Firefox 0.93

The Insider · 10-08-2004 11:05pm #1

Firefox 0.93 has been released... don't know if this had ben posted already. Don't notice any major differences yet. Get it from here http://www.mozilla.org/download.html

Creamy Goodness · 10-08-2004 11:08pm

been using it for a while now don't notice anything new

unkel · 10-08-2004 11:10pm

Jaysis, only went to 0.92 a few weeks ago

Thanks for the info anyway

Stark · 10-08-2004 11:10pm

It's been released for quite a while now. It only offers security fixes over 0.9.1.

1.0 preview release should be out this week (expected release date was today).

Creamy Goodness · 10-08-2004 11:13pm

Stark wrote:

1.0 preview release should be out this week (expected release date was today).

ooohh baby can't wait for this one.

does anyone know the link on their site that shows the roadmap of what they plan to add in each release

Hankster · 10-08-2004 11:47pm

Cr3m0 wrote:

ooohh baby can't wait for this one.

does anyone know the link on their site that shows the roadmap of what they plan to add in each release

Here's the roadmap.

Cabaal · 11-08-2004 12:06pm

Hopefully the work that Moz has done to try get magazines to plug 1.0 of FF on CD's will pay off

bus77 · 11-08-2004 12:53pm

How are they planning to make their money? Get a licience fee off pc makers to put it on their systems or sumtin?

Stark · 11-08-2004 1:12pm

Cr3m0 wrote:

ooohh baby can't wait for this one.

does anyone know the link on their site that shows the roadmap of what they plan to add in each release

These 2 places are great for finding out the new features:

http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/bigger-picture.html
http://www.neilturner.me.uk/2004/Jul/13/more_on_new_firefox_features.html

Stephen · 11-08-2004 1:13pm

i don't think they're planning on making much of a profit at all. Its open source. I'd say the "payoff" mentioned above is an increased proportion of users using firefox rather than IE.

Creamy Goodness · 11-08-2004 1:18pm

according to the road map the RC1 of 1.0 is out?

anywhere i can get it?

Stark · 11-08-2004 1:21pm

It was meant to be out now, so sign of it yet. They won't release until they've fixed all their planned bugs and it seems there's 2 bugs left.

fragile · 11-08-2004 1:28pm

bus77 wrote:

How are they planning to make their money? Get a licience fee off pc makers to put it on their systems or sumtin?

They have corporate sponsorship from IBM, SUN and Novell (Not sure about IBM & Apple!)who are happy to pump cash into the project as long as it offers a viable, open source, standards compliant alternative to IE/Outlook

leeroybrown · 11-08-2004 1:31pm

0.9.3 was to fix a security bug that was present in both 0.9.1 and 0.9.2. It's good to see that they get the fixed release out so quickly.

The roadmap has always been slightly optimistic with it's predicted release dates but it should be relatively accurate as there are no big changes planned between 0.9 and the 1.0 release candidates.

Cabaal · 11-08-2004 7:06pm

fragile wrote:

They have corporate sponsorship from IBM, SUN and Novell (Not sure about IBM & Apple!)who are happy to pump cash into the project as long as it offers a viable, open source, standards compliant alternative to IE/Outlook

Well Mozilla is actually registered as a not-for-profit org corperation - http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/

Yes I'm sure funding does come from big companies such as Sun, IBM and even AOL (as there still shipping Netscape builds based on new Mozilla code) alot of there funding comes from donations http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/donate.html

so if you really like Mozilla there's no harm in giving them some money ever now and then,

Firefox 0.93

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