download firefox 1.0.1

Firefox 1.0.1 has been released. Dont know about know but this morning the mirrors hadnt updated. my upgraded version of firefox 1.0.1 is crashing loads with this bugfix release. Either this release it buggy or it has corrupted my profile. Find the download link at slashdot or neowin.

NOTE: This is NOT a nightly build


Edited by huwnet - 25 February 2005 at 1:46pm

I dont like firefox. I dont see a single point what makes fire fox better than IE/Netscape. Ok, I see there are alot of differences in IE and FireFox, but what's different in FireFox and Netscape? I once faced an error in FireFox it had soemthing like "Navigator is going to close now". Are they using Netscap's code?

I found Firefox to be that bit slower than IE (apparently this is because the rendering engine (Gecko?) follows the W3C standards, there are more definitions than there is in IE).

But the new version of Firefox (1.0.1) seems to be a little buggy and slow (applicationwise, not website rendering).

But in fairness, Firefox is a better browser by far. Try it for a week and you will see. I didn't like it at first, till I used it for a week, now it's all I use unless I have to use IE.

I played around with the 0.8 builds and didn't like them, but when 1.0 rolled around, it became worth switching.

The earlier versions kept crashing, which is why I didn't use them beyond tesing the waters.

To put it another way, MS declared it would stop development on IE, and recently announced IE 7 will be coming out. You know why.

Until IE 7 comes out, FireFox is the best browser available.

I've loved Opera's mouse gestures for years, but Opera never seemed to make it to the level of usability that IE or FireFox has. It now looks like Opera is switching their strategy to focus on mobile and embedded applications. We'll see what happens...