Fuddland

I guess all those references to Firebird in the previous entry should be changed to its new name: Firefox. For the reasons behind the name-change, see the FAQs.

I haven’t installed it yet but I’m not expecting vast differences from the previous versions, so I don’t think it will usurp Opera’s position as my favourite browser, but I must admit Firefox wins hands down in the coolest logo competition. Foxy!

The following is an entry which follows on from the above:

1. New Stuff #1 [onlysomuch - blog]. Excerpt: Got FireFox 0.8 which, as David rightly said, if nothing else, wins the coolest browser logo competition hands down: Haven't had time to play with it much yet but Firebird had already become my default...

#1

graeme | 2004 / 02 / 09 – 20:16

Downloaded it, using it, but still going back to Opera soon :o)

#2

David | 2004 / 02 / 10 – 10:13

Downloaded it, tried using it, but got this error message:

Error launching browser window:no XBL binding for browser

The browser refused to do anything after displaying that.

After some head-scratching, I realised it was because I had deleted Firebird a few days ago but not removed the extensions from my profiles directory [found, in Win XP, in C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Phoenix\].

The Mozilla site does say to disable extensions before installing Firefox but firstly this page isn’t displayed en route to downloading the product [and am I the only person who doesn’t think “release notes” when looking for installations instructions?], and secondly I couldn’t re-install Firebird 0.7 to disable the extensions [the same error message was displayed]. I had to delete the extension directories in my profile, install Firefox then re-install the extensions.

And I’m still annoyed that the transparency levels are different from previous releases. :P

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