we, the early adopters, would appreciate a "what's new" list at your earliest convenience. Thanks! =)

Simplex, not much, really. You're less exposed to the increasing number of phishing and spoofing attacks. That's the focus of this release. One example of that is our change to how we handle IDN URLs. Everyone should upgrade to protect themselves from these kinds of attacks.

--Asa

Simplex, Jesse Ruderman's Unofficial Firefox 1.0.1 changelog should answer your question.

Unofficial Firefox 1.0.1 changelog: http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/1.0.1.html

Any idea when Firefox users will be notified of the release through Software Update?

Randy, we won't be turning on the app update for at least a week. We metering things out so that we don't kill our infrastructure and we've got an update bug from 1.0 that causes some nasty server load and we need to schedule around the time that load peaks.

--Asa

The About box wasn't updated to read 2005. ;-)

Is the final 1.0.1 the same as the 1.0.1 candidate build that is dated 20050223? I see the build date is the same.

Asa, why did you troll?
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=140578&cid=11773653

Because it was funny?

Why is search in textboxes is still not working. Any plan on that?

me at work, because i thought it would be funny. What do you think I was trolling for other than laughs?

--Asa

1.0.1 requires that 1.0 be uninstalled (for winxp at least). otherwise both 1.0 and 1.0.1 are shown in the list of installed programs.

I just downloaded and installed 1.0.1 on my iMac. Looking good!

Will there be some statistic measuring the number of visitors to mozillazine.org or mozilla.org who have 1.0.1?

Asa, it's not good for your /. Karma, that's why. People think it's someone posing on first glance, I would think.

Also your site loses the url if you hit "Preview".

me at work, yeah, I don't mind the karma hit. I'm tired of having perfect karma all the time :-) I'll see if I can figure out what's up with the preview.

--Asa

Asa, why aren't you announcing Firefox and Thunderbird releases in netscape.public.mozilla.announce?

Asa the mozilla.org/products/firefox page is basically identical to 1.0. anyways to make it stand out a little more that there is a new release. at least at 1.1 to the end of this picture http://www.mozilla.org/images/t_firefox.gif

As Chris said, the copyright is still (c)1998-200**4**.

Around the time Firefox 1.0 was released Asa said: "Software update for Firefox is a joke. It's pretty much completely busted and I've suggested we disable it if we need to do a security update. Ben agrees, I think."

Does bug 280603 (from the unofficial changelog) mean the feature was not disabled, but rather fixed?

should remove this...people are thinking there is going to be an update to the 1.0.1 soon and think there is a problem with 1.0.1 right now becuase of it.
http://ftp25moz.newaol.com/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-aviary1.0.1/ look at last 3 files 1.0.2 ?!

Hi Asa, I only wanted to ask why the download page http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/all.html contains no hint to the FF builds for other platforms. Firefox is multiplatform, and the Mozilla foundation should point that out, even if many of these foxes are not official.

Hi, Asa!

First, please accept my congratulations on the 1.0.1 release.
I would like to make a suggestion: The release of FF 1.0.1 should be clearly visible somwehere on the FF product page(http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/) - I mean, It's hard for the average user to realize that is an update, the way it is... Also, it would be rather useful for the average user to know that the standard procedure for upgrading is to first uninstall FF 1.0 and then run the FF 1.0.1 executable... Another thing that I don´t understand is why the 1.0 download was not changed to the 1.0.1 for good? The end result is a lot of confusion because the FF 1.0.1 exec is NOT an update/upgrade install, it is a full install.

Well, maybe it's because of this: There is a 1.0.2 version, now - by the way, I already downloaded it, but not installed yet. See, we want to help to the best of our possibilities, and we know and understand you guys are overwhelmed with tons of work, but maybe just a little bit of info about what is going on could be useful to the end result we all want.

I wonder why does Firefox need "Update" feature, if I must download and setup it again?

Uhm... guys... I guess this is not the best place to post this, but since there are a lot of people here who know a lot more about Firefox than myself, I'll give it a try.

Short version is: Firefox v1.0.1 (or v1.0.2 for that matter) doesn't work for me. I guess I'm one of those who can't benefit from the 'improved stability' of the new version.

Longer version: First of all, I'm on Windows 2000 Pro. I downloaded and installed v1.0.1 for the first time yesterday. Tried to launch it... it didn't. Tried again and again. Nothing. According to Task Manager's mem usage, the .exe starts to execute, then begins going up and down in memory usage until at some point it reaches the 16,000-17,000 Kb region. Once it does (at no specific point - it can be 16,780Kb, 16,150 or whatever) it freezes. Just stays there for an indefinite ammount of time, till I 'end task' it. I tried installing the latest aviary nightly I found on the FTP. Same thing. Just minutes ago, I tried installing 1.0.2 with the same results.
I downloaded and installed the latest trunk (1.0+ 2005-02-24) and it works (although it seriously messed up CSS rendering on some sites as all nightlies I've tried after the v1.0 release).
Now, I've got several extensions installed along with a customization in userContent.css (a Deviantart.com CSS customization to be specific). I killed the extensions that -looked- to be the most 'dangerous' but the problem is still there.
One thing I should also note, is that I'm 'upgrading' the same installation. Haven't tried uninstalling and then doing a 'clean' install. However, I believe that I shouldn't HAVE to. Over a period of time, I've set up the browser as I want it to be and I'd really hate to have to go through all of that again. If it comes down to it, I'll do it but I shouldn't have to. Earlier versions disabled incompatible extensions and themes that could cause problems and everything was fine.
For reference, here's a quick list of the installed extensions:
DOM Inspector v1.0, Web Developer v0.8, Tabbrowser Preferences 1.2.2, Auto Copy v0.5.0, Javascript Debugger v0.9.84, ColorZilla v0.8.2, Download Statusbar v0.9.2, Greasemonkey v0.2.1, ChromEdit v01.1.1.

Anyway - I'm already taking up too much space. This isn't a 'hate-Firefox' post. I don't hate it, I really like it and use it. And since I'd like to keep using it, I'm looking for help and ideas to fix the problem - even if you just redirect me to another site that's more appropriate for this post. I'm available for any clarifications you might need.

Kyriakos, you could have told us which build of Firefox you installed over. There is a problem "installing" over an unpacked .zip archive build, that's been fixed for 1.0.2 in CVS (shame it missed 1.0.1, but that's sod's law for you). It works fine installing over a 1.0 build. If you're installing over a trunk build or unofficial "optimised" build, you may well have problems. The release notes say to uninstall previous version first. This will not affect your profile. On Windows, I delete all but the Plugins directory from c:\program files\mozilla firefox if I run into any problems and then reinstall. So far so good here.

Any idea when the en-GB 1.0.1 will be ready, firefox "all" page still lists en-GB as 1.0.

Any search in the search bar crashes FF.
Confirmed in many newsgroups / blogs.

For example in the FF bugs newsgroup :
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=225041

Or in a important french website :
http://www.matbe.com/actualites/commenter/8982/Firefox-101/?page=1

And in that place on february 23 ! :
"Just hit CTRL+L, enter any address, hit 'enter', and it crashes !! I can't use it"
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/007607.html

That's bug 280084. Delete components/autocomplete.xpt and try again.

Asa, I don't know if there's anything already done for this, but what about updating the start page a bit? A few words about phishing and how to prevent it could help, don't you agree?

Phil, thanks for your reply.
To tell you the truth I don't even remember which version I installed over :)
Only thing I know is that it was a February-time trunk. Probably last week's or something. I download a trunk build every now and then (3-5 days or so) and play with it. Haven't had any startup problems so far.
Anyway, I tried what you suggested. Cleared up everything in the Firefox dir apart from the plugins folder, installed v1.0.1, launched it... nope. Nothing. Other than freezing somewhere in the 15Mb-16Mb mem usage region instead of 16Mb-17Mb. Nothing. Same freeze. Then I went into my profile dir, and totally killed the extensions folder. Now I'm typing this from inside v1.0.1.
However, I'm still somewhere I didn't want to be. I got a totally clean install (bar my bookmarks that is).

Can someone from Mozilla contact The Register ASAP, and tell them that IDN support hasn't been turned off...?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/25/mozilla_nixes_idns/

I just wanted to add that after the "clean" install I performed earlier, I cannot install most of my old extensions that I've tried. Is that normal? Are v1.0 extensions considered incompatible?

About The Register article,

I sent a mail to the author and submitted a formal complain for slander to The Register editorial staff. The article is outrageous and tarnishes Mozilla Foundation's reputation.

Any upgrade paths available? I don't want to upgrade until I know I won't loose my installed extentions and live bookmarks :)

Hai Asa,
Congratulations but i was wandering why wa there not a paper with the download how to reinstall it. In the Forums you see lots of questions about this subject.
In future better write an instuction. Today nearly 200 visitors at my website seeing the donload instructions. To much confusion. No good for Mozilla.

Good work

Does anyone know when FireFox are releasing the new build 1.0.1 for GB?

There are 1.0.1 en-GB builds at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-aviary1.0.1-l10n/ ,though why there no 1.0.1 en-GB builds among some others in release directory is what I wonder about, unless they have not be tested yet or ...?

I have problem. I have installed/reinstalled 1.0.1 several times with same outcome.

Most of the times (on rare occasion that doesn't happen) during opening and closing FireFox application (last window) CPU time jumps to 100% for several seconds (about 5 sec on my machine), effectively freezing machine. *Very* *annoying*.

This is on WinXPsp2, P4@3GHz, 1GB RAM.

I have downgraded to back to 1.0 :-(