FireFox0.9 released

serjer

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Release Notes - Firefox 0.9 (One Tree Hill)
What's New
Here's what's new in this release of Firefox:

New Default Theme
An updated Default Theme now presents a uniform appearance across all three platforms - a new crisp, clear look for Windows users. Finetuning for GNOME will follow in future releases.

Comprehensive Data Migration
Switching to Firefox has never been easier now that Firefox imports data like Favorites, History, Settings, Cookies and Passwords from Internet Explorer. Firefox can also import from Mozilla 1.x, Netscape 4.x, 6.x and 7.x, and Opera. MacOS X and Linux migrators for browsers like Safari, OmniWeb, Konqueror etc. will arrive in future releases.

Extension/Theme Manager
New Extension and Theme Managers provide a convenient way to manage and update your add-ons. SmartUpdate also notifies you of updates to Firefox.

Smaller Download
Windows users will find Firefox is now only 4.6MB to download.

Help
A new online help system is available

Lots of bug fixes and improvements
Copy Image, the ability to delete individual items from Autocomplete lists, SMB/SFTP support on GNOME via gnome-vfs, better Bookmarks, Search and many other refinements fine tune the browsing experience.

For Linux/GTK2 Users
Installer
Firefox now comes with an installer for Linux/GTK2 users. The new installer makes the installation process much simpler.

Look and Feel Updates
Ongoing improvements have been made to improve the way Firefox adheres to your GTK2 themes, such as menus

Talkback for GTK2
Help us nail down crashes by submitting talkback reports with this crash reporting tool.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
 
roadworker

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Seen so many Mozilla spin-offs lately,which one is the best?
I wanna try this stuff,but there are too much to choose from without getting feedback ;)
 
big_gie

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roadworker said:
Seen so many Mozilla spin-offs lately,which one is the best?
I wanna try this stuff,but there are too much to choose from without getting feedback ;)
Click to expand...
Mozilla is the main project. Since many people though it was too big and for other reasons, they decided to start at least 2 new project: Firefox and Thunderbird.

Mozilla is a complete suite: you have a web browser, a web page editor, a mail client, a chat client, and others...

If you only want the browser your still stuck with the rest...

Firefox is based on the Mozilla's browser. So its the browser ONLY. Small, fast, free, its one of the best :)

Thunderbird is based on Mozilla's email client. The best one out there!

I don't really know why they keep the mozilla project since Firefoz and Thunderbird are mature enough to take their place!

I don't really suggest mozilla (the suite). Get Firefox and Thunderbird instead :)
 
serjer

serjer

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currently running firefox 0.9 under knoppix 3.4 hdd install recompiled with kernel2.6.6 :)
wat i found is zat the buttons positions r not the same as zat of a win32 build ,cancel n ok buttons position have been swapped :D
 
VILLA21

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serjer said:
currently running firefox 0.9 under knoppix 3.4 hdd install recompiled with kernel2.6.6 :)
wat i found is zat the buttons positions r not the same as zat of a win32 build ,cancel n ok buttons position have been swapped :D
Click to expand...
That"s since 0.8 release.
 
big_gie

big_gie

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The are many complains about the 0.9 release becaus they changed some things in it like the Extension Manager, Theme Manager, etc. Some old extensions won't work correctly with it.

But the problem the most people have could be bypassed by creating a new profile...

I'm actually using v0.9 with the Qute theme (them from 0.8) avaible here:
http://update.mozilla.org/themes/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=7&vid=8
And one extension: Session Saver, which does work on 0.9. This is really great: it reopens the tabs you were using on firefox closing! :) There is a similar feature in Tab Broswser Extension but really buggy. Session Saver is a must have!!! Avaible here:
http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#sessionsaver
 
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That Moox build (P4/AXP) is for SSE capable processors only
http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/

There are other builds there (of 0.9.1 release)
Pentium MMX (and presumably all MMX CPU's in socket 7)
P2/P3 (and non-SSE Athlons)

http://www.pryan.org/mozilla/firefox/ - Pryan.org is probably the best central resource for alternative/optimized builds


PS. Not quite certain... the MinGW compiles that seem to be out of favour now, were optimized for and EXCLUSIVE TO, in general , as the MinGW (GCC) compiler could be set to optimize both instruction ordering (to aid pipelineing) and instruction set use - and had some VERY detailed settings.

The documentation fot the Microsoft compilers suggests that optimizing for a CPU class does not prevent it running on lower - but to do that, it would either have to avoid instruction set adjustment altogether, or provide an alternative basic code path and a way of switching between them.
 
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