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Lobster Cowboy

06-18-2004, 05:25 AM

i'm sure most of you are aware, but if not, a whole load of mozillas have landed

you can now get mozilla suite (http://mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/), which is at ver. 1.7. this build will be the new stable, meaning applications built off of mozilla code will use the trunk from this release.

also out is firefox 0.9 (http://mozilla.org/products/firefox/), but BEWARE...some people will experience a bug that causes the browser to crash on load. i got the bug on my desktop, but not my laptop. there's an easy work around, but that kind of bug is inexcusable for a milestone. still a great browser, tho', and it's gonna get even better with 1.0, which is set to hit sometime in september.

finally, you can get your hands on mozilla thunderbird 0.7 (http://mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/), what i believe to be the best mail client around. i switched all the way back with milestone 0.4, and never looked back. this is a great release, and extremely stable.

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SwampGas

06-18-2004, 01:36 PM

> also out is firefox 0.9, but BEWARE...some people will
> experience a bug that causes the browser to crash on load.
> i got the bug on my desktop, but not my laptop. there's an
> easy work around, but that kind of bug is inexcusable for a
> milestone. still a great browser, tho', and it's gonna get
> even better with 1.0, which is set to hit sometime in

Another bug is the user agent. Go to Help -> About and actually read it. The graphic says "Firefix version 0.9", but the user agent is "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8". Nice.

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juggaleaux

06-18-2004, 01:42 PM

I'm wondering why instead of overwriting Firefox 0.8, Firefox 0.9 installed itself separately.

Now I have two Firefox's installed. :P

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SirDaShadow

06-18-2004, 03:39 PM

I have to say I tried Firefox and I like it..It renders fast, .the sheer amount of extensions and the so-easy-to-get-em feature really appeals me. I LIVE by mouse gestures, I can't browse wihtout them. Going back and forth pages is so easy without having to go back to the top. That's one of the reasons why I use Slimbrowser. Im considering switching to firefox if I can include all the functionality that SB has into it.

Lobster Cowboy

06-18-2004, 05:16 PM

> Another bug is the user agent. Go to Help -> About and
> actually read it. The graphic says "Firefix version 0.9",
> but the user agent is "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
> 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8". Nice.

hmm...mine doesn't say "Firefix" anywhere on the about screen

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maq112k2

06-18-2004, 06:51 PM

> also out is firefox 0.9, but BEWARE...some people will
> experience a bug that causes the browser to crash on load.
> i got the bug on my desktop, but not my laptop. there's an
> easy work around, but that kind of bug is inexcusable for a
> milestone.

I had it, and I removed the bug by deleting my old Mozilla Firefox directory, and reinstalling 0.9 -- and the bug in XPCom was gone. I believe the bug I had was that it couldn't over-write the old dll files. Meh.

maq112k2

06-18-2004, 06:52 PM

> considering switching to firefox if I can include all the
> functionality that SB has into it.

Go into the extensions. I'm sure there's a mouse-gesture extension somewhere.

Lobster Cowboy

06-18-2004, 07:35 PM

> I had it, and I removed the bug by deleting my old Mozilla
> Firefox directory, and reinstalling 0.9 -- and the bug in
> XPCom was gone. I believe the bug I had was that it
> couldn't over-write the old dll files. Meh.

what sucked is that i had already done that. whenever i install a milestone, i always make in totally clean, removing old profiles. that's just too bad a bug to have made it to a major release.

thankfully, the developers will have three months to iron out 1.0. i expect that release to be incredible.

speaking of incredible releases, openoffice 2.0 is gonna be super phat. was looking at the roadmap yestereday, and it's gonna blow ms office even further out of the water.

hmm...i just had a thought...why don't the devs of OO use the code of mozilla thunderbird to make a PIM for their suite? it's the one glaring omission from openoffice, and the mozilla mail code is mature enough to be applied to that sort of program.

food for thought

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Kuikorosu

06-18-2004, 08:00 PM

Still using Mozilla Firebird 0.7 <img src=smilies/magbiggrin.gif>

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maq112k2

06-18-2004, 08:05 PM

> hmm...i just had a thought...why don't the devs of OO use
> the code of mozilla thunderbird to make a PIM for their
> suite? it's the one glaring omission from openoffice, and
> the mozilla mail code is mature enough to be applied to that
> sort of program.

I dunno. I need to download it again. I reformatted and have Office XP installed. Bleh.

CEpeep

06-18-2004, 08:13 PM

> Still using Mozilla Firebird 0.7
>

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I haven't used a new version since they changed names to "Firefox." And I won't, until a 1.0 release makes up for its shitty name.

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juggaleaux

06-18-2004, 08:19 PM

> openoffice 2.0

I just creamed in my pants a little. :/

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Crazy_MYKL

06-18-2004, 08:58 PM

> Another bug is the user agent. Go to Help -> About and
> actually read it. The graphic says "Firefix version 0.9",
> but the user agent is "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT
> 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8". Nice.
>

Sometimes it does that if you don't do a clean install, use about:config to fix it.

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cipher

06-18-2004, 11:58 PM

> I haven't used a new version since they changed names to
> "Firefox." And I won't, until a 1.0 release makes up for
> its shitty name.

That has to be the single stupidest reason to not use a piece of software I've ever heard.

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CEpeep

06-19-2004, 01:08 AM

> That has to be the single stupidest reason to not use a
> piece of software I've ever heard.
>

Would you buy a product in a store called "Steaming pile of fucking shit," regardless of weather or not it was "good?"

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Cornellius

06-19-2004, 02:08 AM

Dude, I agree with Cipher. The name is not important. What's important is the PRODUCT.

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06-19-2004, 02:25 AM

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The 9th Sage

06-19-2004, 03:24 AM

> also out is firefox 0.9,

Mmmm...must get FireFox 0.9.

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Narvick

06-19-2004, 07:15 AM

Yup, I downloaded the latest Firefox and Thunderbird.

:D!

Kuikorosu

06-19-2004, 09:11 AM

> Dude, I agree with Cipher. The name is not important. What's
> important is the PRODUCT.

I'm not a fan of firefox for many a reason. One of which is that ugly awful download manager, secondly, yeah, the name does turn me off. Firefox sounds like some furry's pseudonym. Thirdly, I just don't see the advantage of firefox over bird in later releases. I haven't thought to myself, "gee, if only my browser did this" and I figure, why fix something that isn't broken?

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