mozilla firefox 0.8

[zAlbee]

dammit stop changing names...

lookin' good! http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

 

[Eagle]

dammit stop changing names...

lookin' good! http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

whoa! much faster initial load time! Me likes. Thats the one thing I hated about firebird, when I typed a URL into the taskbar it took forever for the browser to load and then navigate to the site. Firefox is fast.

 

[khanmeister]

I like it. Go and try it.

 

[Stezo2k]

been using this since yesterday, bloody brilliant browser, i love the improvements since 0.7, i'm well impressed

 

[sytaylor]

whoa! much faster initial load time! Me likes. Thats the one thing I hated about firebird, when I typed a URL into the taskbar it took forever for the browser to load and then navigate to the site. Firefox is fast.

seconded, it wasnt so much a problem on my box.. but on the machine at work it was a pain in the ass.. btw try viewing this site in firefox and then in IE

http://www.phoenity.com/newtedge/

 

[2fast4u]

first of all the damn name changing needs to stop.

i didnt get around to try the browser out properly yet but so far a few things about it annoyed me from the start. such as, its still not able to import my extensions and skins into the new version which is a royal pain in the ass to reinstall and configure.

 

[Remote]

Gonna try it out now, 0.7 is nice so 0.8 should be better

 

[Slougi]

first of all the damn name changing needs to stop.

i didnt get around to try the browser out properly yet but so far a few things about it annoyed me from the start. such as, its still not able to import my extensions and skins into the new version which is a royal pain in the ass to reinstall and configure.

Psst. It does on Linux
It propably installs extensions into the program folder in windows?

 

[2fast4u]

Psst. It does on Linux
It propably installs extensions into the program folder in windows?

damn you

and indeed probably does, i just couldnt be bothered to check how to solve the issue yet

 

[Eagle]

first of all the damn name changing needs to stop.

i didnt get around to try the browser out properly yet but so far a few things about it annoyed me from the start. such as, its still not able to import my extensions and skins into the new version which is a royal pain in the ass to reinstall and configure.

It does on windows too. When I installed Firefox, it took all my settings and favorites from firebird so I just deleted the firebird folder. I didnt have to do anything, the installer searched the hard drive for firebird, grabbed the settings and did everything before I even knew about it.

 

[NeTo]

According to Ben Goodger and the Brand name faq the firefox name should be final.

I backed up all my settings before upgrading worrying about the same as 2fast4u, but actually everything went fine. The only thing i had to do was to rename all bookmarks with 'firebird' to 'firefox'.

The best thing to do when adding new extensions/skins is to install them in the profile folder instead than in the program folder, so you don't need to reinstall them after an upgrade.

 

[ScottJC]

I love this browser, FireFox is awesome, I'm using it right now to post this in fact.

As for the name change, i'm not really fussy what its called as long as they don't make it sound lame.

 

[Eagle]

I love this browser, FireFox is awesome, I'm using it right now to post this in fact.

As for the name change, i'm not really fussy what its called as long as they don't make it sound lame.

What was it called before Firebird? I definately like the new Icon a lot better.

 

[Macca]

Pheonix -> Firebird - > Firefox

the names only changing for legal reasons.

i've been with fox for ages and i havent loked back

 

[AlphaWolf]

It does on windows too. When I installed Firefox, it took all my settings and favorites from firebird so I just deleted the firebird folder. I didnt have to do anything, the installer searched the hard drive for firebird, grabbed the settings and did everything before I even knew about it.

Actually it just goes off of a registry setting which points to a browser profile stored in a directory in C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data, if you started with phoenix or mozilla, it automatically uses whatever default profile you had set.

 

[Eagle]

Actually it just goes off of a registry setting which points to a browser profile stored in a directory in C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data, if you started with phoenix or mozilla, it automatically uses whatever default profile you had set.

Well whatever, it still works.

 

[2fast4u]

It does on windows too. When I installed Firefox, it took all my settings and favorites from firebird so I just deleted the firebird folder. I didnt have to do anything, the installer searched the hard drive for firebird, grabbed the settings and did everything before I even knew about it.

im not talking about the bookmarks mind you. those were imported flawless. however the extensions i installed (advanced tabbed browsing, smooth scrolling, etc) were gone.

 

[zAlbee]

im not talking about the bookmarks mind you. those were imported flawless. however the extensions i installed (advanced tabbed browsing, smooth scrolling, etc) were gone.

well, the <a href=http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/index.html#install>release notes</a> do ask you to disable all extensions before upgrading to avoid problems with incompatible extensions. so i wasn't really surprised. then again i installed my extensions into the program directory, so it wouldn't have carried over anyway (new name = new directory, damn you mozilla and your multiple names).

 

[Eagle]

im not talking about the bookmarks mind you. those were imported flawless. however the extensions i installed (advanced tabbed browsing, smooth scrolling, etc) were gone.

Ah I see, well I dont think I have extensions installed so I guess I didnt have to worry bout those.

 

[NeTo]

im not talking about the bookmarks mind you. those were imported flawless. however the extensions i installed (advanced tabbed browsing, smooth scrolling, etc) were gone.

That's what i meant with installing extensions in the profile folder instead of the browser dir. But actually, TBE brakes often, i saw some compat problems during the 0.8 development, so it was most likely you would had to update it anyway.