June 15, 2004
Mozilla Firefox 0.9 Released
Mozilla Firefox 0.9 released.
New features in Firefox 0.9:
- Browser migration tool:
- Firefox imports Favorites, history, settings, cookies and passwords from Internet Explorer. Firefox can also import settings from Mozilla 1.x, Netscape and Opera.
- Smaller Download:
- 4.7 MB only.
- New Default Theme:
- Winstripe.
- SmartUpdate:
- A new SmartUpdate feature to notify users of new versions of Firefox.
- Help:
- A new online help system.
- Extension/Theme Manager:
- New Extension and Theme Managers to manage and update the add-ons.
Download:
- Windows installer (4.7MB)
- Linux installer (8.1MB)
- More
Update (June 29, 2004):
Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1 released. It is a bugfix release. Uninstall 0.9 before installing. No need to remove profiles though.
Website Blacklist?
Veerle suggests to set up a blacklist of those sites that force users to use Internet Explorer and don't use web standards.
If this gets a lot of exposure I'm sure most companies would want to get removed from that list. This is very drastic, I know. Most businesses don't give a damn or haven't even heard of web standards, that's a fact. Something drastic is necessary to make a change I'm afraid, something that might affect Microsoft indirectly.