Mozilla Firefox 1.0 PR release candidate

golloza · Guru Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Posts: 427

Ebuild, anyone?

Voltago · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 2:08 pm Post subject:

Drewgrange · Guru Joined: 29 Mar 2003 Posts: 483 Location: Ohio, US

I'm interested to see what people think of this. Is it running any faster?

StringCheesian · l33t Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 887

If you've already been using nightly builds, then it's nothing you haven't already seen.

For those using 0.9.3:
1. Typing (with find as you type enabled) or hitting Ctrl+F makes a search bar appear at the bottom, which replaces the "Find on this page..." dialog box. Some people prefer the old dialog box and find as you type behavior, but there's no way to revert back to it. The cool thing is the new bar lets you highlight all instances and searches as you type the search phase.
2. Find as you type searchs everything, not just links.
3. RSS support (I haven't tried it).
4. When it blocks a popup, a yellow bar appears at the top. It's annoying, but can be turned off. It's very similar to the way IE 6 (with service pack 2) does it.
5. I can't remember if Firefox Update is new since 0.9.3... it can check for updates to firefox and your themes/extensions.
6. Some of your themes and extensions might not be compatible with 1.0 PR. If you use the installer, it'll tell you which ones and give you the option to have it try to download newer 1.0 compatible versions for you.

That's all I can think of for now. It sorta feels faster, but not markedly so.

kavau · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 28 Jul 2004 Posts: 87

The Extensions window in Firefox 0.9.3 is excruciatingly slow (at least for me). Have they fixed that in 1.0RC?

silentbob · Apprentice Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Posts: 159 Location: UK

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Roguelazer · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 3:30 pm Post subject:

But it's default now...

BTW: Find-As-You-Type is the greatest feature. I use it in BeOS tracker more than I use the scrollbar.

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Drewgrange · Guru Joined: 29 Mar 2003 Posts: 483 Location: Ohio, US

You could also always just start typing with / to designate a full search.

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

It seemed to achieve b0rking my extensions in 0.9.3 and not running. However, that's about it. Well, I'm off to redo my profile now.

rush_ad · Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2004 4:09 pm Post subject:

stable?

StringCheesian · l33t Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 887

Lews_Therin · l33t Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 657 Location: Banned

Is there somewhere I can go to make suggestions? There was an annoying feature I thought was a bug, but apparently isn't.

igrat · n00b Joined: 23 Sep 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Germany

hi there,
just tried the mozilla-firefox-1.0_pre ebuild.

searching with the new search bar doesn't work!

if you enter searchterm, then klick "find next","find prev" or press enter nothing happens. highlighting works (at least ;-)

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did anyone experience this behaviour?

greetings

fourhead · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 10:53 am Post subject:

Wow, I just installed 1.0-pre and it runs damn fast! Don't know if it is Firefox itself or gcc-4.3.2 though :-)

But I love it, everythings much more responsive and faster. I have the same issue with the "find-in-page" feature.

Firefox is just the best!!

Tom

Fanatic · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:39 am Post subject:

I can't install themes anymore with 1.0rc :/

Otherwise it's a good release

Pink · Veteran Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 1062

Won't install themes

Won't install extensions

Passwords and usernames gone.

Search bar feature not working (I use this a lot as I search documents for research purposes).

Yes I know it is PR release but surely the basics should be available? At best I would call this one a beta-release of a newer version.

I'm not sure what the classification of a 'good release' is but if it includes the category 'can show a webpage and not much else' then yes it is a good one

asiobob · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:32 pm Post subject:

search bar worked for me once I started with a new fresh profile, ie I deleted my old one. suddenly firefox comes ot life, the bookmarking issue is mildly annoying (it doesn't create book marks where you tell it to in the manager) and adding "new folder" to the bookmark toolbar dumps it somewhere else

kamagurka · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:47 pm Post subject: Re: search bar doesn't work??

asiobob · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:54 pm Post subject:

arggg its all broken now, its not finding or highlighting

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

themes and extensions install here - i had to give the sites
permission, find only hilights, it does not find next or previous.

for the rest it seems to work fine here.

Jeremy_Z · l33t Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 671 Location: Shanghai

Search is broken ... really a shame since it is a most useful feature.
Deleted old profile already, solved many issues but not THIS one .. arggg.

EDIT : after a restart, it worked .. somehow. It search as i type but the "find-next" is still broken. With 0.9 i used to type a string then hit F3 to search for more occurences. This still not work.
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Pink · Veteran Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 1062

I'm sorry if this offends anyone but what the fuck are the dev's playing at?

We all agree this is a PR release.

We all agree many items do not work for people (important items like search & bookmarks to name a few - just see the many threads about it, not just this one).

We all agree it needs some (read: a lot of) work.

So what do the devs do? They mark is STABLE ffs!

I've just done a sync, and it is now marked x86 so every update I try to do wants to install it. So I have to adjust my package. files to mask it, then keep an eye out for when it is possibly usable.

I know there is a security issue with 9.3 but this is bloody ridiculous.

Not impressed. :evil:

ShadowWolf · n00b Joined: 21 Aug 2004 Posts: 2