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Firefox 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite 1.7 Released
ESqVIP writes "Not long after Firefox 1.0.2 is out, there's a new public release. Just like the other 1.0.x releases, this is mostly a security fix. The release should hold for a few more days and we could also get bug 171349 (wrong icon displayed on Win9x) fixed. Mozilla Suite, on the other hand, has quite significant changes, some of them "imported" from Firefox. As announced before, this might be the Suite's last major release from the Mozilla Foundation."
Just a correction to the original story, Firefox 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite 1.7.*7* was released today, not 1.7.
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This should fix the Add/Remove Programs bug where installing a new version over the old version leaves the both entries in the Add/Remove list.
Other than that, mostly just security issues.
Woot!
In Windows Add/Remove Programs, I now only see one version of Firefox-- 'Firefox 1.0.3'.
This will please many people.
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It's Mozilla 1.7.7, there's nothing new we didn't already knew about. The update has the same security fixes (scroll down) as the new Firefox release, that's all...
/greger
Linux has had hibernation for a long time.
It is included in the main kernel, and I use it every day. Works flawlessly.
1.1 PR should be already out by now? What gives?
It says preview release for developers. There's still plenty of April left for this if it doesn't already exist. The normal preview release isn't scheduled until May. The end of May is a month and a half away. Also, you may have missed the part at the top of the table: "This is, as always, subject to change.".
i just upgraded from 0.8 to 1.0.2 two days ago.
found some great extentions on firefox site but i have these two problems.
I have to give up an extention 'IE view' which is not supported anymore.
the TBE (tab browsing extintion) has one feature I couldn't find in the new one. where is the "bring back the closed tab" feature ?
from 0.8 to 1.0.2, I haven't felt any significiant improves besides the new extentions.
Ctrl+W
Ctrl+R
Ctrl+U
Or you could write an extension...
I expect a lot better from Slashdotters than this "naive user" style bug report. Which operating system? Which patch level, which version of Adobe Reader? Adobe Reader 7.01 and Firefox 1.0.3 on a fully patched Windows XP work flawlessly together for me.
I doubt that Win9x users (like me!) would say that - seeing as we've missed out on the IE pop-up blocker included with XP service pack 2, and Win95 won't run IE6 at all, only IE5.5. So franky Firefox is now the only decent browser for Win9x unless you want to pay money for Opera (or have an ad banner)
I do admit that the wrong icon being displayed is a fairly trivial issue, however.
1. Select View->Toolbars->Customize... from the main menu and drag the search field from the toolbar.
2. Create bookmarks with keywords for your searches. Several are predefined. If you want to f.e. have a quick way to search goggle images, go to images.google.com and right-click the entry field. Select "Add a Keyword" from the context menu, and enter "gi" into the Keyword field of the dialog.
Typing "gi whales" into the address bar now searches google for images of whales.
It's called a realease blocker. At least in the Mozilla world, there are plenty of them for every major release that, err, block it from being released.
This feature is being worked on and should ship with Firefox 1.1 .
At the moment the Mozilla suite has a more recent version of gecko under the hood. The next firefox (1.1 I think it's going to be called, due out in a few months) will be switching to this and get these improvements too. It'll fix some bugs too, eg. the slashdot rendering problem.
FYI, 1.7.7
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this has been fixed in the latest trunk.. afaik we won't see it until 1.1
It might just be me, but Firefox has a massive memory leak on my system - I don't close it down, but having it consume 150meg after a day of being run, is worrying.
I don't want to go back to IE but...
False: firefox 1.0.3 has gecko 1.7.7, same as the current Seamonkey suite. Only the unreleased 1.8beta suites have newer versions, but there won't be an official 1.8 suite release by the Mozilla foundation. Firefox 1.1 will be the official release of gecko 1.8. There is a group of old Seamonkey developers working on a release of the suite 1.8 (under a different name), but I doubt they'll have something ready before firefox 1.1.
If you want to count beta's, the firefox trunk nightlies have gecko 1.8 as well.
Yes. But the fix caused a regression, and without knowing how many sites it would affect, both Firefox 1.0 and Mozilla 1.7 branches decided to leave it out.
Those regressions have now been fixed too, so it will be fixed in 1.1 and 1.8.
In the meantime, just do what I do - install SessionSaver, and close Firefox down and re-open when memory consumption gets too large.
4.7MB for Firefox is pretty modest. Netscape Navigator 3 (released in 1996) was already over 3MB, Netscape Navigator 4 (1997) was over 9MB for the browser alone!
Next time, just emerge mozilla-firefox-bin. (Except if you need fancy compile-time settings.)
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Automatic updates tend to be staggered these days. I've no idea why but they seem to need a bit of extra time to work out problems when auto-updating. It'll probably be along in a couple of days.
I think the point is moot for most people here though. You can just download the installer and install over the top of existing versions - the installer's finally been fixed to remove duplicate entries in Add/Remove Programs under Windows.
Mozilla 1.8 will be released, just under a different name with QA done by the Seamonkey group instead of the Mozilla Foundation.
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trunk = nightlies? My FF is at 111MB with 2 FF windows and a total of 16 tabs open. Even closing all but one window and one tab won't do much to the memory usage.
What Slashdot renering problem? I have never had a problem with Slashdot rendering in any version of Firefox.
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Hit 'about:config' and toggle 'browser.xul.error_pages.enabled' to true.
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XUL Error pages are in pretty bad shape in 1.7.x and 1.0.x - there's a reason they're off by default. For 1.1 and 1.8, many of the bugs have been fixed, and they work a lot better.
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Obviously 99.999% of /.ers got the joke, but for both of the people on the planet that didn't get it, Win 9x comprises nearly a quarter of the market. This is especially the case from true PC gamers and dual-booters (and even emulators if you want to count those) who need a DOS-based Windows for compatibility reasons.