Firefox 0.9 final out

[oog]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
should i uninstall the old FireFox or just install the new one over it?

installed new one over the old one and everything seems fine... every setting stayed.

If you read the installation notes on the site, it says to uninstall the old one. Upgrades are not supported. That doesn't mean it doesn't work, but they recommend the uninstall.

 

[43st]

Yeah... You can't install over an old install and expect it to work properly. It's kinda a shame because the people here that have done that are the same ones that usually come up with "Firefox sucks" comments time and again.

The majority of computer problems originate somewhere between the keyboard and the chair.

 

[WobbleWobble]

I downloaded it from Mozilla.org's website with 0.9RC as part of the file name but the installer says 0.8 and so did the "About" part. Anyone else got that? Did they rename the wrong file?

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: oog

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
should i uninstall the old FireFox or just install the new one over it?

installed new one over the old one and everything seems fine... every setting stayed.

If you read the installation notes on the site, it says to uninstall the old one. Upgrades are not supported. That doesn't mean it doesn't work, but they recommend the uninstall.

Also you can back up your bookmarks and other stuff, too.

But all I care about personally is bookmarks.

The bookmarks are stored inside a bookmarks.html file underneath your user preferences.

you can find the location of them here(I think that pheonix is the older name, the pathnames use firefox instead.

If you want you can get realy into seriously modifying the look and actions of your browser if you realy get into it.

But anyways, find the bookmarks.html file, copy it to a floppy or a save folder or whatever. Now it's backuped up. Then go ahead and uninstall everything and then when your finished find your preferences folder again and copy back your bookmarks.html file to about the same place you originally got it from.

Whala! your bookmarks are back. Also you can do this to edit it and then also copy your bookmarks to bunches of different computers you may use.

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble
I downloaded it from Mozilla.org's website with 0.9RC as part of the file name but the installer says 0.8 and so did the "About" part. Anyone else got that? Did they rename the wrong file?

The filename should be "FirefoxSetup-0.9.exe"
Did you download it directly from the Mozilla site, or from a mirror?

I pulled the file from Mozilla.org pretty much at once when it was announced without issue.
If you pulled it from a mirror, maybe they just haven't updated the mirror yet.

 

[crazycarl]

i installed over the old version, haven't had any issues, had to redownload the all-in-one gestures and launchy plugins and can't get any themes to work... oh well none of the themes were ever that great i thought.
i just gotta have tabs and mouse gestuyres though!!!

 

[thawolfman]

I always used to just install over my older versions with different nightly builds and never had a problem. I figured for the Final 0.9 that I'd uninstall the old version and install, and of course, firefox.exe just hangs after it finished installing. I installed the 0.9RC over the final build and it runs fine.

Oh well~

-Ben-

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: Sunner

Originally posted by: WobbleWobble
I downloaded it from Mozilla.org's website with 0.9RC as part of the file name but the installer says 0.8 and so did the "About" part. Anyone else got that? Did they rename the wrong file?

The filename should be "FirefoxSetup-0.9.exe"
Did you download it directly from the Mozilla site, or from a mirror?

I pulled the file from Mozilla.org pretty much at once when it was announced without issue.
If you pulled it from a mirror, maybe they just haven't updated the mirror yet.

The file name was that and I'm pretty sure I didn't pull it from a mirror.

Edit: I just tried again and it's good. I'm 99% sure I downloaded the right file. Oh well.

 

[dukdukgoos]

You're supposed to install this one fresh (uninstall old version or install to a different directory)

 

[Sid59]

ooh nice .. will get it and install later .. i want the zip version.

 

[airduct]

using it right now, but how do you stop the animated gifs? a couple of banners on AT are bugging the hell out of me and the stop button is greyed out.... these casino aids on AT are very annoying. thanks

 

[Sid59]

Originally posted by: airduct
using it right now, but how do you stop the animated gifs? a couple of banners on AT are bugging the hell out of me and the stop button is greyed out.... these casino aids on AT are very annoying. thanks

i'm so sorry ... get ADBlock if they bother you.

 

[Beau]

One gripe i've got about 0.9 is they removed the right-click-menu action 'Save link to disk' that was soooo nice in 0.8 to not have to choose a folder everytime (even though it defaults to the one you specify in the preferences screen).

 

[Hadsus]

Originally posted by: drag

Originally posted by: oog

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
should i uninstall the old FireFox or just install the new one over it?

installed new one over the old one and everything seems fine... every setting stayed.

If you read the installation notes on the site, it says to uninstall the old one. Upgrades are not supported. That doesn't mean it doesn't work, but they recommend the uninstall.

Also you can back up your bookmarks and other stuff, too.

But all I care about personally is bookmarks.

The bookmarks are stored inside a bookmarks.html file underneath your user preferences.

you can find the location of them here(I think that pheonix is the older name, the pathnames use firefox instead.

If you want you can get realy into seriously modifying the look and actions of your browser if you realy get into it.

But anyways, find the bookmarks.html file, copy it to a floppy or a save folder or whatever. Now it's backuped up. Then go ahead and uninstall everything and then when your finished find your preferences folder again and copy back your bookmarks.html file to about the same place you originally got it from.

Whala! your bookmarks are back. Also you can do this to edit it and then also copy your bookmarks to bunches of different computers you may use.

I assumed, for some reason, that uninstalling .8 wouldn't delete the bookmarks....Wrong! I didn't bother backing up the bookmarks....actually I didn't want to look for them and they weren't gonna be deleted anyway. Riiiiiigghttttttt. Fortunately I could import my old IE bookmarks which contain 90% of what I wanted anyway. Still, I think the developers shoulda made it clear that your old bookmarks were gonna go away unless you backed them up.

 

[krackato]

Originally posted by: VIAN
I'm waiting for the actualy Firefox v1.0 to release.

That's unnecessary.

 

[n7]

I finally got around to upgrading to 0.9, & i'm very happy with it

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: krackato

Originally posted by: VIAN
I'm waiting for the actualy Firefox v1.0 to release.

That's unnecessary.

I'm waiting for the actual Firefox v1.0 too. In the mean time, I'm going to use 0.9

 

[oldman420]

im using it and no probs the only complaint i had before was it was a little slower to start than ie but they seemed to fix that i dont even notice im not using ie thats cool.

 

[Beau]

I'm reaching the conclusiong that 0.8 >>>>>>>> 0.9

 

[Apocalypse23]

Runs great. At first I had problems, I couldn't even get it to open. But then I looked it up and found the solution : uninstall your old firefox and delete the EXTENTIONS directory. Once I did that, everything was working great. Updated my extentions, downloaded some themes, search engines etc and everything runs great.

 

[everman]

Is there any way I can bookmark the group of tabs I have open in 0.9? In .8 I used the extension "tab browser extensions" and it let me do that very easily. But now I need to drag them all into a bookmark folder manually (although "open all in tabs" works fine). Tabbrowserextensions crashes .9 here

 

[Beau]

My official position is 0.9 SUCKS.

going back to 0.8

 

[theplanb]

I don't know.. the installation f#@$ed up all the setup including bookmarks..
People, back them up before you upgrade!!!

BTW, this experience just put me off real bad.. and I'm going back to IE after all this time of using firefox.
MyIE2 can do and do more..

 

[drag]

Once you have downloaded a Firefox installer or compressed archive, follow these instructions to install:

First, for these preview releases it is strongly recommended that you uninstall any previous version of Firefox first. Installing over the top of an older version may cause unpredictable problems. If you install over the top of an older version and want to file bugs, please do a clean install into a fresh directory before doing so.

That's the first thing it says in the installation instructions on the firefox page. Very first thing.

You have to understand that with this sort of software (open/free source software) is that "beta" and "unstable" software doesn't nessicarially mean that it will crash or have severe usibility problems. It means CHANGE.

Unstable software means that the design and setups are unstable, meaning that they change. Once it reaches 1.0 (or stable or non-beta software, not all software when you reach 1.0 it has the same significance that it does in mozilla land) that means a feature freeze. That means that if you design software to work with 1.0 it will probably work with 1.1 or 1.3.

The reason they do this is because you need to have the software tested. If a design is flawed or they made a mistake they can be sure that they can change it and improve on it. Once it reaches stable then that means that they decided the design is good enough and then they can concrate on usibility improvements and bug fixes.

Then they get to do the same thing with 2.0 and 3.0 and so on and so forth.

Also keep in mind the number sceme is more of a indicator more then anything. You still have to pay attention to the release notes.

You don't have to pay for it, and you get new features as soon as they come out, but there are trade offs in terms you have to pay a bit more attention. At least till it becomes stable and not a "pre-production" thing.