Firefox 1.0 Preview Release is out

viscousmemories · #1 09-21-2004, 05:01 AM

I just downloaded and installed it, and I'm writing this post in it. I haven't committed to it yet, but I'm definitely leaning in that direction. Head over there and get you some.

JoeP · #2 09-21-2004, 01:39 PM

Does it have mouse gestures (like Opera and Maxthon)? Does it have popup and content filtering? Does it do multiple tabbed windows (like Opera and Maxthon)?

If it does, and is not too much of a resource hog, I'll try it

Scotty · #3 09-21-2004, 02:17 PM

You can add features as you like with Firefox, so if somebody makes mouse gestures or tabbed browsing add-ins, you can just put in what you want, thus leaving the browser small and fast.

You have to go see what is available to add to it.

-Scott

viscousmemories · #4 09-21-2004, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by JoeP

Does it have mouse gestures (like Opera and Maxthon)? Does it have popup and content filtering? Does it do multiple tabbed windows (like Opera and Maxthon)?

If it does, and is not too much of a resource hog, I'll try it

Yup, as Scotty said it's all about "extensions". It has some features like pop-up blocking, a find bar (do ctrl-f and get a find bar at the bottom of the screen instead of a find pop-up), and Google search built in. I've added:

Adblock - to block ads
Image Zoom - to zoom on images
Tabbrowser Preferences - to extend tab functionality quite a bit. For example to configure it - as I have - to open external links in a tab.
Mouse Gestures
BugMeNot - to right click on a membername field at Websites that require free registration and have it filled in automatically.
Context Highlight - lets you highlight selected text from the right click menu
Copy plain text - will let you copy text from a webpage in plain text

That's it so far, but there are many other extensions too.

Godless Dave · #5 09-21-2004, 06:10 PM

I'm pretty sure tabbed browsing is built in, but the extension TabBrowser Preferences gives you more options. Mouse gestures are available with an extension. Previous versions of Firefox and Firebird had these features as well.

Shake · #6 09-21-2004, 07:06 PM

"Preview Release"? What do they mean by that? I'm running the 0.9.1 version (IIRC) currently. Should I wait to upgrade, or do you think it's safe to do so now?

Also, IIRC, I have to uninstall the previous version and then install the new software right?

Thanks in advance.

viscousmemories · #7 09-21-2004, 08:08 PM

I don't think you have to uninstall and reinstall, Shake. I didn't, anyway. I just installed this right on top of 0.9.3 (which is the latest in the 0.9 lineup). I'm pretty sure this 1.0 preview release is basically a beta of 1.0 but one they're so confident about (as a result of all the 0.9's leading up to it) that they don't wanna call it a beta. That's just a guess, though.

viscousmemories · #8 09-21-2004, 08:25 PM

Another cool feature I just noticed is the search field in the toolbar that lets you search Google, dictionary.com, amazon, ebay or Yahoo! (as well as add engines). Cool stuff.

dave_a · #9 09-21-2004, 08:48 PM

apparently BugMeNot isn't compatible with 1.0. Shame, that. The plug in I mean, not the service itself.

JoeP · #10 09-21-2004, 08:50 PM

Does it have maxthon's ability to customise quick searches? Ie you type a single letter plus search words and it passes them to the search engine of your choice. As well the obvious (and default) g for google, I have d for dictionary.com, i for imdb and w for wikipedia.

OKOK, maybe I'll try it anyway.

viscousmemories · #11 09-21-2004, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by dantonac

apparently BugMeNot isn't compatible with 1.0. Shame, that. The plug in I mean, not the service itself.

That's odd. I installed the plug-in last night and it seems to work fine.

viscousmemories · #12 09-21-2004, 08:57 PM

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Originally Posted by JoeP

Does it have maxthon's ability to customise quick searches? Ie you type a single letter plus search words and it passes them to the search engine of your choice. As well the obvious (and default) g for google, I have d for dictionary.com, i for imdb and w for wikipedia.

OKOK, maybe I'll try it anyway.

oooo... that sounds really cool. I don't know if it has that, but I'll look for it. Let me know if you find out if it does it or if you find an extension for it.

dave_a · #13 09-21-2004, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by viscousmemories

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Originally Posted by dantonac

apparently BugMeNot isn't compatible with 1.0. Shame, that. The plug in I mean, not the service itself.

That's odd. I installed the plug-in last night and it seems to work fine.

Yeah, I just got it to work for me also. What happened was I had .3 installed with .9x. When I upgraded to 1.0 it said the BugMeNot plugin was not compatible with 1.0. I clicked on "update" and it installed what was supposed to be the latest version, but then errored and said .3 not compatible. So, I just downloaded it manually from the web (.6) and it works.

viscousmemories · #14 09-21-2004, 09:50 PM

Ohhh... right, right. I had to go through that same thing. I'd already forgotten. :doh:

Godless Dave · #15 09-23-2004, 01:36 PM

1.0 has the same problem as .9x - some themes do not work correctly with Mac OS X, at least on my Mac. The scroll bars are not visible in the Pinball theme. Previously I had the same problem with Pinball and Orbitz themes. So for now I'm stuck with the default theme, since there are only four themes available so far and too of them are variations of Doodle. I'm not a Doodle kind of guy.

Corona688 · #16 09-24-2004, 03:23 AM

1.0's giving me stability problems... pop windows sometimes crash instead of being blocked, it seems.

viscousmemories · #17 09-24-2004, 03:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Corona688

1.0's giving me stability problems... pop windows sometimes crash instead of being blocked, it seems.

Hmm. Strange.

I recommend you try to limit your perusal of porn sites until this is resolved.

Seriously, though, I haven't had any crashing problems at all on Win 2k. What OS?

Godless Dave · #18 09-24-2004, 01:07 PM

It turns out OS X scrollbars are a thorn in the side of every Firefox theme developer and that's why there are so few (three, including the default) that work with OS X. I got a nice reply from the developers of the Pinball theme explaining this.

I do almost all my web surfing on my PC anyway so it shouldn't bother me too much. But on the rare occasions I do want to browse on my Mac (to download software or GarageBand loops mostly) I will be confronted with the default Firefox theme in all it's colorful ugliness.

Corona688 · #19 09-24-2004, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by viscousmemories

I recommend you try to limit your perusal of porn sites until this is resolved.

Seriously, though, I haven't had any crashing problems at all on Win 2k. What OS?

linux. My OS is actually native 64-bit amd64, but it can also run 32-bit apps interchangably, so I'm guessing the problem extends to ordinary vanilla x86 boxes as well. I've let it automail an event report whenever it crashes on a different site, and with all the people using firefox, I'm sure they'll get all the info they need to fix it shortly. I hope.

viscousmemories · #20 09-24-2004, 05:18 PM

I hope so too. I still haven't crashed yet but I'd obviously prefer to have known stability.

Socratoad · #21 09-24-2004, 10:01 PM

I have win98se on my machine, plus the latest Mandrake10 Linux system. Although I use firefire from time to time I just cannot warm to it. I use the Maxxon browser and MYie2 before it. This is not, for me a claim that my choice is better or worse but rather having found a browser that , at least for the foreseeable future has every bell and whistle I need or want. Oh yes from time to time I try out new versions of Opera.

And what pray tell is the above gibberish about? Nothing really, except to say that with my present security firewalls and other security programs all works very smoothly.

viscousmemories · #22 09-26-2004, 05:08 PM

I just found the bbcode extension, which sealed the deal for me. I'll never leave Firefox now that I can format my posts with right-click options. Never.

JoeP · #23 09-26-2004, 06:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Socratoad

I have win98se on my machine, plus the latest Mandrake10 Linux system. Although I use firefire from time to time I just cannot warm to it. I use the Maxxon browser and MYie2 before it. This is not, for me a claim that my choice is better or worse but rather having found a browser that , at least for the foreseeable future has every bell and whistle I need or want. Oh yes from time to time I try out new versions of Opera.

And what pray tell is the above gibberish about? Nothing really, except to say that with my present security firewalls and other security programs all works very smoothly.

I used Opera 5 and then 6 happily. Opera 7, though, was just too much work - they released it without all the features and the response to everything was "install the next release". I'm a techie but I get fed up with having to apply updates so often. I'll give Firefox a try one day, but will probably carry on as you describe.

livius drusus · #24 09-30-2004, 10:07 PM

I got Firefox over the weekend and although I like many of the cool features (tabbed browsing, the dictionary/wiki/amazon search, other stuff), I can barely stand the way it loads threads. It hovers on the top post of the page for a year and then finally snaps to the most recent. Long threads take so long to load I can barely believe I'm on high speed.

Is anyone else noticing this?

viscousmemories · #25 09-30-2004, 10:38 PM

I notice it too, and I'm gonna look into it.

Another thing I noticed

is that when you click a smilie it always gets inserted at the bottom of a post instead of wherever your cursor is. I've just uploaded a patch from Jelsoft that's supposed to fix that. Testing now.

Grrr. Nope. Still broken.