SillyDog701

[DJGM]

As published today over at MozillaZine . . .

A testing candidate of Mozilla Firefox 0.9 is now available
from mozilla.org. There are a couple more bugs we'd like
to fix for the 0.9 release but want to get as much feed-
back on the app in general before we go out.

Please download this build and test with it and report
any show stopping bugs that you find. We are still
looking to do a 0.9 final sometime Monday."
Builds can be found on the FTP site.

This RC build for Mozilla Firefox 0.9 has a UA string suffix of "0.8.0", which I assume
means this is a nightly build, that the Firefox team have chosen for this purpose.

The new default theme (based upon the Pinstripe theme) comes with this build.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8.0+

[beanboy89]

I think I am going to hold off on downloading Firefox 0.9 RC until a .zip is released.
[Edit]I also noticed 0.9 RC is built on Mozilla 1.7, although the nightly build from 20040605 is built on Mozilla 1.8a2. Is this because Mozilla 1.7 is currently more stable.[/Edit]

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040210 Firefox/0.8

[Antony]

Designed for nightly, but decided to release it as 0.9 RC?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/125.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.8

[Mandrake]

The RCs are just nightly builds off the stable branch. The new theme is horribly ugly too. Qute is much more professional looking.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040601 Firefox/0.8.0+

[DJGM]

As for the new theme, that isn't the final version of it, more of an initial draft version.
Although, I agree that the "Qute" was a nicer looking theme, that blended in well,
especially on Windows XP, I'd assume that once this new default theme gets
some more polish and refinement, it'll look a lot better than it does now . . .

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8.0+

[DJGM]

Meanwhile, this new build doesn't seem to work on Mac OS. All that has happened with it so far is . . .

After double clicking the Firefox icon in the Finder, the application icon bounces in the dock for about
ten seconds . . . a dialog box appears, saying that all settings, bookmarks and such like, have been
imported from the previous version . . . the application icon disappears - Firefox doesn't start.

Another double click on the Firefox icon from the Finder . . . the application icon bounces in the dock
for about ten seconds (again) - the profile manager appears . . . I click "default" then Start Firefox
. . . profile manager dialog disappears . . . the application icon disappears - Firefox doesn't start.

After all this, every twenty seconds or so, the Firefox application icon appears in the dock for about
five seconds, then disappears, reappears,then disappears . . . but each time, Firefox doesn't start.

Even after doing a "Force Quit", the Mozilla Firefox applicatiion icon still keeps coming and going.

(None of this affects the existing installation of Firefox 0.8, which has it's own permanent
place in the Dock, near Mozilla App-Suite 1.6, Netscape 7.1 and Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6.)

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

[Andrew T.]

It looks like you're not the only one having trouble getting Mozilla Firefox 0.9 Release Candidate to work!
Whenever I try to run the mozilla.exe executable on Windows 95 OSR2 after installing, I get this pair of error messages:


The urlmon.dll system file, version 4.70.1215, is present in my c:\windows\system\ folder.
What accounts for this error? Does this Firefox release require a newer version of this file to work properly, or could the software perhaps now be incompatible entirely with Windows 95? I am aware Windows 95 is nearly nine years old and is not officially listed in Firefox's tentative system requirements, but nevertheless I was able to run Firebird 0.7 and Firefox 0.8 flawlessly under this OS.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608

[Fulvio]

You can do a Search, and find all sort of problems with a variety of programs, which give the same error. Were you using any recently nightly which was working. As you probably know 0.8 final, which came out on 2-6-04 was still called Phoenix, and nightlies seemed to work ok for a couple of weeks, but then it became necessary to create a new profile, and the program started to place its stuff in a new folder, Firefox. The last nightly I got was 6-6-04, and I was doing ok with the new set up. Any look at this: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win95/r1044383691

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

[Ramona]

Andrew,

Did you do the Windows 95 Library Update I seem to recall that you did, but thought I would double check...

Ramona

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608

[Wellander]

Hi,
I thought that URLMON.DLL is an Internet Explorer file?

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

[Andrew T.]

Thank you for the information.

You can do a Search, and find all sort of problems with a variety of programs, which give the same error. Were you using any recently nightly which was working. As you probably know 0.8 final, which came out on 2-6-04 was still called Phoenix, and nightlies seemed to work ok for a couple of weeks, but then it became necessary to create a new profile, and the program started to place its stuff in a new folder, Firefox. The last nightly I got was 6-6-04, and I was doing ok with the new set up. Any look at this: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win95/r1044383691

I have not run any nightly build of Mozilla Firefox. Indeed, I observe that Firefox 0.9 RC is configured to save its profiles in my c:\windows\firefox\ folder rather than the c:\windows\phoenix\ folder that older versions used. The errors appear immediately whenever I try to run firefox.exe or any shortcut pointing to that file, so I haven't been able to run the profile manager or anything else. The sort of error I experienced appears to be associated with a variety of programs and situations, so I haven't been able to narrow things down.

Did you do the Windows 95 Library Update I seem to recall that you did, but thought I would double check...

Yes I did. I had nearly forgotten about the library update, however, so thanks for reminding me.

Hi,
I thought that URLMON.DLL is an Internet Explorer file?

Is it? Incidentally, I do not have Internet Explorer installed. I seem to recall the file got onto my computer when I installed Microsoft Office 97. If Mozilla Firefox is going to start requiring Microsoft Internet Explorer or its components to run properly, I will not approve at all!

I notice that the individual who posted the thread that included the message Fulvio linked to eventually reached this conclusion:

I never managed to solve this. I got exactly the same error message from two different programs, and I have abandoned those programs.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608

[Wellander]

Hi,
Did office 97 install Internet Explorer 3.02?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608

[Andrew T.]

No, it did not. My copy of Microsoft Office 97 does contain Internet Explorer 3.01 on the CD-ROM. IE is not included within the Office installation procedure, however; I recall that all that happened was that after installation process was complete, an IE 3.01 setup file appeared on my desktop for me to either install or drag to the Recycle Bin at my discretion.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608

[Wellander]

Hi,
Andrew.
Search Results at MS
I guess that it is not an Internet Explorer file direclty but it looks like a wonder.
I have found some info on it.
The page looks better in Internet Explorer but will work in Mozilla.

[Edit by profman: Coded long URL into a link. 6/9/2004, 7:10 PM EDT.]

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608

[Don_HH2K]

No, it did not. My copy of Microsoft Office 97 does contain Internet Explorer 3.01 on the CD-ROM. IE is not included within the Office installation procedure, however; I recall that all that happened was that after installation process was complete, an IE 3.01 setup file appeared on my desktop for me to either install or drag to the Recycle Bin at my discretion.

I might have an earlier version of Office 97, because my CD has IE2.0 on it.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)