I saw an announcement at slashdot (posted by Blake), and one minute later it disappeared.

alfons - yeah, I guess slashdot decided they didn't need another article, after covering the "review of 0.9" (actually 0.9RC) just a few hours before the release.

i found a re-producible "show-stopper" for the os10 version. anyone care? and by show-stopper i mean that it will crash every time a notice dialogue box pops up and firefox is hidden in the background. down it goes and up comes talkback. or should i put this in bugzilla?

The newly revamped Firefox product page that no longer has a link to the revamped PluginDoc that I spent quite a few hours working on updating before this hit the wire? :)

I was sitting in #firefox from about 1hr before 0.9 hit the wire. We had 120 users at one stage!

I would love to abandon ie but what do users do that need mdac support for apps that are built around ie with active x controls etc. On my Mac I have been stumped for the better part of a year now since I have no alternative to my companies accounting app other than rpc or virtual pc (Which is slower but requires no PC involvement) connecting via ie to it. Any ideas?

I was shocked to see an Update button at the lower-right corner.
Geez, it seems the little boy is growing strong :)
-Anyway, I still can't get used to the winstripe theme, having already installed both Nautilus and Qute (for real platform compliance sake :) ), winstripe does the job and is coming nicely but feels as WIP to me still.

-The update.moz site isn't working for me tho (due to download counter redirecting or MIME? Since opening the jar file directly from arvid's site works flawlessly).
-To finish my blog-in-a-blog post, i'm surprised to see the servers still up after the rush to get the new version. Nice job Mozilla.org

I got Qute ASAP. Winstripe seems so flat.

Has anyone found a version of URIid that works with the 0.9 extension manager?

came across this in my daily reading:

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/006463.html
which was inspired by http://www.deanesmay.com/archives/007803.html

any news on why pinstripe for os x wasn't included in this release?

it really makes firefox much much more useable on the mac platform, but other than that, this is awesome.

Hi Asa, are there no "normal" (GTK-1) Linux builds of Firefox 0.9? My primary computer runs SuSE 8.0 and there are no GTK-2 libs available for, so I cannot use the new Firefox version. :-(

Bryner explains why they've dropped GTK1 builds here:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=84249

This makes life that bit harder for us Debian Woody users. I guess I'll have to wait for backports.org to catch up.

my opinion on fx 0.9

http://theoriginaldexta.blogspot.com/2004/06/firefox-09.html

It's a bit of a rush job at the moment, i may add to it

Hi Andrew, thanks for the information. I think dropping the GTK-1 build is a really bad decision, because there are many people who does not have the newest linux distributions with GTK-2 support.
I can understand, that they want to free space and time on the build machines for the nightly builds, but I think, that they have always enough capacities to produce a GTK-1 release version.

I was really curious about Firefox 0.9, but after two days of testing, I think this release was not worth waiting for: a lot of crashers (especially with the extension manager), an ugly new default theme, no GTK-1 builds, the new place for the profile directory (~/.mozilla/firefox), and many more really wrong decisions. :-(

Also a post about FF0.9 here:
http://igorssphere.blogspot.com/2004/06/firefox-09-review-with-screenshots.html#comments

Get it up boy! She will be happy!