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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.'"
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
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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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
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)
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.
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...
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
Firefox 0.9 has been quite unstable on my (Win) system compared to earlier relases [sic]. Hopefully this release addresses some of the issues.
Try uninstalling extensions.
When I upgrade to 0.9, it ran like a dog on my W2K box, hitting 100% CPU utilization nearly every time I did anything in the browser, making 0.9 nearly useless. (I'm sure there's a pr0n/masturbation joke to be found in the previous sentence; I leave it as an exercise for the enterprising troll.)
As I was about to revert to Fire$BEAST 0.8, I decided to look at the extensions I'd installed.
I tracked the slow-down to an extension designed to notify of javascript errors. This may not be the extension's fault per se, as I use Proxomitron to filter out ads and (some) javascript; the extension may just have been doing more work than it expected dealing with references to filtered-out javascript.
After removing the extension (and closing and re-starting Fire$VERTEBRATE -- don't skip this step) the ridiculous CPU utilization want away, and 0.9 worked fine.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
get it here
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!
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.
I migrated the famlies browsing to Netscape 7.1 and Firefox (IIRC 0.9) just before Micrsofts little trouble last weekend. So far Firefox has withstood my daughters browsing of Barbie, Cbeebies and Cartoon Network (including watching the web shows and playing the games) and successfully worked with my on-line grocers site. If any bit of software can survive prolonged contact with a small child, it has to be good.
You don't need a lab to make mud.
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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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.
Denver Isuzu Suzuki
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.
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.
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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