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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: Calen on June 15, 2004, 12:56:20 PM
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You can grab it from the link below. Win, Linux and MacOS X versions available.
Firefox (http://texturizer.net/firefox/news.html)
I have just installed it, looking good...
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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.
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Oh, if there only was an Amigoid version.. :-)
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Yes, because then it would actually be relevant.
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Yes, because then it would actually be relevant.
Alot of users here use this fine browser and it's available on various OS's, sadly not Amiga but to me it's still relevant enough to post as news.
:roll:
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Where the Amiga remains version?
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Still on 0.6.1 here. O.8 was mighty unstable.
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Can it be instaled over an existing mozzila firefox 0.8 instalation i use mozzila a lot now its my favorite browser. :-)
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Bugger --- couldn't they have done that one week earlier? That's when I started building a firefox/linux based kiosk system with an internet connection.
I guess if the customer actually buys it (currently we are just doing 6 prototypes), I'll have to update everything to the new version. *sigh*
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Baah! I've been using it since yesterday! :-)
(It works perfectly, BTW)
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@amigamad
Yes it can, but you will have to move your user profile manually, or create a new one. There is no way of importing your 0.8 profile automatically. Just moving the directory and moving an .ini-file solves this, though.
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i've just instaled it, and, it works great, really great... and, what's importand, everything imported great from Netscape 7.1. In one word: LUX :-D
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There's an Amizilla in the works at SourceForge.net, so it is relevant.
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I didn't think anything would top Camino.. but this is so faster and nicer to use.
Makes web browsing a pleasure. :-D
(MacOS X Version) :P
edit: it has crashed twice tonight, randomly quitting.
Hmmm... not all that stable, but perhaps bearable.
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O.8 was mighty unstable.
That's an understatment. It's crashing all the time on me. I LOVE it. TABs on browsers are the SH!T! :-D
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I've installed 0.8 on a number of machines and never had any stability issues. I'm not going to ask what the heck Methuselas is on about :-)
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The MacOS X version of 0.9 isnt the most stable thing in the world, i've discovered.
But it's usable.
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I never had any problems with 0.8, installed 0.9 yesterday, still hasnt crashed yet :-)
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Just got 0.9 like ten minutes ago, looks nice, 0.8 was never crashy on me, 0.9 should just be snappier I hope. Here's to 1.0 coming out on amiga though :pint:
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The Mac OS X version of Mozilla + derivatives never was (stable) though, was it?
At least according to a friend of mine...
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I never had any problems with 0.8, installed 0.9 yesterday, still hasnt crashed yet
Same here. FireFox is my main browser and I've never seen it crash. It's actually much more stable than IE6 on my WinXP Dell box.
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Likewise to everything casper said.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8
and still goin strong here.
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Poster: mikeymike Posted: 2004/6/16 9:17:40
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I love it. I've used 0.8 since it was released with no problems, and now 0.9 seems to be just as stable for me.
Also a heads up. The new version of Thunderbird mail is out too.
Hey look at that, 1000 posts! :-o
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Nice work, lets see i onnly have 679 more to go.
I stoped using Firefox now, just not stable enough. Camino remains king of mac browsers for me.
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Working without any problem here too :-D
(using Mostly Crystal theme... didn't like the default one...)
@ Acill
Congratulations about the 1000mark :-D
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Hrm. I tried double-clicking an SWF-file on Windows 2000, and it completely locked up Firefox 0.8. I got about 30 to 40 child processes running at the same time. The machine didn't crash (good), but so far the only way to look at these Shockwave thingies is by starting the browser first and then open them from within there. Plus any non-IE browser I've used always displays annopying clipping behaviour when playing said files, unless I enter full-screen mode with [F11]. I'm not sure whose fault that is, though. I tend to blame Macromedia.
But it's a decent browser. It will be great when it has Mozilla's AutoComplete options for the Location Toolbar. That is about the only feature I really, really miss.
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Thank God. 0.8 was really getting under my skin. Better than IE, but only barely. I've had a few big crashes on Windows, but my biggest beef is the layout and CSS compliance issues. I'm stress-testing 0.9 now to see how it holds up. Of course, layout problems are due to bugs in Gecko, not Firefox (Mozilla gives me the same troubles).
I've still noticed the "Sticky Alt Key" bug and auto text-select (sticky mouse button) bugs are still intact in 0.9. Bugger.
Plusses are fixed (and faster) mouse-scolling, a better extension manager, a smaller download, better auto-complete for forms and the ability to clear auto-complete on the spot, and supposedly, fewer bugs.
Minuses are the two default icon sizes (a choice between "too small" or "microscopic"), a poor style switcher, a simplistic download manager that takes up waaaaay too much screen space, and the fact that the extension API has changed, meaning all (most?) of your extensions will have to be updated before you can use them again.
Plus any non-IE browser I've used always displays annopying clipping behaviour when playing said files
Flash is notorious for mass CPU consumption. Though, that sounds like a driver issue.
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Upgraded from NS7. Nice and fast, and will be my default browser for the coming times - but the default GUI is just plain ugly. Thank god it has themes :-)
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Im using the "Icandy Junion 1.5" theme, i love it!
Will recommend it to everyone :-)
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Charamel theme for Firefox and Thunderbird (http://members.shaw.ca/lucx/)