Firefox version 1 is out:) thought a person or two might care.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Last time I updated to v 0.10.1 it erased all my extensions and bookmarks......bummer!

Whats so good about v 1.0?

It is the official release version is all... the first real version... doubt anything all that special aside from some fix security loops I imagine.

Though the only difference I see is the go button has slightly changed in appearance, firefox still owns. Thanks for informing me on the new release. :tu:

for those of us who aren't to computer literate, why is this better than internet explorer (if it really is) and do you reccommend it over internet explorer.

for those of us who aren't to computer literate, why is this better than internet explorer (if it really is) and do you reccommend it over internet explorer.

It blocks popups amazingly well. It allows for tab browsing (like netscape did). Tab browsing is probably the biggest reason I love it. I think it is just generally better put together.

Firefox version 1 is out:) thought a person or two might care.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/I feel so ignored: http://forums.johnstonefitness.com/showthread.php?t=9968 :P

for those of us who aren't to computer literate, why is this better than internet explorer (if it really is) and do you reccommend it over internet explorer. There are numerous reasons.

-The group that develops firefox actually releases patches to fix newly discovered security holes in a timely manner (within hours/day). Microsoft on the other hand waits months before releasing a new patch to cover the many vulnerabilities in IE. What would you rather have: a solid secure fast browser or a running security hole that Microsoft tries to force down your throat? The only reason most IE users use it is because it comes packaged with their OS and they don't know of any better alternatives.

-firefox is fast
-firefox has tabbed browsing which is awesome. I despise not having tabbed browsing when I'm forced to use IE. Right now I have 4 tabs open pointing to various threads here at JSF, it's really handy.
-firefox has great pop up blocking
-firefox is themeable
-firefox is under constant development, new features get added to improve the users experience. When was the last time a major new feature was added to IE?
-firefox has many plugins that have been developed which allow you to do many different things, thus firefox is extremly customizable
-firefox is making headlines: Many news/tech sites have been running articles for the past few months urging people to switch to the better browser. Federal agencies even suggest people switch due to the security problems in IE..
-firefox is stealing IE users at an impressive rate for an open source project. There were 8 million downloads of the release canidate last month, it'll be interesting to see how many downloads of this version occur this month.

I suggest downloading it and giving it a try for a week. Check out the plugins you can use and learn how to customize the browser. If after a week you don't like it then go back to whatever browser you use.

I just started using it and I love it. Great Browser.

this sounds worth getting but i would like to know if i can install it to my user only, others use this computer and they are a bit traditional not that open to change.
if this is possible can you explain how to do it and i will download it immediately.

Thanks sounds good
~v

New features I noticed from version .9: an option in the "view" menu to remove all the crappy sidebars from pages and display a basically text-only view. Haven't played with it too much, but should be good for ugly framed monstrosities.

Finding text is really nifty now with a bar that stays at the bottom of the page. Search terms are automatically highlighted.

Only negative for me is increase font size is buried in a submenu now. I'm sure I can customize that somehow (I'd like it to be a button), but haven't bothered.

What does Tab Browsing mean? And what about erasing bookmarks? (someone mentioned that earlier.)

I've been hearign a ton about Foxfire but I am in such a busy period that will last a couple of more months, I can't handle any glitches wiht my computer. (I just go through two computer nightmare experiences 1. upgrading my palm pilot and 2. (finally) switching to DSL. Tech support is soooo bad, they caused me to lose weeks of time fixing my computer backup.)

So what do I risk downloading Foxfire? I know I will do it sometime over X-mas or January but should i risk doing it now? (I have an old machine running Windows 98 SE and a partitioned hard drive that. for reasons too long to explain, I can't do anything about with one partion the C drive in FAT format insteat of FAT 32 and with only (uggh) 2 gigs of space and squeezed to minimum space left, even with everything stripped out of it I can.)

i got i got it got it got it,

pretty cool different it will definately take a bit of getting used to, so at the moment i just use both.

my other earlier stupid question ( i thought it would replace the browser so i would lose IE :confused: ) any way seems good.
thanx for the heads up

~v

Great browser. I've been using prerelease versions for months now. v1.0 has some great changes to it.

I love tabbed browsing!

Some quick tips:

New Tab: CTRL-T
Open link in new tab: middle-click link

Type ahead find: / or CTRL-F
Type ahead find for links only: '
Find next: CTRL-G

Adjust text size: CTRL-+ for bigger, CTRL-- for smaller, and CTRL-0 to reset
Change Page Styles: View->Page Styles (some pages have alternate versions that look different)

Popup blocking should be on by default. Make sure to check out the Themes and Extensions available. You can get to them from the menu: Tools->Themes and Tools->Extensions

Some neat Extensions:
AdBlock, it blocks ads that are in pages (not just popups)
Linkification, makes text links clickable
TabScroller, you can hold the right mouse button and then use the scroll wheel to move between tabs
Sage, a lightweight RSS reader. Subscribe to the RSS version of sites.

Extensions for web developers:
EditCSS, edit any pages CSS on the fly (really cool)
Web Developer, validation, ua switching, element outlining, etc

99.9 % of hackers write code to exploit Microsoft IE.

Mozilla Firefox has two advantages that tend to protect it from hackers: It isn't from Microsoft, and it is used by so few people that it doesn't represent a satisfying target for Internet malcontents trying to steal cc numbers and passwords.

What does Tab Browsing mean? And what about erasing bookmarks? (someone mentioned that earlier.)

I've been hearign a ton about Foxfire but I am in such a busy period that will last a couple of more months, I can't handle any glitches wiht my computer. (I just go through two computer nightmare experiences 1. upgrading my palm pilot and 2. (finally) switching to DSL. Tech support is soooo bad, they caused me to lose weeks of time fixing my computer backup.)

So what do I risk downloading Foxfire? I know I will do it sometime over X-mas or January but should i risk doing it now? (I have an old machine running Windows 98 SE and a partitioned hard drive that. for reasons too long to explain, I can't do anything about with one partion the C drive in FAT format insteat of FAT 32 and with only (uggh) 2 gigs of space and squeezed to minimum space left, even with everything stripped out of it I can.) Tabbed browsing means that you can have multiple windows open in the same instance of one firefox window and you use tabs to go back and forth between the open windows. It's just more efficent than having 8 seperate windows open.

I don't really think there is any risk to downloading it, it takes under 5 minutes to download/install on a decent connection.

once you got tabbed you never go back....i LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE mozilla...i even bought the tshirt :D

big plus they just came out with a calendar add in for Firefox and thunderbird...gaining on M$ every day.

while we're on the subject what is everyones favorite theme for Firefox?

lol i'm actaully really diggin the ScribbleKiddies them :lol:

SPEEEED!!! Firefox is the fastest browser I've seen to date. I am officially a convert.

i just downloaded it (this is my first post using it)
i was using netscape 7.2 but i think i will stick with this cos it seems better, and faster too.... especially after i threw on some tweaks!...


To get started, type "about:config" in your FireFox address bar. The settings you're looking for are:

1.) network.http.pipelining
2.) network.http.pipelining.firstrequest
3.) network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
4.) network.http.proxy.pipelining
5.) nglayout.ititialpaint.delay

Set #1, #2, and #4 to "true". Set #3 to a high number, like 32. Set #5 to 0.

Enabling the pipelining features allows the browser to make multiple requests to the server at the same time. The "maxrequests" is the maximum number of requests it will send at once. I've heard that 8 is the most it will send at once, but setting it higher won't hurt, just in case. The initialpaint.delay is the length of time (in milliseconds) after the server response before the browser begins to paint the page.

Adjusting those settings will help pages render much faster in FireFox. In fact, my own observations have been that, tweaked in this manner, FireFox will render faster than Opera (and yes, I realize that others may experience different results).



i think a couple of those values dont exist in the new version (2 and 5 i think) but the rest make it fly! i set maxrequests to 64 just for fun, hey it cant hurt! :D

oh yeah does anyone know the shortcut key to switch between tabs? i though they would make it tab, but i guess not!

thanks for those tweaks taffer. not a huge difference but my machine is a bit of a wheezer. oh and yeah 2 & 5 aren't in v1.0

other reasons I think I'm switching to it:
--it's a lot faster than Safari on this old Powermac G4
--it's more compatible with crappy IE-centric sites than Safari
--lots of plug-in development, and it's all free (so far) such as Adblock, Bugmenot, etc.
--the plug-ins (extensions) seem to be mostly cross-platform too.
--I already replaced IE with it on my office Windows XP machine. no more *@#%)(*$^% IE.

there's a few gripes, mostly with the fact that it doesn't use Quartz rendering built into OS X so it's not so pretty, but I'll live with that in favor of the speed and compatibility.

hey taffer,

thanx for the advice i was about to bin it because it was so slow, it was taking so long to load most pages but now it goes fast.

how do i open powerpoint shows with firefox lots of lectures from uni are in powerpoint form, adobe works fine but .pps won't work.
do i have to download something to view these.

thanx guys
~v

Tabbed browsing means that you can have multiple windows open in the same instance of one firefox window and you use tabs to go back and forth between the open windows. It's just more efficent than having 8 seperate windows open.

I don't really think there is any risk to downloading it, it takes under 5 minutes to download/install on a decent connection.

Well--I just downloaded it and am using it now. I don't have time at the moment to tweak it according to suggestions here but I will as soon as I can.

It is so much faster than IE. And Real Player sounds much clearer. Is that my imagination or can firefox actually make media players transmit better?

Well--I just downloaded it and am using it now. I don't have time at the moment to tweak it according to suggestions here but I will as soon as I can.

as for tweaking it i suggest you go to the themes and extensions bookmark and download their tweak it is like 20Kb so it is small then you can access all those settings via tools, which is quicker if you want to tweak it in the future.

~v