Mozilla Firefox 1.0 RC1 out

[kainashi]

Today we have our first Firefox 1.0 candidate builds available for testing. If all goes well in testing these builds, then we're on target for our 1.0 release in early November. If you're interested in testing these candidates and reporting bugs to Bugzilla, you can get them from FTP. If you've already downloaded 1.0 PR (the "feature complete" preview) and you're not particularly interested in active testing and bug reporting, then you should probably stick with 1.0 PR for a couple more weeks and upgrade when we release the official Firefox 1.0.

Things that need special attention in this RC include:


* Application Update! (see below)

* Find toolbar, which received quite a few bug fixes.

* Gecko and website rendering -- we took a few significant layout/css fixes.

* Migration from other browsers on first run (You can just rename your profile directory to trigger migration.)

* Single window mode (load all pop-ups in new tabs,) set in the Advanced panel of the browser Options/Preferences window.

* Focus interaction between tabs, which was changed to fix several security vulnerabilities.



Testing application update is one area we could really use your help. To test this, please see the instructions at Testing Software Update page. It will require you set a hidden preference to point your PR build at a testing server that should deliver you an application update to RC1

The release candidates include about 250 bug fixes since Firefox 1.0 PR and we'd appreciate any feedback around any of those areas. If you can help in verifying (feel free to skim the bug titles and find ones that interest you) that would be great!

With this release, we're also featuring Mozilla Foundation builds for up to two dozen locales (slowly trickling in. if you don't see your language, try back in a bit.) These builds are hot off the press and haven't received as much testing as we'd like so if you're a non-English user, or speak any non-English languages, we'd encourage you to download one of the new localized builds and hammer on it some. The more testing we get at this stage, the easier time we'll have releasing all these localizations when we ship the en-US builds on November 9.

If you do find regressions from the Preview Release, please file bugs in Bugzilla and nominate them as Firefox 1.0 blockers using the "blocking-aviary1.0?" flag on the bug. Thanks for your help in testing Firefox!

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only 16 bugs left right now, so we will see 1.0 final on november 9th, no doubt.

[RedStarWarrior]

Which files should I copy, John?

[kainashi]

Which files should I copy, John?

what do you mean?

[RedStarWarrior]

I meant from the FTP. I figured it out though. I thought maybe we had to download different portions of the installer.

[HavoX]

I'm NOT going to update FireFox until the final 1.0 version comes out

just wanted to give you a heads up

[RedStarWarrior]

HavoX, it is well worth the upgrade.

[HavoX]

thanks, but I'd rather pass.

I'm not taking any chances

[RedStarWarrior]

Taking any chances with what? It is a great improvement over PR. 250 bug fixes is one reason (or 250 if you want to be anal) to do it. Just go to the FTP site that John provided and save the exe.

[kainashi]

it's only 2 weeks until final. if he wants to stick with the preview release, that's his choice. it's highly recommended that you update though but if you don't want to then no harm done.

[RedStarWarrior]

It was his comment about 'not taking any chances' that bothered me, John.

[youdontknowme]

Very, very slick.

They had an extension for the "make pop-up link open in new tab" thing I believe. But I like that's it's actually integrated with the browser now.
Fancy 8)

[Chris]

Oops, nevermind on that application update mechanism testing. We have a nasty crash bug there ;-)

--Asa
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on October 27, 2004 04:20 PM

It's now been strikethru'ed on Mozilliazine.

Thanks for the reminder, John, I'll be updating later this afternoon.

[kainashi]

according to peter(6) of mozillazine, rc2 will be out november 2nd with the final following on november 9th.

[kainashi]

just a heads up, rc2 is out at: http://ftp26moz.newaol.com/pub/mozil...leases/1.0rc2/. final is coming november 9th still.

[RedStarWarrior]

You bad double poster....anyway, thanks for the heads up about RC2.

[kainashi]

You bad double poster....anyway, thanks for the heads up about RC2.

editing a post from a week ago is no good.

[HavoX]

IMHO I find the Preview Release to be 10 times more stable than the RCs

I don't want to even try the RC out and have it crash on me 35 times in one day

[kainashi]

IMHO I find the Preview Release to be 10 times more stable than the RCs

I don't want to even try the RC out and have it crash on me 35 times in one day

yeah, since this is pretty much final, it's going to crash that many times.

[RedStarWarrior]

Indeed. I have had much greater stability with the RCs. Considering that the RCs have many bugs repaired from the PR your comments make no sense, HavoX. Don't be an idiot.

[Aipom Of Doom]

If you're too scared of the RC to even try it why are you so sure it will crash so much?

Anyway, I've been using the RC for about a week, and it works fine. Nothing noticably different, though it's crashed once or twice (which is worse than the PR was, I suppose =P). I've been meaning to try userContent.css stuff, but I haven't gotten around to it... damn school taking up my time .

The only thing that's been annoying is that Firefox doesn't want to open up some text files in the browser... It insists on making me open them in a text editor. Then again, that could be just because I use Linux (and my text editor doesn't like how the files are formatted either, but at least it opens them)...

[Chris]

Then again, that could be just because I use Linux (and my text editor doesn't like how the files are formatted either, but at least it opens them)...

The Windows version acts the same. Though web-browsing is for Firefox and text editors are for text-editing.

I'm enjoying the RCs, none of which have crashed even under my heavy usage. Let's hope it stays that way.