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Batch-o-Moz: Firefox, Thunderbird, Suite Released
bluephone writes "Today Mozilla.org has unleashed a triple threat; Firefox 1.0PR, Thunderbird 0.8, and Mozilla Suite 1.7.3. Wow. Lots of news in all three fronts. so, for your release notes, sys-requirements, what's new, and download links, here you go. Firefox, Thunderbird, and Mozilla Suite. Enjoy."
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http://www.spreadfirefox.com/
and
http://www.getfirefox.com/
Love Firefox, but I wish they'd fix the bugs.
I am still stuck at Firefox 0.8 under Linux with Enlightenment due to serious focus problems with the recent releases.. And I do not want to be left behind!
I open everything in new windows and usually close them using the keyboard. That does not work if the focus is wrong, etc. Mouse-centric folk won't notice this much but it is a killer for me.
I think this is the bug and it looks like it is being ignored:
252178
There's also a new community marketing effort at SpreadFirefox.com, and one of their first goals is 1 million downloads in 10 days. Come on Slashdot, spread the word, we can do it!
In addition to the release of new versions of Firefox, Thunderbird, and Mozilla suite, the Mozilla Foundation have launched a new marketing campign titled Spread Firefox.
The goal is to see 1,000,000 downloads achieved in the first 10 days!
Get downloading Slashdot.
Ross Kendall Web Consultant and Developer (UK) - Drupal and Open Source Solutions
"The 1.0 final release won't be out for another month or so"
"The version number for this release is 0.10PR. For those who still count in decimal, 0.10 is larger than 0.9, despite what you were taught in school."
RTFA
I did one this week-end.
The guy (in his 50's) had dramatic pop-up and scumware problems. I pointed him to mozilla + adaware, thinking that, he would not care, because it is not IE.
Boy I was wrong. He was over-enthusiast. He downloaded it as fast as possible, and now is not using ie anymore.
I am really impressed, as it is the first time I convert someone over 30.
Pop-up blocking, annoyance killing is *the* selling point of firefox. I didn't knew how fucked was ie browsing until I talked with this guy. The web was becoming useless for him, and he was driven crazy by frustration.
These are generally the only two apps I need to suggest for PC users having problems. One other app that just makes people happy is PDFCreator (pdfcreator.sf.net) which adds a PDF printer to your system printer folder - great if you don't want to shell out $100 for acrobat.
COMMENT RETRACTED. There appears to be a "Sort by Name" option on the right click menu. Firefox is now the perfect browser!
So its YOU thats causing all the errors on slashdot doubling the server load!
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To fix the screen without redownloading, just increase, then decrease the font size (hold down [ctrl] + mouse wheel up then down).
Its a PITA that there is a problem in the first place, but thats the way it is.
btw, has anyone else noticed popups coming from slash (work machine is IE6 on xp sp1) Not even noticed it at home (firefox
liqbase
HTH.
Ah, here's the link to that bug.
And in true MS style, the solution is... not to use that word at the start of email messages.
org.slashdot.post.SignatureNotFoundException: ewg
The link to PDFCreator you gave is a dead site, try the Sourceforge project page instead... http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
Yes, I googled and yes there is a solution involving a shell script(s) and installing arcane extention in 'Fox, but:
This solution does not work for me; and overall, the shell script thing will be an immeditate turn off for someone converting from Windows (where by the way, Fox and Bird integrate perfectly including even XP login screen).
So does anyone know if there was any progress on this front with the new releases?
You can now subscribe to and read RSS feeds in your Bookmarks. When you visit a page that advertises a RSS feed by using a <link> tag, an (RSS) icon will appear in the status bar. Click it to view a list of feeds the page is offering. Click one to subscribe - this adds a Bookmark Folder that contains all the recent posts from the feed.
Find is easier and more powerful now with our new Find toolbar. The Find toolbar (which shows at the bottom of the browser window) automatically highlights text in the page as you type and has a useful highlight feature.
You can now open blocked popups, and the Extension install system now blocks all attempts to install software from sites other than update.mozilla.org. Users can add other sites to a list that allows them to offer software, but software is never automatically installed. In addition to these steps, several other measures have been taken to prevent phishing attacks and to highlight when a page is being viewed over a secure connection.
Numerous improvements to bookmarks including more reliable presentation of Site icons, and a split pane view in the Bookmarks window.
Passwords saved with the Password Manager can now be more easily encrypted with strong encryption by creating a "Master Password". If you create a Master Password, you are prompted once per session to enter the Master Password so that Password Manager can automatically fill in site logins. A useful feature for people who share computers with others and want improved security.
Undetectable document.all support for site compatibility and improved compatibility for keyboard accelerators further smooth the transition for IE users
You can now configure Firefox as your Default Browser on GNOME, and Firefox will adhere to your GNOME settings for edit field key bindings, etc.
Openoffice exports to pdf.
I recently asked the MoFo for information on mass deployments of FF and this is part of the answer: "[...] Misson Desktop Control [...] assists IS departments dynamically customise preferences. Further Firefox 1.0 will also come packagae with a MSI installer."
Notepad specialist & FAT administrator, group training available
I find it funny that I have NEVER had this problem with Firefox. Never, not once. I honestly have no idea what people are referring to. /. has never rendered poorly via Firefox.
Jason Lotito
Hey, it's fixed in the trunk. I believe the fix will be in 1.0 final.
Until then, just resize the font on the page when it renders badly... and boom! fixed!
Jay | http://oldos.org
Install TabBrowser Extensions. It has the save features (among other really nice enhancements)
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .
I disagree. Whenever I introduce someone (mostly people who only use their computer when they have to) to Firefox, I always tae a minut or two to explain tabbed browsing, and turn off auto-scroll so they can middle click to open links in a new tab.
So far they've all raved about tabbed browsing once they've used FF for a bit.
Yes, there is a way. It is called the Single Window extension. Makes link unable to open new windows by themselves (open in tabs, as you wished) but *you* can still right click and chose to open in a new window.
Slashdot anagrams to "Sad Sloth"
and turn off auto-scroll so they can middle click to open links in a new tab.
Just FYI, you don't need to disable auto-scroll. The middle click is context sensitive, and will open tabs on links.
.sigh
I've created ff and tb msi releases. Available ata -msi .html
http://biomicro.mit.edu/people/patpaul/mozill
I've had good luck with them, as have other sysadmins, who email me when the version on the page doesn't match the latest version.
Do you see the sig? Do you have it in your sights? Why yes, Miss Moneypenny...
C'mon, go the extra step and link it! :-) And the homepage is here.
- Type about:config in the URL bar.
- In the Filter field, type tabfocus.
- Double-click on the accessibility.tabfocus preference.
- Change the value to 7.
You might have to restart the browser.if you know this is the case, mister firefox, why the hell does your installer not do it for me?
My installer on Windows *did* do this for me. I completely forgot to disable my extensions, but it told me X, Y, and Z extensions were not going to work and would be disabled automatically. Maybe that snippit from the release notes was just blindly pasted in from a previous release?
You can ctrl+tab between tabs too. I got used to it pretty fast
Sorry, I'm just too damn lazy! Plus I use an extension to Firefoz which automatically converts any links / emails to hyperlinks for me.
Have a look at http://www.beggarchooser.com/firefox/ (*ahem* http://www.beggarchooser.com/firefox/) - converts text links to genuine, bona fide hyperlinks.
Doesn't look like the Slashdot rendering bug has been fixed yet, though. Since the Firefox team doesn't seem to care, perhaps the Slashcode authors could a hack to fix this?
They do care, it's been fixed in the trunk. Not sure if this will make it to 1.0 release though.
Firefox was finally fixed to use the proper GTK2 keybindings by bug 257405. (No link, b.m.o blocks them from Slashdot) So for example, Ctrl-A finally selects all. If you don't like it, I think you're supposed to change your GTK prefs to use emacs-style, or use a GTK1 build which still has the old configuration.
Personally, I prefer shortcuts that actually make sense and match every other GUI app in existence.
I use all three of these programs. No one program finds everything. Oh, and also use a virus scanner, of course.
The about:config setting extensions.disabledObsolete seems to default to true. Try setting this to false instead.
More about it here: http://www.gpc.edu/~jbenson/resource/winmail.htm
I used WMDecode from http://www.biblet.com/ to decode some attachments my coworker received from someone outside the firm in a winmail.dat file.