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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.
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
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.
Now if the update system would just not require a reinstall.
Most of the people I've converted aren't great at installing software, no matter how simple it may be.
I have noticed that firefox isnt the fastest starting up on a windows computer, same on my linux machine, but I installed Mozilla couple of weeks ago and it started up almost as fast as IE. Then in this release it says "Size and performance have improved dramatically with this release. When compared to Mozilla 1.6, Mozilla 1.7 is 7% faster at startup, is 8% faster to open a window, has 9% faster page loading, and is 5% smaller in binary size." I am about to install and try it. But why can FireFox not take this and use it to make it's start up times faster??!?
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
"since Firefox does not have any code related to hibernation or PDF rendering, it is obvious that external applications or OS subsystems are responsible for the problems you're experiencing."
If IE works and FireFox doesn't, then it's obvious that something could (and should) be done on FireFox's end to fix it.
Lord knows, MS ain't gonna do it.
"Derp de derp."
For heaven sake,Dont make users download the whole package everytime!Thats a real Inconvenience for all, and its a burden for dial up users to download a 5 MB file that takes anywhere b/w 30 min and a hour .
Why does yahoo do this
They need IBM to hire some FF developers...to create a OS/2 version. Then you can view your PDFs with ease!
Linux has had hibernation for a long time.
It is included in the main kernel, and I use it every day. Works flawlessly.
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 .
There's a simple fact about software development, bugs are guaranteed, especially on a projects as complex as Mozilla, heightened by the multi-platform delivery platform that's expected of Mozilla & Gecko.
Given that, imho, it's much better to see many bug fix releases in a vibrant and alert software project rather than minor patches every year and major releases years apart.
'Being less buggy' isn't the measurement here, identifying and resolving the bugs is. I know it's a half full/half empty argument, but software testing should never be approached with the 'be less buggy' attitude, it should always be approached with the 'find the bugs' attitude.
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please please please dont let the URL disappear if the page times out.. its frustrating enough opening 10 pages to have 8 of them load. but for the 2 that didnt load to not even be reloadable due to a totally blank URL line is just unforgivable!!
/end of rant
please fix this bug ASAP!!
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It's not the number of updates that either browser releases that determines how "buggy" it is. In fact, I might be happy seeing a release per day from each of them, because then you know that each is being developed continuously, and the browser you are using today is quite likely improved relative to the one you were using yesterday.
What is much more scary than having frequent product updates is having no updates at all. Just ignoring bugs because they're easier to ignore than fix. I'm not sure why the mindset of some folks is that if an upgrade is being released the program must be garbage. People do not complain about the security (or lack thereof) of Windows because of the number or frequency of updates being made available on the Microsoft website. It's the bugs that aren't being fixed that are the problem.
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this has been fixed in the latest trunk.. afaik we won't see it until 1.1