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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.

    --
    "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
    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: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.

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

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

  7. 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.

  8. 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

  9. 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.