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Where is a Firefox 1.0 mirror?

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teiresias

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I swear, I can't get on any of the actual firefox sites!!! Where's a place to find a mirror to download the bloody thing??
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
I'm unaware of any mirrors and yeah, I can't get around any of Mozilla's sites right now very well at all. I have the Firefox 1.0 executable though, and I've installed it, just can't fiddle with my extensions. I can probably get it to you if you really want it now.
 
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Brotherman

Member
Yeah. Seems like everyone's really after it. I think the only thing to do for now is to wait for off-peak hours or hope someone that's already gotten it hosts it somewhere.

I read that many of the extentions have to be updated for it too.
 
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teiresias

Member
Well, I'm on a federal government computer and I highly doubt theyd' appreciate a torrent client being installed on the system. I do use Firefox though obviously. I'll just wait until the traffic dies down to get it. Thanks though.
 
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SFA_AOK

Member
So, what's the way to install this one? Uninstall the old one then install the new one? Or just install the new one on top of it?

I love FF an' all but installing the latest version feels like more trouble than it should be :/
 
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iapetus

Scary Euro Man
SFA_AOK said:
I love FF an' all but installing the latest version feels like more trouble than it should be :/
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That's the downside of using pre-release software.

Recently I've just been installing over the old version, and I haven't had any problems since well before RC1. YMMV, though. That's on Linux, using the .tgz file, not the installer.
 
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pestul

Member
This is what I do..

Download this program: http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

Run the software to backup your profiles/bookmarks/settings

Completely uninstall firefox, and delete the profiles directory in \documents and settings\$user$\application data (I just delete the entire mozilla directory actually).

Install the new build/final and then restore the backup. Unfortunately, it doesn't save plugins or extensions, so if you have a lot, you might want to try one of the traditional install methods.
 
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Hitokage

Setec Astronomer
I moved from 0.9.3 to 1.0 retaining all bookmarks, history, and cookies by simply uninstalling 0.9.3 then installing 1.0.
 
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DarienA

The black man everyone at Activision can agree on
I went from Preview 1.0 to Final 1.0 with no problem...except for losing a few extensions... and connecting to the extension pages right now... not happening.
 
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Koshiro

Member
sp0rsk said:
live book marks == best thing since tabbed browsing
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? I've been using Firebird/Firefox for what feels like forever, and I don't know what you're talking about. Care to divuldge? Might be worth me looking into.
 
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Sriram

Member
GAF needs to set up an rss feed. That would be so awesome :)

Edit: Live Bookmarks sit in the favourites folder (or toolbar) and if a certain site suports it (usually news), then when you subscribe to that sites rss feed, all the updates appear in a pop-up menu. I use it for animesuki and its saved me alot of time. Google news also needs to implement this too.
 
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gofreak

GAF's Bob Woodward
Someone needs to compile a guide to the best extensions/plugins etc. I've been using Firefox for a while now, and haven't dabbled in that side of things at all. I'm wondering if that's why some sites don't work so well (like Yahoo Launch among others).
 
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Akira

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Grr, why did they get rid of the feature that lets you type out a word and highlights a link containing that word? That was so useful.

Other than that, 1.0 is great.
 
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Koshiro

Member
Sriram said:
GAF needs to set up an rss feed. That would be so awesome :)

Edit: Live Bookmarks sit in the favourites folder (or toolbar) and if a certain site suports it (usually news), then when you subscribe to that sites rss feed, all the updates appear in a pop-up menu. I use it for animesuki and its saved me alot of time. Google news also needs to implement this too.
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I say, that's rather useful. Thanks!
 
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Sriram

Member
Well Im not sure how to search for links only, but if you press the '/' key, a find box will appear at the bottom and then you can search the page from there and highlight stuff if you want.
 
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Hitokage

Setec Astronomer
Akira said:
Grr, why did they get rid of the feature that lets you type out a word and highlights a link containing that word? That was so useful.

Other than that, 1.0 is great.
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I think I saw it in the options page. Might be off by default.
 
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Sriram

Member
After looking around, it turns out that the forum software does support rss feeds but its been disabled here. Why have the admins done this? Wouldnt it save alot of bandwidth if people could check for new posts using this?
 
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Akira

Member
Bacon said:
ctl+f
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What I liked about that feature was that I didn't have to press a combination of keys to start looking, I just had to type out the word. Though Sriram's suggestion of hitting the "/" key sounds good and easy enough.

Edit: Hito, you're right. Thanks!
 
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Lathentar

Looking for Pants
Akira said:
Grr, why did they get rid of the feature that lets you type out a word and highlights a link containing that word? That was so useful.

Other than that, 1.0 is great.
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You mean Find as you Type? I'm sure its still there, just look under Advanced in options.
 
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Lathentar

Looking for Pants
I'm having a problem with TabBrowserExtension. I'm running in Single Window Mode and when I click a link that opens a new window, the current window unmaximizes, then remaximizes with a new tab. Its incredibly annoying.

Any ideas?
 
Phoenix

Phoenix

Member
Sriram said:
After looking around, it turns out that the forum software does support rss feeds but its been disabled here. Why have the admins done this? Wouldnt it save alot of bandwidth if people could check for new posts using this?
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GAF generates SOOOOOOOOOO many posts per hour (let alone per day) that its probably more efficient to just visit the site :)
 
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iapetus

Scary Euro Man
Selected fixes since 1.0 PR2:

* Fixed: 252679 - Add EULA for Firefox.
* Fixed: Another round of icon updates.
* Fixed: 262688 - Bump version numbers to 1.0.
* Fixed: 267122 - Security hole.
* Fixed: 245770 - Backslash rendered as yen in japanese locale.
* Fixed: 267352 - Printing doesn't print form inputs.
* Fixed: 267854 - Parser data listeners don't get all the data in all cases.
* Fixed: 267648 - Upgraded from PR to RC2 through Sw update, lost "Help Content" and "For Internet Explorer Users" links.
* Fixed: 266511 - Import Wizard doesn't show what items were imported.
* Fixed: 180628 - Page setup dialog takes RTL where it shouldn't.
* Fixed: 253008 - Set network.proxy.share_proxy_settings if IE has a single proxy set up.
* Fixed: 267723 - ViewSource doesn't scroll to the selected line when opened from JS Console links; ViewSource->Edit->Go to Line broken as well; works in 1.0PR.
* Fixed: 267738 - Java plugin place-holder does not find Java plugin, plugin information bar works.
* Fixed: 266857 - Cannot print more than once with a printer with non-Latin1 (e.g. Japanese) characters in its name.
* Fixed: 255196 - DDE: Request WWW_OpenURL send to Mozilla web page address without last character of address.
* Fixed: 256111 - Customize toolbar bottom items are partly covered by horizontal scrollbar if size is not wide enough.
* Fixed: 266822 - Crash if right-clicking on a text box, wait for text box to go away, press escape [@ nsMenuListener::KeyPress]; affects find bar in Firefox.
* Fixed: 267797 - Crash with gmail.com.
* Fixed: 267249 - Crash when clicking on link in pop-up window.
* Fixed: 267804 - Crash blocking iframes with AdBlock extension.
* Fixed: 267919 - Crash if Adobe SVG plugin is not installed.
* Fixed: 236343 - [Mac] Full screen mode shows Windows-like minimize/maximize/close buttons.
* Fixed: 205974 - [Mac] Missing PrintPDE.plugin: can't print background colors, selection or frames.
* Fixed: Add to credits: Jeff Walden, Luke Stone, Mitchell Baker, Chris Beard.

Also since RC1:
* Fixed: Add creative commons search plugin to default set.
* Fixed: Updated Firefox icon. 32x32 is brighter, 16x16 is darker and higher-contrast.
* Fixed: 266554 - No referrer sent for meta refresh.
* Fixed: 264560 - Security hole.
* Fixed: 267263 - Security hole.
* Fixed: 267244 - Ensure Locales all use correct tracking params for Yahoo/Google.
* Fixed: 266292 - Strange behaviour with command line, or even sometimes crash, when using gtk handled arguments.
* Fixed: 267367 - Image loading from chrome results in auth prompts if src is protected.
* Fixed: Add to credits: Namachivayam Thirumazhusai (shiva), Doron Rosenberg, Peter van der Woude (peter6), Jonathan Granrose, Chase Phillips
* Fixed: [Mac] Many changes to Pinstripe (default theme for Firefox on Mac)
* Fixed: 265371 - Crash when ISINDEX is used with position: fixed.
* Fixed: 266000 - Bookmarks toolbar folder links to firefox product page.
* Fixed: 266199 - Bump rv: version to 1.7.5.
* Fixed: 266954 - A few default bookmarks are missing titles.
* Fixed: 226602 - [Mac] Need Document Icons for Firefox.
* Fixed: 266777 - [Mac] Disable application update UI on Mac.
* Fixed: 246403 - Bad import bookmarks from Opera (non-ASCII characters garbled).
* Fixed: 266375 - Crash on restart of Firefox 1.0 RC1 after updating from Firefox 0.10.1.
* Fixed: 266457 - Remove "Firefox Crew's Pick list" from default bookmarks (subjectively appropriate links).
* Fixed: 266530 - Throbber should go to Firefox Central.
* Fixed: 266759 - Disable Single Window Mode pref UI by default for 1.0. (The prefs still work, and you can show UI for them using browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs.)
* Fixed: 262887 - Security: When a web page in a background tab shows a dialog, switch to that tab.
* Fixed: 265100 - "Sort by Name" in bookmarks-toolbar context menu, then typing in text field, causes crash.
* Fixed: 266346 - Popups enabled while javascript alerts() are open.
* Fixed: 257538 - Plug-in properties caches when called through DOM.
* Fixed: 262688 - Bump version numbers for 1.0 RC2.
* Fixed: 266776 - Incorrect window object returned by window.open if forced into same tab.
* Fixed: 263844 - Window.close() not working on new windows opened into tabs.

Anything marked 'Security hole' is worth the upgrade in my book, though most of them tend to be minor potential issues rather than full-blown exploits. Still, better safe than sorry.
 
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