Mozilla Releases Firefox 1.0 RC1

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You heard it here first folks! Mozilla has finally posted the first Firefox 1.0 release candidate on their FTP servers. This could very well be the last official release of Firefox before the big 1.0 launch date on November 9th.

If your favorite extensions are broken because of the version change, supernova_00 lets us know of a way to get them working again:

Open /%appdata%/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/randomname/extensions/Extensions.rdf
Change all instances of maxVersion="0.10" to maxVersion="1.0"

Changes:

* Application Update! (see update in read more)
* Find toolbar, which received quite a few bug fixes.
* Gecko and website rendering -- we took a few significant layout/css fixes.
* Migration from other browsers on first run (You can just rename your profile directory to trigger migration.)
* Single window mode (load all pop-ups in new tabs,) set in the Advanced panel of the browser Options/Preferences window.
* Focus interaction between tabs, which was changed to fix several security vulnerabilities.

Download: Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Release Candidate 1

View: Firefox 1.0 RC1 Changelog

View: Found a Bug? Submit it to Bugzilla

View: Firefox Release Candidate Discussion

(1 reply) #1 on 01 Jan 1970 - 00:00

#1.1 lardiop on 27 Oct 2004 - 22:06

I've been refreshing the FTP site all day waiting for it. I went away from my computer for a few minutes, came back, saw it on the FTP, and immediately posted this on the FP.

Provided a link to mohan_168's thread in the BPN now.

(1 reply) #2 on 01 Jan 1970 - 00:00

#2.1 lardiop on 27 Oct 2004 - 22:13

For Windows: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...1,%20en-US).exe

(1 reply) #3 on 01 Jan 1970 - 00:00

#3.1 lardiop on 27 Oct 2004 - 22:42

Thanks supernova_00

Just added your workaround to the frontpage!

lardiop

#4 malebolgia on 27 Oct 2004 - 22:49

Firefox keeps on getting better.

(1 reply) #5 on 01 Jan 1970 - 00:00

#5.1 lardiop on 28 Oct 2004 - 00:20

Made a comment in the read more section of the article. When fixed, this IS new functionality, so setting it to strikethrough on the front page isn't necessary because Neowin doesn't track open bugs like Mozilla does.

(2 replies) #6 on 01 Jan 1970 - 00:00

#6.1 lardiop on 28 Oct 2004 - 02:29

Opera is a commericial product
Maxthon and Avant are not open source, and are all based on IE. Firefox is free, open source and completely customizable.

#6.2 lardiop on 28 Oct 2004 - 03:05

There has never been another open-source sofware product that has created as much interest in the general population as Firefox has. Firefox shows to everybody that large scale open-source projects do indeed work. Firefox isn't just a browser, its the first wave in a software revolution, that we here at Neowin intend to ride.

We choose to put Firefox on the front page because we feel it's that important. We completely support open-source software at Neowin, regardless of the fact that we have "Win" in our name.

Yes, Opera is customizable, I'm not debating that. I'm just saying that Firefox is free, open-source and is really hitting it off with the public

(1 reply) #7 on 01 Jan 1970 - 00:00

#7.1 lardiop on 28 Oct 2004 - 13:23

Drag your theme.jar file into the extensions dialogue box.

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