Firefox 1.0 Set For September

[Nomad559]

Currently In Beta

The Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday set September as the release date for its free open-source Firefox browser.

Firefox, which has been collecting accolades from users and analysts -- especially as recommendations mount to switch from Microsoft's vulnerability-plagued Internet Explorer -- is currently in beta, but is shooting for final by Sept. 14, said Mozilla's Ben Goodger in a revised roadmap posted to the organization's site.

“While we may slip past this, we want to set that date so that it gives us a near term goal to target,” Goodger wrote. A release candidate -- more than beta and a step closer to final -- will post next month, Goodger added.

Firefox is currently in beta version 0.9, which released last month, http://www.desktoppipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=21700330 and runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X platforms.

[Renew Deal]

1. I am loving my Firefox

I am plannig a vacation. I used the tabbed browsing feature and was easily able to keep my vacation planning organized. It's amazing. Besided that, it's a 4mb download. Some IE patches are 4mb.
:bounce:

[supernova]

2. I love Firefox!

It's simply amazing. I love not having to deal with popups, auto fillin to login to my fav sites, and everything.

I can't say enough good things about Firefox.

[Monte Carlo]

3. I haven't used IE since.

The version I'm using is still named "Firebird" (before legal threats), but it's still 10x better than Microsoft. No pop ups, tabbed browsing, and no Microsoft BS locked into the browser's interface.

Microsoft should be worried, and probably is. They know that web browsers are the killer app that keeps their domination over the internet.

[realisticphish]

4. God I Love Firefox

But it does have a lot of bugs. Little things, but they piss me off once in a while

:hippie:

[Not Me]

5. I used Netscape 7.x before going to Firefox

Netscape used to hog memory, and (many times a day) require a shutdown/restart of the computer. None of this with Firefox.

I have come across a couple sites that don't recognize it, and ask for IE. I usually just leave...I won't run IE or Outlook on my computer.

[Mike Niendorff]

6. hell yeah :)

Using 0.8 right now. Can't wait for 1.0 :)

The whole "extensions" concept is absolutely brilliant (and the "Adblock" extension, in particular, is absolutely the best browser feature ever).


MDN

[Nomad559]

9. Using 0.8 right now

You should download Firefox 9, Firefox 8 has a flaw.

http://secunia.com/advisories/11978/

Description:
A 6 year old vulnerability has been discovered in multiple browsers, allowing malicious people to spoof the content of websites.

The problem is that the browsers don't check if a target frame belongs to a website containing a malicious link, which therefore doesn't prevent one browser window from loading content in a named frame in another window.

Successful exploitation allows a malicious website to load arbitrary content in an arbitrary frame in another browser window owned by e.g. a trusted site.

[liberal72]

7. Hell yeah.

I declare that day an Independence Day. Independence from IE. Love my Firefox.

[BAPhill]

8. Been using it since .8

I've been waiting for a browser that does tabs like this.
No more IE for me.

:dem: