New Firefox and Thunderbird Releases

Firefox 1.5 (U.S. English)
Mac OS X (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5/mac/en-US/Firefox%201.5.dmg) | Windows (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%201.5.exe) | Linux (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-1.5.tar.gz)

Thunderbird 1.0 (U.S. English)
Mac OS X (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.0/mac/en-US/Thunderbird%201.0.dmg.gz) | Windows (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.0/win32/en-US/Thunderbird%20Setup%201.0.exe) | Linux (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.0/linux-i686-gtk2+xft/en-US/thunderbird-1.0.tar.gz)

If you're looking for significant speed improvements, you can grab a build that is optimized for your processor...
PowerPC 74xx "G4" (http://homepage.mac.com/krmathis/) | PowerPC 970 "G5" (http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/mozilla_and_firefox) | Pentium, AMD, x86 (http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/)

Sweet :)

... I still prefer Mozilla though ;)

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/) is officially here! Yipee!

The usage trend is nice, so far. Have a look at <http://www.onestat.com/html/aboutus_pressbox34.html> - moz has a total market share of 7.35% (up from 2.1% in May this year.) Ie has slipped 5% since the May measurement and represents 88.90%.

Links updated for Thunderbird 1.0...

Forget Gecko...

Well, since many of you here have been enthusiastically promoting Firefox, I decided to finally download the thing to see what it was worth.
It wouldn't install ("unspecified error"). Mozilla quit working shortly thereafter, crashing my PC in the process. That's it. The software is either unsecure or otherwise flawed; whatever, it's gone.

codegoboom: That sounds like a software conflict problem. There's probably a reason for it to happen, because in most cases, Firefox installation works like a charm. The typical areas that cause problems are: User access rights, locked files, files in use by other programs when you try to read them, trying to install over an old installation, trying to use older Netscape plugins (though if they work in Mozilla they should work in Firefox), firewalls and antivirus programs, and unfortunate interactions, often related to the first three issues.

There is a reason they want you to shut down other programs while running an installer (this goes for all installers), and there is a reason Mozilla doesn't want you to share profiles between major pre-production releases, as well as with other Gecko based software. Try closing down most of your programs, , make sure you have administrator rights, install it, the first time you start it use the profile manager (use the '-profilemanager' parameter when starting it), and make sure you create a new profile. Then see if it doesn't run without problems.

Sure, I'd follow your advice, but it's no different than said attempt.
That's ok, I'm probably better off not fiddling w/ a conflict-prone app, ATM (or ever).

Oh, just convert already. :D :p It's inevitable, you will be one of them.

We all will be one of them.

Quote from some movie (I'm taking guesses): *in robotic voices* "One of us. . .One of us".

Basscyst

We all will be one of them.http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/united_artists/invasion_of_the_body_snatchers/donald_sutherland/invasion2.jpg
Invasion of the Browser Snatchers... yikes! :eek:

Sure, I'd follow your advice, but it's no different than said attempt.
That's ok, I'm probably better off not fiddling w/ a conflict-prone app, ATM (or ever).

I think you're jumping to conclusions. I would suggest removing any mozilla related files from your profile.
go to start > run > type: %appdata%
now look for the mozilla folder and backup the bookmarks or anything else located inside, then delete the folder.. now you should be able to start fresh with Firefox or Mozilla.

Jumping to conclusions, you think... well, anything's possible, although I didn't intend to be the first one testing an installer against my type of system configuration. Apparently I was. So be it; that won't be happening again! :rolleyes:

Jumping to conclusions, you think... well, anything's possible, although I didn't intend to be the first one testing an installer against my type of system configuration. Apparently I was. So be it; that won't be happening again! :rolleyes:

OK, a quick note. I installed Firefox, then 7-Zip on my system. Now, when I try to install Mozilla Thunderbird, I get a window with title 7-Zip, and message "Unspecified Error"

So, I'm having your trouble and it's easily traceable to another installed app. What does the titlebar of the error window say? I still haven't figured out the problem (I found this forum by googling for a solution).

So poopy. :mad:

thegnu: Is it a zip install of Thinderbird or an installer build?

I also get the "7-ZIP Unspecified Error" message when I try to install the firefox exe. I diabeled my firewall and antivirus, but still no-go... Any advised appreciated...

msu9797@yahoo.com

I have installed this web browser on the work computer and really liked it...

Found the fix, instead of saving it to my computer then trying to install it, I just ran the download from the web and it insataled with no problem... :thumbsup:

The "7-ZIP Unspecified Error" occurred on my laptop as well. Did as suggested above, ran the installer from the download site, and it installed fine.

I think the firefox is a good browser. Security and speed is good.

wabirdman

Hi,

Firefox and Thunderbird are cool much better thank internet explorer and outlook express by a long way.

4.7 mb. Quite big for what is meant to be "just" a browser.

As for the Thunderbird is better, yes, but Microsoft Outlook 2003 is considerably by far the best.

Internet Explorer 6 is apparently over 70mb. Food for thought.

hehe Internet Explorer is gathering binary dust on my machine. It's not been disturbed for browsing purposes in a very long time ~3 years.

4.7 mb. Quite big for what is meant to be "just" a browser.
Not especially. Firefox has shrunk considerably, and is just a meg over Opera, which has long been the smallest browser that is not feature stripped. Considering the sizes of Netscape 8 Beta, Netscape 7, Netscape Communicator 4 and Internet Explorer 6, it's small. Internet Explorer is the real heavyweight...As for the Thunderbird is better, yes, but Microsoft Outlook 2003 is considerably by far the best.Depends on what you need. Thunderbird has considerably better support for the different mailing standards, it's got better security, it's smaller, it's free of charge, it's available on pretty much every platform. Outlook is good at integration with other Microsoft programs, is a great planner and calendar, is better for use with Microsoft's mail servers, and is better for intranets.

Eudora still wipes the floor with them both in pretty much every category except interaction with Microsoft programs, if you ask me.

You know where. :cool:

binary dust...

Is that similar to pixie dust, or quantum foam?

everyone celebrate at my house toniteeeeeeeee
:confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

My take on both: it would be time to stop considering a generation 5 product better more secure insecure compliant or uncompliant than another.

There is something deeply wrong in the approach we end front developers have towards the internet itself, not just the browsers that we use to browse it.
I find all these products excellent, from Firefox till IE included.
One makes a choice, but saying that the choice we have made was informed is at times saying too much: we choose what we like. Simply. And most of the times all the information we can flaunt is the orthodoxy with which we repeat buzzwords learnt by others in order to gain a bit of social balm and acceptance amidst the ranks of the alleged anti conformists.

We are anti conformists, yes, but we want approval.
Weird anti conformists that we are.

IE has neither more nor less security problems than Firefox or Opera: it is only more widely used.

When we see threads where even the amount of KBytes is ascribed to IE as a flaw, why not ascribing to it also some degree of responsibility for tsunamis and hurricanes?

It is not even a corporation issue: it is we end front developers who are by now living in Wonderland:

http://www.unitedscripters.com/spellbinder/internetexplorer.html

In the name of compliance and of a 101% security that will never be, we are destroying an internet made for human beings in order to have one to make happy online parsers.

Firefox 1.5 is out! Yayishness!

Updated the index post with this newest version.

How about updating the G5 link with http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/mozilla_and_firefox?

Sweet :)

... I still prefer Mozilla though ;)
Same here :D

Firefox 1.5.0.2 is now out as of April 13th and supports Intel Core Duo processors natively as well as security security fixes have been implemented :)

Jamie.

Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 is out.
Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 is out.
SeaMonkey 1.0.2 is out.

That is all.

Are they working on a new version of Firefox? I heard about a beta

I believe the beta for version 2.0 is available if you want to try it out.

Isn't Firefox 1.5.0.6 here now? The binaries are all ready for it.

There is a reason they want you to shut down other programs while running an installer (this goes for all installers), and there is a reason Mozilla doesn't want you to share profiles between major pre-production releases, as well as with other Gecko based software