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October 26, 2003

Mozilla Firebird for MacOS X 0.7.1


Mozilla Firebird for MacOS X 0.7.1 Released

Mozilla Firebird 0.7.1, the latest version of Mozilla.org's Technology Preview browser was released today for MacOS X and is available for immediate download from:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/

This release offers a number of critical updates for users of Mozilla Firebird 0.7 on MacOS X:

  • Mozilla Firebird can now open links sent from other applications, when set as the default browser.
  • Save Page, Image, Link now works.
  • The first window opened after having now windows open is no longer disabled.
  • A couple of other bugs relating to downloading and download options have been fixed.

In addition to these fixes, performance enhancements have been made that may significantly improve start speed on systems running MacOS X 10.2 Jaguar and MacOS X 10.3 Panther, to the tune of 20-40% depending on hardware.

Development for 0.7.1 was focused on fixing critical issues that prevent Firebird from being used as the default browser. Read the release notes for more information.

Special props to bryner for helping with this release.

Posted by ben at October 26, 2003 5:09 PM

Comments

Copied my bookmarks, cookies and cookperm, and userContent.css from Mozilla and put them into Firebird, and installed Kevin's theme, and all I can say is...DAMN, this thing kicks ass. Kudos to Ben and his band of merry men (and women?), great job everyone! Very impressed!

Posted by: Joel at October 26, 2003 8:46 PM

Great work, I'm loving it already. Now how about a middle-click for new tabs that actually works? It's one of the things keeping me from using the app more often.

Posted by: Commodus at October 27, 2003 5:16 PM

Middle-click works here. You may have to program your middle mouse button to emulate a command-click to get it to work.

Posted by: Joel at October 27, 2003 5:35 PM

And with that bug fix, it finally gets to be my default browser. :) Thank you!

Posted by: Rachel at October 28, 2003 10:34 AM

The only remaining show-stopper for me is not being able to hit backspace to go back a page. Otherwise, I really love the browser. Great work!

Posted by: Joshua Gooden at October 28, 2003 5:01 PM

I guess I should say "delete", since Apple seems to need two delete keys that do two different things.

Posted by: Joshua Gooden at October 28, 2003 5:01 PM

Thank you thank you thank you

Will Firebird ever have support for OS X "aqua" style form widgets? Ala Camino?

Posted by: Neil at October 28, 2003 10:14 PM

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