Firefox 1.0 (Not Preview!) is out!

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 2:25 pm

So far I'd have to say that I like it. I've been using plain Mozilla for the past few months and definatly like the tabbed browsing. I'd have used Firefox, except I dont like using "Beta" software for things. But now 1.0 is out, and now that I'm using it I'm really starting to like it alot. It even gave me back the one feature of IE that I missed: Middle-Click = Autoscroll.

So far Ive installed AdBlock, PrefsBar, and Mouse Gestures. All are working just great. The preferences and bookmarks import worked great, and theres even a search engine box right at the top of the screen.

Yeah, I fully endorse this browser. The only issue I have is that the bookmarks folder isnt included on the bookmarks toolbar like you can have it in Mozilla, but Ive found a way around that already.

Anyone have any really nice extensions theyd like to reccomend for Firefox customization?

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:07 pm

Middle click used to be how you opened links in a new tab(even up to v1PR), how does 1.0 handle it?

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:09 pm

Middle click on a link still opens it in a new tab. Middle click on anything else -> autoscroll.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:57 pm

can you customize your menus and move them around to your preference?

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 4:02 pm

AceCombat wrote:can you customize your menus and move them around to your preference?

no. why would you need it?

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 4:11 pm

I just hope they FINALLY made a working download manager. Before you hit pause, and when you hit resume it just sat there and the download corrupts. I have yet to test the DL manager. I am tired of using these shitty 3rd party DL managers. Why does this class of utility software have to be so shitty and packed with bombarding advertisements?

I also hope they fix the random crashes. There is nothing more annoying than spending at least an hour browsing with multiple tabs open and suddently having to loose all of that information because the program decides its time to ★■◆● up and crash. >:(

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 4:15 pm

download managers are dependant on servers co-operating with them.

Do applications in general have a habit of crashing on you Top Wop?

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 5:59 pm

fliptw wrote:
AceCombat wrote:can you customize your menus and move them around to your preference?
no. why would you need it?

because some people like to customize how their broswer toolbars and tool functions appear on the screen.....DUH!!!

FireFox Tool Bars

because i cant move my address bar to its own line i cant view super long addresses easily

IE 6 Tool bars
now notice here, because my address bar has a entire line of screen width to its own, i can view much longer addresses without having to scroll across the bar.

THAT is why i ask if they added custom tool bar capability

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:00 pm

fliptw wrote:Do applications in general have a habit of crashing on you Top Wop?

None except this one.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 6:32 pm

AceCombat wrote:
fliptw wrote:
AceCombat wrote:can you customize your menus and move them around to your preference?
no. why would you need it?

because some people like to customize how their broswer toolbars and tool functions appear on the screen.....DUH!!!

FireFox Tool Bars

because i cant move my address bar to its own line i cant view super long addresses easily

IE 6 Tool bars
now notice here, because my address bar has a entire line of screen width to its own, i can view much longer addresses without having to scroll across the bar.

THAT is why i ask if they added custom tool bar capability

Ace:
View->Toolbars->Customize

Move everything around to fit your taste.

Jeff250 · Post by **Jeff250** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 7:45 pm

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/

Its Firefox implementation though is slightly flakey.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:48 pm

menus != toolbars.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 8:55 pm

Ace, right click an empty spot on the toolbar and click Add New Toolbar. Then move the Address bar to this toolbar. Done.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:36 pm

Other Very Valuable Extensions:

easyGestures (Better than Mouse Gestures IMO)
popup ALT Attribute
Single Window
Tab Clicking Options
FLST
BlankLast
undoCloseTab
View in IE
DOM Inspector

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 9:50 pm

DCrazy wrote:Ace, right click an empty spot on the toolbar and click Add New Toolbar. Then move the Address bar to this toolbar. Done.

TY!! *ACE* gives Crazy a lapdance

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:04 pm

AceCombat wrote: TY!! *ACE* gives Crazy a lapdance

Holy f*ck no.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:22 pm

Currently Installed Extensions:

AdBlock
Mouse Gestures
Focus Last Selected Tab
Tabbrowser Preferences
Disable Targets for Downloads
Tabbrowser Extensions
Prefbar
Copy Image
Copy Plain Text (modified the install.rdf file)
Download With (Modified the install.rdf file)

I have Download With configured to allow me to send URL's directly to wget. I like wget.

Testiculese · Post by **Testiculese** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:37 pm

I installed adblock, that's all that's necessary.

Ace:
http://www.metallisoft.com/files/descen ... elbar1.gif
http://www.metallisoft.com/files/descen ... elbar2.gif

Why do ppl use download managers? Click the link, d/l the file, how hard is that, really?

Testiculese · Post by **Testiculese** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:29 pm

Also, beware that Adblock does not yet work in 1.0

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:36 pm

Testiculese wrote:Why do ppl use download managers? Click the link, d/l the file, how hard is that, really?

Because not everyone has broadband like you and people need the ability to resume a partial download.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 12:40 pm

Testiculese wrote:Also, beware that Adblock does not yet work in 1.0

I just adblocked your freeking avatar, Testi.

youre dead wrong again!

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 2:12 pm

Topwop: Firefox allows resuming broken downloads. It also allows pausing while you download other stuff. No need for a download manager with Firefox.

Oh - one bug which used to show up frequently in 0.8 - and haven't seen fro a while, but it might still be around: You use firefox to download a file, and when it says it is complete, you look in the destination folder, and it's not there! It's still cached though, so try and download the file again - and it completes in about 1 second - then you file is there.

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 3:46 pm

Mobius wrote:Topwop: Firefox allows resuming broken downloads. It also allows pausing while you download other stuff. No need for a download manager with Firefox.

I know that, thats why I was asking if they fixed that feature as it was shoddy in previous builds. I have yet to find a large file to test this out though...

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 4:15 pm

DCrazy wrote:
AceCombat wrote: TY!! *ACE* gives Crazy a lapdance
Holy f*ck no.

ROTFLMAO!! i knew that was coming

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Wed Nov 10, 2004 8:27 pm

I know but I felt like indulging your sense of humor anyway.

Avder · Post by **Avder** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:48 am

Has anyone been getting a bug where they open a webpage by either left or middle clicking and it goes to almost full screen except for the title bar? And on top of that, it disables context menus, and any navigation extensions you have installed? Ive gotten it a couple times now visitg random sites and Its starting to puzzle me.

Mr. Perfect · Post by **Mr. Perfect** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 2:29 am

Daum. Check out the memory usage with 1.0, it's down to only(heh) 20megs. v1PR was like 54megs or so, wasn't it? Good to see they shaped that up some.

roid · Post by **roid** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 11:10 am

i think the amount of memory it takes up is dependant on how many tabs you have open.

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:10 pm

I had several tabs open and Firefox used up nearly 74 megs of memory! But that was with the PR.

And yes, their built in download manager is fully functional.