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Firefox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1 Released

Posted by simoniker on from the feedback-schmeedback dept.

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.'"

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  1. Firefox doesn't know it's been upgraded by Tanami · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've upgraded to 0.9.1, and I still get notification that new updates are available.

    Anybody else getting this, or have I bodged something?

  2. holding off on upgrading by mabu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    When I upgraded from 0.8 to 0.9 a bunch of things stopped working; the browser would spawn new windows whenever I clicked on a URL regardless of the config settings, popup-blocking was less-reliable, sometimes the download manager wouldn't close itself after a download was complete, and other weirdness. I think I'm going to hold off this time on promptly upgrading because 0.9 was not an improvement over 0.8.

  3. New theme by Sunspire · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was really skeptical of the new winstripe theme in Firefox 0.9, the new changes introduced in 0.9.1 however makes it a LOT better in my opinion. I just wish Thunderbird would now work to unify its theme with Firefox.

    It's the small things that makes the browser for me, the look and feel. It's hard to explain it in detail. Going back to IE after using Firefox for a long time just doesn't feel right. For example, there's all these little half-second pauses in IE when the controls and scrolling are unresponsive, times when the right-click context menu won't show up when it's still loading. Sometimes the window stops redrawing for a second or two (especially while running Windows Update, but otherwise too) etc. All these little glitches drive me crazy when I have to use IE.

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  4. Re:Good job for the Theme complaints, folks by jesser · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Stephen Horlander and Kevin Gerich, the creators of Winstripe, blogged about the improvements to Winstripe in 0.9.1. I'm impressed with their openness.

    (It might be that only one of them wrote that blog post. I'm confused because it's attributed to Horlander but is on Gerich's blog.)

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