professional enough to 'take over the world'."
;i just installed ff0.9.1, and the theme is the same as 0.9, albeit with a few *minor* tweaks to the back, forward, refresh, and stop button icons.
;treehead
"If any part Linux was stolen, then Windows was the biggest heist in history."
get it here
I always clear the cache, then go and zip up the
C:\Documents and Settings\{Username}\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\{Username}\{gibberish}.slt
directory before upgrading just in case of disaster (at least on a Win2K/XP system). That backs up and saves all your bookmarks, cookies, mail and news, settings, etc.
-- You are in a maze of little, twisty passages, all different... --
They never changed the name for fun before, but because of unfortunate trademark problems. They've since learned their lesson and Firefox is now a registered trademark. It won't change anytime soon, not even to "Mozilla Browser", as far as I know.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Try going to this Adblock forum link:
What adblock filters should I use??
Friends don't let Friends use Internet Explorer.
This newest new default theme does look much nicer than that macinwindows one they had before. If you are upgrading from regular 0.9, you won't see it if you have another theme installed. You'll have to switch back to default to see it.
Try this:
p refs.js
Open your prefs.js file and delete all the lines that start with: user_pref("update.
Prefs file is here:
data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.xxx\
Worked for me, anyway...
Here's a screenshot of winstripe in 0.9.1.
Looks much better than in 0.9 if you ask me. Good Job!
Well, let me guess :
:
:
o okies.txt
1) No tabbrowser extensions?
Try here : http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/tbe (it works and I'm using it on 0.9 right now)
2) No Adblock or it doesn't work right?
Try here : http://adblock.mozdev.org/adblock-0.5-dev.xpi (again, it works perfectly on 0.9 and I'm using it)
Finally, if stuff still does not work for you, use this old trick that has saved me a lot of times
Close Firefox.
Rename your profile folder.
Start Firefox again - it will re-create your profile folder. Close it.
Copy over the following files to the new profile folder (overwriting the existing ones)
bookmarks.html
history.dat
formhistory.dat
c
signons.txt
That's it. Ofcourse, you will have to install your extensions all over again, but that does not take much time and it's worth the effort. Every single time I've used this procedure it's worked perfectly and Firefox has gone back to it's usual efficient self.
Hope this helps.
Find a job you like and you will never work a day in your life.
You can see what's stored in the RAM in Mozilla browsers by typing "about:cache?device=memory" into the address bar.
If it's using too much memory, you can try reducing the RAM cache by typing "about:config" into the address bar then look for the key "browser.cache.memory.capacity" and change the value to 1024 or something similar.
More here.
Mozilla is a suite, containing a browser, a mail/news client, an addressbook, an IRC-client, a HTML editor. Hence it is quite a heavy application.
Thunderbird and Firefox are derived from the same codebase, but are much lighter since they contain much less functionality. Thunderbird is just mail/news (including an addressbook of course) and Firefox is only the browser.
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Try this: Open the Firefox Options, look under Advanced and check the box for "Use smooth scrolling".
Incidentally, this is always the first feature I disable in IE since it makes the whole browser feel sluggish in my opinion. Different strokes for different folks, I guess...
It's like deja vu all over again.
That's what you are saying, and what I already knew. But now there's also this:
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AFAIK, Firefox doesn't include a splash screen (yet)?
zWhat would an EWOULDBLOCK block, if an EWOULDBLOCK could block would? -- me
Actually, what happened was that the developers arbitrarily decided that Qute wasn't "good enough" anymore and that it had "license problems". They then didn't even try to talk to the author, but simply decided to replace it. The author, as soon as he found out, made it known that he was willing to accomodate the license changes they wanted, but the developers told him, very rudely, to go away and stop boterhing them because his contribution wasn't wanted.
So yes, the venom the devs got WAS warranted, because they were being asses. And I hope they KEEP getting it until they change back to Qute.
Well...since you'd be rolling back from 9.0 to 0.9.1, I think that might be a bad move...
Seriously, I went to take a look at the release notes linked to on the download page and got taken to the 0.9 page, but you can see the release notes for 0.9.1 here. This should give you enough info to judge whether you want to upgrade.
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Comparing version numbers between different products is like comparing apples to oranges. Firefox/Mozilla has had at least as much development time as IE has, maybe more. One could just as well argue that IE's version number is grossly inflated.
Just to be completely anal, let's look at the IE timeline:
I've never used this, or even saw it installed on a computer. Based on NCSA Mosiac apparently.
Played around with this one on an NT4 workstation. Incredibly primitive browser.
Microsoft says this was a "completely rebuilt" browser, so probably the start of the current codebase. I found it extremely buggy at the time.
Many improvements, IE is finally usable and competitive with Netscape. However, both browsers have their own proprietary DOMs.
Again, numerous improvements. IE solidifies it's lead over Netscape 4, and implements W3C DOM compatibility.
Minimal changes since IE5. Better cookie handling, print preview, etc. Numerous problems still exist with the CSS implementation, PNG support, and other issues.
So in a nutshell, I would consider the period from 1996-1998 to be the development time for IE. Everything since then has mainly been maintenance releases.
Firefox 0.9 includes fixes for at least two security holes. Please do not continue using 0.8.
The shareholder is always right.
If CERT/Homeland Security publicly recommend people switch that's going to definitely have some influence. They came pretty close to doing just that with recent IIS/IE vulnerabilities. The Washington Post picked it up Saturday.
"The memory leak in Firefox 0.9" is about as specific as "The crash in Firefox 0.9". There are probably several leaks and crashes. Different people will experience different ones, and some people won't experience any.
Can you be more specific, such as by including a link to a bug about a specific memory leak? If it was a crash I'd ask you for a talkback ID or stack trace, but I don't think there's an equally easy way to identify a memory leak.
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If you want the Tab Browser Extensions to work, use the "Smoke" theme instead of the default one. Kind of ironic that Firefox is standardizing on the OS X inspired theme on all platforms, when that theme is broken on OS X itself...
and just so peoples are aware, it looks like the release notes between both of the pages you linked are the same.
Specifically...
Browse to 'about:config'.
In the filter box type 'update'.
Double click 'update.app.updatesAvailable' and change the value from 'true' to false.
Restart Browser.
No, ActiveX itself isn't the root of IE's problems. The root of IE's problems is that it is closely tied into the OS and does not run in a "sandbox" of sorts. That means that any vulnerability in IE is a vulnerability in Windows. Where ActiveX plays into this is that there are holes in many ActiveX plugins that when exploited can alter the OS. ActiveX plugins that are run in a proper sandbox (and in an application that is not part of the operating system) are no more dangerous than Firefox extensions are.
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All I know was this: I was using FireFox 0.9 for about two hours the first night I downloaded it onto this machine:
Thinkpad 600e
400MHz Pentium II Mobile processor
228MB RAM
10GB HD
running Knoppix 3.3 installed to HD.
All went well until FireFox became very sluggish. Did the top command in console, and noticed that FireFox's process was taking 95% of CPU. I tried a simple kill of FireFox's process, but it wouldn't yield. A kill -9 did the trick.
I have been limiting the amount of time I use FireFox 0.9 and that seems to help. Quitting the program and then restarting it seems to be beneficial.
If this is useful, please let me know.
Thanks,
Michelle
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
If your Firefox has already found the update, turning the update off doesn't help (which is another bug)