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technical => computers, technology and the internet => Topic started by: Bubba on November 09, 2004, 08:58:34 am

Title: Firefox 1.0 released at last
Post by: Bubba on November 09, 2004, 08:58:34 am

Although they haven't yet updated the links on the front page of Mozilla.org, here it is, the first public release:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/

Remember to uninstall your existing version version first.

btw -  if you don't delete the actual program directories, but just use add/remove programs to uninstall (assuming windows of course), the new version should detect your themes/extensions folders.

Title: Firefox 1.0 released at last
Post by: Bubba on November 09, 2004, 09:09:49 am

It's available from the normal place now:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Title: Firefox 1.0 released at last
Post by: Stubbs on November 09, 2004, 09:36:04 am

So I've downloaded it now, what is so good about it?

Title: Firefox 1.0 released at last
Post by: Bubba on November 09, 2004, 09:44:24 am

- Standards compliant :: it renders websites how they are supposed to be seen

- Secure :: any vulnarabilities are patched asap, unlike Internet Explorer which is now about 5 years out of date.

- Themes :: lots of cool themes for customisation of the look and feel

- Extensions :: you can customise it to do almost anything with the loads of extensions available (eg the bbcode extension for posting here).

- Tabbed browsing :: hardly a brand new feature these days but still better than IE

Title: Firefox 1.0 released at last
Post by: Stubbs on November 09, 2004, 09:47:47 am

je comprend - think i finally understand what the RSS thing is all about!

Title: Firefox 1.0 released at last
Post by: Bubba on November 09, 2004, 09:57:05 am

I reccomend FeedDemon (http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/) as a really nice RSS reader.

Title: Firefox 1.0 released at last
Post by: Bubba on November 09, 2004, 02:42:52 pm

It's built in - tools/options/save current pages will save all open tabs.

Nope, don't get that problem with the usernames

Title: Firefox 1.0 released at last
Post by: dave on November 26, 2004, 03:44:19 pm

ok one-time honkies, i've found something that pisses me off in firecox: on the dropdown list under the addressbar, all the history isn't sorted with the most recent at the top (i.e. usefull) like in IE, its in some other (i.e. useless) order. any ideas?

Title: Firefox 1.0 released at last
Post by: Bubba on November 26, 2004, 04:32:46 pm

I'd not noticed that coz I never use that dropdown but had a quick search of the mozilla forums and it appears you're not the only one to be bugged by it.

You'll probably have to wait for an extension to be written.

Talking of extensions - I couldn't live without the super drag and go and recommend everyone tries it out:
http://superdragandgo.mozdev.org/

Also, the tabbed browser extensions rock:
http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/_tabextensions.html.en

And of course the bbCode extension is invaluable for posting on forums.

Anyone else recommend brilliant extensions?

Title: Firefox 1.0 released at last
Post by: dave on November 26, 2004, 09:01:25 pm

Quote from: "Bubba"

Talking of extensions - I couldn't live without the super drag and go and recommend everyone tries it out:
http://superdragandgo.mozdev.org/

word, that so fly its getting picked up by air traffic control.