Firefox 1.0 Released

New Here writes "November 9 has arrived and with it comes Firefox 1.0. According to its home page, Firefox empowers you to browse faster, more safely, and more efficiently than with any other browser. I'm New Here, but this Firefox does sound very promising! Firefox 1.0 is available now for Windows, Linux, and Mac from the mozilla.org ftp server."

Comments

Google hosted homepage

[tinla]

The new homepage points to http://www.google.com/firefox. Fire your conspiracy theories at will...

Re:Google hosted homepage

[grimdonkey]

You can check out this too

Next, SVG

[wombatmobile]

Next desire, native SVG support so FireFox wins the enterprise space before Longhorn even gets to market.

We have two years.

Re:New York Times Ad

[j0e_average]

The "three weeks" policy gives Microsoft, who doesn't have to worry about advertising budget, time to schedule a competing ad on the opposing page. Steve Balmer will tout the virtues of IE by proclaiming that Microsoft's track record with security is actually beneficial for the US economy. After all, look how many thousands of folks are employed simply because of Microsoft!

Oh, and not directly related, but from MSFT site:

Dave_MSFT (Expert):
Q: Does Mozilla firefox have better security than Internet Explorer and is it a good idea to use?
A: Hi Nicholas, I can't really comment on Firefox security however I can say that on Internet Explorer we are committed to security, the results of which can be seen with Windows XP SP2. If you have automatic updates enabled you can be sure that you are using one of the most secure browsers available.

Re:Please tell me

[Jugalator]

No IRC client

Get Chatzilla then?

Will integrate nicely with Firefox and doing that will still avoid a lot of cruft in the Mozilla Suite.

Take the "5 days with Firefox" challenge

[citizenkeller]

This is mainly aimed at Windows users (we know you're there!), but here it goes:

1. Read the "Why Use Firefox?" document
2. Go download Firefox and install it
3. Use Firefox as you default browser for 5 days
4. If, after 5 days, you're still not convinced that Firefox is the best browser there is, uninstall it and switch back

(From an original idea on Spread Firefox, but the site is -surprise!- currently unreachable)

Re:1.0 right now

[Eric Giguere]

Now be sure to change your web pages to detect non-Firefox browsers (or at least non-IE) and encourage them to upgrade to Firefox. I've documented the basic technique here: How to detect Firefox and See the headers you're sending.

Eric
Why the Vioxx recall reduced spam (humor)

Re:Mirrors

[LogicX]

heh, well they're the company that I work for, and we have a killer server with much more bandwidth than we need, so I try to setup a mirror to give back to the community.

We're not trying to slam you, we're not trying to rape you with popups or redirects. Just happen to have our name mentioned in the URL. Your choice if you'd want to use our services. I feel this is very similar to a sourceforge mirror of download links. You choose a mirror, the company happens to be listed on the left. They don't do anything except sit there with their name.

I totally agree on the 'free ipod' and 'free lcd monitor' bit -- I don't agree with those MLM schemes

Also btw, -- if I'd chosen to use my personal blog URL -- HornyandConfused.com instead of 100BigCoupons.com You would've thought I was advertising a porn site instead :-P

I'm open to suggestions as to how we could better give back to the open source community with our spare bandwidth. We've contacted numerous open source projects and offered to be mirrors, but most everyone seems to have plenty of bandwidth now adays -- the only place I see is when there's an occasional slashdot story that links to a site that got hit hard.

Anyone seen this yet?

[Westech]

FF Default Home page?

Die, MSN, die!

Re:Please tell me

[some guy I know]

Why I switched [from Mozilla to Firefox].

Tabbed browsing (I don't use this my self)
3rd button triggers new tab when on a link, or triggers fast/slow scroll
Bookmarks better defined

Mozilla has tabbed browsing and middle-button-opens-new-tab.

Now, what I want (among other things) is:

1. Clicking on bookmark link opens link in new tab.
2. Ability to scroll the tab bar, so that when I have 50 or so tabs open, I can see the ones on the right-hand side.
3. Have a download queue, so that only two or three files are downloading at once. Also, save the queue across sessions.
4. Saving file saves to file hierarchy based on link name (yes, I am one of those people who saves files to, for example, "basedir/http/207.200.85.49/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/1.0/source/firefox-1.0-source.tar.bz2") . And, finally,
5. Can display mangled HTML (e.g., Slashdot pages) in a somewhat reasonable way (without having to type ^+ ^0 each time).

There are other things that I would like, but those will do for a start.

Re:Please tell me

[dubious9]

Firefox is also believed to be faster, maybe not upon loadup in windows because of the OS integration with IE (even with the mozilla startup thingy). Faster (well, less bloated) than Mozilla also because they've been really trying to slim it down.

It's more standards compliant, which allows me, as a developer to write more standards based code, *then* use workarounds for stuff which IE doesn't like. That said, IE still handles crazy markup without crashing or other artifacts (see firefox/slashdot rendering bug). Security wise, it's supposedly a lot better becuase it doesn't have deep ties into the OS.

Top seller for me? I can put it on my USB drive and transfer it to the harddrive and it'll work, even on machines when I don't have admin rights (and aren't insanely tied down). I also can't live without tabbed browsing, and mouse gestures (an extension).

What differentiates it from the stock mozilla browser? Well, Firefox is now the flagship browser from Mozilla.org and I wouldn't be suprised if they don't end-of-life the stock mozilla (technically called seamonkey IIRC?), so Firefox is the one with the future. I've been testing Firefox since their very early betas (.3 0.4?) and it replaced seamonkey on my desktop around .7. There's that automagic plugin finder (which has only worked for flash for me), new download manager. But other than that, there's not a whole lot of features that set it apart from seamonkey, i guess, but mozilla.org, rather the mozilla foundation sees it as the future. Seeing as how it 1.0 now, I don't see any reason not to switch. In a few weeks, of course, when all of your favorite extentions get updated.