Firefox 1.0 Released

[planetsim]

IF you didnt know you do know its out its great and Mozilla is totally swamped there are lots of mirrors infact the slashdot article http://slashdot.org/articles/04/11/09/132219.shtml?tid=154&tid=1 has a few in there.

Enjoy

[pohopo]

i forgot i was justs using the preview version. i think i will wait a week for the stampede to pass.

[pyro]

Originally posted by pohopo
i think i will wait a week for the stampede to pass. Heathen... ;)

[jazz_snob]

I'm stubornly ( and stupidly? ) not upgrading from 0.8 until a full-on tab-browsing session-saver ( like Pike/Rue's) is available.

[dkruythoff]

Originally posted by jazz_snob
I'm stubornly ( and stupidly? ) not upgrading from 0.8 until a full-on tab-browsing session-saver ( like Pike/Rue's) is available.
http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=166

My extensions window seems fscked up tho. :(

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by pohopo
i forgot i was justs using the preview version. i think i will wait a week for the stampede to pass. If Firefox update is to be believed, going from version 1.0PR1 to 1.0 would not be an "update".

[Megahertza]

More like v1.0 nearly fully working to 1.0 where satified its working ok.

I donload a copy of a previous 1 and it didn't work so I'm really anxious to get the newest 1

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by Megahertza
More like v1.0 nearly fully working to 1.0 where satified its working ok. The usual convention is that a "prerelease" version is one that the developers believe is "fully working" - i.e., ready for release. PR versions are a chance for any last-minute bugs to be found.
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.0.html

[Weedpacket]

Huh - I thought I'd posted my prediction in this thread. Maybe it was somewhere else. Anyhow, I'd guessed at the time that it would be at least a year before Firefox reached 100M downloads. I was wrong (http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=node/18908). But I wonder how many of those downloads are being used? Then again, I wonder how many people came by Firefox via other distribution channels?

[vaaaska]

Browsing habits are hard to break. There is a book coming out where the author proposes that MS is just a bad habit that needs to be stopped (I don't disagree with him however).

I have three downloads of Firefox and I don't use any of them...Safari might have some quirks but it's my preference. Plus, I can think of five people we've setup with Firefox and I know they are still using IE...

It's too bad.

[Jason Batten]

If anything, firefox has lost ground do to its security holes.

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

:)

I use it to make sure my CSS works.

[Sxooter]

But the security holes thing is a red herring.

1: The holes are patched MUCH more quickly than the equivalent holes in IE. When one compares the severity of a hole and the number of days of exposure since it was discovered (NOT since it was disclosed by the vendor, like a lot of sites seem to want to use) until it was patched, Firefox / Mozilla come out WAY ahead of IE. And a fair number of the "holes" in it only affect win32 platforms, so I would put some of the blame on that OS and it's semi-retarded MIME type handling.

2: It's not the number of holes that are found and fixed that matter, it's the ones that are found by black hats, not reported, and never fixed I worry about. And that, sadly, IS not something we can measure easily.

But I'm willing to bet if there's a nasty, exploitable hole that a black hat knows and isn't reporting, it's likely it's in IE, just because IE is a bigger target, as well as the negative feelings a lot of black hatters would have against IE. However, this is all conjecture.

[Jason Batten]

It is the browser developers who suffer, not the companies.

I like IE because it is what I have always used. Like many people, its just comfort. Plus I do enjoy the icon more, although they ruined the IE7 one with some dodgy shadow.

I like FireFox because it helps me code correct CSS... but I have realised now I don't know it as well as I thought lol ;)... well I don't know CSS layouts that is for sure!!! Been trying to grasp them, me thinks me needs a book!

[Sxooter]

Another great way to learn CSS is to look at the source of pages you like. It's amazing how much I've learned looking through the source of some of google's sites.

And IE isn't an option for me, as I don't run a supported operating system for that browser, so I sure hope the OS browsers do well over time...

[dalecosp]

I've one working installation of FireFox. I generally still use the entire Mozilla suite for most work, both on *BSD and Win platforms....