Firefox 1.0 is finally released

2004/11/09 in firefox

I know, I know – the whole web is full with news about that. But it’s such a cool news that it doesn’t hurt to write it down again.

Every version (win32/linux/mac/sources) can be found here:

http://64.12.168.243/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0/

for the best possible Firefox experience add the following lines to “prefs.js” in your profile folder:

user_pref(“nglayout.initialpaint.delay”, 100);
user_pref(“content.notify.ontimer”, true);
user_pref(“content.notify.interval”, 100000);
user_pref(“content.notify.backoffcount”, 5);
user_pref(“network.http.pipelining”, true);
user_pref(“network.http.proxy.pipelining”, true);
user_pref(“network.http.pipelining.maxrequests”, 8);
user_pref(“network.http.max-connections”, 32);
user_pref(“network.http.max-connections-per-server”, 8);
user_pref(“network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy”, 4);
user_pref(“network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server”, 2);

those settings activate very useful features like “pipelining”, which can increase browsing performance drasticly.

Also searching for extensions is very recommended: http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/

Plugins like Flash/Shockwave: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows.html

Okay, that should be enough for a good start with this great browser.

If you like Mozilla applications, you can also try Sunbird Calendar.