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1) Background images would sometimes leave behind artifacts after vertical scrolling
2) Certain javascript functions would crash the browser every time
#2 was a big PITA for us because it made the web admin system of our ecommerce system unusable in anything apart from Exploder.
1) Background images would sometimes leave behind artifacts after vertical scrolling
Spoke too soon - it still does it :(
Mind you it's a minor bug and it doesn't really cause any problems.
My friend has the same problem, except he uses IE, I'm thinking it's something buggy with the video card.
/usr/localI use Firefox as my primary browser, but I wouldn't dream of recommending it to a non-technical user or for a corporate rollout until version 1.0 at the very earliest. It's simply not ready for prime-time yet.
Contrary to some advice I've given around here lately, this 0.9 final release is definitely worth the upgrade. Much faster and more stable rendering, faster interface, and a much nicer default theme. Very very slick!
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viggen
Jennifer
Firefox goes 0.9 final
That still doesn't mean that the browser as such has reached it's "final" version. The browser as a whole is still in "beta".
Firefox 0.9 is the award winning preview of Mozilla's next generation browser.
That doesn't make Firefox any less of an excellent browser, though! :)
If I understand things correctly, there is a feature-freeze until 1.0 - so what we're seeing in 0.9 is actually the equivalent of the first beta of the finished product. From now on, there will only be bug-fixing, making sure 1.0 is as stable as possible. I believe also that the time gap between 0.9 and 1.0 won't be as long as between 0.8 and 0.9, so we can hope for a 1.0 launch very soon!
Good things so far: language choice in the improved preferences section (which has moved to Edit and renamed from Options), as well as a general increase in speed.
I had that on a home computer running IE. It disappears if you maximize the page. It seems to only occur when you're running an unmaximized browser window.
I have no idea why this happens.
Off to get the latest fox, hope they worked on the memory leaks.
To demonstrate the full power of their browsers, the need to issue it with default settings of multiple tabs enabled, pipelining, modern skin, etc.
Otherwise users just don't pick these features up.
MINE IS AN INTERNET COMPANY AND ALL DOWNLOADING MOZILLA/FIRE JUST DON'T ENABLE THESE FEATURES. I have to show them these features. Then they realise, what a great product.
Is anyone from Moz listening. You guys need to pick-up a good habit from Google: listening.
Otherwise, great work. I am not one to bash Microsoft, and I like Moz because of it own merits: its a great way to browse the contemporary Internet:
Oh dear, oh dear... The new Linux installer program asks me to "Close all Windows programs before continuing" (!), then wants to install in the firefox-installer directory rather than somewhere more logical, like say /usr/local. What's more, the installation instructions on the mozilla.org site give the wrong filenames. Not a good start.
Yes, this is a known issue. They decided not to have it block the 0.9 release, as it would have delayed it, but it is set as a 1.0 blocker (meaning that 1.0 will not be released until it is fixed).
I use Firefox as my primary browser, but I wouldn't dream of recommending it to a non-technical user or for a corporate rollout until version 1.0 at the very earliest. It's simply not ready for prime-time yet.
Lots of non-techies have been using it for some time. For a standard install, it's quite easy to do. The installer on Linux is brand-new, so it should be considered a pre-beta, really. The Windows installer works pretty well.
To demonstrate the full power of their browsers, the need to issue it with default settings of multiple tabs enabled, pipelining, modern skin, etc.
Multiple tabs is enabled. It just doesn't have a little tabbie showing on the skin when there is only one tab. That's a design choice, but tabs are enabled.
Pipelining is another issue. It can cause problems with some webservers.
It has a modern skin. Did you even download Firefox? The Mozilla suite uses the classic skin due to accessibility reasons, and isn't being updated visually anymore due to the focus on Firefox.
I had that on a home computer running IE. It disappears if you maximize the page. It seems to only occur when you're running an unmaximized browser window.I have no idea why this happens.
I don't get this with IE, only Mozilla based browsers (latest Firefox and Mozilla browsers both do it), and it seems to happen on both maximised and normal windows.
I guess it could be a video card bug, but I've not seem it on any other applications so I put it down to the Gecko rendering engine.
It's not a big problem anyway - there are only a handful of sites where I have ever seen it occur. It just so happens that one of them is ours!
Adblock 0.5
Mouse Gestures 0.9.20040608
QuickNote 0.5.9
RSS Reader 0.7
Web Developer 0.8
Any opinions either way on these?
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Mouse Gestures 0.9.20040608
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I highly recommend Mouse Gestures! I just tried them for the first time today. They make browsing so much easier and faster. You can do almost any action using Mouse Gestures including going Back, Forward, Refresh, Stop, Paste, Close Tab etc..
To see all the actions that you can do on Browser Windows:
1. Install Mouse Gestures from [update.mozilla.org...]
2. Click Tools on the menu.
3. Click on Extensions
4. Find the Mouse Gestures extension and double click on it.
5. Click the Edit Mappings button.
6. On the left, change Window Type to Browser.
7. Look at the list of Active Mappings.
I have it configured so that I just press the right mouse button and draw the gusture. :)
Web Developer 0.8 toolbar and it is AMAZING! ... Disable Styles and Images
and, my current new favorite, when you hit one of those sites designed on macs, gamma settings not adjusted correctly for windows, so too dark text on too dark background, almost impossible to read, with a click you can disable all font and background colors, revert to black on white, but still keep the rest of the css formatting, pretty soon I'm just going to surf like that and ignore all the pretty colors people have put so much work into.
Inaccurate rendering of container div widths until the page is scrolled. And almost illegible small size Chinese fonts, which would make it a pain to use in the Far East. IE and Opera handle both of these much better.
Inaccurate rendering of container div widths until the page is scrolled.
I've developed all my recent sites on Firebird/fox, haven't seen this problem, full div, never seen a breakdown, can you sticky a sample url? Also I'd be interested to see a sample url of the chinese text problem, is that all the different chinese types?, big 5, unicode, can't remember the others.
Great update, so far!
I also noticed some pages in WebmasterWorld displaying oddly. the [quote] region of some threads would become about 15 characters wide and stretch down the page. After a number of refreshes this went away. I can't replicate it now. odd.
regardless, Firefox looks like a nice testing browser. I'll be sure to keep the latest version in my toolkit.
