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Firefox 1.0.3 and Mozilla Suite 1.7 Released

Posted by Zonk on from the get-your-dinosaurs-here dept.

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."

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  1. Mozilla 1.7.*7* by Jack+Comics · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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    1. Re:Mozilla 1.7.*7* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      And here's a link to the correct readme file for Mozilla 1.7.7 .

    2. Re:Mozilla 1.7.*7* by alonsoac · · Score: 4, Informative

      Right, and the correct link to the new features is here. As you can see there is not much new in there. Except for the security fixes which do seem important.

  2. At least 1 fix by Pmkool1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Sigh. by Greger47 · · Score: 4, Informative
    I'm sure they got a million submissions about this. Why do they insist on picking the worst one?

    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

  4. Re:How does this stack up to IE? by esbjorn · · Score: 4, Informative

    Linux has had hibernation for a long time.
    It is included in the main kernel, and I use it every day. Works flawlessly.

  5. Re:Damn shame by ydnar · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ctrl+W
    Ctrl+R
    Ctrl+U

    Or you could write an extension...

  6. Re:How does this stack up to IE? by prandal · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  7. Re:hold for a few more days? by TomC2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  8. Customize toolbar and creating search keywords by jeti · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  9. Re:Problems with the Moz and FF plugin interface: by scragz · · Score: 4, Informative

    The problem with Open Source software is that there is no one to say, "This bug MUST be fixed, before anything else is done." OO people work on what they want, and the less interesting stuff, like fixing someone else's bugs, doesn't get attention.

    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.

  10. Planned for Firefox 1.1 by jeti · · Score: 4, Informative

    This feature is being worked on and should ship with Firefox 1.1 .

  11. Re:Firefox startup time... by jcupitt65 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  12. Re:My only request by drendite · · Score: 5, Informative

    this has been fixed in the latest trunk.. afaik we won't see it until 1.1

  13. Re:Firefox startup time... by adam1101 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  14. Re:I still prefer the suite by bunratty · · Score: 3, Informative

    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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  15. Re:For Version 1.0.4 PLEASE by Denyer · · Score: 3, Informative
    Strictly speaking it isn't a bug. It is an annoying default behaviour for most people, though.

    Hit 'about:config' and toggle 'browser.xul.error_pages.enabled' to true.

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