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The Fox Is Free! Firefox Browser Fully Released Today
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By: Jeremy Geelan
Nov. 9, 2004 12:00 AM

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    • From today, Mozilla Firefox 1.0 is available for download for the Windows, Linux, and Apple users - a full release which includes new features designed to make Firefox more stable.

    The free Firefox browser is the main focus of The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet, along with the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client. Firefox supports many integrated features, which are unique among Internet browsers, including tabbed browsing - which allows the display of multiple search results in the same window - an integrated search bar, a pop-up blocker, and extensions that make it easy to add additional features to Firefox

    Currently led by Ben Goodger, the Firefox project started as an experimental branch of the Mozilla browser project by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross.

    "Firefox lets you browse the Web more efficiently and more quickly for a better browsing experience," said Goodger.

    Back in February, the business and IT consulting company AMS categorized Mozilla Firefox (then called "Firebird") as a "Tier 1" - meaning "Best of Breed" - open source product, meaning that AMS considered Firebird virtually risk-free and technically strong.

    "Open source projects have a much higher standard," Chris Hofmann, director of engineering at the Mozilla Foundation, told Reuters as v1.0 was launched. "It's the engineers that actually build the software that label it as done."

    The Mozilla Foundation has publicly said it would be happy with Firefox it it could garner 10% of the overall browser market.

    For anyone having problems today accessing Mozilla.org there's a mirror list here of sites you can download Firefox 1.0 from.

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    About Jeremy Geelan
    Jeremy Geelan is President & COO of Cloud Expo, Inc. and Conference Chair of the worldwide Cloud Expo series. He appears regularly at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of Cloud Expo's "Power Panels" on SYS-CON.TV.

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    Should Microsoft lose this round of the browser wars, they can just grab the Firefox code, change the appearance a bit and release it as the next version of IE. That will get it on the OEM boxes for sure. Oh, but of course they'll extend it with a few proprietary features first - DRM stuff, etc...

    Something like this happened to me when i installed 1.0PR.
    I turns out that i had 3 versions of java installed (one was a 1.5 beta SDK). I uninstalled all of them, except the JRE and firefox worked fine...

    You probably need to nuke your "Documents and Settings\$USER\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\*" if you haven't already.

    I installed 1.0 on my Compaq laptop, and I'm a bit dissapointed. Firefox starts, but then immediately freezes. The problem is not there in 0.9.1.
    Anyone else has this problem? I can't convince the folks here at work to switch away from IE if my firefox doesn't work.
    I reckon it's some old extensions/profiles/what-have-we, but I've uninstalled firefox completely (and used google desktop search to remove all files that has the words "firefox" or "mozilla" in them) and still - if I install 1.0 again, the same problem appears. It launches fine, but when I try to do anything, it freezes.

    well done Mozilla on a fantastic milestone. If you can achive soooo much at version 1.0 - imagine what you can get by the giddy heights of version 6.01 of IE ? :) Get everyone you know onto this ASAP! The sooner we can rid the word of poor quality non-conforming and insecure browsers the better the www will be for all....!

    Since the initial inception, I have been a user of this browser, and I have used every release, and many nightlies inbetween. I have tried other browser, but I have always returned.

    So it's a great day.

    The conspiracy theory is that Google is planning to release its own browser based on Firefox. See the Google-hosted homepage: http://www.google.com/firefox

    Speaking of Firefox... Can anyone tell me what that cool translation plugin is? They demo a Japanese to English translation of a Honda site on the Novell page. I've never seen that plugin before.

    For anyone having problems accessing Mozilla.org here's a mirror list where you can get Firefox 1.0.


    Your Feedback
    gr8_phk wrote: Should Microsoft lose this round of the browser wars, they can just grab the Firefox code, change the appearance a bit and release it as the next version of IE. That will get it on the OEM boxes for sure. Oh, but of course they'll extend it with a few proprietary features first - DRM stuff, etc...
    borum wrote: Something like this happened to me when i installed 1.0PR. I turns out that i had 3 versions of java installed (one was a 1.5 beta SDK). I uninstalled all of them, except the JRE and firefox worked fine...
    help wrote: You probably need to nuke your "Documents and Settings\$USER\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\*" if you haven't already.
    Underholding wrote: I installed 1.0 on my Compaq laptop, and I'm a bit dissapointed. Firefox starts, but then immediately freezes. The problem is not there in 0.9.1. Anyone else has this problem? I can't convince the folks here at work to switch away from IE if my firefox doesn't work. I reckon it's some old extensions/profiles/what-have-we, but I've uninstalled firefox completely (and used google desktop search to remove all files that has the words "firefox" or "mozilla" in them) and still - if I install 1.0 again, the same problem appears. It launches fine, but when I try to do anything, it freezes.
    magnetik79 wrote: well done Mozilla on a fantastic milestone. If you can achive soooo much at version 1.0 - imagine what you can get by the giddy heights of version 6.01 of IE ? :) Get everyone you know onto this ASAP! The sooner we can rid the word of poor quality non-conforming and insecure browsers the better the www will be for all....!
    thenextpresident wrote: Since the initial inception, I have been a user of this browser, and I have used every release, and many nightlies inbetween. I have tried other browser, but I have always returned. So it's a great day.
    ctr2sprt wrote: The conspiracy theory is that Google is planning to release its own browser based on Firefox. See the Google-hosted homepage: http://www.google.com/firefox
    13Echo wrote: Speaking of Firefox... Can anyone tell me what that cool translation plugin is? They demo a Japanese to English translation of a Honda site on the Novell page. I've never seen that plugin before.
    Download wrote: For anyone having problems accessing Mozilla.org here's a mirror list where you can get Firefox 1.0.
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