one of these days, i'll do a ride like that and NOT be completely useless afterwards.
firefox missed its projected release date for the 0.9 milestone. not a big surprise there, i don't ever remember a phoenix/firebird/firefox milestone being released on time.
incidentally, i've not been terribly impressed with the release candidate, fantastic new documentation notwithstanding. the new extensions and themes managers are sluggish, as is the old download manager, and i'm not a big fan of the new theme (included for copyright reasons--it's not finished yet). drives me nuts to have firefox almost freeze every time i download something. (it works fine if you don't have the manager pop up when the download starts, but i like the progress indicator.) nevermind the longstanding memory leak in windows. and then there are all the issues with the new api's--which, granted, are not the browser's fault, per se. my favorite theme hasn't (yet) been updated and the default for 0.8 breaks one of my favorite extensions. ah well, 0.8 works for me for now, so i'm perfectly happy to wait until 1.0 (later this summer). it still beats internet explorer (and opera, for that matter) into the dust.
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according to mozillazine, firefox 0.9 was, in fact, released on the fourteenth. so i guess i'm just in the wrong time zone. the bigger picture (from the burning edge) has a fairly comprehensive list of updates since 0.8--there were a few i forgot about, including the 'set as wallpaper' dialog, the ability to copy images from the context menu. *looks again* o my goodness. they finally turned on inline autocomplete...aigh, i may have to try it again, folks.
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on that note, some linkage:
- the firefox release candidate has been reviewed at madpenguin.org, on the fedora core 2 platform.
- the mozilla store has been redesigned, go buy stuff!
- a new-to-me article from design by fire on the shortcomings of the open source movement. pg-13 for language. title insight for the unenlightened. great rant, he's voiced a lot of my own experience, particularly with web standards. (there's some other good stuff at the same site, take a look around as long as you're there.)
o, and there's a release candidate out for thunderbird 0.7. haven't tried it yet, check the forum post (see first link) for a listing of new features.
(i hate it when you're computing in a dark room on a laptop and small bugs land on the screen, because you can't kill them on the screen and you can't see them unless they are...)