Mozilla Firefox (formerly Firebird) 0.8 available !!!

[NicoMan]

Originally posted by edesignuk
Ah! So it's not just me then. I have only downloaded it for Windows (quite happy w/ safari on OS X) and I didn't get a scroll bar either , I'll just stick with Firebird 0.7.1 for now I guess.

The main thing now is to get rid of those ugly buttons and control widgets within webpages (they look 10 times worse than windows control buttons....). That was what Camino was about...

 

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by Mav451
mms: Is that annoying empty window only a problem on the Mac OSX platform? Because i haven't seen it yet on my PC...kind of have me worried about it after seeing your numerous posts about it.

I remember seeing the same thing on the Windows version of Netscape Navigator 6, but it doesn't have an entry in the TaskBar.

 

[Mav451]

hmm, i presume you guys did clean installs of Firefox? Because the only time i have gotten the vertical bar problem is with an OLD nightly build from around October or November.

one thing that disappointed me was that i originally thought they said there was a Mac OSX theme for the WINDOWS version of Firefox...but then i realized that it was only for the MacOSX version so it could fit in better..baaahhh

*edesignuk: If you're not going to use 0.8, i'd highly recommend using a recent nightly build as opposed to referring back to 0.7.1

(note: I'm on a G5 at the library here, and the "home" key doesn't go the front of the lines like it does in Windows...is there a key that does that? Consequently "end" doesn't go to the end of the lines either...interesting).

 

[bousozoku]

Command-left arrow and Command-right arrow work in most Macintosh applications.

I've never had a nightly version. I went directly from 0.7.1 to 0.8, though I've still got the old one and it's still working.

 

[NicoMan]

Originally posted by bousozoku
Command-left arrow and Command-right arrow work in most Macintosh applications.

I've never had a nightly version. I went directly from 0.7.1 to 0.8, though I've still got the old one and it's still working.

0.8 seems quite stable. It's not perfect, but it's OK. I wouldn't want to revert to 0.7.1. I think that browser is making a lot of progress. I hate those control widgets (the radio buttons have got to be the worst of them all - they are horrible, at least on OS X) but the rest isn't bad at all. Some more plugin support?

 

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by NicoMan
0.8 seems quite stable. It's not perfect, but it's OK. I wouldn't want to revert to 0.7.1. I think that browser is making a lot of progress. I hate those control widgets (the radio buttons have got to be the worst of them all - they are horrible, at least on OS X) but the rest isn't bad at all. Some more plugin support?

I wish that I could use the thing without scroll bars but I don't know many short pages.

More plug-ins would be nice and yes, the lovely, chiseled metal look of the widgets leaves much to be desired.

 

[CmdrLaForge]

I already asked, but have no answers yet. How can I get my bookmarks from safari to Firefox.

And another question is - how can I share my Safari bookmarks between users ?

Thanks

 

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by CmdrLaForge
I already asked, but have no answers yet. How can I get my bookmarks from safari to Firefox.

And another question is - how can I share my Safari bookmarks between users ?

Thanks

I know of some shareware that supposedly maintains bookmarks for all of its supported browsers, but I can't remember the name of it right now.

 

[g808]

This is interesting. It works, but just. Apparently, the whole page is generated but there is not vertical scroll bar.

As pointed out earlier it is best to do a clean install of Firefox. However, if you didn't and were using a theme in 0.7, then uninstall the theme and reinstall it.

I did an upgrade to 0.8 and I had this disappearing scroll bar problem until I re-stalled my themes.

 

[bousozoku]

Originally posted by g808
As pointed out earlier it is best to do a clean install of Firefox. However, if you didn't and were using a theme in 0.7, then uninstall the theme and reinstall it.

I did an upgrade to 0.8 and I had this disappearing scroll bar problem until I re-stalled my themes.

Okay, it was the beta pinstripe theme that they forcefully suggested we download with 0.7.1 that was the problem.

Thanks for your help!

 

[carbonmotion]

Firefox....yuck, crashed after install on XP PRO...went back to mozilla.

 

[mms]

Mav451 - I don't know if it appears on other platforms, since I haven't tried Firefox on anything other than OS X. It's not that much of problem, but it's one of the annoying quirks that made me go back to Safari. Actually, unless you use expose, you would not notice it, but since I use expose all the time, it's hard not to notice.

 

[mms]

Darn, forgot to attach screenshot.

 

[Mav451]

Well at least you guys got so many choices! On windows its Firefox/Opera or IE.

You guys got Camino, Firefox, and of course Safari. It'd be awesome if Firefox was default instead of IE on XP boxes all around the globe, actually it would be downright revolutional...

To have Safari as default browser, is reason enough to make a big statement on just how outdated IE is right now. Heck even now i switched to Thunderbird so javascript, attachments, etc. don't automatically run.

Isn't it funny how I'm on a XP box, yet I am heavily depending on open source software ALTERNATIVES to provide for critical, common everyday functions (web browsing, that is safe, email that is safe)? Maybe I'm not actually an WinXP guy, but an open source guy. Unfortunately, I'm a horrible programmer, so i have little to contribute to the community in that aspect. What i can do is write on forums...