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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.

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

[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

[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

[Fulvio]

and the 1.0.x series have reached it's end-of-life.

Probably true, but where is being stated?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

[Antony]

and the 1.0.x series have reached it's end-of-life.

Probably true, but where is being stated?

Mozilla Corporation's RSS:

Firefox 1.0.8 Security and Stability Release and End-of-Life

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

[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

[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

[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

[ncd]

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.

Fulvio,

(I'm brand new here, so sorry for the late post.)

I too am attached to the 1.0xx versions of FF. Mainly because of extension issues, but after trying out FF 1.5.1, .2 and now .3. I think I'll wait awhile until the bug fixes show up. All that new code is showing its fragility if you ask me.

I do have one question about FF 1.0.8. Which is, since it is end of life, can we expect any bug fixes for it? I ask because as near as I can figure, FF 1.0.8 and FF 1.5.0.2 are pretty close in terms of bug and security fixes and so I expect that there will be security alerts that will affect FF 1.0.8 and I worry whether or not the Mozilla Foundation will release bug fix versions such as say, FF 1.0.8.1

Tks for listening,

Nick

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051124 Firefox/1.5

[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

[ncd]

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.

Fulvio,

I really, really hope they have the smarts to do bug fixes for 1.0.8. I was not happy how the "Young Turks" handled Mozilla Suite, nor how they changed bug reporting to a simpler, less robust system. I'm sticking with 1.0.8 for now and hope that by the time they put out 1.5.0.4, some of the bugs that need swatting will be swatted.

N

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051124 Firefox/1.5