Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Officially Released
Posted by lardiop on 09 November 2004 - 08:21 · 324 comments & 75455 views
It's been one long journey folks, but the wait is finally over. Mozilla has just posted the final builds of Firefox 1.0 to their FTP servers for everyone to grab. Firefox 1.0 comes with a whole host of new features; we asked Ben Goodger, Firefox developer, what he was most proud of.

"Overall, the group of people that got us here. But as far as features and code goes, I guess the Extension and Migration systems. They were both large and interesting challenges in their own rights, and I learned a huge deal in the process of creating them."

Firefox 1.0 was compiled early on the morning of November 9th, and included a change in the CVS branding value of the browser. Ensure that you've downloaded the final build from one of the mirrors listed below, as many sites are falsely offering "nightly" Firefox builds as the real 1.0 release. Be sure to stay with Neowin throughout the day as we keep you up to speed on Firefox 1.0 launch happenings.

Updates:

The majority of servers have been mirrored. Check here for some additional download mirrors if you run into one that hasn't been updated yet. Mozilla has also updated their browser start page. Check here for a screenshot, and view the real thing (hosted at google) here. Mozilla.org has been updated with information on the release here. CNN is featuring Firefox on their technology portal. Join in on the official Firefox 1.0 launch webcast and discussion from 2-7PM PST today.

Have you just downloaded Firefox? Want some advice on installing, setting up, or just curious about the browser? Read our updated Firefox guide. We've got great tips and tweaks, as well as a list of useful extensions to get you started, and help you to get the most out of Firefox.

View: Firefox 1.0 Release Notes | Neowin Interviews : Ben Goodger, Firefox Dev
Download: Mozilla Firefox 1.0 | Mirror 1 | Mirror 2 | Mirror 3 | Mirror 4 | Mirror 5 | Official Win32 Installer Torrent

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Ben Goodger has updated his Blog with some interesting stuff concerning the 1.0 release. Read the whole entry here.

This day has come a lot later than any of us originally planned, but that's the way software goes. I've learned a lot about a huge number of things in the process, have had the opportunity to talk to a lot of different people about their experiences with the software, etc. It's been a long road but we're finally here. No software is perfect, we did not fix every bug, implement every feature, but what we did do was create what we believe to be the best browser around. I want to thank you all again for the support over the past few years.

We also asked Ben what the progress was after 1.0 :

"After 1.0 we plan to resync our development work with the Mozilla trunk so that we can immediately pick up the great work that's been going on with Gecko since we've been away, continue our HIG compliance efforts for MacOS X, improve existing systems and plan for the next major release. The first interim release will be 1.1 in or around March 2005. ".


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(4 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by CloLoD on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:25
wooot, YAY!!!

I just finished downloading it... It's time to install ^^
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by idoia on 09 Nov 2004 - 14:38
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3993959.stm
Quote this comment #1.2 Posted by C-Fu on 09 Nov 2004 - 18:13
Be sure to try out moox's optimised version of firefox and see the difference in speed!
Quote this comment #1.3 Posted by supernova_00 on 09 Nov 2004 - 18:23
Please use the torrents because the servers are hammerd

The Official Torrents

You will max out your download speed with the torrents.

Last edited by 411 on 09 Nov 2004 - 19:06
Quote this comment #1.4 Posted by mat on 09 Nov 2004 - 20:59
no, only www.mozilla.org is hammerd
ftp.mozilla.org (which is mirrored) is still available (and doing pretty well) because you get a different ip for this server everytime you connect to it

just goto http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...ox/releases/1.0 and grab it from there.


btw: there are tons of official mozilla mirrors out there


use one of them to get the download counted
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by allfive6 on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:25
about time
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by Tuffgong4 on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:26
sweet
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by greg098 on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:27
YAY FINALLY
(6 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by Mav Phoenix on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:29
Can anyone make a torrent so we as a community can help spread it?
Quote this comment #5.1 Posted by Chestah on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:54
Wouldn' this ruin the count for Mozilla! Then lots of downloads via the bittorrent network would go untracked in the final count?
Quote this comment #5.2 Posted by Mav Phoenix on 09 Nov 2004 - 09:10
So now it's more a matter of pride over getting good software out to the masses?
Quote this comment #5.3 Posted by noyb on 09 Nov 2004 - 09:51
Normally i would say its not important but FF is going after big PR at the moment and they need to show some big numbers to get noticed.
Quote this comment #5.4 Posted by Jugalator on 09 Nov 2004 - 12:47
So now it's more a matter of pride over getting good software out to the masses?

No. People can spread this software in other ways. They've NEVER said anything along the lines of "please don't spread this via private mirrors". As opposed to Microsoft and their free software.
Quote this comment #5.5 Posted by scaife on 09 Nov 2004 - 12:51
There are torrent files in their FTP
Quote this comment #5.6 Posted by stupidape on 10 Nov 2004 - 21:11
http://vegas.mozilla.org:6969/
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by HoochieMamma on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:29
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by s0ldats on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:31
torrent plezzzz
Quote this comment #7.1 Posted by redkahn on 09 Nov 2004 - 12:32
I downloaded using Mirror 1 and it had a torrent.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by fAthom on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:31
AWESOME!!! I've been waiting for this moment since some of the very-beta releases.

Can't wait to download...
(3 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #9 Posted by imtoomuch on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:32
Awesome! It would be even better if I could actually download it. The en-US folder is empty.

EDIT: I downloaded it. The site isn't very reliable right now. So far so good with 1.0.

Last edited by 22443 on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:45
Quote this comment #9.1 Posted by Tuffgong4 on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:34
keep refreshing your browser a mirror will appear with it there
Quote this comment #9.2 Posted by MSN6 on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:35
Now it is there go and get it
Quote this comment #9.3 Posted by dannymp3 on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:36
Everyone get it while it's hot!

In a few hours, no one will be able to download this thing straight from Mozilla.
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #10 Posted by scott_5214 on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:33
yay!!! wooo!!! *party emoticon*
*advertises wherever possible*
*jumps for joy*
*runs around in rain*
*comes back to download*
Quote this comment #10.1 Posted by Yakkob on 09 Nov 2004 - 11:27
Get a grip
Quote this comment #10.2 Posted by bob0r on 09 Nov 2004 - 15:58
and prepare for exploits, bugs and other sweet stuff
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #11 Posted by MSN6 on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:34
Yeah i got it :yes:
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #12 Posted by dannymp3 on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:34
The download link at the Firefox home page is still the PR release.

This might changed in a few hours. I would say be patient. Being are stomping on the Firefox website right now. You can tell because it takes so long to access it. If your patient enough, it will open. It opened for me after about a minute.
(3 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #13 Posted by Tuffgong4 on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:35
anyone else getting 1107 as the build from the official mirrors after install?
Quote this comment #13.1 Posted by vetlardiop on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:36
Yup... they used that as the gold code build
Quote this comment #13.2 Posted by Jugalator on 09 Nov 2004 - 12:51
I'm getting 11-08. (used the 1.0 final installer build)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; sv-SE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Quote this comment #13.3 Posted by bob0r on 09 Nov 2004 - 16:08
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

the bittorrent link, SWEEEEEET the **** is already starting!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #14 Posted by BananaMan on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:35
Mirror: download
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #15 Posted by bush on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:36
OMFG :wow: gimme, gimme, gimme just a little smile
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #16 Posted by sinatosk on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:37
en-US: http://ftp28f.newaol.com/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%201.0.exe
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #17 Posted by levijay on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:38
yay
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #18 Posted by Cubiz on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:38
*snipped* - Trolling
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #19 Posted by ember™ on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:40
just installed!!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #20 Posted by RaiderOnline on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:42
yay!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #21 Posted by empty on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:44

wicked, great news for all!!! love firefox
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #22 Posted by nw_raptor on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:44
horray!!!!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #23 Posted by thenay on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:44
Nightly build was 20041108, the final is 20041107.. weird? yup.
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #24 Posted by sherpard on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:45
gotta know something! why in
http://ftp27f.newaol.com/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/win32/en-US
the compressed zip file is bigger than the normal file?
pls tell me !
Quote this comment #24.1 Posted by Kushan on 09 Nov 2004 - 09:31
Because the .exe file is an installer that uses better compression than .zip
Quote this comment #24.2 Posted by Spitfire_x86 on 09 Nov 2004 - 09:32
.exe file is using LZMA compression. LZMA offers much better compression than ZIP
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #25 Posted by Jasco on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:45
;D
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #26 Posted by kainashi on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:46
http://207.200.85.49/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/
http://trillian.cc.gatech.edu/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
http://mozilla.osuosl.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/
http://mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
http://sunsite.rediris.es/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

some other mirrors that have it.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #27 Posted by Munnday on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:47
Here is another official mirror with the release on it.
http://64.12.168.21/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #28 Posted by tiagosilva29 on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:48
Feh, no portuguese version. teh suck...

But I'm glad that it has finally reached this milestone! Now, I want a 2.0, and fast!
Quote this comment #28.1 Posted by maiios on 09 Nov 2004 - 20:54
2.0? Pff... 1.0 has got everything that I want! Now... time for extensions!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #29 Posted by bradford108 on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:50
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #30 Posted by sherpard on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:51
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/win32/en-US/
(10 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #31 Posted by kenipnet on 09 Nov 2004 - 08:53
What does it say in the about box?? Mine has Gecko/20041107. Is that right?
Quote this comment #31.1 Posted by Clik on 09 Nov 2004 - 09:01
Mine says the same
Quote this comment #31.2 Posted by vetlardiop on 09 Nov 2004 - 09:02
Correct that's the one they used for 1.0
Quote this comment #31.3 Posted by joker999 on 09 Nov 2004 - 09:07
Hmmm should be 20041109 ?
Quote this comment #31.4 Posted by vetMr magoo on 09 Nov 2004 - 09:49
NO, the 1.0 build was made from the code base as of 7/11/04. Not today.
Quote this comment #31.5 Posted by joker999 on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:32
i see now thx
Quote this comment #31.6 Posted by Jugalator on 09 Nov 2004 - 12:53
Once again, I get:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; sv-SE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

Used official download, non-nightly.

I must be weird.
Quote this comment #31.7 Posted by Octol on 09 Nov 2004 - 13:20
QUOTE
...as of 7/11/04.


Talk about standards! People can't even agree on how to write this short version of the date!

In some places (primarily Europe), today's date is 9/11/04, but in others (primarily the US), it's 11/9/04. Usually not a problem until you come across a date written in this format and you don't know where it originated.

A minor thing, really. But you Europeans had better hope that our Fearless Leader, G. Dubbya, doesn't find out about this! He might declare your format a Wording of Mass Deception and invade!

Hey! I'm just kidding about an invasion! Dubbya doesn't read, so he'll never find out about it himself. And since his advisors would find it impossible to explain it to him in a way he could understand, you guys are safe!
Quote this comment #31.8 Posted by Quick Reply on 09 Nov 2004 - 15:20
Actually the European/Australian format should be written has DD/MM/YY and the US format should be written as MM-DD-YY. (Notice the - and /).
Quote this comment #31.9 Posted by Octol on 09 Nov 2004 - 22:11
Agreed.
Quote this comment #31.10 Posted by neufuse on 09 Nov 2004 - 22:29
QUOTE
Actually the European/Australian format should be written has DD/MM/YY and the US format should be written as MM-DD-YY. (Notice the - and /).


been living in the US for my entire life and I've never seen anyone write it MM-DD-YY, everyone writes mm/dd/yy with the slash not the dash, dashes in dates are very uncommon in the US
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #32 Posted by datafreak on 09 Nov 2004 - 09:22
Kinda cool how they have google backing
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #33 Posted by CyberKewl on 09 Nov 2004 - 09:24
I noticed that the force open new window links in a tab is missing. Wonder why they removed that.
Quote this comment #33.1 Posted by sparkrainfire on 09 Nov 2004 - 16:52
New experimental options for controlling where links in web pages open. To make these experimental options appear, set browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs to true in about:config.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #34 Posted by kiddingguy on 09 Nov 2004 - 09:33
Just downloaded it and I think it rocks... although FF 0.9.x had some problems displaying websites, I think that version 1.0 is rock solid and displays perfectly!

Although..... I would like to see the IE feature of 'hitting' and image and directly have the opportunity to save it, instead of right clicking.....

Totally addicted I guess to firefox now....
(7 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #35 Posted by get1tg00d on 09 Nov 2004 - 09:37
Does anyone else have this problem?

When I go to Tools Downloads, Extensions, or Themes, my CPU jumps up pass 70% when I move my mouse.

The only reason I ask this is because it’s irritating when I’m trying to configure an extension or choose a theme and my mouse cursor is jumping around because of the high CPU usage.

This has been happening since RC1.
Quote this comment #35.1 Posted by datafreak on 09 Nov 2004 - 09:41
Are you doing a fresh install? if not try that.
Quote this comment #35.2 Posted by get1tg00d on 09 Nov 2004 - 09:44
Yeah I fresh installed and before I installed an extension it did it. I was thinking it was an extension doing it but it's not.

That's the only problem I have with Firefox other than that it's a great browser.
Quote this comment #35.3 Posted by BananaMan on 09 Nov 2004 - 13:48
Nope, CPU usage sits pretty at almost nadda when I follow your instructions, no peaks of any kind.
Quote this comment #35.4 Posted by Rollie on 09 Nov 2004 - 14:11
Do you by any chance have CursorXP installed ? It happened to me too when I had CXP installed.
Now without it, everything is OK.
Anyways, you should post a bug so that the developers can take care of it,
it`s the best/quickest way to get things done
Quote this comment #35.5 Posted by kitchenutensils on 09 Nov 2004 - 21:10
is your cpu like 66mhz?
Quote this comment #35.6 Posted by get1tg00d on 09 Nov 2004 - 22:37
Rollie I have CursorXP installed. So I uninstalled it and that fixed it, thanks.

Yeah kitchenutensils I have a 66mhz cumputer.
Quote this comment #35.7 Posted by madd_matt on 09 Nov 2004 - 23:19
Whats wrong with a 66 mhz computer? i have one.............

...... i play doom3 on it! .. or wait ...no ... thats doom1 ... never mind ......
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #36 Posted by xpgeek on 09 Nov 2004 - 09:42
(4 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #37 Posted by inziga on 09 Nov 2004 - 09:49
So that's what the "talks" with Google were about.
Quote this comment #37.1 Posted by Mav Phoenix on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:11
Where are you reading this?
Quote this comment #37.2 Posted by supernova_00 on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:25
www.google.com/firefox thats what he is tlaking about
Quote this comment #37.3 Posted by Jugalator on 09 Nov 2004 - 12:54
Google even has localized versions of the start page that's automatically picked depending on your OS locale. Quite impressive team work there.
Quote this comment #37.4 Posted by Quick Reply on 09 Nov 2004 - 13:58
It's based on the locale of your IP address actually.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #38 Posted by supernova_00 on 09 Nov 2004 - 09:52
Official Firefox 1.0 Win32 Installer Torrent Now Available:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...1.0.exe.torrent
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #39 Posted by supernova_00 on 09 Nov 2004 - 09:57
torrent still hasnt hit all mirrors yet, linux torrents are hitting the mirros now also
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #40 Posted by adinu79 on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:01
Installed it and I keep my oppinion that it's the best browser around, by far.

Congrats to the dev. team.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #41 Posted by kagaku on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:05
How long until FF 2.0?

Just kidding, congrats Mozilla team!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #42 Posted by DOGglee on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:05
great!!!!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #43 Posted by gaurav on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:06
YAY!!!
Finally its out!!!!
Great work!!!!!!! I love FF!
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #44 Posted by hindred on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:06
mozilla.org is almost inaccessible.
Quote this comment #44.1 Posted by Supakitsune on 10 Nov 2004 - 02:22
Yep, they're gettin' slammed.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #45 Posted by Sjokkel on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:10
Installed and uninstalled .... a simple copy paste from a webpage often adds random spaces and because our internal application is web based it can be pretty annoying when pasting passwords etc. This thing slows me down
(8 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #46 Posted by supernova_00 on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:10
haha i love it

http://www.google.com/firefox
Quote this comment #46.1 Posted by HoochieMamma on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:16
wtf?
Quote this comment #46.2 Posted by DJ Specs on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:19
Wow...! So Cool!
Quote this comment #46.3 Posted by kronik on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:33
wtf?
thats some uberleet ****
Quote this comment #46.4 Posted by [ timko ] on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:40
z0Mg! mozilla + google = t3h s3x
Quote this comment #46.5 Posted by koocha on 09 Nov 2004 - 11:12
I think you'll find it much faster typing in English
QUOTE
z0Mg! mozilla + google = t3h s3x

that is just plain annoying
Quote this comment #46.6 Posted by Ppk01 on 09 Nov 2004 - 11:14
Yay! www.google.co.uk/firefox works as well!

EDIT: Try it with any regional Google website - they all work!
Quote this comment #46.7 Posted by Jugalator on 09 Nov 2004 - 12:56
Yes, Google has made localized versions and all.

<darth vader>Impressive...</darth vader>
Quote this comment #46.8 Posted by Supakitsune on 10 Nov 2004 - 02:21
Firefox Start - Puerto Rico

Nice!

(Let me clarify: My family history is in Puerto Rico)
(5 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #47 Posted by Kola on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:20
Can you just install over an exisiting installation to upgrade?
Quote this comment #47.1 Posted by hindred on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:26
Apparently it's not a good idea.

I uninstalled first.
Quote this comment #47.2 Posted by kcbnac on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:28
It's HIGHLY NOT recommended that you just install right over an old version. Do uninstall, your profile folder is stored seperate from the program itself, so the uninstall willl leave the profile folder alone. You can then proceed to install 1.0.
Quote this comment #47.3 Posted by koocha on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:29
I did without a problem

EDIT: I'm impatient though

Last edited by 40851 on 09 Nov 2004 - 11:10
Quote this comment #47.4 Posted by Jugalator on 09 Nov 2004 - 12:57
QUOTE
It's HIGHLY NOT recommended that you just install right over an old version. Do uninstall, your profile folder is stored seperate from the program itself, so the uninstall willl leave the profile folder alone. You can then proceed to install 1.0.

I doubt this will be necessary anymore though. This was because the profile config wasn't stable in pre-releases, but now even extensions will work well when e.g. Firefox 1.1 is released! (they've said up until 2.0) Probably upgrading the program too.
Quote this comment #47.5 Posted by BananaMan on 09 Nov 2004 - 13:15
If you're previous install is one of the 1.x nightlies, 1.0PR, 1.0RC1 or RC2, you should be fine to just install and use your existing profile (but NOT installing on top of your Firefox application directory).
(5 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #48 Posted by the_atheist_prophet on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:26
OK....someone persuade me to switch from Mozilla suite. Didn't think you could.
I really don't see why people use Firefox and Thunderbird when they could just use the Mozilla suite!

But, I think the release of v1.0 is a good thing for the internet browing community in general, the more people using browsers other than IE the better.

Mozilla.org is really slow though, isn't it? Although that's to be expected.
Quote this comment #48.1 Posted by hindred on 09 Nov 2004 - 10:27
The Mozilla suite to me seemed boring and old, FF and TB are fresh and cutting-edge.