Firefox 1.1 : Preview

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After the very successful launch of Opera 8 a few weeks ago, more than a few Firefox aficionados have started to wonder if their fluffy open-source browser is headed for rough times. The Mozilla Foundation has not provided the public with a significant upgrade for 6 months, downloads are starting to curb, IE7 Beta is on the horizon, and the novelty of "browsing on the alternative side" looks to be wearing off.

Mozilla is banking on their next major release (dubbed internally as "Deer Park") to significantly improve the browsing platform put forward by Firefox 1.0. The Foundation plans to distribute the first of many prerelease builds early this coming week, showcasing most new features that will make their way into the June 1.1 release. New features planned for Fx 1.1 include instantaneous Back-Forward, a revamped software update system, signifigant changes to the way Firefox handles extensions, full support for Scalable Vector Graphics, and thousands of bugfixes page rendering improvements.

Source: Neowin.net

RWB

I went with Opera 8 as well, and after ejoying it for a week I decided to buy it. There's only one thing I dislike about it and that is downloads.

Say your browsing the free porn sites when your trying to download all the movies at once, well in FF I just right click save as on however many videos there are, then I can say SAVE to each one as they pop up at the same time, but in Opera if you do that, you can only save the last one clicked. Thus you must re-click on the others and wait till the save dialogue to pop up before continuing. ALMOST enough reason to go back to FF.

Once more, when you do a save file. It throws you to the tab for the transfers instead of keeping you at the site, annoying.

But all in all, took some getting used to, and now I am glad to say I am surfing porn just as well as ever!