Firefox 0.9 out

[Admiral]

http://mozilla.org/products/firefox

[Lucid]

Apparently it won't work if installed/unzipped on top of an earlier version. Probably not a good idea to use the uninstaller for v0.8 as I hear it could remove not only the Firefox installation but also the parent directory!! Just manually delete all the files in the directory and if needed, the installation key from the following registry location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Uninstall

Profiles need not be removed.

[Admiral]

Hmm, I just installed it on top of 0.8 (the installer version) and there are no problems here, it just asked me if I wanted to import the settings and bookmarks from IE or Firefox 0.8.
Only "inconvenient" is that I have both 0.8 and 0.9 in 'Add or Remove Programs'.

[schmosef]

Originally posted by Lucid
Apparently it won't work if installed/unzipped on top of an earlier version. Probably not a good idea to use the uninstaller for v0.8 as I hear it could remove not only the Firefox installation but also the parent directory!! Just manually delete all the files in the directory and if needed, the installation key from the following registry location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Uninstall

Profiles need not be removed.

It could delete the "Program Files" directory?!

Wow, I wish I knew the risk when I uninstalled it. I made of point of reading the installation instructions and saw how it said to not install on top of a previous version but missed any reference to the risks of using the uninstaller. I guess I was lucky because I didn't notice any ill effects, but I would have been right pissed off if I had to reinstall all my apps.

I only keep a version of firefox installed so I can occasionaly check if something I'm doing in ASP.Net for IE still looks ok for others.

[High_Jumbllama]

Originally posted by Admiral
Hmm, I just installed it on top of 0.8 (the installer version) and there are no problems here, it just asked me if I wanted to import the settings and bookmarks from IE or Firefox 0.8.
Only "inconvenient" is that I have both 0.8 and 0.9 in 'Add or Remove Programs'.

Simply go to the following and delete the appropriate key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Uninstall]

[Admiral]

thanks

[UtwigMU]

Has anyone made spellchecker to install.

It's a bit unofficial:

http://www.notestips.com/80256B3A007F2692/1/TAIO-5W9KW6

This worked on 0.8 but doesn't work on 0.9. The spellchecker installs, but it doesn't see any dictionaries.

Also:
Winstripe = yuck. I installed Qute theme.

[Greebe]

The way FF handles extensions has been rewritten in v0.9 and doesn't allow use of < v0.8 style xpi extensions. Now they use certificates to increase security to prevent hackers and malware fron encroaching into your system.

Just give them sometime to be updated

[az]

How complicated. Glad I don't have to go through this everytime a new version is released

AZ

[Kooldino]

So is .9 worthwhile?

[Admiral]

Seems a bit faster on this side.

[Greebe]

I like Wombat are waiting on the extensions to be updated before using

[Wombat]

You can tweak Firefox even more if you're running on broadband. Pipelining, and reduced painting time, among other things.

Speed up page rendering

By default, Firefox doesn't try to render a web page for 250 milliseconds, because it's waiting for data. If you add the code below to your user.js file, Firefox immediately tries to render the page, even without complete data. The drawback is on slower machines where doing a "reflow" may actually cause the total page load time to be longer.

// This one makes a huge difference. Last value in milliseconds (default is 250)
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);

Enable Pipelining

Pipelining is an experimental feature, designed to improve page-load performance, that is unfortunately not well supported by some web servers and proxies. To try it out, add the following code to your user.js file:

// Enable pipelining:
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 100);

Specify where to store the cache

To specify in which folder the cache is stored, add the following code to your user.js file:

// Path to Cache folder:
user_pref("browser.cache.disk.parent_directory","C :\\Path To Cache");

Remember to use two backslashes for the path separators if you're using Windows, e.g. C:\\Path\\Path To Cache instead of C:\Path\Path To Cache.

[leech]

Originally posted by Lucid
Apparently it won't work if installed/unzipped on top of an earlier version. Probably not a good idea to use the uninstaller for v0.8 as I hear it could remove not only the Firefox installation but also the parent directory!! Just manually delete all the files in the directory and if needed, the installation key from the following registry location:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Uninstall

Profiles need not be removed.

Just out of curiousity, where have you heard that if you uninstall it, it will delete the parent directory?

Leech

[Marshmallowman]

I have installed a bunch of uncertified extensions without any problems(so far)

Image zoomer, click to view flash...etc

Seem to work fine..