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Monday February 09, 2004

Mozilla Firebird 0.8 - I'm not impressed

I downloaded Mozilla Firefox (formerly known as Mozilla Firebird) for my Mac this morning and I'm definitely not impressed. I can't change the fonts and there's no scrollbar when I visit any sites. What a CF. As for Windows, I can't even download the installer. Too bad - this release had real potential.

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Posted in The Web at Feb 09 2004, 10:27:52 AM MST 10 Comments
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I think the site has just been swamped, which I take as a good sign..? I downloaded my copy for Windows this morning, installed without problems and been using it all day.. It's just that it isnt much different to 0.7, some changes to internal mime type handling and the download dialog. What I was hoping to see was the selection of alternate style sheets persisting, I'm sure I'm not alone here, how does Matt change the sunsets logo when I select the Capricorn theme?

Posted by Richard Osbaldeston on February 09, 2004 at 11:41 AM MST #

I have been able to download the new version, not sure what your problem seems to be. You might wanna try again.

Posted by Arjun Ram on February 09, 2004 at 12:12 PM MST #

The Mozilla web server definitely is getting hammered by the new release. The texturizer.net site that holds the browser extensions also was hammered to the point where they took the extensions section offline. I was able to download the Windows installer after about five tries/timeouts. Firefox 0.8 on Windows shows scroll bars when needed, so that part works for me. Sounds like an issue with the Mac version. I haven't tried changing font attributes other than font sizes. I'm still waiting, though, to discover what's new in 0.8 other than the official Windows installer and the new name.

Posted by Tom McQueeney on February 09, 2004 at 12:46 PM MST #

The place to change the Fonts moved between versions 0.7 and 0.8. It's now on the first tab of the options pane. I changed my defaults from Serif to Sans-serif, and changed my sans-serif and fixed fonts to Verdana and Lucida Console. It works fine. Cheers!

Posted by B. K. Oxley (binkley) on February 09, 2004 at 01:21 PM MST #

Yeah - I was able to find where the font settings are - but I can't change them. Meaning that when I click on the drop-down, nothing happens - it just flickers and then doesn't <em>drop-down</em>. Oh well, I'll stick with Safari on the Mac, the fonts look better.

Posted by Matt Raible on February 09, 2004 at 01:28 PM MST #

I'm not impressed either. I don't think any of the bugs that mattered to me have been fixed, and I don't think any features have been added except a fancy transparent download window (to replace the download manager that already worked).

Posted by Keith Lea on February 09, 2004 at 03:05 PM MST #

Reset your theme to the default to get your scrollbars back. Some themes were broken by the changes in 0.8.

Posted by Jon Pierce on February 09, 2004 at 08:48 PM MST #

I am having no problems on linux... i love this browser!

Posted by bren on February 09, 2004 at 11:57 PM MST #

Jon - thanks for the tip - reverting to the default (Firefox) theme fixed the problem. This theme looks better anyway! ;-) The fonts still look funky when compared to Safari (both have the same settings), but oh well. It's still the best browser on all the other platforms.

Posted by Matt Raible on February 10, 2004 at 05:56 AM MST #

I'm using Firefox on all my machines/platforms now (MacOS X, Linux, and Windows XP). It works great on all of them, no problems. It's REALLY nice having a single browser that works on all platforms you use. It makes sharing/syncing bookmarks quite nice. I actually go full geek and keep my bookmarks in a local CVS, and then use that as a way to sync bookmarks across all my machines. As for Safari, it has some pros, but I've actually found it to be not nearly as stable (it seems to get messed up if you run it for too long). It's fast for single pages, but it doesn't seem to handle multiple tabs nearly as well as Firefox/Mozilla. e.g. I often want to have multiple tabs loading pages at the same time, and be able to move around tabs while doing so. I just can't seem to do that at all in Safari, but no prob in Firefox/Firebird/Mozilla.

Posted by Chris Bailey on February 17, 2004 at 11:45 AM MST #

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