The latest version is Fire Fox 2.0.0.9 released in 2007. See http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox or http://getfirefox.com

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[2004.12.11] Brian Livingston publishes the free (or subscription-supported) Windows Secrets newsletter, featured Fire Fox 1.0 recently, with some good tips: http://windowssecrets.com/041202/ -- ?tr

www.spreadfirefox.com -- Alan Bourke

One excellent feature is the ability to use external Fire Fox Extensions, developed by the community and free. -- Alex Feldstein

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LangaList has some really good stuff, too. (another subscription based newsletter) Check out his Browser Tune utility. -- Randy Jean

Good article by Fred Langa - Pros and Cons of Firefox: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=160900911

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[2004.09.27] So, can I automate it in any way?
I had (emphasize the PAST tense) it on my machine but it messed things up quite a bit.
let's say IE and FF are 'not quite amused with each other'.
If I can use it in automated processes I might consider reinstalling it and removing IE anyway.
I have to say, it IS blazing fast. - Boudewijn Lutgerink

Lightning Fast Browsing Trick For Internet Explorer And Firefox
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/333720/lightning_fast_browsing_trick_for_internet_explorer_and_firefox/

Boudewijn, I've never heard of IE and FF casuing any problems at all with each other, they're completely seperate. The only thing that might cause problems I suppose is having .HTM files associated with FF. What was happening exactly? --AlanBourke

I'd be interested in knowing this too. I have a few IE automation apps out there that could be swapped with FF, unless it can't be automated. - William Fields

There's Mozilla ActiveX Control at http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm

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There's a pluggin for Fire Fox that enables capturing of HTTP headers, really helpful for designing web app automation interfaces. It's called "Live HTTP Headers" and can be found at http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/ -- William Fields

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I don't see it, but hey I am Dutch, quite an excuse.
How does this help me in automating processes? does it allow me to create an object of FF?
'cause that's what I'm looking for actually.
Boudewijn Lutgerink

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[2004.06.16] Yesterday I finally installed the latest release of the Mozilla Fire Fox web browser. I'm using the 0.9 release described and available here: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

Today I am remapping everything I used to do from IE 6 to Fire Fox. People, trust me, IE6 is a sorry piece of shit compared to Fire Fox. What I like best, however, is the IE the usage idioms including shortcut keys map cleanly in Fire Fox.

So far I've had only one small problem, importing favorites, but I've worked around that.

-- Steven Black

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The Fire Fox addin Reputation Management system: http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/showlist.php?type=E&application=firefox&category=Top%20Rated&numpg=150

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Another goodie coming from the Mozilla team is the new e-mail client : Thunderbird, a very interesting project. -- Emmanuel Huybrechts

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I like Firefox, also. However, when I use it on the UT, it does not change the color of the message link to indicate I've read a message. Thus, it's hard to see which ones I've read and which ones I haven't. This is a known bug with the browser. See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78510 - doesn't look like it'll be fixed anytime soon.(There's a patch just gone in for this, it looks like it wil be fixed for 1.5)

Also, neither Firefox nor Mozilla seem to be able to get thru our proxy. We're using SBS 4.5 which includes MS Proxy 2.0 (which is junk, I hear, but we are stuck with it for now). - Del Lee Update - I got it to work by taking the http prefix out of the proxy settings. It now prompts me for my password, but works fine thereafter, except for the message link color problem on online forums. Yet another update - 1.0PR version no longer issues the prompt for the password, so another minor annoyance gone.

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I really like firefox, and we are using it at the offfce also. However sometimes
when I have other java applets open, when I pop open ANY menu, such as in Word, VFP,
Outlook... The shadow to the menu flickers wildly. Im on Win XP

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Zoom functionality is an important one to me, too, and Mozilla & Firefox are the best I've found, with Ctrl+ and Ctrl- for almost infinite zoom in and out. FireFoxRox! -- Ted Roche

Another useful shortcut is CTRL-0 (zero) to restore the default text size -- Stuart Dunkeld

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Man this thing is FAST ! It really cuts the crap and gets down to it. -- Jamie Osborn

Lightning Fast Browsing Trick For Internet Explorer And Firefox
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/333720/lightning_fast_browsing_trick_for_internet_explorer_and_firefox/

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Firefox blows 'the rectangle' away. Ya want mouse gestures in Firefox? -- Alan Bourke

Man, that's cool! -- Steven Black
There's also another Mouse Gestures extension which includes gestures for resizing text and images. -- Stuart Dunkeld

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Another tip: tabbed browsing rocks. Middle-click (on the wheel, if you have one) to open a link in a separate tab, in the background. Great when visiting Recent Changes and you want to read several topics. Just middle-click on the tab to close it.-- ?tr

I recently got into Firefox. Been using it for a week in my notebook and I like it. This tabbed browsing thing is very nice! -- Alex Feldstein

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This may sound trivial, but one of the things I really like is that Fav Icons actually work! -- Randy Jean

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When I quit Firefox, how can I save automatically my open tabs like Opera ? I don't see any options to do this. BTW, Firefox seems a little short on options to configure it. -- Emmanuel Huybrechts

The Session Saver extension does exactly this - http://texturizer.net/firefox/extensions/#sessionsaver - note that the extension architecture for 0.9 is different from previous versions and this extension is the old type. You would probably want to install the 'Show old-style extensions" extension from http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=49&vid=51&category= or wait for an updated version of Session Saver.

To see or change all the options available in Fire Fox type about:config in the address bar.

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I have been using this browser for the past year and I am very happy with it. -- Simon White

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If you develop web pages at all, you must try the Web Developer extension - features include live CSS editing, converting POSTs to GETs, disable referrer logging, outline table cells - see the feature list here and get the extension here

There are very powerful web development tools bundled with the browser (default install) - see the Tools menu for the DOM inspector and Java Script console/debugger. View Page Info is useful too. There's a page which explains these here.

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My favourite thing in Firefox is the keyboard-centric design. For example; just type and it does an incremental search of all the links on the page. Hit enter to go to the highlighted link. Press / and you can search the whole text of the page, not just the links. You can set "Find as you type" to search text as well as links by default in tools/options/advanced. The printing seems to work much better too (although IE prints pages from support.microsoft.com better, surprise surprise.)

However, I use a fairly old PC at work and Firefox is awfully slow. I don't mean the understandable longer startup time (IE uses a lot of files which are cached by the time you try to start it,) I mean it takes 5seconds+ just to draw the options window if you click Tools->Options. Everything else is similarly slow. IE is definately a LOT faster on this PC (P1-266, 192MB RAM) for whatever reason. I use FIrefox at home though.

Maybe try the latest version (if you haven't)? My PII 366 laptop with Win XP shoehorned into 64 MB RAM displays Tools-Options in Fire Fox 0.9 in a second or less. Also now that extensions have been removed to their own dialog the Tools-Options dialog doesn't need to read you extension details each time it starts.

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I love Fire Fox but one thing was bugging me. In the current version (0.9) - I was getting a Locate Link Browser popping up now and then in MS Outlook. If you are seeing this - here's how to fix it -
1. Open Explorer
2. Select Tools and then Folder Options
3. Select the File Types tab
4. Select Extension: (NONE), File Type: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (On XP this is listed as URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol)
5. Click Advanced toward the bottom of the window
6. In the Edit File Type window, select open and click Edit
7. Clear the DDE message box (which should contain "%1")
8. Click OK, Click OK
9. Repeat for File Type: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol with Privacy
-- Jamie Osborn

Thanks for this tip Jamie! FYI, on my XP machine the extension (NONE) was there like you said, but on my Win2k PC the extension is under N/A -- Randy Jean
Mine (also W2K) was under "URL:", and fixing this solved my only issue. -- Steven Black
I just "fixed" it by installing Thunderbird as my new email client. -- Randy P

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Fire Fox works fine with proxies like Proxomitron (sadly not maintained anymore but you can still get it). It cuts out all those annoying blinking stinkin' ads, and more! -- Alex Feldstein

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I have firefox installed in my Win XP box. I get some problems here. 1) It doesn't get the latest web page for certain web site. 2) I login to UT, visit UT magazine and read article. Fox Fire want to login twice. And, it break my UT main page "session". IOW, I got to relogin to UT. Any ideas? I have enabled cookies.

UT is very IE-centric in my opinion. It may be one of those sites that you are forced to use IE for. -- Alan Bourke
It used to be but recently Michel made a lot of adjustments so it would work better with Mozilla, Fire Fox and Opera.

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Exploit for all Mozilla-based products, only vulnerable under WIndows XP, patch available at http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=154, details at http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/20040708-3972.html -- tr

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I tried a VFP web COM server with FIREFOX 1.0 and also with MOZILLA and they both have the same problem with FOXISAPI.DLL.

When I click on a link - http://localhost/bbsr/foxisapi.dll?Method=Register or
on another like - http://localhost/bbsr/foxisapi.dll?Method=StartPage&userid=_1DN06CA9N

this works as it should and opens the correct page.

But when I click on a link like - http://localhost/bbsr/foxisapi.dll?Method=getpage&TagName=VisualFoxPro&userid=_1DN06CA9N

or like - http://localhost/bbsr/foxisapi.dll?Method=getpage&TagName=RecentChanges&userid=_1DN06CA9N

both Mozilla and Firefox open a dialog box asking me what to do with the file FOXISAPI.DLL - Open With (Default) or Save File. Why do they open a dialog box and not IE? Stranger still is if I do opt to "SAVE", a file foxisapi.dll is created which is not the actual foxisapi.dll but which is the HTML output from the COM which should have been displayed in the browser.

Any ideas anyone?

Yes: incorrect MIME types set on the server, which IE ignores.

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Security and Privacy - This may be common knowledge to most, but it was new to me a couple years ago. If you are concerned about other people using your PC and are not setting up separate Windows logins AND are using Password Management (which I think is the default), be aware that your login names and passwords can be viewed under Tools/Options/Security with Show Passwords. Consider not using Password Management OR set a master password that must be entered in order to encrypt the passwords and be able to view them (this is what I wound up doing - it's simple and not too much of a hassle since I only need to enter when I want to view passwords).

I was caught off-guard by this when using a friend's PC to view email, etc. and (at least with 1.5 version of FF) was not prompted if I wanted passwords saved. Then, later, my friend stumbled on my passwords while cruising through the options dialogs. Fortunately, he was a friend and told me about it. Also a good idea to check that public PCs you may use (regardless of browser) are not silently saving passwords. -- Randy Jean

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/psm/help_21/using_priv_help.html#encrypt_master

http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2005/09/25/browser-comparison-password-management/

"Firefox’s ability to display passwords in cleartext appears to be a terrible security hole. Don’t let me play on your computer for even two minutes if you use Firefox - I’ll have your passwords for all your favourite sites and, if you are like much of the world, you use the same password for your Pay Pal and eTrade accounts too." (Unless you have a master password set, that is.)

Scary.

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