Firefox 1.0 Released

Brian Ambrozy 9 Nov, 2004 at 1:34pm ET Article published in Tech

The Mozilla Foundation released FireFox 1.0 today, after over two years of development. Included in the release is a new start page, which integrates Google search.

Check it out if you get a chance. I personally am a huge advocate of switching from Internet Explorer, especially in light of all the spyware problems that exist on the internet.

Comments

9 Nov 2004 ~ 4:56pm TheSmJ Well I just installed it after untinstalling version .9.3, and there must be some sort of conflict with my old plugins because the new version won't go to any other site aside from my homepage (the links don't do anything when you click them).

So unless this is a v1 bug, I need to find out where this other firefox info is being stored to I can start with a clean slate. Any ideas?
9 Nov 2004 ~ 5:03pm a2jfreak Just updated. The tabbed browsing vulnerability seems to be fixed.
9 Nov 2004 ~ 6:14pm Shorty Installed and working well

Few broken extensions but they will be updated in due time
9 Nov 2004 ~ 8:56pm Straight_Man

TheSmJ wrote:

Well I just installed it after untinstalling version .9.3, and there must be some sort of conflict with my old plugins because the new version won't go to any other site aside from my homepage (the links don't do anything when you click them).

So unless this is a v1 bug, I need to find out where this other firefox info is being stored to I can start with a clean slate. Any ideas?

Um.... Hmmm... Bookmarks menu, choose Manage Bookmarks, check for bad URL. Other than that, no idea. SECOND, next time you put a new version of FireFox over the old, do not delete the old version first.... ditto whne changing from Mozilla to FireFox.... I think you lost part of your bookmarks file, OR the .9.3 version file is not compatible with 1.0 due to file changes. BUT, bookmark values can be managed and editted from teh managing interface.

Like this:

Do what I said to get into the bookmark manager. Now, RIGHT-click one of the bookmarks that does nothing. Choose Properties. Change (or Create) URL value as needed, or delete and recreate broken bookmarks (right-Click, choose Delete, for the hopeless ones). If you FILE bookmarks into file folders, leave your file folders and all working bookmarks, just delete bad ones you cannot fix. Actually I think it was either your uninstall of .9.3 first, or a bug in .9.3 as far as bookmark organization, because the ones I imported from Mozilla 1.7.3 automatically into FireFox 1.0 before I uninstalled Mozilla 1.7.3 in fact work completely. All 60 of them. On XP SP2.

Second, FireFox 1.0 offers to UPGRADE now, that is the OTHER suggested route in actuality, not an uninstall of old before new. Uninstalling the old first, though, SHOULD wipe most of your old profile (and it "feels like" that you lost part or most fo your profile to lose your bookmark functionality). IF you did an upgrade, FireFox is now organized almost exactly like Mozilla as to user-specific-settings file locations-- the reason for that is so it can import Mozilla settings into Firefox without barfing majorly afterwards as it used to. FireFox 1.0 can use settings specific to the user who installs it, also. Do you have multiple users on an XP or Linux box??? If so, and IF you did not tell it to be available for ALL users and install as a plain user (both, not just one), then try installing it again as your other user-- your other user might have a bookmarks set that works.... FireFox CAN be a multiuser browser, just as Mozilla can, and load profiles for user logged and accessing it. To do THAT, each user gets his\her own profile, including admin as different from a plain user (or root and non-root user in Linux).

Look\Search\slocate(last is Linux's searcher), as admin, for folders of type .slt on your computer, see if you have multiple bookmark folders within them, one per SLT type folder. They MIGHT be hidden and\or system, in XP or 2000.

Source of info for this summarized fix protocol\procedure set has been lurking on Mozilla's (now essentially MozSource's, as FireFox bugs, questions, problems, also get solved there often) support forum for a long time (over half a decade, off and on).
9 Nov 2004 ~ 10:18pm primesuspect erm. hrmm.

C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\username\APPLICATION DATA\MOZILLA\Firefox\profiles\random string.default\

you can trash the entire randomstring.default folder if you want to "reset" firefox.
9 Nov 2004 ~ 10:38pm TheSmJ Looks like all I had to do was remove the "extensions" directory inside the default user settings.

Thanks Brian! I knew it was in my user profile somewhere.
10 Nov 2004 ~ 3:33am BlackHawk A temporary remedy for the broken extensions is that in the address bar, type "about:config", hit enter. In the "Filter" part, put "app.extensions.version", double click on the entry and replace the 1.0 with a 0.10. Hit enter and voila!
10 Nov 2004 ~ 11:44pm deepsea Well, I've found one reason to stick with Mozilla over Foxfire...Foxfire doesn't have a switch to stop looping images...Mozilla/Netscape does.
11 Nov 2004 ~ 11:24am a2jfreak I want to know how to make Firefox act like Mozilla when I type into the url bar.

if I type "go" I want google.com to appear with with the "ogle.com" part selected so that it will be typed over as I type.
18 Nov 2004 ~ 6:46am jan owen how do I make firefox my homepage
18 Nov 2004 ~ 8:30am Straight_Man This is to the thread:

jan owen, to change FireFox's home page, do this:

Go (surf) to the page you want to be the home page.

Click the Tools menu.

Click on the word Options at bottom of menu.

Look at the resulting dialog, it usually opens with the general pane open. If your does not, over in left pane click the word General or the icon above that word.

In the top section, you will see an entry for a homepage URL (Uniform\Universal Resource Location). Below that, the leftmost button says "Use Current Page." Click the leftmost button.

BTW, the URL for the Firefox product page is this:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

a2jfreak,

I cannot get Mozilla 1.7.3 to even do exactly what you are doing, although that might be theme related (I use the Modern theme). I have no Go button (IE has one, not Mozilla in the theme I use in Mozilla, I simply use the Enter key on keyboard for "Go"), instead I have a Search button that goes to Google in Mozilla (I told Mozzie to default to Google for searching) when I type stuff into the address bar and click the search button, or I can simply press the Search button and go to Google, then put the search terms in the Google search box. And, in Firefox, which also defaults to Google for searching here, I have a search term entry box in the toolbar with a Google mini-icon as first thign in box, and simply type stuff into that and it searches on google.

However, I can tell you how to select part of a URL, then in essence erase it and type over it....

Click in URL in character position where you want select to start. Release your mouse button. CLick in same place, but hold button down this time and drag across rest of URL that you want to select. Press the backspace key, which deletes the selected text. Now type away....

Firefox does not have all the features of Mozilla. In fact it is a different browser that is based on Gecko core engine for browsing, but does neither has all the same code as Mozilla for fine functions, NOR is just Mozilla code parts. It is a different browser, and general use mimics Mozilla due to the CORE, which is Gecko (core name) derived but which is something I suspect will get its own Core name also if that has not officially been done yet.

One more thing-- if you do not want to run Mozilla's email module, you do not even have to install it. Choose Custom install instead of Typical, then uncheck the email\newsgroup module, and if you do not want to use Composer to check spelling for things or use it to hand code pages you can uncheck Composer also. Please leave the OTHER choices I did not mention checked, they work with the browser\Navigator functions.
8 Dec 2004 ~ 9:40pm jak will the installation of firefox affect the other users on my computer when i install it?
8 Dec 2004 ~ 9:45pm primesuspect not at all. It will be available to other users as well, but it won't really affect anything. It just adds a new program to your "all programs" list.
8 Dec 2004 ~ 11:04pm SchWartz I've been running FF for long enough that my bookmarks were overflowing and impossibly unorganized, so last night I sat down to clean it up, thinking it would take like an hour...But, happy happy, it was really easy. 15 minutes. I like the tool for managing boodmarks. Well thought out. Now I'm organized, with everybody in neat little alphabetical rows...