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Firefox 1.0 released
Mon Sep 20 00:09:20 2004 Firefox 1.0
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Posted by Tony Lawrence
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Referencing: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/
I'm sure there are a lot of fixes and other nice things in this release, but for me the biggest thing was "Live Bookmarks", which integrate RSS feeds into your bookmarks. I like that a lot, though it cost me a little annoyance: my site's RSS feed didn't work. It worked fine with the older RSS reader side panel extension, and validated on every RSS validator I could find, but Firefox wouldn't read it. I finally tracked it down to my having "li rdf:resource=" tags in my "items" section, but Firefox wants "rdf:li rdf:resource=".
All fixed now. If you have Firefox 1.0, you'll see an RSS icon at the bottom right of the browser. Click on that to add a Live Bookmark.
The site is now in your bookmarks, but highlighting it shows the RSS items - which you can even open all at once (Open in Tabs) if you wanted to.
The feature still needs a little work - choosing Refresh does re-read the RSS file, but also blows you out of Bookmarks. For most sites, that's not something you need to worry about because the feed won't be changing that quickly. But for an active site like Slashdot, this could be annoying.
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---September 20, 2004
There's still one really stupid, trivial and annoying bug that prevents me from switching over to Firefox from IE6:
Whenever you go to a webpage like http://aplawrence.com/Blog/ , the logical text cursor is not automatically set, so you can't use the keyboard to PgUp and PgDn until you've clicked your mouse somewhere on the page, preferably in the frame that you're trying to scroll. The fact that they use a visible text cursor is not really a problem otherwise.
Why this wasn't addressed months ago in beta is a mystery.
--Bob
---September 20, 2004
Tony - What's with the question marks immediate following the words "PgUp" and "PgDn" above? They seem to generate links to "...?edit=PgUp" on this same page.
--Bob
---September 20, 2004
Wiki.
Any text that contains both upper and lower case is treated as a potential Wiki link. But it's slightly broken in the blog itself. Just the way it works.. if you clicked on 'em on an ordinary page you could define them.
--TonyLawrence
---October 22, 2004
The current release isn't 1.0 it's 1.0 pre-release therefore still beta.
---November 9, 2004
The official Firefox 1.0 release is now out, and I'm glad to see that they finally address the stupid little bug I mentioned earler, above. I am now an official convert, but still lacking the t-shirt.
--Bob
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