Get it here.

Hopefully FireFox will be the last name change of it.

I wonder if our very own FireFox31 was compensated fairly for this obvious abuse of trademark?

I wonder if Clint Eastwood will be able to steal it this time!

Naaa he's too old to think in Russian anymore.

Grr.. the main themes and plugins website seems to be fscked.

This mirror seems pretty responsive still. Looks like a ton of people downloading thig, guess thats a good sign of how popular it has gotten now.

Looks good, although it didn't seem to migrate my extensions and I can't see any way of manually moving them! At least it doesn't vape your Program Files folder which was a recent "bug".

Thunderbird 0.5 is also out - much quicker at listing folders etc.

The only real gripe I have with MozillaPhoenixbirdFox is that it sometimes takes an age to view the history list.. very annoying...

Gareth

I downloaded the Max OSX version. It is very nice thanks for posting the link I wouldn't have known about it otherwise.

Good name!

Let's see how it RUNS..

Me.

yn0t: Yeah, I'm only asking $0.05-per-download royalty for ::ahem:: likeness rights.
(Holden: "What's a punk like you know about likeness rights?"
Jay: "I got clients in high places. Lawers and ****") or something like that

cushman: Yeah, and Craig Thomas too.

::highfives foxtrot_xray::

Well, now I have no reason NOT to upgrade my Netscape 4.75.

I'm using IE 6.x with WinXP. Quick, other than tabbed browsing, top reasons to bother with FireFox...

And not its logo either - which I think is phenomenal and somehow entrancing. I do know that I'd be giving up my excellent Google bar at its custom settings for what looks like some cheap imitation (does it only allow Feeling Lucky searching?)

Also, is there a link with screenshots for Windows? If you want to get a browser war going, you need screenshots. Why so many application developers don't understand this is beyond me. I do mean shots that are bigger than thumbnails - I saw plenty of those stamp[-sized cut-outs on their "What's New" pages.

Bruno

Reasons I use FireFox over IE on a Windows box:

1. FireFox is quicker for me to get into and use compared to IE. Why? Well, IE seems to like checking all my drives and network shares when I type in a URL, locking it up for a decent amount of time. At both work and home, I have a decent amount of mapped drives and virtual CD drives. IE also seems to do this randomly later on accessing a site as well.

2. Extensions. I like one browser window, so I use an extension to ensure that even links that try to pop up in new windows are instead opened as a new tab.

3. Lack of major security vunerabilities. Sure, it doesn't affect me too much, but honestly, I dislike having popup windows, and I also dislike having popups from IE asking if I want some new spyware.

4. Form saving. IE has a bad habit of loosing what you had in a form. Firefox seems to hold what I typed in, so even if the BBS glitches, I can just hit back and try again.

5. Ability to not only stop popups, but also other annoyning javascript like resizing windows for no reason, playing with my status bar text, and other things.

6. Right click, block images from this server. Comes in handy for stopping ad banners.

7. If the above is not good enough, grab a custom .css to apply to pages to stop almost all ad banners.

8. The new download manager is rather nice. I like keeping multiple downloads in one window as well (can you tell I dislike taskbar clutter?)

Well, IE seems to like checking all my drives and network shares when I type in a URL

One of my pet peeves about IE right there. It's spinning up the freaking CD-ROM drive to grab the freaking autorun icon off of whatever freaking CD is sitting in the drive. God I hate that.

In fact, I'd pay good money to find a hack which globally prevented Windows from ever trying to retrieve the autorun icon. I've already turned off the ability for it to autorun discs, but it still grabs the icon anytime the browse tree in Explorer is invoked. Anyone?

(Sorry to hijack the thread, but you hit a nerve. )

Well, IE seems to like checking all my drives and network shares when I type in a URL

Doesn't appear to do this for me.

I've been using firebird for a while now, and just installed firefox...
if you want a full google bar for the mozilla browsers you can get it from here
I think the only thing missing from this version and the IE one is page rank.

Now does anyone know how I can get rid of the simple google search box (installed by default) that's next to the address bar?

Now does anyone know how I can get rid of the simple google search box (installed by default) that's next to the address bar?

Yup, View > Toolbars > Customize then drag it back into the window.

Gareth

cool thanks..

Another fantastic thing about mozilla (I don't think you can do this in IE but then i don't use it much so maybe you can), is the ability to assign keywords to bookmarks.

So for example you can create a bookmark to
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?client=public&db=pc&addr1=&client=public&Submit.x=0&addr2=&advanced=&Submit.y=0&addr3=&pc=%s
with the keyword 'map'

and then just type 'map EH1 2AB' into the location bar and up pops a map of the area.

i've also done this for dictionary lookups, bugzilla bugs, MS KB articles - it's so handy:

adict: http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=%s
g: http://www.google.com/search?q=%s
dict: http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/chref/chref.py/main?query=%s&title=21st
kb: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-UK;%s

A little tip is to try out the AdBlock extension, it is great for blocking sites/adresses etc.
For example I have blocked:
*.ad.*
*/ads/*
*/banner/*
*/banners/*
*adserver*
*doubleclick*
etc...

And you can choose to either hide or remove the ads.

/Fredrik

You can do this with IE, although you need to download a tool to maintain the relevant settings.

Specifically you need TweakUI.

For example I have blocked:
*.ad.*
*/ads/*

Cool, that's the premise under which AdShield functions. Good to see it built in to a browser finally.

OmniWeb has had this for ages.

Cool!
But how do I install Omniweb in linux? :-)

Mozilla has got it for quite some time also, but through css...

/Fredrik

Another extension tip is FlashClickToPlay, then no flash-animation is played until you click on it....

When I installed it I realized how little flash is used for actually usefull stuff... :-)

/Fredrik

For some reason, Flash under Solaris sucks up an insane amount of CPU. That extension was a godsend.

There's an excellent userContent.css file on the texturiser.net tips page site - it blocks a helluva lot of ads, much more than anything else I've seen. Lots of other neat tips there too.

Gareth

Texturizer.net isn't responding to me at the moment. I want to read the FAQ there...

Anyone know where Firefox stores all of its history, cookie, and cache data?

In linux:
~/.phoenix/default/[8 random chars].slt/

In windows it should be under a similar place...
Something like c:\Documents and settings\tfabris\Application Data\Phoenix\ etc...
Dont have a windows machine at home..

/Fredrik

Yup, that's it, thanks.

I see it still does not handle IE style div layers correctly. They have had plenty of time to fix this and haven't so I guess they have decided, for political reasons probably, not to support them. And I guess I will decide not to consider their browser as an option until they do.