Firefox 1.0 is out

Get it here http://www.mozilla.org/

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

 

Extensions from here if you can't download them the normal way :-

http://www.extensionsmirror.nl

 

and still crashes making it unuseable at work.
probably doesnt like running through the proxy server.
i'll stick with opera, because i like tabbed browsing, but for me ie is still king:
firefox crashes randomly, and wont do www.egg.com
opera has dodgy css rendering.

 

Works for me.

-- Ian

 

Sorry Robert, not what you want to hear but works fine for me .

Edit: yes through our proxy.

 

Works fine through the proxy here too.

 

If you like IE and Tabbed browsing, have you tried "Maxthon" ?

Its based on the IE engine but adds tabbed browsing and other functionality.

http://www.maxthon.com/en/

 

mozilla.org seems to have fainted, so I'm pulling v1.0 down the piece of wet string I like to describe as an internet connection from their European mirror site as I type. One question: do you have to uninstall the old version before running the setup? I'm on 0.92 and I'd like to keep my settings. All of the install help seems to be over on the main site rather than the mirror so I can't get to it!

Tony.

 

Today I have updated my ZoneAlarm, Lavasoft Ad-Aware, GriSoft AVG, taken a couple of system restore points and it all works so I'll not tempt fate but give FireFox a go tomorrow when the servers are no longer redlining.


TonyL,
iirc the last time I updated the process offered me the choice of importing all old bookmarks and extensions from the previous versions of FireFox and MSIE. Just to be safe I would also save bookmarks and extensions via BookMarks | Manage BookMarks | File | Export to save and then via MS Windows Explorer I would make a copy of all existing extensions.

 

1.0 went over the top of 1.0PR without any complaints.
1.0PR went over 0.92 (?) without reinstalling.
www.egg.com works to a point - it's the integrated "my accounts" feature that links in other banks that doesnt work in firefox. probably because whoever coded it put in "if it aint ie, dont allow" logic, rather than it not actually working in firefox.
will give maxthon a try later.

 

Thanks – I've done it now and it seems to be working fine. I just whacked the Firefox directory from program files and left everything else as it was (bar copying the mozilla directory of my user profile as a back-up). All my Firefox settings, bookmarks etc have been retained.

If you want to get v1.0 now the European mirror www.mozilla-europe.org seemed to be working fine a few minutes ago.

Tony.

 

Just playing with version one now, it looks well clunky and it would appear their website is down.

Its quite good, but I still fail to see what this has over camino or Safari.

 

Safari's bloody awful. Renders almost nothing properly. And it's slow. Never used Camino.

-- Ian

 

What version are you using sideshow?

 

I assume the most recent, since Software Update doesn't tell me anything newer's available: 1.2.3 (v125.9).

It's pants I reckon. Yet I have no problems with Firefox at all. I think it's only ever crashed on me once. I'm on OS X 10.3.5.

Edit: Now there's a coincidence. Software Update tells me 10.3.6 is now available.

-- Ian

 

Errr download overload more like.

Try here for mirrors, extension mirror looks overloaded now too :-

http://64.12.168.21/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/win32/en-US/

http://207.200.85.49/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/

 

Hi Robert,

This feature has never worked for me using any version of Firefox because my bank only accepts IE or one specific version of Netscape. I can't see what Mozilla can do about it though.

Just out of curiosity, I did try Konquerer running under SuSE. This browser claims to be able to identify itself as verious versions of IE, but it still didn't work .

 

Sideshow I really can't understand you problems with Safari, it wizzes along here, do you have all them damn java updates?

I am not saying firefox is slower than safari but it is more clunky and it renders 'OK' buttons etc in web pages hideously, just like being in windows 98, yuk!

Camino is worth a look, and if firefox could take a page out of omniweb's design then I think we would be onto a winner!

 

Gary, you do realise Camino is basically identical to Firefox? (It uses the same HTML rendering engine, and like Firefox, is a sub-project of Mozilla.) It just has a different user interface.

I'll stick with Firefox, since: (a) it works; (b) it's fast; (c) I like to use the same browser on all the platforms I work on.

The new version of Safari, which I've just been playing with since installing OS X 10.3.6, is even worse than the old. It doesn't even render my own company's home page properly any more, unlike every other browser I've tried...

-- Ian

 

any skins yet? it is 7pm after all