Firefox 0.9 Final out

[ghenry]

As many of you have already mentioned, 0.9 is now out :)

Here you go:

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

[foolish]

There's no rpm from fedora.us yet, I guess will see it in a couple of days.

[ghenry]

The installer is good though.

[krystof]

I got a minor problem with the last FireFox. Sometimes, it freezed completely for 5 seconds. Hope this new one won't....

[zulaica]

does the installer create menu entries? that's pretty much my only "worry". well, i guess i'll find out soon enough! *crossing fingers*

[NBZ]

I extracted firefox into the right directory as previously i tried to use the installer but it seemed to install it somewhere other than where yum and apt installed 0.8 versions. (even when I selected the install location!)

I like it, but even using the small icons IMO too much space is wasted around the icons in grey-space.

Its all good! (apart from k/b arrow buttons not working in text input areas!)

PS I extracted it into the aready created/usr/lib/firefox, and upon starting the profile manager sorted the importing of previous settings!

[ewdi]

defintely a lot better :p closed to gold, cant wait :p

[imdeemvp]

does the installer create menu entries? that's pretty much my only "worry". well, i guess i'll find out soon enough! *crossing fingers*

if you install the tarball it does not create a link in your menu....but you can always create it yourself from the desktop or by right clicking on your desktop and goto creat a launcher or what you know as windoz shortcut :D

[Johan Buret]

I've built a RPM for Fedora Core 1

http://johan.buret.free.fr/firefox-0.9-1.dag.i386.rpm.torrent (http://johan.buret.free.fr/firefox-0.9-1.dag.i386.rpm.torrent) for the torrent

and http://johan.buret.free.fr/RPMS/ (http://johan.buret.free.fr/RPMS/) to get them the old way

the "dag" in the name comes from the .spec file, I used a slightly modified version of Dag Wieers' one.

[ghenry]

Will take a look. You submited this to Fedora yet?

[Johan Buret]

How do I submit this package ?

The package isn't even signed by a GPG key - I guess It's a no-no

[halmsx]

tested out John's rpm. except that i have to manually run '/sbin/ldconfig' as root to enable normal users run firefox. else, it wont start. maybe im the only one experienceing this. other than that, its running fine and smooth. :D

[ghenry]

There's a bit in the spec file that should run that.

[Johan Buret]

It was the first time I build and released a .rpm, sorry for the quirks.
But I don't get the "/sbin/ldconfig" thing, since there was in the .spec


%post
/sbin/ldconfig 2>/dev/null
%{_libdir}/firefox/firefox-rebuild-databases.pl &>/dev/null || :
:confused:

Anyway, I rebuild it.

[Lab]

I ran it in FC2 and it worked fine :) Thanks a LOT

[halmsx]

just installed FC2, then removed ALL mozilla, and installed johan's firefox. now can only run firefox as root. worked fine in FC1. no error mesg when run from a gnome-terminal. same goes when in installed from the installer i got from mozilla.org. this is a new installation of FC2. where did i go wrong?

[foolish]

There's an issue in the 0.9 release of firefox and the 0.7 release of thunderbird that's related to the new extension manager. The new extension manager is supposed to allow system adminstrators to install extensions systemwide. The adminsitrator can also prevent users from installing extensions all together and so on. This is great, but sadly, it doesn't work.

With the new releases, you have to run firefox or thunderbird once as root, using X, before any of the users are allowed to start it. It's a nasty thing, since sometimes adminsitrators don't even have X. This is what's preventing the firefox package from fedora.us from beeing released, the thunderbird package has some other issues as well as the one mentioned.

There are bug fix releases out now, firefox 0.9.1 and thunderbird 0.7.1, but I'm not sure these will fix the issue mentioned, nor if this means that the packages will be released shortly, I sure hope it does.

For more information read this email from Warren Togami: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2004-June/msg00083.html

To help and/or get updates on the packages, see the fedora.us bugzilla:

firefox: https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1617
thunderbird: https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1765