Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Preview Release

[kainashi]

not the final 1.0 but a preview release of what's to come. working fine for me so far. here's what's new:

Live Bookmarks
You can now subscribe to and read RSS feeds in your Bookmarks. When you visit a page that advertises a RSS feed by using a <link> tag, a RSS icon will appear in the status bar. Click it to view a list of feeds the page is offering. Click one to subscribe - this adds a Bookmark Folder that contains all the recent posts from the feed.

Improved Find
Find is easier and more powerful now with our new Find toolbar. The Find toolbar (which shows at the bottom of the browser window) automatically highlights text in the page as you type and has a useful highlight feature.

Managing Annoyances and Protecting Security
You can now open blocked popups, and the Extension install system now blocks all attempts to install software from sites other than update.mozilla.org. Users can add other sites to a list that allows them to offer software, but software is never automatically installed. In addition to these steps, several other measures have been taken to prevent phishing attacks and to highlight when a page is being viewed over a secure connection.

Better Bookmarks
Numerous improvements to bookmarks including more reliable presentation of Site icons, and a split pane view in the Bookmarks window.

Strong Encryption For Passwords Available
Passwords saved with the Password Manager can now be more easily encrypted with strong encryption by creating a "Master Password". If you create a Master Password, you are prompted once per session to enter the Master Password so that Password Manager can automatically fill in site logins. A useful feature for people who share computers with others and want improved security.

Improved Compatibility for IE users
Undetectable document.all support for site compatibility and improved compatibility for keyboard accelerators further smooth the transition for IE users

and many bugfixes...

Download Windows Installer
Downloads for other platforms
Product Site
New SpreadFirefox Site (Beta) (make sure you register there and download. they want 1,000,000 downloads in 10 days, let's help them out a bit. )

Mozilla.org has been updated.

mozilla.org has a random ftp rotation and some ftps don't have the release yet. so if you can't download it, keep trying or wait a bit and it should be copied over by then.

[nightcrow]

is the rss feed kinda like what's on lj? h: cool.

[kainashi]

is the rss feed kinda like what's on lj? h: cool.

yes, it is.

[Dark Scizor]

Wo0o0o0o0o0o0o, thanks Kainashi *downloading now*

[Red Angel]

That looks really nice, but I don't think I'll be getting the beta 1.0. My computer doesn't like betas. Not at all. Nuh-uh.

[RedStarWarrior]

It isn't a beta. It is a preview release. It works great for me. Consider it like a halfway upgrade. They want to do more to it, but it functions the way it is. Now I just have to wait until later this month for the RC.

[kainashi]

It isn't a beta. It is a preview release. It works great for me. Consider it like a halfway upgrade. They want to do more to it, but it functions the way it is. Now I just have to wait until later this month for the RC.

all that is left to do is bugfixes from here on out. around 200 bugfixes, iirc.

@red angel: every release of firefox has been beta up to this point.

[FireBlast]

Yeah I heard this a few hours ago. Downloaded

[youdontknowme]

So a thread was made here also, eh? Fantastic.
I LOVE the new find feature. It's fantastic. And also the RSS feeds in the bookmarks, the new bookmarks manager, and the integration of your default email program into the browser.

[kainashi]

So a thread was made here also, eh? Fantastic.
I LOVE the new find feature. It's fantastic. And also the RSS feeds in the bookmarks, the new bookmarks manager, and the integration of your default email program into the browser.

find toolbar and the rss support are probably my favorite features.

[Prodigy]

Downloaded. Thanks for the heads up.

[Trainer_Sophia]

Wow, thanks kainashi. *thumbsups*

[Crystal Mew]

I would so go firefox....if I didn't have this stupid aol to deal with maybe some time.

[Red Angel]

all that is left to do is bugfixes from here on out. around 200 bugfixes, iirc.

@red angel: every release of firefox has been beta up to this point.

I know. What I meant was that I'd rather wait for the final 1.0 than go for a stop-gap "beta 1.0" version. It's sort of like I don't go for Mozilla 0.71 after I've dowloaded 0.7, I wait for 0.8 instead.

[RedStarWarrior]

Red Angel, that is retarded to do. I quickly upgraded from 0.9.0 to 0.9.3 because some bugs were fixed. You need to reevaluate your downloading ideals. Just because a version isn't given a full new number doesn't mean it isn't an improvement and isn't worth downloading.

[kurai]

hello internet,

here is a good reason to upgrade.

i wasn't going to upgrade personally, until this came to my attention. after doing so, i've decided 1.0PR is likely worth the upgrade (for bug fixes and a general speed increase), regardless of the fact that you will have a serious security vulnerability for a few months until 1.0 final comes out if you do not upgrade.

[Red Angel]

Red Angel, that is retarded to do. I quickly upgraded from 0.9.0 to 0.9.3 because some bugs were fixed. You need to reevaluate your downloading ideals. Just because a version isn't given a full new number doesn't mean it isn't an improvement and isn't worth downloading.

I just try to install (and therefore uninstall)n a bare minimum of temporary programs because I'm using Win98, and Win98 really likes to screw up uninstalls, which leads to all sorts of registry errors. But after reading that alert, maybe I'll do it anyway.

[Water Pokemon Master]

I think I will stick with the powerful browsers of AOL and IE.

*prepares to dodge bullets*

[midnightangel]

I just finished downloading the new version and I love it

Thanks for the heads up, kainashi

[Jay]

My extensions don't appear to be working and now my all powerful adblock is rendered useless, even after reinstalling twice, it's no good.

Should have waited.

WPM, you're crazy. If you haven't even tried Firefox before then you can't judge for shit. >_> So kindly stop spamming. Thank you!!

[kainashi]

wpm: you're a ****ing retard, stay out of my topic. please.

jay: check http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showforum=2. adblock was updated, iirc.

[Dark Scizor]

Why would one rather use something like IE over Firefox?!

Anyway, I'm not sure if my little brother added it or not, but did anyone else get a Yahoo search plug in with PR1.0?

[kainashi]

Why would one rather use something like IE over Firefox?!

Anyway, I'm not sure if my little brother added it or not, but did anyone else get a Yahoo search plug in with PR1.0?

only narrow minded people use ie over firefox.

have a screenshot of that plugin? it could just be the default one that's included with firefox or something. never heard of a yahoo plugin for firefox. h:

[Trainer_Sophia]

For the record, they do recommend uninstalling, then reinstalling, instead of simply installing over an older version, which might help with some of the bugs.

Edit: And installing Yahoo Messenger, it asks you if you want to install a browser bar, but that may or may not be it.

[Aipom Of Doom]

only narrow minded people use ie over firefox.

have a screenshot of that plugin? it could just be the default one that's included with firefox or something. never heard of a yahoo plugin for firefox. h:

Well, the search bar now comes with google, yahoo, amazon, ebay, and dictionary.com... maybe that's what he means?

And on the subject of search bar plugins, is there a way to remove some of them? I don't want the yahoo/amazon/ebay ones...

I think I will stick with the powerful browsers of AOL and IE.

*prepares to dodge bullets*

Remind me to show you some pages with activex exploits then.

[Water Pokemon Master]

WPM, you're crazy. If you haven't even tried Firefox before then you can't judge for shit. >_>

I have tried Firefox and Mozilla and I don't like them. Both of them mess up a lot of webpages when you view them, and lots of things don't work. I'm not just talking out of my head.

[kainashi]

I have tried Firefox and Mozilla and I don't like them. Both of them mess up a lot of webpages when you view them, and lots of things don't work. I'm not just talking out of my head.

actually, internet explorer is the one that doesn't display webpages correctly. mozilla/firefox are standards compliant, while internet explorer uses microsofts standards. so get your facts straight next time.

Well, the search bar now comes with google, yahoo, amazon, ebay, and dictionary.com... maybe that's what he means?

And on the subject of search bar plugins, is there a way to remove some of them? I don't want the yahoo/amazon/ebay ones...

ah, didn't notice that they added yahoo and such. i thought you still had to add them yourself.

to delete the search engines from the list, you have to delete some files manually. they're in the mozilla firefox directory in the searchplugins subfolder. (ie. yahoo.src, yahoo.gif, and so on.)

[Water Pokemon Master]

Then why are more web pages compatible with IE? If Mozilla/Firefox are "standard," you would think more people would use them and have their pages compatible with it.

[kainashi]

Then why are more web pages compatible with IE? If Mozilla/Firefox are "standard," you would think more people would use them and have their pages compatible with it.

since microsoft bundles internet explorer with every version of windows, the average joe isn't going to use anything else. hence, the heavy ie usage because it's bundled in windows. so they don't make websites compatible with other browsers since supposedly a lot of people don't use them. goes back to my prior comment. that and microsoft forces *their* standards on them.

[RedStarWarrior]

I just try to install (and therefore uninstall)n a bare minimum of temporary programs because I'm using Win98, and Win98 really likes to screw up uninstalls, which leads to all sorts of registry errors. But after reading that alert, maybe I'll do it anyway.

Oh, sorry. I didn't realize you were using 98.

Also, in regards to compatibility issues, most webpages compatible with IE are compatible with Firefox. Anyway, in most HTML classes they tell you to make it compatible with the most browsers possible.

[Red Angel]

Well, I just did a clean reinstall of Win98, so I went ahead and installed 1.0PR. I haven't really noticed much different (live bookmarks aren't usefull to me), but the Noia Extreme theme DOES look nicer now. Yay.

[kainashi]

they wanted 1,000,000 downloads of firefox within 10 days. they got over a million in only 4 days.

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=node/view/875

[Sarcastic Assassin]

Is the find toolbar different than the little search box next to the address bar in Firefox 0.9.3?

[kainashi]

Is the find toolbar different than the little search box next to the address bar in Firefox 0.9.3?

yes, they do completely different things. you use the find toolbar to search for words in a document. the search box/toolbar is used to search google/yahoo/whatever.

[The Decapitated Mole]

Unfortunately for me, none of the FireFox versions after 8.[somethingsomething] work on my Windows 95 computer, so I'm stuck using 8.[somethingsomething], although all those new features sound really good and /helpful. Oh well .

o_0
jimm

[kainashi]

why are you still using windows 95?

[youdontknowme]

Anyway, in most HTML classes they tell you to make it compatible with the most browsers possible.

From my experience, most schools teach kids how to use Dreamweaver/Frontpage to make tables for layouts (which is not the way to go).

WPM, you seriously have no idea what you're talking about...
http://mysite.verizon.net/vartoo/noie.html
Read that.

[Water Pokemon Master]

No thanks, I prefer to be brainwashed by Microsoft.

Besides, IE works fine for me.

[pokemasterfrank]

I have tried Firefox and Mozilla and I don't like them. Both of them mess up a lot of webpages when you view them, and lots of things don't work. I'm not just talking out of my head. :P

Actually, there pages that don't work with IE as well :P

Then again, keep using IE :D It's people like you that keep the crackers from looking for the bugs and holes in Firefox :P

[kainashi]

wpm is your typical aol user.