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Mozilla Releases Firefox 1.0 RC1
islandroots writes "Mozilla has finally posted the first Firefox 1.0 release candidate on their FTP servers. This could very well be the last official release of Firefox before the big 1.0 launch date on November 9th. Mozilla FTP Servers"
Hopefully they fixed the annoying pop-up bug that riddled that made the last release unusable for me.
I feel so sig.
Halo 2???
What a loser.
Haha. I can't believe how overall shitty Firefox is. I gave up on it after trying 0.8, 0.9.2, and 1.0. I couldn't stand having to dump all my carefully chosen extensions like TabBrowser. Especially since it's a fucking hassle to install them in the first place. How many times did I have to restart the browser? FUCK. I'm back on IE and I'm not looking back.
Having used FF for several months I'm pretty impressed by it. Fairly fast (not startup, but in use), it has a decent UI and the extensions are amazing. However, I'm becoming increasingly dismayed by the sheer amount of security holes being found. I mean - shockingly - if you look at sites like Secunia, there have been _MORE_ vulnerabilities in Firefox than IE in the last six months!
Not good. Sure, the FF crew may fix them faster, but ATEOTD it's getting hard to advocate FF over IE when effectively it's no more secure at present. I've already suffered this; a couple of people to whom I recommended FF have come back at me pointing out the recently discovered holes.
And being a 0.x release doesn't really count, as the Moz Foundation is pushing this to the masses - even looking for a NYT ad. It'd just be interesting to hear some thoughts on this. I'll be using it for years no doubt, but how do others promote it considering it has had more vulns than IE?
What's wrong with Mozilla? and what's so great about FireFox? Seems we have to go through continually downloading over and over until that one last bug is removed like the history of Mozilla.
They finally got Mozilla right so why rewrite it?
I use Mozilla, only gripe is it can take minutes to load large (>= 1mb) XML document trees on a 3000ghz cpu. This still happens in FireFox. IE loads them in a split second.
Sadly I am on web since first mozilla appeared, I am not surprised of any lame stuff coming from so called fans of Mozilla. I got g-lined from their non official (!) irc server for critiquing mozilla project and where it goes.
Next? AOL dumped Mozilla for my reasons.
They made all critics like me give up on it and support Opera, Omniweb, iCab etc.
Mozilla, firefox whatever guys, you need a pr department.
I won't serve to your geek wet fantasy anymore though...
NO YUO
(due to rendering differences between Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, the above statement may appear misspelled when being viewed in Firefox)
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
You DO realize that the 9/11 attacks were made on SEPTEMBER 11, The 9th month of 2001 (9/11/2001) and not November 9 (11/9/2001), right?
Its the attitude, also how they killed my lovely Netscape with their geek fantasies.
I ignore slow day and porn stuff since I wasted enough time with this dead browser.
You're right to call it a "little thing." The resistance was inconsequential when you look at the big picture. The Allies would have won without them. Their greatest victories included seeding the German laundry with itching powder. Fuck the resistance and their half-assed "contribution."
(A) There's nothing in the bug report which indicates this is due to non-standard code. It is a Mozilla engine issue which could well apply to perfect HTML4.
:()
(B) Slashdot renders correctly in every other browser. Mozilla is designed for back-compat with crappy HTML and is falling down big time here.
(C) I can barely submit this comment due the problem