Firefox 1.0 Beta
Posted by Unknown on 05 September 2004 - 09:44 · 67 comments & 5131 views
Firefox empowers you to accomplish your online activities faster, more safely and efficiently than any other browser, period. Built with Tab browsing, popup blocking and a number of other seamless innovations, Firefox stands out ahead.

View: Firefox 1.0 Beta
News source: Warp2search

Please note this is a nightly/test version!

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(10 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by neoufo51 on 05 Sep 2004 - 09:51
Ummm...this post is BULLCRAP.

Firefox 1.0 Preview Release is not going to be out till next week. DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANYTHING TILL YOU SEE THIS ANNOUNCED ON MOZILLA.ORG, WHICH THIS "RELEASE" IS NOT!!!
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by vetLOC on 05 Sep 2004 - 10:19
Please note this is a nightly/test version!

Hello?
Quote this comment #1.2 Posted by neoufo51 on 05 Sep 2004 - 10:48
Ummm...ok, according to your logic, we should post this on software news everytime mozilla posts a nightly on its servers. I see...
Quote this comment #1.3 Posted by Sporkguy on 05 Sep 2004 - 11:51
This is a major nightly milestone dipsh1t

Go back to the hole you came from.
Quote this comment #1.4 Posted by T-Metal on 05 Sep 2004 - 15:40
Quote this comment #1.5 Posted by theyarecomingforyou on 05 Sep 2004 - 16:36
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Ummm...ok, according to your logic, we should post this on software news everytime mozilla posts a nightly on its servers.


It includes new features. Also, it states it is a beta in the article so do you really need to restate that and make yourself look stupid?
Quote this comment #1.6 Posted by elliot on 05 Sep 2004 - 17:08
It doesn't include new features, it includes a new version string. Nightly users have had these features for weeks (months?).
Quote this comment #1.7 Posted by theyarecomingforyou on 06 Sep 2004 - 01:33
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It doesn't include new features, it includes a new version string. Nightly users have had these features for weeks (months?).


I've been using the odd nightly every week or so and I didn't have those features... doesn't mean they weren't there (though I don't recall seeing or hearing about them before this), but what I'm saying is that even to most nightly users they are new features.
Quote this comment #1.8 Posted by DOGglee on 06 Sep 2004 - 10:32
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I've been using the odd nightly every week or so and I didn't have those features... doesn't mean they weren't there (though I don't recall seeing or hearing about them before this), but what I'm saying is that even to most nightly users they are new features.


not exactly true...

like those who mentioned above, it's just a pre-1.0 nightly build that u can download anytime, everyday
Quote this comment #1.9 Posted by elliot on 06 Sep 2004 - 12:08
Yeah? What features are you referring to that are were not there a week ago? Paul Thurrott reviewed a nightly on July 22 that had the new find bar. Almost all the new stuff was added around that time.

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/ie_no_more.asp
Quote this comment #1.10 Posted by theyarecomingforyou on 06 Sep 2004 - 17:00
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Yeah? What features are you referring to that are were not there a week ago? Paul Thurrott reviewed a nightly on July 22 that had the new find bar. Almost all the new stuff was added around that time.


I must have been using the latest trunk, instead of branch.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by The Land of Smeg on 05 Sep 2004 - 09:52
this is 0.10PR Nightly, not 1.0 Beta.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by amoeba on 05 Sep 2004 - 10:09
Yeah, confused as to why you're posting a trunk.

Oh well. Thanks for the note that Firefox is nearing 1.0/
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by elliot on 05 Sep 2004 - 10:24
What are you talking about? This isn't a trunk.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Avi on 05 Sep 2004 - 10:12
What is going to be new in v1.0?
Quote this comment #4.1 Posted by neoufo51 on 05 Sep 2004 - 10:54
-RSS support
-Updated look
-new search and find text in page toolbar (which look very cool)
-and basically a crapload of bugfixes, less than 200 to go before 1.0 can come out.
(3 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by eSouL on 05 Sep 2004 - 10:22
why even annouce a nightly?
Quote this comment #5.1 Posted by Fredde87 on 05 Sep 2004 - 10:49
because it is the first for 1.0?
Quote this comment #5.2 Posted by neoufo51 on 05 Sep 2004 - 10:51
Umm...every nightly after 0.9 release is a pre-1.0 build.
Quote this comment #5.3 Posted by chacho on 05 Sep 2004 - 14:50
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Umm...every nightly after 0.9 release is a pre-1.0 build.

by that logic, every release ever has been a pre-1.0 build
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by midsummerstorm on 05 Sep 2004 - 10:33
This is misleading at best. There's still no Firefox 0.10 (1.0PR), which should be released next week. According to the Firefox tree schedule form planet mozilla:

Firefox 0.10 (1.0 PR)
0 days, 20 hours, 29 minutes
Monday, September 06, 2004 08:59:00

Firefox 1.0 RC1
14 days, 20 hours, 29 minutes
Monday, September 20, 2004 08:59:00

Firefox 1.0 RC2
28 days, 20 hours, 29 minutes
Monday, October 04, 2004 08:59:00

Firefox 1.0
35 days, 20 hours, 29 minutes
Monday, October 11, 2004 08:59:00

There won't be a beta, even though you could think about 1.0PR as a beta relase.
Anyway, I wouldn't really count on this schedule being set in stone, since there's a lot of job still to be done to get to RC status.
Quote this comment #6.1 Posted by neoufo51 on 05 Sep 2004 - 10:49
That 1.0 PR will probably be moved to Wednesday according to people on the Firefox forums.
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by jami_welch on 05 Sep 2004 - 11:34
in 1.0 will you be able to resume downloads after exiting firefox?
Quote this comment #7.1 Posted by nic on 05 Sep 2004 - 18:44
I hope so. The download manager looks really nice, but doesn't recoup very well when a download breaks.

I'll wait till Mozilla.org releases 1.0PR before I download. 0.9.3 is servering me very well.
Quote this comment #7.2 Posted by neoufo51 on 06 Sep 2004 - 08:25
Nope, won't happen till 1.1 comes out. Sorry.
(7 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by tiagosilva29 on 05 Sep 2004 - 12:20
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Firefox empowers you to accomplish your online activities faster, more safely and efficiently than any other browser, period.


Now, this is what I call neutral journalism...
Quote this comment #8.1 Posted by finalcut on 05 Sep 2004 - 12:34
but these fatcs are so true
Quote this comment #8.2 Posted by Rudy on 05 Sep 2004 - 18:48
not quite
Quote this comment #8.3 Posted by noir on 05 Sep 2004 - 22:35
Who said they have to be neutral?
Quote this comment #8.4 Posted by XP_01 on 06 Sep 2004 - 06:37
@noir: to keep their credibility?

I think Safari is far more better and faster than Firefox is, but I use it on my Windows box. There was first page news a few weeks ago, that there was much to discuss about Firefox' security in comparison with Internet Explorer.
Quote this comment #8.5 Posted by noir on 06 Sep 2004 - 11:52
What credibility? They didn't write the paragraph above and didn't claim they did either, there is clear link to the Warp2Search article.
Quote this comment #8.6 Posted by XP_01 on 06 Sep 2004 - 16:44
They should just to stick to the facts, way more interesting than a bunch of personal opinions.
Quote this comment #8.7 Posted by kronix2 on 06 Sep 2004 - 18:26
How is this different from pasting an extract from a press release from the developer's website?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #9 Posted by Bryan000 on 05 Sep 2004 - 12:56
This news item needs to be removed. It is VERY misleading. The official Preview Release will be out in a number of days. You can report it then. Nightlies are not for release to the general public nor do they deserve the high publicity this news item gives.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #10 Posted by Dark Vageta on 05 Sep 2004 - 13:37
so is this for real or not
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #11 Posted by SethandCheese on 05 Sep 2004 - 14:14
It's not. Somebody jumped the gun.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #12 Posted by chacho on 05 Sep 2004 - 14:51
someone's a little too excited.
(3 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #13 Posted by sparkrainfire on 05 Sep 2004 - 15:14
i dont see why we all have to flame the hell out of "Trickster¿" he got the information from warp2search!

he put a warning up that its a nightly build.

this is not a trunk.

-danN
Quote this comment #13.1 Posted by Trickster¿ on 05 Sep 2004 - 15:42
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i dont see why we all have to flame the hell out of "Trickster¿" he got the information from warp2search!

he put a warning up that its a nightly build.

this is not a trunk.

-danN


Thank you danN. Someone at leasts respects me. I did put a warning say its a nightly version. Big whoop people.

No biggy to fight about it.

Quote this comment #13.2 Posted by T-Metal on 05 Sep 2004 - 18:31
Don't mind the trolls here Trickster¿.
Quote this comment #13.3 Posted by XP_01 on 06 Sep 2004 - 10:36
Hahaha T-Metal you're such a suck up
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #14 Posted by VICTORT on 05 Sep 2004 - 16:11
great
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #15 Posted by harryleung on 05 Sep 2004 - 16:40
wow...1.0 beta...
hmm...i probably going to wait till next week to download the beta version instead
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #16 Posted by Verth-Neel on 05 Sep 2004 - 16:46
Extensions do not work!
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #17 Posted by StaticFish on 05 Sep 2004 - 16:50
this a a f*cking nightly build, and is NOT a beta release by any means, When it gets to PR it will be announced

please delete this mods
Quote this comment #17.1 Posted by gren99 on 05 Sep 2004 - 17:11
every single last version of firefox (and it's predecessor) so far rleeased has been a beta version. that's kinda what happenes when you have a 0.x release cycle.

duh.
Quote this comment #17.2 Posted by neoufo51 on 07 Sep 2004 - 08:23
Ummm...nightlies are NOT betas. They are VERY raw forms of a software that vary all the time. One nightly from 9/05 could be running fine, and the 9/06 nightly can have a new feature that crashes the browser and even cause a corrupted cache, lost bookmarks, etc. a beta version is one that is release after new features have been added LONG in advance and have ALL been tested enough for MAJOR bugs to be wiped out so a PUBLIC beta can be released.

Ergo...all 0.X releases are betas, but the nightlies are nightlies. The guy you are responding to is totally correct, so I don't know what you are trying "duh" to.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #18 Posted by StaticFish on 05 Sep 2004 - 17:30
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every single last version of firefox (and it's predecessor) so far rleeased has been a beta version. that's kinda what happenes when you have a 0.x release cycle.

duh.


Urm no not at all. The Nightly builds would be classified as ALPHA's as its fresh untested code. The PR series would be BETA because its already been tested and checked in as tested code

Sorry Kiddo
Quote this comment #18.1 Posted by slang123 on 05 Sep 2004 - 18:49
sorry but it is you who is wrong. Alpha generally means a build for internal testing, whereas beta is for public testing. So all of the public releases are beta, they even say this themeselves on their site
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #19 Posted by hotrod on 05 Sep 2004 - 17:31
LOL... now the link is DEAD!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #20 Posted by Hekx on 05 Sep 2004 - 17:47
I'm going to wait until the PR is out, or possible RC1, or RC2... or.. yeah, you get the idea. :p
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #21 Posted by supernova_00 on 05 Sep 2004 - 19:41
since 20040901 aviary branch nightlys the version has been 0.10 (1.0PR) its not final of 1.0PR but very close, they changed the version numbers beforehand so that extension devs update the extensions for the 1.0 release. Please note though that installing any nightly after 20040831 will break a lot of extensions unless you go in and change the MaxVersion yourself.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #22 Posted by tom5 on 06 Sep 2004 - 00:25
Where is "Find As You Type" gone? Why did they remove it? I know there's Find Toolbar, but it is not the same (you have to open it first).
Quote this comment #22.1 Posted by 505 on 06 Sep 2004 - 14:43
Press ' and you can find as you type. (this will only search links, but that was the 'old' find-as-you-type function.
If you want full text search will you type, goto Tools -> Advanced -> Use find as you type
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #23 Posted by mental™ on 06 Sep 2004 - 00:53
Have patience my young grasshoppers.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #24 Posted by MitchShrader on 06 Sep 2004 - 00:56
(yawn) .. when we get to 1.02 FF somebody wake me up. that'll be worth beta testing, probably. till then, i'll just snooze and scratch IE bugs in my sleep.. who needs TWO sets.. gawd i wish there was a (mandatory) NDA for fanboyz...
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #25 Posted by spookshow on 06 Sep 2004 - 04:02
News source: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=213269


warp2search my ass.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #26 Posted by Bryan000 on 06 Sep 2004 - 09:49
Trickster¿ why don't you admit you made a MISTAKE and remove this news report. The last thing Mozilla.org needs is people using nightlies that don't know how to report bugs and all start complaining that it isn't working as they espected (because this nightly BREAKS almost ALL previous extentions that have not been updated for the v0.10 release!!!)
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #27 Posted by Cryton on 06 Sep 2004 - 10:51
lol ffs is this still going?

BREAKING NEWS : FIREFOX NIGHTLY RELEASED

TOMORROW SUN WILL RISE : NEOWIN EXCLUSIVE
Quote this comment #27.1 Posted by Gism0 on 06 Sep 2004 - 20:27
that's what i was thinking
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #28 Posted by Yuxi on 06 Sep 2004 - 15:04
I'm so excited...
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #29 Posted by kronix2 on 06 Sep 2004 - 18:32
Calling it "1.0 beta" gives the impression that it's an actual release, not a nightly binary. A more apt article title would be "Firefox nightly binaries reach 1.0 PR".
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #30 Posted by Rengi on 07 Sep 2004 - 00:14
Just read the title of the page folks. It is as follows::

Index of /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2004-09-04-08-0.9

That "0.9" means just what it says: 0.9 (series nightly)....

Nothing could be more clear. It is the screwed up Warp2search site that is misleading people with a false announcement.....

(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #31 Posted by CoolCatBad on 07 Sep 2004 - 06:56
Every creature on God's Earth, including ourselves, was "just a nightly" at one stage.
Quote this comment #31.1 Posted by Rengi on 07 Sep 2004 - 10:46
Yes..., and some went on to become "alpha" males. Others betas. A few have a "patchwork" attitude that only may be attributed to an inherent "insecurity"... ie: IE...
Quote this comment #31.2 Posted by AngelicRaver on 07 Sep 2004 - 21:20
lol!! Thats great Rengi.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #32 Posted by LoTioN on 09 Sep 2004 - 20:51
Get your nightly builds here:

http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/

Use'em all the time, I usually "upgrade" every week or so....
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