Firefox turns 1.0! | The Coffeehouse

FluffyDevilBunny
GO GO GADGET COMPILER!

In the event that anyone wants this info...

Firefox (I shall call it squishy) will turn 1.0 (and it will be my squishy) at 1 am (Pacific Time) and will be available to download. The release parties are scheduled in many cities around the world with the web-casted party being broadcast from the Mozilla Foundation headquarters (bad squishy).

Personally, I am excited. Kind of feel al fuzzy inside, like when duing the time-warp dance under the influence of alcho-mo-hol. Smiley

-FDB

Rossj

Feels a little faster than the pre-release. Or maybe it's just me Smiley

Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde

Sweet!
Now the bug-searching will begin in earnest. Expect a 1.0 SP1 in a few weeks.

fdezjose
Hello from Madrid...

I still prefer Internet Explorer.

harumscarum
out of memory

they just grow up so fast. Well since it is 1.0 no more excuses for bugs.

Rossj

fdezjose wrote:
I still prefer Internet Explorer.

That *IS* allowed.

Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde

Rossj wrote:
fdezjose wrote:I still prefer Internet Explorer.

That *IS* allowed.

Yes. In fact, I have both Firefox and Internet Explorer on my computer.

Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde

Beer28 wrote:
I think MS would do well to... have IE on linux as well, like it does for Mac.

Hate to break this to you, but...
I hear that Microsoft will no longer develop Internet Explorer for Mac, is this true?
"Yes. In our commitment to the Mac platform and our Mac customers we our focusing our development efforts on MacBU products like Office for Mac, Virtual PC for Mac, MSN for Mac OS X, and Messenger for Mac."

mydigitalself
chamonix + st anton this year

fdezjose wrote:
I still prefer Internet Explorer.

Since using Firefox I just cannot go back to IE for one main reason: tabbed browsing. I am aware that there are 3rd party extensions that can do this, but I still do not understand how or why Microsoft haven't included this into IE yet.

prog_dotnet

How is the update feature in Firefox ? Do they have a update service or, do they ship a new build when a volnerability is found ?

If you look at the cange logs for Opera,
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/

they require a new install to patch the product.

Jeremy W
that blogging guy

prog_dotnet wrote:
How is the update feature in Firefox ? Do they have a update service or, do they ship a new build when a volnerability is found ?

If you look at the cange logs for Opera,
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/

they require a new install to patch the product.

The update service is one of the bugs in 1.0. Thousands of users are reporting (particularly on Mac) that the update icon for updating won't go away, even when there are no updates.

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

I think they understand perfectly. An app that works the same across Windows, Linux and Mac means people can use either of the three to get their job done. MS doesn't want that, they want you to use Windows.

In any case, I haven't been able to get to the Mozilla site all day. Makes me remenisce about when Internet Explorer 4 was released and the downloads completely overwhelmed MS' servers. Wait, did I even have Internet back then? I can't remember.

Jeremy W
that blogging guy

Mozilla FTP Server
One of the many FireFox Mirror Sites
Windows BitTorrent
Linux BitTorrent
Mozilla Europe

Jeremy W
that blogging guy

Yep, that's the 18th bug filed since release or something.

Gotta love QA in the Open Source world.

phunky_avocado
Dude! It's the (grilled) cheese.

"...more eyeballs..." or something like that, huh?

Jeremy W. wrote:
Yep, that's the 18th bug filed since release or something.

Gotta love QA in the Open Source world.

rjdohnert
You will never know success until you know failure

Well Guys, be prepared for the IE funeral cuz IE is dead.

Rossj

Beer28 wrote:

+ we still have java's applet technology, which may not give you access to the entire machine, but it still gives you a good subset to display dynamic content with in a client safe way.

You could use JNLP and then without a cert the user will be asked what level of trust they want to give to the app. This will work on pretty much any browser.

Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde

Three vulnerabilites discovered already in Firefox 1.0

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

What are you talking about? That site only lists some vulnerabilities that were fixed in 1.0.

Rossj

Maurits wrote:
Three vulnerabilites discovered already in Firefox 1.0

Secunia wrote:

Solution:
Update to version 1.0.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde

Rossj wrote:
Maurits wrote:Three vulnerabilites discovered already in Firefox 1.0

Secunia wrote:
Solution:
Update to version 1.0.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Oops, my bad.
The problems were in the 1.0 Preview Release, fixed in the final Firebadger by the Mozzarella Association

Shining Arcanine

Beer28 wrote:
That's just greed, flat out. It's paying and getting nothing in return. For that, I'm glad IE is on the decline. XAML and it's counterparts will be rendered on most new browsers anyway.

Microsoft has completely ignored standards for the past few years and as a result I am glad too.

bsilby

I tried it, but I see no improvement in dhmtl rendering speed.

Until they fix this, I'll have to stay with IE.

Brent.

sbc
GW R/Me

It is pretty good for a version 1.0
I expect it may be better by 1.5
DHTML is more a Gecko (rendering engine) issue than Firefox (i.e. the Firefox developers work mostly on the GUI and features like download manager, themes and extensions). Have you tried your DHTML on the Mozilla Suite / Netscape 7.2? I would assume it would be the same as Firefox.

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