Firefox 1.04 Released

[Stezo2k]

Not much difference in this release, but it fixes a pretty major security hole and also adds extra performance *this is not a beta/nightly build*



Download Here:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.or...up%201.0.4.exe

[Doomulation]

Yay! Another firefox release! ^_^
3 critical security fixes and a fix for dhtml... hmmm.

[Degeon]

Holy Fadge! that was fast...

[dogdogwoof]

yeah, its great they can respond so quickly. unfortunately microsoft dont do the same for IE. 54% of my site users now use Firefox

[Smiff]

i like firefox, and wish it all the best, but it's starting to piss me off just a little - i wait several days for the en-GB to come out (why does it take so long, its only a few tiny differences?). now the page offers it, but the download link doesn't work. so i ftp myself and get it. now i have to complete reinstall. this is fine, but how are most users supposed to do this? they're going to carry on using older versions. imho fx badly needs the small-patcher implemented, apparently its coming in 1.1. if it's faster though that's great. i've always found it very slow, contrary to most claims, using lots of memory and often taking a long time to respond. i stick with it though becuase i like the philosophy and the extensions, to name two things

edit: that sounded whiney, i realized right after posting, i was just in a bad mood at the time, sorry! they're doing a good job, i can only imagine how hard it is when you've got tens of millions of users. and yes, there's a development process that you can't get around. if i'm going to have an unproductive whine better to do it here than where the developers might see :p

[Doomulation]

Yes, there's a lot of things that could be fixed with firefox. But it seems the developers don't have time. Prolly many security issues to fix or something? Nevertheless, it's far better than IE.

[Trotterwatch]

Do you have any idea how development works?

They can't just think features up and implement them without some sort of backlash when they are considered glitched/bugged and badly thought out.

New features will arrive as and when they can be implemented in a proper manner.

There really is no purpose in rush adding features just for the sake of it. Go check the bug tracker for any issues you have, see if they are being worked on or not. Don't just assume.

And I really can't believe people whining about security fixes - I thought that was one of the big selling points of Firefox, as opposed to using something like a tabbed browsing enabled version of IE.

[Smiff]

trotter yer sorry i was whining, but, i was whining about:

1) the update system being too hard for normal people to use. true. this will get better though.
2) firefox being slow and a resource hog. also i believe true. this is also gettting better slightly (and some issues like taking minutes to restore from minimised are fixed), hoping for a major improvement though.

both these points go against the general perception, which is why i think they're interesting to post.

but yeah i should not be whining, but like i said, i can, and here it won't do much harm, so sometimes i just will :p

[Trotterwatch]

Wasn't aimed at you to be honest

1) Agreed - as you mentioned should be fixed in 1.1. I definately think this is something that should be implemented ASAP.

2) There is a tweak to stop the slow restore from minimised, I'll let you know it later when I remember it

[ScottJC]

Firefox isn't slow for me (well duh) but wasn't on my Athlon XP 2400+ either, in fact the only time its ever been slow for me is when I used the previous releases of it, Phoenix and Firebird.

Why wait for the en-GB? the en-US is more than good enough for the british, we speak the same language as the americans do after all. If the differences are that little then I fail to see the problem. (btw, I am british )