Firefox 1.0 is out

[amanoffewwords]

Get it here (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/)


read about it here (BBC) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3993959.stm)

[Evo]

Or if you're already using it ... and if you're not, you should be ;)

Tools ->options

advanced->software_update->check now

worked very well for me earlier, but it seems to be getting hammered now America has woken up. Still, if you can wait for a bit, it's a very easy way to upgrade

[Mac the Knife]

Go for it guys.

Junk Incontinent Exploder now.

"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today."

Bill Gates: Challenges and Strategy Memo (May 16, 1991)

[Caslance]

I downloaded it and installed it about half an hour ago.

Distinctly unimpressed, I've uninstalled it.

On my machine at least, it doesn't run as quickly or as smoothly as Maxthon.

It uses rather more in the way of system resources, too.

Ah well, each to their own...........

[Front_Seat_Dreamer]

Firefox is a good browser and I am sure when IE7 appears on the scene it will have 'borrowed' some of these features.

My biggest bugbear is the amount of websites that load improperly when using Firefox, and until such times as the rest of the world catch on then the designers of these sites will not make them anything other than IE specific.

Maxthon is OK, I used to use it in it's MyIE2 guise but as it uses the IE engine will share the IE flaws.

[ZH875]

Caslance, I agree with you. It seems very slow compared to IE so I have removed it.

How many other people find it slower?

[Avtrician]

Firefox is going ok for me, dont know what improvements have been made, sofar so good.

[Ridley]

If anyone is concerned about the migration from Exploder to Firefox, needn't.

1. Firefox handles the importing of favorites, cookies, password/entered form fields, perfectly.

2. Thunderbird also handles the migration from Outlook Depress perfectly too. It handles the migration of emails, accounts, everything. (except filters)
Although one interesting note, my first export of outlook mail came through somewhat disfigured, after I exported to outlook express then imported into thunderbird from there, it was perfect.

These are usually the two biggest concerns from Microsoft software users.

Been using firefox and thunderbird on my new laptop for 3 months now, and no matter where I'm jacked into, not a single spyware, hijacking, virus, etc. Long live Firefox...

P.S. Firefox doesn't eliminate the need for secure networking and firewalls. It just eliminates the need for constant adaware and hijack this use. No more browser hijacks and suspect ActiveX installs.

Ridley

[126,7]

I have been using Firefox for a long time now. I like it!!
There are the odd few site that dont load properly, for which I use IE but other than that, no probs.
Its got a couple of great extensions you can add yourself and the download manager works great too.
Go Firefox!!:ok:

[126,7]

Firefox 1.0.1 has been released.
Get it here. (http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/)

[Ridley]

You gotta love this forum...

Thanks 126,7

[Ella Valet]

I see they fixed Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) homograph spoofing, by turning off IDN and displaying such domains in their raw punycode form.

Phew, that's a relief then.

:}

[Evo]

I've even swapped the great Safari for Firefox on the Mac - the reason? The great adblock plug-in. Highly recommended :ok:

[Devlin Carnet]

Does Firefox utilise the Hosts file? I hope so as it is
The single most useful spyware blocker available.

[Tallbloke]

There may well be a new version of Firefox out, but my copy does not seem to think so. When I press look for updates in advanced settings it opens a dialogue box, has a look, and finds....nothing.

I use Firefox for Pprune and other fora, because and ONLY because, if my broadband connection drops for whatever reason, I can go back and find my next after I log back in. Other than that, I find it slow, and pages load with more errors than with IE6.

When will there be some proper competition in the browser market?

[Mac the Knife]

Well TB, it hadn't occurred to me to try, but my copy of FF just this minute updated itself quite successfully........

I'm surprised you find it slow compared to IE. I think it's fractionally faster, but there isn't much in it. Opera certainly SEEMS fastest, but I haven't benchmarked it. OffByOne ( http://www.OffByOne.com ) is very small and very fast.

Some pages in FF (and other non-IE browsers) do load with errors, but that's because they aren't W3C compliant - they were composed for a browser (IE) which is deliberately W3C non-compliant. You can't really blame FF for that!

I think there is already plenty of competition for Microsoft's clunky insecure and non-compliant offering.

(BTW, there is also Amaya, Arachne, Barque, Beonex, BrowseX, Cheetah, Cineast, Dillo, Emacs W3, Encompass, Epiphany, Firefox, Galeon, Grail, HotJAVA, Ice, Jazilla, Jozilla, Konqueror, Kylie, Light, Lynx, Minimo, Netraider, Netscape, Opera, Pyleon, Skipstone, Star Office, ViewML and Zen for the time when you are ready to step out of Mr. Gates' box)

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"Bother," said Pooh as he struggled with /etc/sendmail.cf, "it never does quite what I want. I wish Christopher Robin was here."

[seacue]

I've been running Forefox 1.0 since it was released. I've been getting weird things in the past few days - offers of downloads, etc, etc. I'm gunshy about offers of that type.

At times the program has been extremely slow to load and resistent to being shut down. And this afternoon there was a 3-line "Firefox Profile" popup to fill out.

I shut down the machine as fast as I could and then restarted.

All this worries me.

I've removed a few things found by Adaware and Spybot and it runs ok now. Norton didn't find anything. Hijackthis looked OK to an untrained eye.

I'm not asking for help, just posting asking for comments. Am I being paranoid?

seacue

[Jhieminga]

seacue, the Firefox profile manager is a legitimate part of the browser, just one that you normally don't see. I've found that it pops up when you attempt to restart the browser after an incorrect shutdown (crash) of the program. What basically happens is that because of the crash, a part of FF stays active as a process, and upon relaunch it notices this and since it cannot open a profile that is already running, it asks you to select another. Most people don't have another profile to choose from though.

If this happens: Either re-start the computer, or do the following:
- Open task manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del, choose 'task list' in XP)
- Go to the 'processes' tab.
- Find 'firefox.exe' and end this process

You should now be able to run FF again without the profile manager popping up!

As for the other issues, you could try reinstalling FF but perhaps it was connected to the stuff you removed through Ad-aware et al so it may have been resolved already.