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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."
Running 1.0 right now. Seems to work great!
No way really?
FoxyTunes is an amazing extension that allows you to control your music right from the browser,/
http://www.iosart.com/foxytunes/firefox
Adblock filters out any unwanted advertisements,
http://adblock.mozdev.org/
And many many more!!!
Mozilla.org is really getting hammered. Try waiting a few hours for the mirrors to update.
Here is a Google cache of the Firefox Mirror List.
I've managed to download a copy and order a t-shirt and the site isn't slashdotted yet. What are you all asleep or something?
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Why should I switch from Mozilla to Firefox?
Mirrors:
s es/1.0 a ses/1.0/ e fox/releases/ / releases/1.0/ i refox/releases/
l eases/1.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%201.0.exe.to rrent
http://64.12.168.21/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/relea
http://207.200.85.49/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rele
http://trillian.cc.gatech.edu/pub/mozilla.org/fir
http://mozilla.osuosl.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox
http://mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu/pub/mozilla.org/f
Official Torrent:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/re
http://almostsmart.com
Hey,
Anyone got a scan of the Ad in the New York times? My name is in there as I sponsored.
Want to thank again the folks at Mozilla for making Firefox. Great Job!
Thanks!
Got it 5 hours ago.
The new homepage points to http://www.google.com/firefox. Fire your conspiracy theories at will...
0daymeme.com: Great stuff.
I'm in New Zealand - got it already and running it happily. It's my birthday, I've just been playing Halo 2, Firefox is out, and today I'm buying a house. Things can't get much better :)
It was already running incredibly slowly BEFORE slashdot posted the article.
--- Ãther SPOON!
Your extensions will be disabled unless they are configured as compatible with 1.0. Unfortunately right now trying to use the built in "search for updates" feature is very slow, from server load I presume. I found updates for several of my favorites by searching http://www.mozdev.org/.
http://firefoxfah.sourceforge.net/fftorrent.html
Or at least I hope so, even if IE fights back a tiny ammount we'll see a huge lot of improvements in the web generally, IE is so often the 'lowest common denominator' when it comes to designing for the web.
But for usability and speed of use I'd go with Firefox any day.
well done Mozilla on a fantastic milestone. If you can achive soooo much at version 1.0 - imagine what you can get by the giddy heights of version 6.01 of IE ? :)
Get everyone you know onto this ASAP! The sooner we can rid the word of poor quality non-conforming and insecure browsers the better the www will be for all....!
before it gets hammered too badly:
linux i686 torrent
win32 torrent
(both EN-US).
For now, at least: ftpmoz.newaol.com/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases /1.0/
Anyone know if the New York Times ad went through? Is it available to view anywhere?
You sure can't beat that OS built-in goodness.
Yummy
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They don't need to learn. At least that's their take on it. They include the browser with the OS. How many people who arent geeks like us will spend the time to download another browser and learn how to integrate it with their os - cuz we all know MS does not make that an easy task.. "Internet Explorer is no longer your default browser? Should I notify the FBI?!?!" etc.
Don't Tread on Me
New browser takes on Microsoft. Pretty fair coverage IMHO.
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For the Europeans: http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/firefox/
Donkey:
OS X Will rule this world
Windows Exe
tar.gz
I will work to elevate you, just enough to bring you down
ftp://mozilla.isc.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rele ases/1.0/ r efox/releases/1.0/ e fox/releases/1.0/ e ases/1.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%201.0.exe.tor rent
ftp://mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu/pub/mozilla.org/fi
ftp://mozilla.oregonstate.edu/pub/mozilla.org/fir
Official mozilla.org torrent for Win32:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/rel
When the Grauniad and the BBC report this story hours before it appears on Slashdot, you know something's wrong with the world.
See the bbc story
Nice to see Firefox is getting the press it deserves
Jaj
Bad form to reply to my own post, but some more useful links here:
Windows torrent and executable.
Linux torrents for installer and tarball.
I've posted some more interesting news and Mozilla developer blog links and a screenshot of the new Firefox Google search interface on my blog:
inside aebrahim's head - firefox 1.0 is here!
longer if you get the torrent (win32).
This one for Linux.
Well I'm reading this in Firefox 1.0 and it *still* doesn't like slashdot's code. It still occasionally renders the comments overlapping the left hand menu and it initially rendered this "post comment" screen double width - with the left hand menu titles taking up my entire screen. I haven't encountered any problems with any other sites, so I expect it's just slashdots dubious HTML that's confusing firefox. Mind you I hate to admit that I've never seen IE mis-render slashdot.
Has anyone else seen Firefox render slashdot incorrectly?
It can usually be fixed with a simple click of the reload button (F5).
Next desire, native SVG support so FireFox wins the enterprise space before Longhorn even gets to market.
We have two years.
Just installed in an hour ago. While everything looks nice and polished, unfortunately the Slashdot rendering bug is still present :(
They did backport some support for IE-only JavaScript features from the 1.8 branch though (but that was also in the RC's, I think).
Thought I would help the cause...Win32 zip torrent
http://www.jiggybyte.com/dl/FireFox10.torrent
The BBC now has an article on this.
Obviously so do lots of other sites
There seem to be a lot of FireFox related articles on slashdot and after the release of 1.0 it will only increase. So how about a new FireFox topic in the submit stories section of slashdot with the cool looking FireFox logo?
"How many people who arent geeks like us will spend the time to download another browser and learn how to integrate it with their os"
Easy. I do it for every computer I come in contact with (since everyone loves to bug me to fix their computers). Simply download firefox, set it as the default, and put it where ever the IE icon used to be.
The best part is, most of them don't know the difference.
Help out grassroots advocacy for Firefox @ Spread Firefox. This is the community that organised the NYTimes add.
The site seems to be down so here is the Google cache and the Corel link.
Thats all well and good for those lucky enough to have someone like us in their lives. I also do the same for the likes of my mother in law, sister in law, etc. However, how many more of them are out there that don't know one of us, or are unwilling to try something new? I say many. Too many.
Don't Tread on Me
What are the top 10 reasons to use FF over IE? I'll start:
1. Security
Any really good arguments here?
2. Standards
Open standards ensure that independent vendors can compete on fair grounds. The W3C is the de facto standards body for internet standards. Firefox is implemented from the ground up based on those standards. Standard compliant websites will show in any browsers (on any platform) that also complies to the standards, and not just in a specific browser with its own standard.
3. Extensibility
Different users have different needs. For most, the normal Firefox distribution has all required features. For some, a specific extra feature is of considerable value. Firefox has support for plugin's, which is small custom components of code that can deliver near any functionality.
4. Reliability
In firefox, what you see is what you get. No hidden agendas, no spy-ware installing behind your back.
5. Comfort
Do you remember how the internet was a few years back when there were no annoying pop-up's and you didn't have to worry about spyware installing on your machine behind your back? With Firefox, you can once again realize that blissful sensation of using the Internet.
6. Continuity
Firefox is not going to stop innovating at 1.0 or whenever it has market dominance. Firefox is here to stay, and to keep evolving.
7. Slickness
Firefox has stunning looks and sleek controls. You can download a theme with a few clicks, or you can create your own. Firefox is hot, Internet Explorer is not.
8. For the people, by the people
Microsoft is not your friend. Firefox, like much open source software, is built for the people, by the people. You'll find that Firefox is surrounded by an enthusiastic community of supporters, not big business. Firefox, like other Open Source Software, is built, maintained and supported by people who believe in sharing, cooperation, and community.
9. ?
10.?
Unable to read configuration file '/bigassraid/htdig//conf/14229.conf'
Geocrawler error message.
If you download one of the nightly builds, you'll see it's actually fixed in the "trunk," but not in the "branch" 1.0 came from, because it apparently caused too many other flaky reactions.
bug 264913
bug 217527
The good news is that Slashdot WORKS again in the nightlies. If you really want, you can grab a nightly build here and check it out for yourself. They are generally pretty stable, but thy sometimes f with your extensions.
You mean, they should all get together and make themselves equal in size? :-)
Or was that meant to be, "commence?"
ObOnTopicComment: Yes, Firefox is darned good. You should try it.
Unfortunately Firefox 1 also comes with a number of 'improvements' that are rather dubious. The two that I personally dislike are:
/ Or chidaceae_coauthoring.htm
1. The 'default plugin' which used to be a dynamic library called something like 'libnullplugin.so' is now statically linked in, which means that you can't just remove it. What it does is nag the you every bloody time you go to a page that wants to display something that requires a plugin; these plugins are used intensively in adverts, which is why I don't have them.
2. There has always been a way to search in the displayed page - go to 'Edit -> Find in This Page' in the menu, or press CtlF. In earlier versions you had to press the 'Find Next' button in the search dialog in order to start the search. In Firefox 1.0 the search happens as you type. Some people like it, apparently, but to me it is incredibly disruptive. There are situations where you definitely don't want this functionality; one such is if you, like me, feel it hard to concentrate on the dialog box when the background moves. Another, rather lengthy example is the following:
Assume that you work with a big text that contains a large number of complicated words, like eg (WARNING: its huge):
http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/mss/volume25
This is a botanical text about orchids in China, and it is full of exotic names. Let's say that you have found 'Hemipilia kwangsiensis', and you want to find other occurrences of 'kwangsiensis'. If you are like me, you press CtlF, type the word (none of this mouse stuff for me if I can avoid it) and press [Return]. Except that the wods you are looking for disappears as soon as you start typing, and now you have the problem of finding the original place in a text of about 900 pages printed. And all that just to be cool. It would definitely have been nice with an option that could turn it off.
Apart from that it is a good browser; definitely better than IE. I can recommend v.0.9
It 's shame !
Don't be fooled ! Why you must keep Internet Explorer at all cost
Ploum.net.
I don't understand why Mozilla is ignoring the suite. It's a great product and is widely used. I personally have been seriously using the suite since about 0.6 and I can't understand why everyone's gone against it. If you have even 256 MB RAM it's fast. Yes it does take longer than IE to load up, but I start up Moz when I start my PC and don't close it until I shut down.
I think it's sad the development of the suite has really slowed now.
Some of us require browsers for work - web developers, researchers, IT people. Firefox contributes GREATLY to producitivity: tabbed browsing with middle click background-opening is unmatched in IE. It makes google'ing 10 times faster.
Plus, it's so much easier as an IT manager, because IE is a friggin magnet for shit - people end up with so much junk on their computer that DOES come from IE. Exploits are written for IE, and IE is more flawed than any other browser and the security fixes take longer than any other browser.
Maybe you SHOULD care!
Try to remove your old profile. You can export your bookmarks first and reimport them later on.
Please people, use the mirrors or the mozilla.org ftp redirect. The plugin finder is suffering from the slashdotting and massive surge in traffic. We don't want to drive people away as the first thing they experience is problems finding/updating their extensions/themes.
l eases/
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/re
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Sweet. Pulled it down from the torrent in seconds. Can't even reach Mozilla.org or spreadfirefox.com or any of those sites right now. They are simply swamped.
;)
I wonder how bad my home server would get pounded if I were to post a link to the FireFox 1.0 download. Go ahead, pound it... It's a special occassion.
Congratulations!
Here's to an excellent release that shows what the power of open source and community effort can really accomplish. Well done!
Using the executable installer to install to the path of my existing Firefox installation (PR1) resulted in the browser's shell completely flaking out when the browser was eventually launched. No start page would load. The Bookmarks menu was empty (clicking on Manage Bookmarks and then returning to the Bookmarks menu solved this). Visiting web pages didn't seem to affect the interface whatsoever (i.e.: no active back button, no loading page animation, no updating of location bar, etc.). In general, the shell seemed disconnected from the application itself.
A normal uninstall, followed by a re-install did not solve the problem. Files were left in the install directory and, when prompted, I chose to wipe out the entire directory. Only after performing a complete uninstall (completely deleting the install path, but preserving the profiles) and reinstalling did Firefox work properly. Your mileage may vary, but I hope this isn't a widespread problem, as a 1.0 release isn't the time for screwups like this.
Might I have been doing something wrong? Installing a new version to the old path seems to be a a well-supported idiom, as I've been doing that for ages without problems with all manners of programs.
I just installed Firefox today, and being a Mozilla user there's one thing that firefox doesn't do that mozilla does that I've grown accustomed with.
In Mozilla, you could hide the sidebar by clicking in the middle of the edge of the sidebar. In Firefox they removed that and now to close the bar you have to click on the X
similar to how IE handles them. It also seems that you cannot merge sidebars, such as the history and favorites, so you can't view them both at the same time.
Is there a theme or a way to return that functionality in firefox short of rewriting the whole thing?
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It seems Google and Firefox developers really have some grey matter. For a long time Microsoft's strategy has been to use one of its existing monopoly in a market to monopolize another market - Browser, Search Engine, E-mail, Server, You name it. The thing is that all of its program depend on one another - or as Microsoft would have loved to put it, "integrate" with one another. The only way for Microsoft Competitors to compete against Microsoft is to unite - an Office Suite provider can team with a graphics software provider, a server side software provider can team up with a client side software provider, or in this case, a search engine can team up with a Browser. But, Microsoft still has a monopoly in the desktop market and it can use/abuse it to gain marketshare in the search engine and browser fields. So now if Google/Firefox want to make sure they dont't just disappear they have to team up with other desktops like Mac or the open source desktops like KDE/GNOME. Anyway, this looks like an intelligent move by both Google and Firefox. Now google can get a share of Firefox's (increasing number of) users and Firefox will great (customized for Firefox) start page by Google to attract new users.
Here are the Moox cpu-optimized builds for windows (I've been using these since 0.9.3, and they seem significantly faster on my Athlon XP).
Enjoy
"When a ball dreams, it dreams it's a frisbee"
http://almaren.ch/download/firefox-1.0/
http://publipress.com/download/firefox-1.0/
The various versions and locales are slowly trickling in.
(Yes, it's my Official Kharma Whoring Day...)
-- Serge K. Keller
Finish your coffee, you'll feel better.
I don't know what 9 should be, but 10 should be "Profit!"
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Open Firefox and put about:config in the address line.
Put app.extensions.version in the filter.
Change value from 1.0 to 0.10
Most, if not all, extensions that work in PR should work now.
Your extensions will have to be reactivated by right clicking on each extension and selecting Enable.
Use at your own risk...Lawyers make me say that...
Slashdot, home of supporters of free software, free music, and free speech.Except for Moderators that disagree with you.
Right because if, by chance, it does cause a problem then a solution is only a 1 minute phone call away.
Certainly Firefox will prevent more problems than it would cause anyways.
Well we don't neccesarily need to convert everyone, and there are those who will simply always prefer IE over Mozilla for whatever reason. The internet just needs a significant market share of more than ONE browser - espeically a standards complient one like Opera or Mozilla, etc.
If people really want their virus ridden browser, then that's fine - I just want enough market share to take the web back.
The only problems I've seen firefox cause are not the fault of firefox, but of poor web design. Those web designers who don't bother to test their work on anything but IE. IMHO, if you are going to be doing web design for anything more then your own personal page, you need to have numerous browsers installed on your machine, and either physical boxes or VMware session to other OSes to test, test ,test. But I suppose that is lost to many.
Don't Tread on Me
Better yet, I just change the target of the IE shortcut to point to Firefox.
Does this look like the face of concern?
It's not that themes are so complex. It's that a trivial change to Firefox code can break all themes. That requires a new release of the theme, resulting in point releases.
It's just like adding a new UI element with text can break a localization. Localizations without a translation for the new text won't work properly.
Now that Firefox 1.0 is out, the themes can be frozen and won't break for Firefox 1.0.x.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
First of all, by default, you have to type '/' to activate the search as you find tool. Also, the Edit->Find features are still there. Type Control+F and the field will come up so you can type in whatever you want. And then you type in what you want, and then hit enter. Then to search again you can hit F3 or Control+G. So I really don't understand your gripe at all. If you want to change the search/find utility to automatically search as you type (meaning, no typing '/' first), then you can do that as well via Tools-Options->Advanced->Accessibility->2 nd Option.
So...I'm pretty sure I understood your post correctly, but it didn't make much sense, because you can still do CtrlF, F3 as you did before. That has not changed. If I'm wrong, then reply to this.
"Time is long and life is short, so begin to live while you still can." -EV
silverorange
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
- Read the "Why Use Firefox?" document
- Go download Firefox and install it
- Use Firefox as you default browser for 5 days
- 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)-- Serge K. Keller
9. XUL really rocks:
Have a look here: http://www.faser.net/mab/chrome/content/mab.xul
Look at his username... He's "New Here".
It's not wasting time, I'm educating myself.
I tell ya what, I'll just mindlessly skip installing the neato program.
I bet you won't have any problems there.
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1. Security
Any really good arguments here?
I'm not sure if you want arguments for or against Firefox, but its security track record is abysmal. There are still UI spoofing security holes relating to XUL, and some of these have been known about for a very long time. It was far worse off than Internet Explorer when it comes to unchecked buffers. Hole-for-hole, it's no better than Internet Explorer.
4. Reliability
They keep breaking themes and extensions every point release. That's unacceptable from an end-user's perspective.
Too many extensions broke with the 1.0 PR's and now 1.0 final.
Early adoption is bad in this case if you are trying to be productive daily with it.
10.1 is the most compatible so far, fewest bugs and they took out some features I liked after 10.1 like the easy stylesheet switcher in the statusbar.
In case it gets slashdotted, new features:
And improvements:
I successfully grabbed a copy from here
The pre-release still had Preferences under Edit in the File Menu in the linux version while the Windows version had it under the Tools menu. Does the new release have the same irritating inconsistency?
FF Default Home page?
Die, MSN, die!
Depends completely on your bank. Mine works just fine -- but it's up to your bank to either create a standards-based solution, or one that is locked into IE.
I'm going to disagree with the crowd a bit and say "yes", but with a caveat.
On my PowerBook G4 12" (Rev. C), FireFox v1.0 feels faster than Safari (in 10.3.6) -- but this could be in part because of the ad-blocking features in FireFox which don't exist in Safari (also the primary reason why FireFox is my browser-of-choice on OS X, over both Safari and Camino), which puts Safari at a disadvantage (as on many sites, it's downloading and rendering more data than FireFox is on the same sites).
HTH!
Yaz.
The same might be true at some point for ThunderBird, but at the moment, KMail is just so far ahead of everything else that hurts. When that happens, though, Microsoft should be very, very afraid: If you don't need to care about the operating system anymore for 95 percent of the things you do, you don't need to pay all that money to actually buy one from them.
No I think it is your computer that is running like ass because I have only half the machine you got and
mine smokes.
Got Code?
This one is right at the hub of NYC. Big pipes.
http://www.friedneko.com/Firefox Setup 1.0.exe
Firefox for Windows has built in NTLM authentication. Type your username/password combo in and go nuts.
Sorry that I can't give a definitive answer, using a gov't computer atm... but IIRC mozilla and firefox store their favorites in an html file (netscape 7 definitely did...) and you could just copy the file from one directory to another, or look for settings that point to a settings directory? maybe in about:config...
as for having them both installed, if you use a zip file rather than an exe installer, you can have as many versions as you want installed concurrently, although you may have to set up multiple personal profiles depending on when configuration storing changed, etc...
Actio personalis moritur cum persona. (Dead men don't sue)
Dammit! I'm left with an empty bookmark folder and to my dismay, bookmarks.bak has also been overwritten after installing firefox 1.0. Be warned!!!
Hmmm... I wonder why they didn't create a page using XUL, like this page:
Google XUL
This has become my new homepage in Firefox, although I wish it was centered...
I use spell check a lot, especially when posting here.
Why? No one else does. :)
"No prints can come from fingers / If machines become our hands." -- Jack Johnson
Isn't the whole point behind auto update is that it does it for you, or it at least tells you that an update is available? It seems to me that auto update isn't working at all. I've gotten no notification of any kind on any of our boxes.
I don't respond to AC's.
The useful link :)e fox/central.html
http://www.mozilla.org.nyud.net:8090/products/fir
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Optimized Firefox & Thunderbird Release Builds
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the student/IT worker's best friend, Portable Firefox. Works great off of my USB keydrive. :D
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This a known problem/bug for many Firefox relases. For some of them this occured more frequently. For some, less. It should be fixed in Firefox CVS, but Firefox team didn't want to include this in 1.0 because they were afraid the fix could break some other sites.
I've been using Firefox for a couple of months now. Used Netscape for years - yeah, I actually bought a shrink-wrapped version of Netscape, that included one year of free upgrades. Woo hoo! I use IE only for sites that I have to.
That said, I puked the other day when I surfed to my new ASP.NET hosted site and Firefox couldn't handle it! The layout was screwed up, the label colors and borders were wrong, etc.
Being a developer, I understand the need to handle different clients. But do I have to create a dumbed-down version of the site for Firefox users (myself being one of them)?
Does 1.0 handle ASP.NET better that previous versions?
-A_J
(Flame on, Slashdotters. I expect nothing less. And let me preempt the "learn php" or "learn XYZ" posts: I'd love to have the time to learn every language, platform, or whatever, that is out there - but I can't. I'm not an uber-geek (OMG, I used uber-, that is so last century) and cannot, no will not, spend all of my free time in front of a computer.)
If you are a regular Slashdot surfer, you might want to check out my extension, SlashFix which fixes the very annoying Slashdot rendering errors in the Firefox 1.0 branch.
These errors are fixed in the Mozilla trunk source code, but for apparently sound reasons, the developers didn't want to check the fixes into the 1.0 branch, apparently because they caused problems with some other, unnamed web sites. SlashFix is a good interim solution so you don't feel compelled to start up IE just to surf your favorite geek time-waste.
"I guess that depends on whether you consider having someone who installs software on your machine and replaces your defaults without your knowledge a good thing. I sure don't."
Sounds pretty trollish, but I'll bite.
Say you see a little baby hitting him/herself in the head with a wooden bat and you just happen to have a nice soft rubber bat, what do you do? Duh, you swap bats. The baby won't notice, and less concussions will ensue. (Granted, if you see babies hitting themselves in the head with a wooden bat, you have bigger problems on your hands.)
Believe it or not, the average person doesn't give a flying fsck what browser is installed on their computer as long as it works. Are they motivated enough to replace their defaults or do they even know how to? No.
Do the right thing and give them a rubber bat!
http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/
Great stuff!!
Firefox - l33test browser ever.
Language Pack XPI
Locale-switcher extension (updated for Firefox 1.0)
My server
Quick FYI/FAQ on MOOX's builds...
The website is here: http://moox.ws and the MOOX versions of the official builds are here: http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/releasebuilds.htm
As for how these builds are different
1) Moox uses a number of compiler and linker optimizations to take advantage of specific CPU architecture features (see http://moox.ws/tech/mozilla/#Mdefs for details).
2) Moox uses a number of other source code changes developed himself and another builder that further optimize the source code - help with certain computations, alignments, image processing, etc.
3) Moox also adds in patches from bugzilla to enable features that are not yet in the source tree, stablize the builds further, and make the builds more user friendly.
Moox will also be releasing localized, language specific builds of the official Firefox 1.0 source beginning later this afternoon. He says he will localize all of the M builds into more than 25 different localizations. These will begin to be available after 5:30PM CST on 2004.11.09 according to a post in his forum (http://moox.ws/forum).
The big question is should I now switch from Opera? Or even should I download Firefox to try it and possibly compliment Opera?
I dunno, if Firefox is just a better, more secure and more usable IE/Netscape, I don't know what would I get. There was a comparision with Mozilla already in the thread, of course with IE too, but no mention of Opera. Can anyone "spread Firefox" for me? Do I need it as an Opera user?
Future Wiki -- If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one.
With thanks to escaflo:
Moox Firefox 1.0 M1 (MMX) Torrent
Moox Firefox 1.0 M2 (SSE) Torrent
Moox Firefox 1.0 M3 (SSE2) Torrent
Use the torrents and save his bandwidth.
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HEHEE...
:) :)
Think about it...
TONS of geeks downloading Firefox.
Each copy of Firefox has a live bookmark pointing to slashdot.
Slashdot's RSS news feed get's slashdotted and Cmdr. Taco goes nuts
Finally, this is what happened
I really wonder what the present download count is!
Find a job you like and you will never work a day in your life.
I just downloaded this MOOX build, the m3 version (I have a pentium 4). First off, I got it up and running, and I noticed my bookmarks werent working at all--you click on them and absolutely nothing happens. I then noticed that it had CHANGED my windows wallpaper with a solid bright GREEN image. I don't know wtf this build is doing messing with my wallpaper, but I'm going to reccommend against people downloading this.
What's this?!
I saw the news on slashdot, finished what I was doing at work, went home, fired up YaST, then Synaptic and neither has the 1.0 release yet.
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10. Profit!
Apple-` will switch between the windows of the active application.
Don't forget to hit your local MozParty. Parties are listed at http://www.openforce.com/mozparty2
I'll be hosting the one for New York City. Info for that one at http://www.openforce.com/mozparty2/?party=179
-- My childhood bathtoys were Toaster and Hairdryer
Accoustic couplers are only 110 baud. When 300 baud modems with direct connection to a phone line became legal in the early 1980s it was great. With 110 you watch every character slowly spit out. You appreciated the breviety of the UNIX command line and the short command names (ls, cp, mv, ln, rm).
I'm using Firefox 1.0 (MOOX M2) and the shortcut is ctrl+#
\m/
And example of releasing multiple builds would be the MAME group.
On my PIII,20 GB [ lots of free space ],64 MB RAM machine, firefox loads in 13 seconds.
I upgraed the RAM to 128 MB. Now it takes 10 seconds to load!
But the pages are faster though.
Why does yahoo do this
OpenOffice with X11: http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_download s.html
I have a question about adblock.Since Iam billed according to the amount of data I download,I ask this. ,but isnt displayed?
When I use adblock to block *.swf files, does it prevent it from getting downloaded or is it that it gets downloaded
Why does yahoo do this
Go to the site that has the search for which you want to create a keyword.
... it will prompt you with the save bookmark dialog .. there will be a box labeled 'keyword' - enter the keyword you want to use.
On that site, Right click the form field and choose 'Add a keyword for this search'
Once added, FF will allow you to use that keyword in exactly the way you described.
You can also add them manually, by mucking with the URL the way you describe, but this UI method allows you to do it and automatically creates the passable fields for you.
not to be a ninny, but when are they going to fix the tabbed focus stealing bug? This is an extermely irritating and confusing bug that affects every user using tabs.
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-Michael
I just downloaded it, I've been using Avant Browser, which also has pop-up blocking as well as flash blocking, ad blocking, and tabbed browsing. It runs on top of IE, so it more vulnerable, but the feature it has that I miss so far in Firefox is mouse gestures (right-click then left click to go back, vice versa to go forward). Does anyone know of a way to do this in Firefox?
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
I can assure(maybe unassure?) you that this is not the case.
This attitude is prevalent across many development areas.
Why?
Ego.
You have to have a significant ego level to think these things can be accomplished.
I have spent the last 5 and 1/2 years in testing and test lead positions and recognize that the level of confidence required the create software from nothing is huge.
The is just unprofessional. Not atypical, but very unprofessional.
Here is the torrent.
r el eases/1.0/source/firefox-1.0-source.tar.bz2.torren t
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/
Looks like you are going to have to compile it yourself.
Does it go on forever?
I was just driving home, and the CBC Radio (am) show "As It Happens" just featured a segment on the Firefox 1.0 release. It's finally mainstream!
Delete your profile:l e_Folder
http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.phtml?title=Profi
Yes there is. It's called all-in-one gestures. Look for it at http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/ under "mouse gestures". It's very configurable.