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[Antony]

Mozilla Corporation has released Firefox 1.0.8 as Security and Stability Release, and the 1.0.x series have reached it's end-of-life.

Downloads:
Mac OS X Disk Image
Linux tar.gz
Windows Installer

FTP Directory

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.9.2

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[J-M]

Cool finding, Antony.

This release has its own Release Notes page too. It's located at
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.0.8.html

(Mozilla Foundation) strongly recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fi; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

[Fulvio]

Nothing much has changed, since I have been using, for several weeks, the nightly. I, just, installed it in its own directory, because I am planning to keep 1.0.7, although I will use 1.0.8.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060410 Firefox/1.0.8

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP2, FF2.0.0.16, FF3.0.1, TB2.0.0.16, IE7.0, Opera9.52, SM1.1.11, Safari3.1.2, Sygate5.6; AVG8.01, JRE1.6_07

[Antony]

Thanks for the release notes link, J-M.

This could be good for Netscape 8.1.x update, at least.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.9.2

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[Fulvio]

[Antony]

[Fulvio]

Thanks, Antony. I had been attached to the 1.0.x series, but I may have no choice using 1.5.0.2 or seamonkey1.0.1. I use tthem anyway, but, to my disappointment the profile which I used for 1.0.8 died on me, after one day. May be the extentions are not as reliable as originally thought. I will try in safe-mode, and see if I can start it. The symptom is the same as withother 1.0.x profiles. Everything works fine, and then I start later, and I see only the toolbars, and they are inactive.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060410 Firefox/1.0.8

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP2, FF2.0.0.16, FF3.0.1, TB2.0.0.16, IE7.0, Opera9.52, SM1.1.11, Safari3.1.2, Sygate5.6; AVG8.01, JRE1.6_07

[gdrapeau]

Ok, I am lost here. There's a new version of FireFox 1.0.8 and (Mozilla Foundation) strongly recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.I am using FireFox 1.5.0.2 now i like to know which one is better? Should i upgrade to 1.0.8 or stay with 1.5.0.2?....Thanks

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Firefox/1.5.0.2

[Antony]

Stay with 1.5.0.2.
1.0.8 is the latest for 1.0.x series.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.9.2

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[Fulvio]

I was staing with 1.0.7 because 1.5.0.1 did not have all the extentions which I liked, as well as the fact the 1.5 series held on to more Memory.
With the upgrade to 1.0.8 the extentions field has been levelled, if not, actually making 1.5.0.2 more desirable. As for the memory, it is no big deal
(don't ask me about Netscape8.1). if any. Use 1.5.0.2, but if you like to play, use 1.0.8.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.2) Gecko/20060308 Waterunicorn Firefox/1.5.0.2

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP2, FF2.0.0.16, FF3.0.1, TB2.0.0.16, IE7.0, Opera9.52, SM1.1.11, Safari3.1.2, Sygate5.6; AVG8.01, JRE1.6_07

[ncd]

[Fulvio]

I am doing fine with 1.0.8, but have needed to created a new profile. Why the problems? I have a simple explanation. I try all sort of versions with their nightlies. Most likely, something was written in the prefs.js which was incompatible, or an extention was not completely removed. I have done some heavy editing, and found out that what is written in the prefs.js file does not go away. Extentions are uninstalled, but, lines after lines about them remain behind.
I have made 1.5.0.3 my default, but I am still using 1.0.8, and now 2.0a2. But, I keep the profiles well separated.
Will there be bug fixes for 1.0.8? I doubt it. I think that it is time to move on, but, I don't, necessarily, like where or how we are going there.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1a2) Gecko/20060517 BonEcho/2.0a2

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"I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards."
WinXP, SP2, FF2.0.0.16, FF3.0.1, TB2.0.0.16, IE7.0, Opera9.52, SM1.1.11, Safari3.1.2, Sygate5.6; AVG8.01, JRE1.6_07

[ncd]