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by Harry Fuecks

This post has 20 responses so far

1. check about:config, I think there are a few new options to hack there …

   Seinfeld
   June 16th, 2004 at 12:02 am

2. Got it already. It’s very good!

   Firestorm2003
   June 16th, 2004 at 3:18 am

3. It’s definately got faster.

   HarryF
   June 16th, 2004 at 3:27 am

4. yea nice browser

   dereko
   June 16th, 2004 at 4:25 am

5. Killed all extensions :(
   has already an extension installed (DOM inspector), which can’t be updated nor installed.
   Will wait a few weeks, downgraded again. Maybe it’s different on windows? I use linux…

   alain
   June 16th, 2004 at 4:45 am

6. Mh, I’m not totally convinced yet.
   Lately, version 0.8 *always* crashed when I tried to open a thread on the sitepoint forums?!
   Apart from that, I was pleased about the seamless integration of IE favorites and the like.
   But with 0.9, I’m having serious problems. No matter what I do, I can’t get my old bookmarks into the new version (i.e. manually, and believe me, I’ve tried copying them into every imaginable folder). And when I try to run the import wizard, Firefox just crashes. I’ve seen several similar posts on the Mozilla support forums. Maybe they should have done some more testing before releasing the new version?

   mkrz
   June 16th, 2004 at 5:06 am

7. You might want to check out the release notes. In the section “Changes You Should Be Aware Of” it lets you know where the new profile directory resides.

   Michael
   June 16th, 2004 at 5:25 am

8. Odd, I just un-installed 0.8 and installed 0.9, and on startup 0.9 offered to import all my 0.8 settings and bookmarks. Works flawlessly so far :)

   Betcour
   June 16th, 2004 at 9:33 am

9. Works very nicly, 0.8 had some problems loading some sites, but 0.9 it almost flawless, and much faster. Also i like the nice touches to the GUI.

   Jerrett
   June 16th, 2004 at 9:39 am

10. I way preferred 0.8 over 0.9. Alot of the people I know have had problems with 0.9 and gone back to 0.8. In fact, 0.9 has probably put some people I know off getting Firefox. Winstripe is not my favourite theme. Getting Qute was one of the first things I did. The updates are nice, the ability to print XUL properly, all good stuff. It’s less stable though, and feels much more like a pre-release.

    khlo
    June 16th, 2004 at 12:07 pm

11. Will try today

    Ubuu
    June 16th, 2004 at 1:06 pm

12. I like 0.9 :) it seems stable enough on my system, and better than 0.8, faster :) although some how feels weak :/ lol

    TD
    June 16th, 2004 at 1:59 pm

13. how many % of the users do use Firefox?

    And what about Mozilla?

    Sergeant
    June 16th, 2004 at 3:52 pm

14. Somewhere between 3-6% of web pages are served to Gecko-based browsers (Mozilla, FF, K-meleon etc).

    As for the split between the various gecko browsers, I would guess something like:
    60% Firefox
    30% Mozilla
    10% Other

    Remember also that your typical firefox user will visit more pages per day than your typical IE user.

    Ian
    June 16th, 2004 at 7:17 pm

15. and why would that be?

    Sergeant
    June 17th, 2004 at 10:00 am

16. I’m surprised Herry bloged the release of FireFox 0.9 but nothing about PHP5RC3

    dokkalfr
    June 18th, 2004 at 12:48 am

17. Widow Maker
    June 20th, 2004 at 3:57 pm

18. Just installed .9 – imported all bookmarks perfectly – plus passwords, history etc. Seems to have eaten my .8 extensions, though. Sure there is info about this in the Moz forums. 0.7 was better than 0.8 – 0.9 seems faster.

    Alex
    June 28th, 2004 at 7:11 am

19. 0.9 is not an improvement over 0.8! There are a number of weird behaviors. A click of a URL spawns a new browser instance each time regardless of config settings. I will wait for them to fix things before upgrading.

    User69
    June 28th, 2004 at 10:28 pm

20. firefox 0.9.1 has been released. it has several major bug fixes. have a look at http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

    Darren
    June 29th, 2004 at 10:05 pm