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Firefox 1.0 Preview Release Candidates Available

Posted by timothy on from the cutting-edge-is-the-bleeding-edge dept.

blakeross writes "The preview release of Firefox 1.0 is just around the corner, and we've now got candidate builds available. Please help us bang on these builds to ensure that the preview release is sound and ready to go, as this will be our largest and most public release to date. We're also working hard on an exciting and unprecedented grassroots campaign that will launch with the preview release, so stay tuned."

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  1. Not to complain... by dmayle · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not just to complain..., but has the Slashdot reflow bug been fixed in 1.0? It's been known for ages, but it's recently gotten much worse in 0.9.x (In 0.8 I rarely had the problem, under 0.9.3 under three different operating systems, (and three different microarchitectures) I get it more times than not on Slashdot articles and comments.)

    Granted, I won't give up the best browser I've ever used, but it's getting to be really annoying.

    And come on, we all know that the Mozilla devs spend more time reading Slashdot than anything else, so why hasn't it been fixed yet?

    1. Re:Not to complain... by colinramsay · · Score: 4, Informative

      http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217527

      That's the bug. It's fixed on the main trunk but not on the Firefox 1.0 branch... yet.

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    2. Re:Not to complain... by jilles · · Score: 2, Informative

      http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217527 , according to this, it has been fixed. I'm running the release candidate now and everything looks ok. It never really bothered me anyway.

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    3. Re:Not to complain... by colinramsay · · Score: 2, Informative

      "The problem is fixed on the trunk, which is why the status says "fixed". It is known not to be fixed on the Firefox 1.0 branch or Mozilla 1.7 branch (which is clear if you read the previous comments)."

      From Michael Lefevre in the bug comments. It's marked FIXED for the trunk, not the aviary branch.

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    4. Re:Not to complain... by 0x0d0a · · Score: 4, Informative

      It is definitely a Gecko bug (the rendering component of Mozilla and Firefox) relating to incremental reflow, not a problem with Slashcode. It's not something to be glossed over. On the other hand, as others have pointed out, it's fixed in Gecko -- just the fix hasn't been rolled into Firefox.

      In the meantime, you could try disabling incremental rendering (at the cost of potentially greater delay until a web page is in a readable state) and see if that works around the problem: go to about:config and add a boolean value for content.notify.ontimer and set it to false.

      There's some random Firefox-related discussion on a forum here. While these people don't really know what they're talking about, they do nicely list the incremental reflow prefs that you can play with. You might be able to come up with a reasonable workaround until the fix gets rolled in.

      Remember to set the prefs back when you update Firefox to a fixed version -- you don't want to be either burning CPU time like mad or waiting longer than you need to to be reading pages.

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    5. Re:Not to complain... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      sigh I have answered this like 3 times last month mozillazine (stupid noobs dont know how to search).
      oh well here it is again
      http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences. html

  2. Change log? by julie-h · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have anyone found the ChangeLog from 0.9.3 to 1.0rc ? It isn't in the tar.gz =(

    1. Re:Change log? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/0 .10.html http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/bigger-pictu re.html#newin1.0pr1

  3. Mozilla still rules for me by tsa · · Score: 1, Informative

    Last week I tried Firefox and Thunderbird on the Mac to see if they were good for replacement of the Mozilla suite, but I was disappointed. The Mozilla browser has a few features that I missed in Firefox (not too much though because I can't even remember which), but I was really disappointed to see that I couldn't even import my e-mail in Firefox. Yes I know that you can copy some vague directory to some other place and have ALL mozilla mail and preferences copied but a few buttons in a configuration window is so much nicer! I guess all that I like in Mozilla is just around the corner for Firefox et al., so I will keep trying them from time to time.

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  4. What I hate about Mozilla Firefox for Windows... by fluor2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    is that pages with lots of pictures scroll VERY slow. it's much faster in IE.

  5. Re:One Yay and one Boo by hsoft · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oh wait, web developer DOES work. I thought it wouldn't work because I had a warning that Web developer doesn't work with the new version... But having tried is quickly, it works!

    Which means: Only Yays for Firefox 1.0!

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