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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"
When we're all playing Halo 2 on November 9th! Pick another release date!
After reading comments that indicate that your installed extensions will show up as incompatible with RC1, I think I'll wait. Apparently the browser has to automatically consider extensions as incompatible until authors check them or something along those lines.
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How different is this from my Preview Release? Should I download it? Or just wait until Nov 9th?
... with Firefox 1.0 RC1 It counts for something, doesn't it?
Be aware, there's some sort of Java bug with the application update mechanism. There is a bit of a thread here.
I've used each version of Firefox (or whatever their earlier names were) since 0.7. I am on PR1 now, or whatever the version label is. Oddly, I feel compelled to wait and not try this release candidate. I know the date of the planned 1.0 release and for some reason knowing that has me thinking it's perfectly ok to wait until then.
I just installed 1.0PR and got everything just the way I wanted it, including a recalcitrant Java terminal emulator working. Ah, well, price of progress, and off I go to do it all again!
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
this dodgy website. I am using 1.0 RC1 at the moment and it often renders this site very badly, hiding the text in negative-X land. Perhaps I should have stuck to internet explorer, which this site is obviously designed for.
Although it's nice to have an announcement on slash, it would also be nice to have a pointer IN the article to a changelog which would give me reasons to upgrade from "Pre-Release" to "Release Candidate"
Why?
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 "
..(search the web is one, opening an url you highlighted in a new tab is another...)
and you are right, some extensions don't work anymore (I had "browsertime" not working), but all the others I use seem fine (download manager tweak, translation panel, user agent switcher, dictionnary search)
On the other hand, so many things that were working only so and so are now working again
So if you are not THAT dependant on ALL your extensions give it a try... also that way you can mail your extension wrtiter and get them/help them to fix that compatibility problem...
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It was quite disturbing: When I had a site open in one window, which would open new windows through java script, everything worked until I had a second window open (with a couple of tabs). When clicking on a java script link to open a picture, for example, firefox would segfault. This is on Linux, and I couldn't remedy this with a new profile.
I have been using 0.9.3 since then.
I feel so sig.
This "release candidate" is really just an interim release between 1.0PR and 1.0 final. The Firefox team knows that there are still significant bugs that must be addressed before 1.0-final. See The Burning Edge for a small taste of what's been fixed since 1.0PR, and what is still left to do.
;)
A word of caution: there will be significant bugfixes between now and the final release, but there may or may not be automatic update notifications. If you decide to install this on the computers of your friends and family, make sure to upgrade them again later
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Thanks, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waiter.
See http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/
It's firefox and Thunderbird compiled specifically for processor architectures. (they have slightly better performance than normal Firefox)
Its a bug release - ala no new features.
Keep those bug reports coming!
"This is a rough changelog for the RC-1 release. It's probably got a few bugs on it that aren't actually fixed and it's certainly missing a few bugs that were fixed, but it should give you a pretty good idea about most of the 250 or so bugs we've fixed since the Preview Release."
...if I remember a previous story on slashdot...
And don't underestimate the power of a hard baguette.
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Thing is, this is a GOOD THING (TM). The Mozilla foundation is trying to weed out the bugs now, the security bug hunting contest, etc should ring a bell . They fixed more than 250 bugs, blocking the 1.0final. Its better to make things work now, than to break things later. Anyway the NYT ad is about FF 1.0 FINAL, which should not have any serious security problems (look at the Burning Edge for bugfixes. There are other reasons that why IE shouldnt be compared to FF aswell, including M$ policy about what is considered a "vulnerability" and a "security issue" and that IE is not actively developed now for four(!!!) years. Its quite bad that there are serious bugs in IE at all(!!), remember they had four years to weed those out. Just my $0.05 :)
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Extensions
Are difficult to install for my family, who simply don't understand or trust the process.
Often incompatible with latest releases, preventing me from upgrading for months
Incomaptible with each other
Can cause problems EVEN if deemed "compatible", and often even uninstall fo extension does nothing! Have to reinstall fire*! This is my biggest annoyance, Adblock broke the downloading progress bar, then tabbrowser extensions ruined my cookies settings. All too often I feel like the extensions are like a house of cards piled up, and I'm hesitatant to even install a new theme in case they all fall over and I have to install them all over again, fingers crossed.
Really, the whole extensions system is a mass of incompatabilities, conflicting requirements, errors and security dubious sources. I'd prefer any bloat to that!
Ask yourself these 2 questions about FF and then IE...
How many times have you heard (directly) of someone's machine being infested with 'sploits and spyware through that browser?
How many times have YOU found something slightly suspicious on your machine due to that browser?
Which browser came out as "less secure"?
Security flaws are One Thing, actual in-use live exploits of vulnerabilities are Quite Another.
Plus;
get FF backdoored, browser fucked.
get IE backdoored, COMPUTER fucked.
In a nutshell, one is worried that the UMO (update.mozilla.org) staff does not have the resources to properly scan all extensions and extension updates for malicious code. And even if you do check the extension when submitted, the author may add an update later with malicious code, and then Firefox installations all over the world may get infected.
Currently, they may be able to handle the task, but if Firefox manages to gain even more popularity, one can probably expect even more submitted extensions, and with a larger user base, it becomes a tempting target for crackers.
Fortunately, the discussion in the MozillaZine forums seems to result in a lot of nice ideas about how one can handle this, but it might still be something one needs to keep in mind.
It would be sad if Firefox was hit by security problems with extensions similar to how ActiveX has been a problem in Internet Explorer.
Perhaps Firefox's growing popularity will lead to more donations, of which some money can be used to hire staff to really make sure that UMO is not used as a tool to spread malware?
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Firefox until 1.0 (after that version it will change) is based on a spinoff of the 1.7 branch. In this branch (called aviary branch) they ported in some fixes from the trunk and also some from 1.7 branch.
It now seems to implement everything that the Mozilla Browser does, and I don't really find it any faster than the Mozilla Suite, and I like the integrated mail client (which has great search, spam filtering and other facilities).
Some people object to using the suite if they don't use the mail client, but really, come on, it's taking up only a few MB on your hard disk. Get over it!
If you do use the associated Thunderbird mail client then you're actually using more memory as the GRE (Gecko Runtime Environment) is not yet sharable between different processes.
Plans like putting a full page ad in the New York Times for FireFox seem a bit crazy to me. What about the mail client, IRC client and forthcoming calendar? Advertise once there's a whole suite, and even then not in newspapers!
Right off of the spreadfirefox.com website:
a note to SFX community: This is a testing release. This is not a product release. We're not pushing this release on our PR users. The majority of PR users should stick with PR until 1.0 ships. This is a testing release and we don't need everyone downloading it, just the folks that want to be involved with testing and bug reporting. Please don't evangelize this release or start pushing all your friends and family to upgrade. Most of them should wait until 1.0 in about two weeks.
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Because someone trolls the web all night waiting for Mozilla to release another version of Firefox, they get rewarded with their in lights on the front page of slashdot. Did you wonder why it's only on the FTP server and not advertised on the web site?
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My company portal uses SVG graphics and no matter what I do I cannot get Firefox/Mozilla to view them.
Sort of makes it useless for me on a coorprate level and that makes me very sad.
What about those potential vulnerabilities discovered by Michael Zalewski ? Are they fixed ?
Thats something very important IMHO.
Each one of them is one potential exploit waiting some malicious hacker.
I believe all of them should be fixed before the 1.0 release, which should be considered stable, and doesnt have the benefit of the "pre-1.0" excuse.
They are still uploading more local versions.
Check populicio.us
Things Firefox does differently or does not have that Mozilla does (from my experience): * Bookmarking groups of tabs and then opening them all with a single click - Mozilla yes, Firefox no. * Opening new blank tabs with a button - Mozilla yes, Firefox no. To me these are features I use very often and that I can't use in Firefox. I hope they continue Mozilla. Thanks for listening.
I thought this was super neat. I went to Dodge's website - www.4adodge.com and started to price/build a new car. I got a popup saying "Your browser is not officially supported." Before I started cussing like a sailor I continued reading and it say "If you would like to continue, press OK. Otherwise, press cancel." I couldn't believe. Someone had the state of mind to let me keep going at my own risk. It was unbelievable.
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I upgraded just now (win32), and now my home button doesn't work. It totally ignores it. When I middle click on the home button, it _DOES_ open home in a new tab. This is really odd.
Has anyone else had this problem?
There was this little thing called "resistence" that the French had. You know, they were actively fighting against the armies occupying their soil and helping UK and allied troops with intelligence on how to hurt the Germans. They also forced the Germans to have a very large military presence in France in order to keep the peace....
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remember "IE Shines on broken html" article the other week? Test these:http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/mangleme/gallery/ on firefox rc1: they're already fixed
Actually the whole release may just be fixing bugs( and changed the icon on live bookmarks:p )
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First, I am an American.
if the other Allies hadn't "rescued" France during WWII, they most certainly would have lost everything.
You know, there was this little thing called the revolutionary war, and if the French hadn't "rescued" us we'd all be eating fish & chips and biscuits.
Get some perspective, and a bit of an education before you blurt out lines you've heard other idiots use.
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Works perfectly here - Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041027 Firefox/0.10.1
I am using the plugin from Gnome's librsvg-2.8.1 (/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libmozsvgdec.so)
Since I am not a coder, does anyone know if there will be a 64-bit build of Firefox? I'd like to use it on my 64-bit XP Beta machine.
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I was a big user of Netscape Navigator's web browser and email clients, but switched over to Mozilla when it went gold. I've tried Firefox a few times, but it doesn't have a mail client and therefore doesn't fulfill my needs. How is Thunderbird? I don't really want to change over to a pre-1.0 release unless someone can convince me that it is prety darn stable and feature-complete.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21752 7
Not linked, because bugzilla disallows slashdot as a referrer. If you read the comments, they had a fix, but the fix broke a bunch of other sites. This blog post sums things up pretty well too.
there have been _MORE_ vulnerabilities in Firefox than IE in the last six months!
...
Whether thats true or not is open but; two points -
1) firefox hasnt officially released to the public yet its close Thats what the RC1 (release candidate) every one that is using firefox right now is a potential tester/bug reporter; if you find a problem with Firefox and you are a good citizen you should let them know via the bug tracking system.
2) The fact that you are seeing all these bugs being found should inspire confidence that the firefox team and testers are doing a good job in weeding them out.
When Firefox is officially released - after the RC stage. Then you can start getting worried about people finding bugs. Its enevitable that will happen but by the looks of things they are doing a damn good job of getting them out now, so when Firefox 1.0 Final comes out you should be in good hands.
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Refusing to use potentially incompatible components is the most user-friendly solution.
It also encourages users to stick with old versions with known security holes because they work with an old extension that hasn't since been updated.
217527.
It's fixed in the trunk, but will not be fixed in the FF 1.0 branch because the current patch caused too many regressions and would require a serious QA effort to track them all down.
Feel free to vote for it, but it's way too late to make it into FF 1.0. Besides, it's already recognized as a high-priority bug. If you really want to help move this into Firefox as quickly as possible, download a trunk build and isolate test cases for regressions.
I use v0.9.3 of firefox on one machine and the 1.0rc on my other machine.both the machines have exactly the same config, the are both hp ,same models bought on the same day.But the one with 0.9.3 performs really well.The new version keeps hanging n crashing after a few hours of use n abuse.
have you guys experience a decrease in speed of the later version?
Lord of the Binges.
Maybe make a Firefox/Mozilla SDK for sites that are IE-only Firefox friendly? that should help propagation.
Well, shortly, yes.
The long answer is: the bug is marked "blocking-aviary1.0", which means 1.0 cannot be released until this bug is not fixed. The bug depends on these unfixed bugs, which means the bug cannot be called "fixed" until all of these bugs are not fixed. UNfixed bugs atm in the dependency: 265027 265067 265736 265846 265867 265899 265902 265973 265999 266015.
Although all this info could be determined from the original bugreport.
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Some sites are now doing something different with the popups, that fools every pop up blocker out there.
Try http://astalavista.box.sk/ for a sample
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You say that like it's a bad thing.....
I make a reasonable middle-class wage by going to work and not spamming blogs with scams.
Not to mention helping the U.S. win the American Revolution.
Does on mine, but i noticed the popup is made in flash, which you may not have installed, or maybe are using the click flash to view extension or something like that.
Popups in flash... The future
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Read your history schmuck. Louis XVI was King of France during the American Revolution. He started helping in 1775 (that's right, before 1776). So the French had everything to do with it. Since it put such a financial strain on France, helping the Americans with the American Revolution may ultimately have been a contributing factor in the French Revolution and Louis XVI's death.
At the time of the American Revolution Napoleon was just starting military school. He didn't start fighting any battles till the late 1790's.
As well, since it seems you probably didn't hear about it, Napoleon was French. In fact, he was the Emperor of France, but that wasn't until 1804. He was kicked out in 1814 and tried for a come-back in 1815, and failed at Waterloo. He died (suspected poisoning) in his prison on St. Helena in 1821.
France has won many wars. That is why there are so many French or former French territories around the world. Get your hillbilly ass off the moonshine or meth or whatever you are smoking, and actually learn what you are talking about.
You are probably a troll, but I had to say it anyway.
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Weighing in at a svelte 25 megabytes and launching (on a 1ghz G4) in a mere 20 seconds, Firefox is perhaps less useful for Mac users. Safari launches in a fraction of the time weighs a lot less.
Isn't there some way to trim it back? I want to like it. I use it exclusively on the PCs in my life, but I can't put up with its excessive bloat on my iBook.
I could go for some mushy peas. Damn French.
'Same speed C but faster'
I love how the US picks on france's lack of courage, and this is from a country that put off entering the war until they were finally attacked on their own soil.
Then again, I'm just a troll.
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Morally? Why would we even care about the morals of either situation? I was simple describing an event that took place.
It's called history for a reason and the facts speak for themselves.
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Why would Slashdot users, or people who dislikes IE and Microsoft, have an XBox?
Yeesh... the one thing from keeping me from using Firefox as my promary browser...
All I want to do is open a link in the background when middle clicked:
Firefox on every platform but OSX? YES
Opera on OSX? YES
Safari? YES
Even goddamn Mozilla under X on OSX? YES
Firefox on OSX? NO
Still lovin it but WTF
I browse at +5 Flamebait- moderation for all or moderation for none.
No, their soma goes by the name of fox news, msbc, talk radio, etc.
In the new america, facts and history and decadent excesses of the reality based community. The faith based community has no need for such things.
Hopefully not someone from the USA, a country whose major culinary exports are tasteless piss beer, burgers and a number of carbonated soft drinks.
Microsoft doesn't like people knowing about ther exploits. Every single one of firefox's is released to the public. So there could be more for IE, only microsoft knows...
FF runs as the local user, which for windows 99.9% of the time is in the administrator group, discounting work computers with strict domain settings. That means FF fucked, computer fucked.
To be honest, I wouldn't pay much attention to what the moderators think. When I moderate, I don't pay much attention to what I think either.
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