Darkelve Posted February 9, 2004 Report Share Posted February 9, 2004 Read it here: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adriaan Posted February 9, 2004 Report Share Posted February 9, 2004 Many people I see already not happy with the name change, hopefully they will understand!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnubie Posted February 9, 2004 Report Share Posted February 9, 2004 I think Firefly would have been a cooler name. B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted February 9, 2004 Report Share Posted February 9, 2004 It renders sites pretty fast, Here is a shot, not that it is major difference from firebird ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted February 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2004 (edited) Darn, the site is down, just as I was going to download it. Okay, 'fess up: who of you put this on slashdot!? :P And ohhh... I like the window decoration of firefox Edited February 9, 2004 by Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted February 9, 2004 Report Share Posted February 9, 2004 Took me awhile to download it too. Just keep refreshing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted February 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2004 (edited) Hey Cybrjackle, I found mirrors on slashdot. I looked for the news article and there were mirror links under a post called 'slashdotted'. lol Darkelve Edit: whoaa, this is fast! Faster than Opera in a lot of areas and nearly as fast in the rest... for my part they could've called this firejet.... Edited February 9, 2004 by Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted February 10, 2004 Report Share Posted February 10, 2004 My friend just got it. He says that some rendering problems that were in .7 were fixed in .8. The first thing I heard of the name Firefox was "Now Clint Eastwood will claim trademark infringement" (there is a movie Firefox about a jet plane or something). :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero0w Posted February 10, 2004 Report Share Posted February 10, 2004 One thing Linux users may notice, is that Firefox (and hence its Gecko rendering engine) has slimmed down in size with version 0.8. Comparing with Firebird 0.7, the Firefox gtk2+Xft tarball is 1.3 MB less in size (8.6MB vs 7.3MB) - getting closer to its Windows counterpart. Many suggests that Firefox is running faster than Mozilla 1.6, but I guess YMMV on this one. Note, to curious users, that Firefox, Thunderbird and eventually Nvu (the Mozilla Composer spin-off, development funded by Lindows) will serve another purpose more than mere independence. If the Gecko engine and XUL (XML User Interface) these application use can continue to slim down in size like the progress Firefox has shown, eventually XUL can become a cross-platform GUI itself, just like Qt, GTK, and wxWindows (more than that, Gecko is an HTML/XHTML/XML rendering engine which other GUI toolkit lacks). Firefox' improvement is a good indication how XUL can stand on its own as a cross-platform GUI toolkit. In fact, Microsoft will incorporate its own version of XML-based inteface scheme, called XAML, in Windows Longhorn. Consider XAML as a competition to Mozilla's XUL, just like C# will try to dominate against Java (more exactly, Microsoft wants its own control of API rather than agreeing on standard). Probably there won't be a Browser War 2, but Microsoft is once again competing with the legacy of Netscape, this time in terms of the technology behind them: XAML vs XUL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capnkirby Posted February 10, 2004 Report Share Posted February 10, 2004 You can find RPM packages easily installed via urpmi here: Chip's RPMs Capn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chin808 Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 One thing Linux users may notice, is that Firefox (and hence its Gecko rendering engine) has slimmed down in size with version 0.8. Comparing with Firebird 0.7, the Firefox gtk2+Xft tarball is 1.3 MB less in size (8.6MB vs 7.3MB) - getting closer to its Windows counterpart. Many suggests that Firefox is running faster than Mozilla 1.6, but I guess YMMV on this one. Note, to curious users, that Firefox, Thunderbird and eventually Nvu (the Mozilla Composer spin-off, development funded by Lindows) will serve another purpose more than mere independence. If the Gecko engine and XUL (XML User Interface) these application use can continue to slim down in size like the progress Firefox has shown, eventually XUL can become a cross-platform GUI itself, just like Qt, GTK, and wxWindows (more than that, Gecko is an HTML/XHTML/XML rendering engine which other GUI toolkit lacks). Firefox' improvement is a good indication how XUL can stand on its own as a cross-platform GUI toolkit. In fact, Microsoft will incorporate its own version of XML-based inteface scheme, called XAML, in Windows Longhorn. Consider XAML as a competition to Mozilla's XUL, just like C# will try to dominate against Java (more exactly, Microsoft wants its own control of API rather than agreeing on standard). Probably there won't be a Browser War 2, but Microsoft is once again competing with the legacy of Netscape, this time in terms of the technology behind them: XAML vs XUL. jesus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 The first thing I heard of the name Firefox was "Now Clint Eastwood will claim trademark infringement" (there is a movie Firefox about a jet plane or something). :) That's what I was wondering. :-) Hey will if they changed the name once due to something else apparently being named Firebird etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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