Mozilla releases Firefox 1.0

vnunet.com ^ | 11.09.04 | Robert Jaques

[4kevin]

The Mozilla Foundation today unleashed its long-awaited Firefox 1.0 web browser. The release follows hot on the heels of last month's Preview Release, which the non-profit making organisation reports has already been downloaded by over eight million people. The announcement marks the worldwide launch of Mozilla Firefox, with immediate availability for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux as a free download from Mozilla.org. The browser is currently available in over a dozen languages, with "many more on the way". "We are delighted to be announcing this major milestone for the Mozilla Foundation and for the Firefox browser, which has been made possible thanks to the tireless effort of hundreds of community volunteers and developers around the world," said Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation. The browser ships with features including automatic pop-up blocking, online fraud protection to help users fight off phishing scams and improved search functionality. According to Mozilla, Firefox's Tabbed Browsing facility, which allows many web pages to load within the same window, can boost web surfing speed. The organisation added that the product has been designed to make it easy to switch from Internet Explorer and other browsers by offering support for importing existing bookmarks, passwords, cookies and other data.

[4kevin]

Download this browser if you haven't already!

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[stylin_geek]

ping.

[smith288]

Mozilla.org is getting slammed with requests...have to wait until later.

[JoJo Gunn]

bump

[ShadowAce]

Browser Ping!

[republicanbob1]

Forget Internet Explorer! Ive been using Firefox for while now. The biggest thing I love about it is the extensions.

[smith288]

HEre is a mirror

http://mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/win32/en-US/

[raybbr]

Right now I use the Mozilla suite. But I use Firefox on my laptop and secondary PC for browsing. Haven't use IE for almost a year.

[mlbford2]

Can we upgrade our existing .90 or do we have to uninstall, install.

[ShadowAce]

Thanks! Mozilla.org is really getting slammed.

[republicanbob1]

only thing that I dont like is alot of the extensions have not been updated to work with 1.0 yet. But Im sure that will come very soon.

[Petronski]

Does anyone know the practical differences between the pre-release and this release? Bug fixes? New features?

Is there any reason why someone with the pre-release would want to go get this release?

[Kolokotronis]

This is a fabulous browser. I've been using it since the pre-release. Forget IE

[SeeRushToldU_So]

I already downloaded mine.

[4kevin]

If you already have the preview version downloaded, you don't have to go to the site in your browser window, you browser can update itself with np... I just did. See image:

[smith288]

I didnt have the update icon showing. I had to download the 4mb file and install.

[fso301]

Is a go button available? Single biggest reason I don't use Firefox or Opera is their lack of a go button. Lot's of times in IE, I paste a link and click go. Haven't seen an aquivalent with other browsers. Is it a matter that i don't have it configured?

[RayChuang88]

Though I have downloaded and installed Firefox 1.0, I can't do things like update themes and plugins because the main Mozilla web page is just overloaded (sometimes known as slashdotting).

[Tribune7]

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