Firefox 0.9

June 15, 2004

Just in case you hadn’t noticed (come on – it’s been 2 days already! ;) – head to http://www.mozilla.org/ – this time they’ve got mirrors.

More details on the release at Mozillazine.

Harry Fuecks

Seinfeld

check about:config, I think there are a few new options to hack there …
Firestorm2003

Got it already. It’s very good!
http://www.phppatterns.com HarryF

It’s definately got faster.
http://www.jeebers.com dereko

yea nice browser
alain

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…
http://www.michaelkrenz.de mkrz

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?
Michael

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.
Betcour

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 :)
Jerrett

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.
khlo

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.
Ubuu

Will try today
TD

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

how many % of the users do use Firefox?

And what about Mozilla?
Ian

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.
Sergeant

and why would that be?
dokkalfr

I’m surprised Herry bloged the release of FireFox 0.9 but nothing about PHP5RC3
http://www.sample.com Widow Maker
Alex

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.
User69

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.
Darren

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

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