Feb 10
Firefox 0.8, for Mac and Windows
2004 at 03.16 am posted by Veerle Pieters
Mozilla.org has released Firefox 0.8 (formerly Firebird), the latest version of its lightweight Web browser for Mac OS X and Windows. I am greatly surprised about the quality work that has gone into this release. For instance the first thing you’ll notice is the cool new logo for the app.
The logo was rendered in FireWorks MX by Jon Hicks who has done a marvelous job btw. But that’s off course not the only good news about this browser. For us MacOS X users there is the gorgeous new OS X aqua theme. For Windows users a new installer to make the process of installing smoother and it also solves some common plug-in problems. The new streamlined download manager keeps your downloads organized without getting in your way. The add bookmark dialog has been enhanced and now allows the creation of new bookmark folders. This will be me second browser on MacOS X after Safari and my primary browser when I have to do some work on Windows XP. It has a mature feeling to it for the first time. So If you want a serious alternative to Microsoft Internet Explorer you have to test run this lightweight browser. If you’re already using it there a some promo graphics that you can use to show people there is an alternative for IE. I’ve already did my part, just look below my counter ;-)
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Nice log :-). Css, Leuke log. css, pmachine, interesting subjects. Nice to see a woman blogging about geek things. Just command-D’d it through Safari in my international blog folder…
Blog on
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Thanks for the compliment! ;-) And yes you are right not many women are into this kind of stuff. They don’t know what they miss hehe!
Your name (and comment) leads me to believe you are a woman too, no? :-)
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Well, no I am not ;-). But I am curious how you can determine, based on my commenting, what gender I am LOL.
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hi there
“lightweight”?
Safari weighs in under 4MB but this beast is almost 30MB!
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Dion: well, I guess I was more thinking about “Dione” with an “e” at the end, that’s why :-)
Robin: I wasn’t actually referring to “size”, more to the look and the features, not too many buttons, icons etc. and it kind of feels “light” this way. BTW my Safari “weights” 14,8 MB, not 4 ;-)
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No problem. I am curious what you think about the new pMachine product ExpressionEngine…?
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Dion: I think the new pMachine is awesome! I’ve read about it and took a look at the online demo and I was “sold” ! ;-) I just ordered a license, I couldn’t wait any longer :-D I’ll probably gonna use this for this blog.
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Yeah, I am excited too. Just remember, it’s just a public beta, it doesn’t have all functions yet, like site search :-)
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Yes I know, but I’ll test this first internally. I’m not going switch right away or so, I’ll experiment first and when the final version is out then I’ll switch.
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Right on! Wouldn’t let the bling bling role without testing first…
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You have a beautiful blog Veerle, beautiful enough to stare at. Whereas Firefox is concerned, since Safari’s release, I hardly use anything else. I ain’t much of a designer but I do support standards compliant browsers. Anyway thanks for the blog. :-)
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Thanks Hemant for the nice words, it’s always good to hear that people like it ;-) Safari is also my default browser but it’s nice to have a choice and to know that the other one is a pleasure to look at.
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Well, I downloaded Firefox, and have spent the last hour trying to get my Mozilla bookmarks imported into Firefox.
It’s amazing that it’ll import your IE bookmarks without any hassle, but that you actually have to tell the browser what bookmarks you want it to use.
I’ve tried creating the user.js file in my profile, and adding the required text there, as suggested in this trick
Is anyone else experiencing the same difficulties? I’m running Mac OS X, and just can’t seem to figure this out :(