Lotsa Major Software Updates!

Discussion in 'General Software' started by Anti-Trend, Sep 18, 2004.

  1. Anti-Trend

    Anti-Trend Nonconformist Geek

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    Lots of shiny new software releases, all in one day! It's like Christmas, only without all the commercialism... wheeee! :smileup:

    *Firefox 1.0.0 (Pre-release)
    *Thunderbird 0.8
    *GAIM 1.0.0
     
  2. Sniper

    Sniper Administrator Staff Member

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    thanks Anti-Trend

    updated Firefox seems to be working fine! Though people are having problems, as reported on their forums!
     
  3. ninja fetus

    ninja fetus I'm a thugged out gangsta

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    *sports the new firefox*
     
  4. Mack

    Mack Big Geek

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    Fire Fox is not doubt more efficient than exploerer. But,.... there is a BUT :mad: ,....There are certain website and online video streaming players which firefox wouldn't open lets see if the update does anything about that,....
     
  5. Sniper

    Sniper Administrator Staff Member

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    yeh, some sites dont even let you, use firefox! I guess there arent aware of it yet or something?!
     
  6. harrack52

    harrack52 Supreme Geek

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    What happens is Firefox decodes HTML differently than Explorer, and is probably more rigid than Explorer.

    The reason why some sites do not work in Firefox (probably) is because up until very recently, there weren't any standards for HTML. Now that XHTML 1.0 and 1.1 Strict are out, I think you'll start to see less and less of these problems.

    The programmers are at fault here, not the browser.
     
  7. Anti-Trend

    Anti-Trend Nonconformist Geek

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    You just need an embedded browser plugin appropriate to each stream. IE comes with lots of proprietary plugins, but you must download them seperately for Firefox. That's one of it's priciples, actually: nice and streamlined outta the box, and add functionality as you need it! Keeps it nice & non-bloated, yet flexible (just like I like my women!) :p
     
  8. Anti-Trend

    Anti-Trend Nonconformist Geek

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    Well spoken, friend! Truth is, Firefox [Mozilla, Netscape] is not broken, but MS is trying to create more proprietary "standards" (Hint: There's no such thing!).
     

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