Firefox 9

julienne · #1 (**permalink**) 06-05-2004, 05:43 AM

Ben Goodger today announced on the MozillaZine forums that FireFox 0.9 is to be released next week.

"We're targeting a 6/12 or 6/14 (earlier better) release date for 0.9. I don't see much point in holding onto this one for too long since it'll only eat into 1.0b development cycle time. It looks like EM etc mostly works."
New features in 0.9 include:
- Import bookmarks, passwords, cookies, form history, history, and options from Internet Explorer. Import some of these things from Mozilla, Netscape 4, and Opera.
-"Copy Image" on image context menus (Windows and Mac).
-Set as wallpaper dialog that lets you choose tiled/centered/stretched. (The dialog also prevents you from accidentally setting a porn image as your wallpaper, blowing away your previous wallpaper, etc).
-Show a warning dialog when closing a multi-tabbed browser window
-Dragging text to search bar should search for it; dragging URL to address bar should go there.
-Allow deletion of form autocomplete results (Shift+Delete)
-Support for smb:// and sftp:// URLs in gtk2 builds using the gnome-vfs library
-GTK2 installer
-Right-click a form textbox and select "Add keyword for this search" to set up bookmark keywords easily
-URLBar autofill (inline autocomplete) with hidden pref "browser.urlbar.autoFill".

I went to the site again today but its not there yet, guess we'll have to wait!! ...drums fingers on the desktop... lollol

Firefox

Julienne.

:drown

Till · #2 (**permalink**) 06-06-2004, 04:04 PM

Doesn't look like it's released yet.

Aside from some strange form behavior where Firefox 0.8 neither throws an error, nor works, I think it's a beautiful piece of software.

julienne · #3 (**permalink**) 06-06-2004, 04:34 PM

They should wait before they announce its coming..till its come lolol
I got the notification through..dare i say "google" alerts lololol
Am :drown in notifications about software lmaooooo..if its not that its about.com, but i do get some great news from about i must admit
I'v a nice little database going on just now!

I see till is administrator..nice forums here till, and very helpful!

dhromed · #4 (**permalink**) 07-01-2004, 06:21 AM

FFX is a sweet piece of work.

IE is an unsafe, standards-incompliant piece of kludge, and Opera 7.51 suffers from LSD-addiction and gross featuritis.

I've not used Safari, so I can't say whether it's a competition for FFX/Mac for me.

Till · #5 (**permalink**) 07-01-2004, 06:49 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by dhromed
FFX is a sweet piece of work.

IE is an unsafe, standards-incompliant piece of kludge, and Opera 7.51 suffers from LSD-addiction and gross featuritis.

I've not used Safari, so I can't say whether it's a competition for FFX/Mac for me.

FFX = Firefox?

I do like Camino on Mac OS X. It's schweet. :shakeazz:

dhromed · #6 (**permalink**) 07-01-2004, 06:59 AM

Firefox, yes.

\Kritikal\ · #7 (**permalink**) 07-01-2004, 01:35 PM

The only issues I have with FFX, and TBird for that matter, is that they eat memory like they're starving refugees. Several other of my tech-buddies have also noticed this. TBird is especially laggy if left open for a long period of time.

Anyone expierenced this or have any comments?

BTW, I think it's all horseypoo that upgrading from 0.8 to 0.9 does not remove 0.8 AND nukes your extensions. You'd think they'd be on top of that by now.

BuezaWebDev · #8 (**permalink**) 07-11-2004, 08:16 AM

firefox .9 is working out perfectly fine for me.

It is using a lot of memory though, but just as much as MyIE2 does, so I have no problem.

Allen · #9 (**permalink**) 07-11-2004, 12:55 PM

i find on my p3 laptop that firefox takes way longer to load than ie...

Till · #10 (**permalink**) 07-11-2004, 12:57 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by \Kritikal\
The only issues I have with FFX, and TBird for that matter, is that they eat memory like they're starving refugees. Several other of my tech-buddies have also noticed this. TBird is especially laggy if left open for a long period of time.

Anyone expierenced this or have any comments?

BTW, I think it's all horseypoo that upgrading from 0.8 to 0.9 does not remove 0.8 AND nukes your extensions. You'd think they'd be on top of that by now.

The 0 in "0.8" (or "0.9") implies the state this software is in.

Although this is some of the most stable development code I have ever seen.

BuezaWebDev · #11 (**permalink**) 07-11-2004, 07:43 PM

I'm currently using Firefox 0.9 and I agree with Till that it is quite stable!

I'm also using Tbird for my email and it's doing just great. I like it. You like it. We all like it. Screw outlook express!

Bottles up!

Till · #12 (**permalink**) 07-12-2004, 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by BuezaWebDev
I'm currently using Firefox 0.9 and I agree with Till that it is quite stable!

I'm also using Tbird for my email and it's doing just great. I like it. You like it. We all like it. Screw outlook express!

Bottles up!

Me too. Yay for Mozilla! :shakeazz:

pclindstrom · #13 (**permalink**) 07-26-2004, 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BuezaWebDev
firefox .9 is working out perfectly fine for me.

It is using a lot of memory though, but just as much as MyIE2 does, so I have no problem.

I remember reading about a fix for Firefox that would eliminates the extortionate amount of system resources used.

Of course I can't remember where I saw this and Mozilla doesn't have the patch on their site (last time I checked).

I'll look around and see if I remember correctly.