Mozilla Firefox 0.8

[Seven7]

No that is not a typo ....

Mozilla Firebird is now officially Mozilla Firefox as of the new 0.8 release. At the moment it is only available as a installer version on windows as Ben Goodger said the .zip version won't be until later in the week in ftp directory, won't be listed on mozilla.org though.

Window installer version: (ftp.mozilla.org may be busy) ftp://ftpmoz.newaol.com/pub/firefox/...xSetup-0.8.exe

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/

If you are updating from the 0.7 release to 0.8 then don't be surprised if you have to start a new profile as themes have been changed a few times since 0.7 and extensions changed too.



It is so busy at mozillazine forums that I can't get on to see the chaos. *mutters*

[thatmariolover]

Wow. Such a pretty download manager. I love Mozilla.

[Hero2]

I like it thx +rep


...until I find flaws

[Vampyr]

Ummm. this is pretty cool, but I have a few questions...

1. Is it just me, or is the scroll bar gone??
2. Ok, I downloaded this and booted it up. At first it was using a new theme, none of my old Firebird bookmarks were there, or my search engines, etc, etc. So I leave for a while and come back. Now, Firefox has my old theme, and everything. while this makes me happy, its a little wierd.
3. Um, what can this baby do? why is it better than firebird?

[edit] WTH!? I just realized my back and forward buttons are gone................grrrrrr

I would also like to add that by gong to view>customize, I still have no back or forward buttons.

[TheSlyMoogle]

Good idea time: Wait to update to a new version of a program. Give it a few weeks then upgrade. I know it seems hard, but it gives them some time to fix bugs. For now Firebird and I are friends.

[Jonbo298]

I like it. Maybe I can sloowly migrate from netscape to firefox.

[thatmariolover]

This is just the new release of Firebird. Firebird has now evolved into Firefox. All of the old code is there.

I guess, I've had no problems so far.

Vampyr, you should look at the view tab, and then toolbars, and make sure both of the options are checked.

[Seven7]

Originally Posted by Vampyr

Ummm. this is pretty cool, but I have a few questions...

1. Is it just me, or is the scroll bar gone??
2. Ok, I downloaded this and booted it up. At first it was using a new theme, none of my old Firebird bookmarks were there, or my search engines, etc, etc. So I leave for a while and come back. Now, Firefox has my old theme, and everything. while this makes me happy, its a little wierd.
3. Um, what can this baby do? why is it better than firebird?

[edit] WTH!? I just realized my back and forward buttons are gone................grrrrrr

I would also like to add that by gong to view>customize, I still have no back or forward buttons.

A quick reply:

I would also like to add that by gong to view>customize, I still have no back or forward buttons.

Make sure the navgation toolbar is checked as when toolbards go back to default they could be hiding there perhaps or it could be theme compatibility problems also.

I take it you upgrade from Firebird 0.7 to Firefox 0.8 right as the themes have been changed a few times (widgets to bindings etc long story) and so you need a updated version of theme sorry. Try selecting default theme and then restart maybe?

If you went from release to release then:

ALways use a new profile with a new build.

New Profile:

Close Firefox and run

"path:\to\firefox.exe" -p

You can copy over stuff from the old profile like (if you want to keep them):

-bookmarks.html
-cookies.txt, signons.txt,cookperm.txt,key3.db
-localstore.rdf (arrangements of the UI)
-user.js
-usercontent.css
-userchrome.css

and etc...

Profile folder location:

On Windows XP/2000, the path is usually %AppData?%\Phoenix\Profiles\default\xxxxxxxx.slt\, where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters. Just browse to C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Phoenix\Profiles\ and the rest should be obvious.

On Windows 95/98/Me, the path is usually C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Phoenix\Profiles\default\xxxxxxxx.slt\

On Linux, the path is usually ~/.phoenix/default/xxxxxxxx.slt.

On MacOS? X, the path is usually ~/Library/Phoenix/Profiles/default/xxxxxxxx.slt.

Note: Mozilla Firebird is capable of handling more than one user and thus, more than one profile. The path examples above refers to the default profile that is automatically created when you start Mozilla Firebird for the first time. You can manage any number of profiles by using the Profile Manager.

I'm going to wait for the official .zip version later though myself.

By the way the new Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 email client is out also.

[Null]

have to see if its better then my Opera. opera's by far been the best browser thus far.


one of the main reasons i never used Mozilla was cuz i couldnt stand clicking on the ugliest looking icon (dinosaur head or whatever) on my computer so i deleted it.

But is that thier new logo? i dig that crazy fox/world logo. looks nice.

[TheSlyMoogle]

I wonder what animal the next upgrade will be? Perhaps firecat?

[Null]

nice program, clean, works smooth, simple.

doesnt have a lot of the options i like on Opera tho, and some i like a bit more but...

Why cant i get my tabbed section at bottom? they dont even give me the choice on this? *quickly opens up his opera, "ahhhhhh better"*

[Seven7]

Originally Posted by Null

nice program, clean, works smooth, simple.

doesnt have a lot of the options i like on Opera tho, and some i like a bit more but...

Why cant i get my tabbed section at bottom? they dont even give me the choice on this? *quickly opens up his opera, "ahhhhhh better"*

Tabs on bottom coming right up!

Put this code in your userChrome.css (texturizer.net/firefox/ is busy)

/* Display the Tabbar at the bottom */
#content > tabbox {-moz-box-direction: reverse;}

Tab Browser Extensions (TBE) can put tabs on bottom also abut it can be buggy sometimes and may slow down browser for some people.

If you want I could post the code for to have tab bar on the left side. tabs will still be horizontal though.

Originally Posted by TheSlyMoogle

I wonder what animal the next upgrade will be? Perhaps firecat?

Have you seen this yet? http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fire...-name-faq.html


Anything else?

[Null]

Originally Posted by Seven7

Tabs on bottom coming right up!

Put this code in your userChrome.css (texturizer.net/firefox/ is busy)

/* Display the Tabbar at the bottom */
#content > tabbox {-moz-box-direction: reverse;}

Tab Browser Extensions (TBE) can put tabs on bottom also abut it can be buggy sometimes and may slow down browser for some people.

If you want I could post the code for to have tab bar on the left side. tabs will still be horizontal though.


Have you seen this yet? http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fire...-name-faq.html


Anything else?

yea i found a lot of that and the exention stuff.

its a nice program still. worthy of being a nice backup. still on the buggy side from what i've seen. but its new, so is to be expected. Maybe down the road when this becomes more stable, and gets all the options and stuff right it can replace Opera. but for now. its going to be a nice backup program for me, and one to keep an eye on.

[Vampyr]

Thanks for your help Seven7, plus rep. I switched back to the default theme, and my scroll bar and my back and forward buttons returned. Its working perfectly now. And Im in the process of transfering my profile settings and stuff.

*searches for a new red theme*

[Seven7]

Heh Null... I find Opera to be quite crashy for me as to probaly why they give you the option to resume last session. There is a "session saver" extension that does this quite well for Firefox come to think.


Vampyr , any themes in particular are you looking for as I might be able to find a version of it that should work in Firefox 0.8.