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Re: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 now available
« Reply #14 on: June 15, 2004, 11:42:30 PM »
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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Re: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 now available
« Reply #15 on: June 15, 2004, 11:50:52 PM »
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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Re: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 now available
« Reply #16 on: June 16, 2004, 12:36:08 AM »
I never had any problems with 0.8, installed 0.9 yesterday, still hasnt crashed yet  :-)
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Re: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 now available
« Reply #17 on: June 16, 2004, 01:28:47 AM »
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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Re: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 now available
« Reply #18 on: June 16, 2004, 09:17:40 AM »
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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Re: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 now available
« Reply #19 on: June 16, 2004, 09:23:13 AM »
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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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Re: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 now available
« Reply #20 on: June 16, 2004, 09:58:57 AM »
Likewise to everything casper said.

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Re: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 now available
« Reply #21 on: June 16, 2004, 12:54:00 PM »
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Re: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 now available
« Reply #22 on: June 16, 2004, 01:54:31 PM »
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.


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Re: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 now available
« Reply #23 on: June 16, 2004, 05:00:57 PM »
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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Re: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 now available
« Reply #24 on: June 16, 2004, 06:53:17 PM »
Working without any problem here too :-D

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Re: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 now available
« Reply #25 on: June 17, 2004, 12:04:14 AM »
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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Re: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 now available
« Reply #26 on: June 17, 2004, 07:56:21 AM »
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.

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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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Re: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 now available
« Reply #27 on: June 17, 2004, 09:29:14 AM »
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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Re: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 now available
« Reply #28 on: June 17, 2004, 12:58:22 PM »
Im using the "Icandy Junion 1.5" theme, i love it!
Will recommend it to everyone  :-)
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Re: Mozilla Firefox 0.9 now available
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