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The day has arrived! Mozilla Firefox 1.0 has been released. No more Release Candidates! Of course, as you can imagine, Mozilla's website is dealing with a high volume of traffic related to the announcement, so you might want to grab the release via one of the following links: Zip Torrent, EXE Torrent, or their FTP Server.

11/04/2004 04:52 PM: Mozilla Releases Firefox 1.0 RC2 by duke
Since we're big Mozilla Firefox fans here at 2CPU.com, we've been following their progress as they encroach on their official 1.0 launch slated for November the 9th. They've made available Release Can...

10/28/2004 01:51 PM: Mozilla Releases Firefox 1.0 RC1 by duke
A lot of us around here are Mozilla Firefox fans, so I thought I'd take a moment to let everyone know that Mozilla has released Firefox 1.0 Release Candidate. This could be the last release before th...

03/22/2004 03:13 PM: Latest Mozilla Beta Impresses by Jim_
Slashdot deemed this worthy enough to post so why shouldn't I? Mozilla has a new beta version out, 1.7. Apparently it's significantly faster than the current release version. When compared to Mozilla ...

08/13/2000 07:28 PM: Mozilla and 2CPU.com by Hooz
I was notified that after the last redesign, the site got very funky looking for all of you Mozilla users. I apologize for that and I have been working on it. Thanks to the help of the mighty MalHav...

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#32633 Posted on: 11/09/2004 09:23 PM Wow the Servers are busy the Page can't be displayed

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#32634 Posted on: 11/09/2004 09:43 PM It is so busy that even the google cache of the firefox mirror list can't be displayed! 2SE_16pql0J:www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/mirrors.html+firefox+mirror&hl=en&client=firefox-a" rel="nofollow">http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache 2SE_16pql0J:www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/mirrors.html+firefox+mirror&hl=en&client=firefox-a

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#32635 Posted on: 11/10/2004 03:09 AM I downloaded firefox at nice speeds. Why such a sort time between the rc1,rc2 and the final Thanks [BOTH BOINC][SETI@HOME][2CPU TEAM][http://www.boincstats.com/signature/user_126915_project0.gif

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#32636 Posted on: 11/10/2004 10:25 AM Originally posted by elec999 I downloaded firefox at nice speeds. Why such a sort time between the rc1,rc2 and the final Thanks My understanding was the two RC's were more of an after thought and were never really in the original time table. It was a smart move doing them, with regards to their marketting blitz, as it helped spread the news to potential users. I've been using Firefox (Firebird) since 0.4 and have been pleased with it all along. v1.0 is a huge milestone for the project and the features it brings to the table are far beyond those offered by IE6.x. Mini-ITX Systems: AOpen MP965-DR Core2Duo Mobility T7500 4MB L2, 4GB DDR2 (Vista MCE)| MSI Industrial 945GM2 Celeron M 430 | Intel Little Valley 2 (Firewall) | Via EPIA EN-1500 (Firewall)|

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#32637 Posted on: 11/10/2004 12:08 PM I've "used" Firefox since .4, it's a very nice browser. Good to see them finally make it to 1.0 status. Me Webpage | If you always think like an expert, you'll always be a beginner. | "A handful of knowledgeable people is more effective than an army of fools" -Writing Secure Code, 2nd Ed.

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#32638 Posted on: 11/11/2004 12:36 AM I've used older versions of Firefox, but I always preferred Opera myself. Nevertheless I'm prepared to give it a try. It's got to be better than IE, either way. Duallies Present Gigabyte GA-8I865G775-G (3.4GHz Pentium-D 950), PowerMac G5 (4x2.5GHz G5), PowerMac G4 (2x1.42GHz G4) Duallies Past Abit BP6 (2x366MHz Celeron @ 550MHz), Intel MS440GX (2x450MHz Pentium III Xeon), Tyan Thunder K7 (2xAthlonMP 1900+), PowerMac G4 (2x533MHz G4) "There are three roads to ruin... the most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians." --Georges Pompidou

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#32639 Posted on: 11/12/2004 06:22 AM They need to figure out some way that will extend the compatibility life of extensions though. I was using the RC and all the extensions I used worked fine. Now with 1.0 release only 1 extension will work.

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#32640 Posted on: 11/16/2004 10:30 AM I have been using Opera for sometime now on Windows XP and NT and on Mac's OSX. Opera is very stable and configurable. I especially like it's ability to start up with the same tabs that you last closed down with. Firefox does not offer this. Firefox's back function (back arrow or Alt-left arrow) is as slow as Internet Explorer's - I guess this is because it is actually refreshing the page from the internet. Opera's back function can be called by simply typing the letter 'z' is very quick - I guess that it is relying only on the browser's cache. Using Firefox for the last few days (and for a short time some months ago) I noticed that it grabs a fair amount of cpu even when minimised. Opera does not. However, Opera grabs a fair amount of memory even when minimised whereas Firefox will free some memory when it is minimised. Will give Firefox another week or so before I decide which to stay with. 694D PRO (MS-6321), dual Intel PIII 1GHz, 1GB SDRAM, nVidia GeForce2 GTS

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#32641 Posted on: 11/16/2004 11:55 AM I like the layout of Firefox. However, I've found it's REALLY slow compared to IE. No idea why this is, I'd gladly ditch IE if only Firefox were faster. It also seems I'm the only one with this problem, even my roommate uses it and says its fine. Same goes for Opera and Mozilla, both painfully slow. Desktop: Core2Quad Q9450 - 8GB - GTS 450 - Audigy 2 ZS - 8 Professional 64-bit HTPC: AMD Athlon X2 5600+ - 8GB - GT430 - 60GB SSD, 1TB recording - Ceton InfiniTV4 - 7 Home 64-bit - nMediaPC 1000B case

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#32642 Posted on: 11/16/2004 08:32 PM Originally posted by Shizakapayou I like the layout of Firefox. However, I've found it's REALLY slow compared to IE. No idea why this is, I'd gladly ditch IE if only Firefox were faster. It also seems I'm the only one with this problem, even my roommate uses it and says its fine. Same goes for Opera and Mozilla, both painfully slow. Sounds to me like you have some spyware or such since from what I have read Opera is about the quickest browser out there. Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. Heat

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#32643 Posted on: 11/16/2004 11:08 PM Originally posted by EM Sounds to me like you have some spyware or such since from what I have read Opera is about the quickest browser out there. That depends on what you are measuring. So far I've found that on all computers I use IE is the quickest to start. Both Firefox and Opera take considerably longer before you get the browser on the screen. However once the programs are started they appear about equal in speed. Returning to the previous page is faster in opera than in either of the others, and the mouse guestures allone make the others look bad. I've yet to find a plugin for mouse gestures in Firefox that I'm comfortable with. Those I've tested either used gestures that were significantly diferent from what I'm used to, or is to unsensitive. Wawing the mouse all over the mouse pad is not my idea of "quick and easy". If you can lie on the floor without holding on, then you're not drunk enough.

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