Firefox 0.9.1 out.

ghenry · #1 30th June 2004, 10:16 AM

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

ghaefb · #2 30th June 2004, 10:23 AM

And Thunderbird 0.7.1

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

fjleal · #3 30th June 2004, 10:24 AM

Jesus, I didn't have the time to test out 0.9 yet...

ghenry · #4 30th June 2004, 10:34 AM

Oh yeah, sorry. New icons too.

ghaefb · #5 30th June 2004, 11:07 AM

Yep, I like new icons better.
But I use Mostly Crystal theme anyway

Picomp314 · #6 1st July 2004, 02:08 AM

i use the Qute theme, i like it
check out the Saferfox theme its pretty cool, kind of an iTunes theme i think

Bana · #7 1st July 2004, 04:50 AM

Is anyone else waiting for the official fedora.us packages like me? Or am I just being a coward...

ghaefb · #8 1st July 2004, 04:58 AM

I think you'r being a coward

no really, firefox-installer is great, try it.

***ewdi*** · #9 1st July 2004, 05:54 AM

yeha, the new installer works better

fjleal · #10 1st July 2004, 06:29 AM

The new installer works very well. First of all, it doesn't tell you to close your open Windows programs anymore

. Secondly, if you install in the same directory where a previous version or FireFox is located, it'll ask you to click a button to delete it and install the new version. Well done.

Darkmage · #11 1st July 2004, 06:41 AM

Anybody having problems with loading java applets

http://miranda.ctd.anl.gov:7123/

It just shutdown firefox and even mozilla. Also while checking synaptic package management, it reports j2re as been obsolete. Any ideas I also tried the beta from java.sun.com

Paul_Vandenberg · #12 1st July 2004, 06:58 AM

I gave up on the RPM versions of Firefox. They always ask me twice if I want to save a password. The offical tarballs from Mozilla only ask once. I filed a Bugzilla report, but I'm not sure if they fixed it yet.

Also, it takes so long for RPMs to appear after each release and I'm impatient. I also think the new installer works great.

micha · #13 1st July 2004, 12:51 PM

I confirm that the installer of Firefox works very well on FC2. There's also a great news, mouse with 5 buttons now works very well with Firefox.

For that, you have to edit your xorg.conf file to tell X.org you have a mouse with 5 buttons (+2 for the wheel):

Code:

# **********************************************************************
#
# Core Pointer's InputDevice section
#
# **********************************************************************
Section "InputDevice"

	Identifier	"USB Mouse"
	Driver		"mouse"
	Option		"Protocol"     "ExplorerPS/2"
	Option		"Device"       "/dev/input/mice"
	Option          "Buttons" "7"
	Option          "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

EndSection

Then you have to write a script named /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/mouse to put the mouse buttons in the right order:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"

and don't forget to set the script executable:

Code:

chmod +x /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/mouse

Now you can restart X.org, and enjoy your 5-button mouse, especially the two side buttons that act like backward/forward buttons.

foolish · #14 1st July 2004, 04:23 PM

About the rpms: see my post in the previous firefox/thunderbird thread: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=80102

rkl · #15 10th July 2004, 12:31 PM

I'm now running the RPM release of Firefox 0.9.1 from fedora.us - see here:
http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fed...6/RPMS.stable/

Seems to work fine on FC2 and once I'd got FirefoxModern, LiveHTTPHeaders and WebDeveloper installed, I'm a happy bunny

Of course, it would be nice if they'd release 0.9.2 as an RPM, but at least I finally get to see the new extension manager after being stuck on the Firefox 0.8 RPM for sooo long.