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- GuineaPig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 Comes Out Friday!--1504 Diggs--40 days ago--submitted by curtissthompson
Firefox 2.0 Public Alpha 1 Status: Solid Release Dates Next Week!--25 days ago--submitted by curtissthompson
OFFICIAL: Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 Release This Week!--11 days ago--submitted by curtissthompson
And now:
OFFICIAL: Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 PUBLIC Release Next Tuesday!
The little curtissthompson who cried Firefox seems to be a trend. - curtissthompson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11 Release Issues & Timing
* patch to change rv to 2.0a1 and branding to Bon Echo still pending (waiting on change to graphics)
o action: beltzner to either delegate or complete by Wednesday EOD
* Code Freeze planned for Thursday March 16 11:59PM
o Release to Follow next Tuesday for Alpha1
o Primary goal of release is testing for places backend
o There will be no 1.5->2.0 updates for this release
* Still need to enable nightly updates - Parmon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9to make sure as many people on digg as possible fight for first page supremacy on tuesday. resulting in no less than 20 submissions of the same story all within 10 minutes of eachother.
- akatrito, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9seriously, what's the point of this news post if we will have the official release and another news post to go with it on tuesday?
- Misos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Exactly what I was thinking.
We'll see. - furtwan1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9what about memory leaks?
- Bogtha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I thought the exact same thing the first time this story was dugg:
http://digg.com/software/OFFICIAL:_Firefox_2.0_Alpha_1_Release_This_Week_
Mozilla.org seems to be overrun with marketroids. Publishing misleading press releases, overhyping their product, making sure they get news articles for every little thing that happens... it's the kind of crap you expect from a closed-source company, not an open-source project. It leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. There's a difference between being enthusiastic, and hyping something to the point of annoyance. Articles like this are *too much*. - accidental, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This the weekly FireFox Alpha Officially coming out digg? Oh, alright it is. Great. See you all next week when we are still waiting on Firefox 2 to arrive.
- Thunders, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I'm not gonna lie, I'm kinda sick of all these pseudo firefox updates and diggs. New beta next tuesday yay! When it comes it comes it probably won't be that great anyway. Firefox feels like it's getting beefier and sluggier compared to the days of .7 yore. Anyway I'm happy Firefox is still in developement, but whatever!
- tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Frankly, from what I've read I wouldn't expect any substantial reduction in memory leaks until Firefox 3.0. Obviously there will be a few fixes between now and then but the majority of the fixes seem to have wound up in the Trunk.
Firefox 2.0 is largely an interface/experience revision. - farkninja, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7The memory leaks weren't really memory leaks at all, just a feature that cached the history of your tabs. Here is a post with an explanation of it and how to fix it.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009749.html - _Caboose_, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Actually, even with that switched off it still leaks an enormous amount of memory. I have it turned off and Firefox is currently using 208 MB of RAM.
- mikwit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I got a tinderbox (Frozen till release) release ( http://digg.com/software/Firefox_2.0_Alpha_1_Download ), and the uninstall was broken. They might want to check that before they release it (read the meeting notes, nothing about that is on there)
- LegendarySock, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6hope they fix that
side note, i'm not really eager about this version. it doesnt seem to offer me much other than changing "go" to "history." sigh. most features theyre making are already matched with extensions. tab mix plus has the session restore feature done perfectly. - gk128, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Firefox needs a built in spell check. Spellbound stops working with every release, and I still don't have it working on 1.5.0.1.
- Jozer99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3In an alpha release? Shouldn't people be pleased that it actually compiles.
- saroth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2On an open-source project, it isn't.
- ikishk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4After reading "
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009749.html" and setting it to 0 to disable it, I still get upwards of 500-750MB ram usage if I dont restart it 2 times a day. Without extensions it drops to around 3-400. There is definately a leak, and this article does nothing to solve the leak. Ever hear of DISK cache? If you are going to use ram, at least free it after a certain amount of time - cdmarcus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Some people don't like Opera. Some people don't like Firefox. The difference on Digg is that not liking Firefox makes you an idiot, not liking Opera makes you a person who likes browsers that don't break websites. At least not as badly.
- Thunders, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2And seriously you can always tell it's this guy's story due to his, in my opinion, overusage of the exclamation point.
Not trying to put you down though, honest. - kruykaze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The problem is that if you don't wait you loose all the extensions you got used to.
- ikishk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2extensions are a pain w/ nightlies. you end up having to repackage stuff after editing version numbers. Changing app.version causes other probs.
- patrickweber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3*sigh*.. you all do know that you can just run the nightlies...:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
Install it, enjoy Alpha 1 - dasch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@legendarysock: for one thing there's a completely new bookmarking system, Places.
- patrickweber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, extensions havent been a problem for me (but I guess it's because I am only using adblock). Firefox disables any incompatible extensions anyway.
My question though, how is the alpha going to be any different than the nightly extension wise? AFAIK there isn't much they can do to make the incompatible extensions work except to notify the developer and tell them that their extension doesn't work. - LKBM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Regarding memory leaks, they have been working on that a fair bit. See the metabug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320915 for example.
- tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not really. There's nothing inherently private about alpha-status software.
I suppose, though, that calling it a "public" release *is* a bit redundant in the sense that every build is publicly available... - Thezeppelin62, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2is it just me or did they say tuesday? And uhm its Tuesday. so basicly this story is bogus.
- jinexile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You're going to be waiting a while, since the majority of the memory leak bugs aren't going to be fixed in 1.5 but they already have a whole slew of them fixed in 2.0
- spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Took the words right out of my mouth.
- inaxdaze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Check out Spellbound Development for 1.5.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=351130 - albrad84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I was wondering the same thing. So what are the expected new features? Anybody know?
- cdmarcus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There have been at least two stories on Digg about the "official" release of Fx2a1... finally something OFFICIALLY official.
- jinexile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's true what most people don't realise that Alpha 1 does not have many new features implimented yet, it's mainly bug fixes and back end prep for the new features. The interface hasn't been redesigned, built in session saver isn't there, and so on.
- Parmon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The other front page story posted today gave another idea for windows users.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Config.trim_on_minimize it might be worth a try - Shinglor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Firefox copies a few more of Opera's features, hooray. Opera is free, why not just go to the source?
- DEFSMAC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1there was a story on a slashdot a bit ago about how the many leak was actually a 'feature.' having to do with the way firefox caches pages and if you have a lot of tabs open your memory usage can really climb, or something like that.
- mynameiswerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1How many times will they announce a release date?
- Nodren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1alpha implies the software isnt finished, and may have bugs, beta implies the software is finished, and may have bugs.
so no, a public alpha release isnt an oxymoron, its the stage towards the end of development for that version where they can knock out a few bugs as they impliment the final few features. - towsonu2003, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2memory leaks are real. search the bugzilla. at one time, it was called "memory leak campaign" in bugzilla.
as for 2.0, I tried it for a while (3 hours) and nothing special... Looks and behaves like 1.5. Well, it's alpha, but nothing new that has the potential to beat ie7 for now. - fa_pa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2For all the people still complaining about the (sometimes) high memory useage open IE with 25 pages and then come back.
On another note most people are not powerusers that have 25 tabs open anyway. Actually I know alot of people that still only have a single firefox window without tabs open. - Thezeppelin62, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2sweet i cant wait
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I can't tell if that's Tuesday the 21st or the Tuesday after it. Also, how can it be released already when they were still talking about what the theoreticall GUI should look like as of a week ago?
- Infobahn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I am still waiting for Firefox 1.5 to be stable.
- casiotone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1so you mean the 'public' is superfluous. perhaps you should lookup the word 'oxymoron'.
- jinexile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Opera is free as in beer
Firefox is free as in speech
To a lot of people (myself included) that means a whole world of difference. - devoinregress, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It broke my all of my extentions...
Anyone know if it passes the Acid 2 test? - dissident, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1places will get me to switch to opera if they don't bring back the option to use normal bookmarks and history. I find myself going back to the February builds before they turned places (and cairo) on... keep it simple, keep it sweet.
- o_sam_o, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes the points i make in my first post and second post are not the same, but i still stand by my statement that "public alpha" is an oxymoron and no im not going to explain it.
- mvprj84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can test it right now if you don't want to wait until Tuesday...but watch out for extension incompatibility!
http://digg.com/software/Firefox_2.0_Alpha_1_Download -
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