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bassrek

May 25 2005, 12:02 PM

Named after the Houston suburb and hometown of Astros' pitcher Andy Pettitte*, the first alpha of Firefox 1.1 is now available.

Official release news:
http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=6680

QUOTE

Asa Dotzler has announced that release candidate builds of Deer Park Alpha 1 are now available. Deer Park is the codename for Mozilla Firefox 1.1 and Deer Park Alpha 1 is a preview of 1.1 aimed at developers. The builds available today are Deer Park Alpha 1 release candidates.

Deer Park Alpha 1 intentionally uses a codename rather than the Mozilla Firefox branding to dissuade end-users from downloading the preview (an end-user beta will be available closer to the final 1.1 release). In the tradition of Mozilla renamings, Deer Park Alpha 1 has previously been referred to in planning documents as the Deer Park Developer Preview, the Firefox 1.1 Developer Preview and Firefox 1.1 Alpha. Note that while this release is termed as an alpha, it's actually based on the Mozilla 1.8 Beta 2 code. The final Firefox 1.1 release will be based on the final 1.8 code.

What can you expect in 1.1? Good question:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/deerpark/whatsnew.html

When will the final version be released? Another good question:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/roadmap.html

* OK, it probably wasn't really named after the city, but it is a Houston suburb and home of Andy Pettitte...

sjthomas

May 25 2005, 02:11 PM

Sounds pretty nice, especially the sanitiser. People make some cash making applications for just that purpose so looks like there out of business

The cookies browser sounds interesting as well.

bassrek

May 25 2005, 04:25 PM

We'll I've finally jumped into the world of Firefox nightlies

I'm using last night's (25 May) build as we speak and so far, so good.

The overhauled (and much-hyped) options window is a big change with the options running across the top rather than down the side. 1 thing off the top is the granular control of what javascript to permit is gone, rather, there is an option to disable "annoying" elements. I don't know if I like that or not...

The cookie browser is pretty cool, a very handy way to check out what people are storing about you. The "blazing forward and backward" functionality seems to work well so far. There seems to be concern that it's a memory hog, but with 2GB, I'm not worried

This version is also using the new Gecko engine (I'm pretty sure...) so I'm interested in seeing how it performs. I may throw together a few pages to test the new CSS features it supports just for the heck of it.

Waleed

May 26 2005, 10:15 AM

is it safe to use? I mean it won't go and ruin my browsing in some twisted whacky way will it?

bassrek

May 26 2005, 11:35 AM

I'm not brave enough to install the .exe. I downloaded a nightly zip file from mozilla ( http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...y/latest-trunk/ ), so it doesn't make any registry changes or anything. Other than one of my extensions not working, I haven't had any problems yet.

Waleed

May 26 2005, 12:12 PM

i think i'll wait till the .exe is safe....

bassrek

May 26 2005, 12:18 PM

He he... that's probably the wise thing to do. It's hopefully just a month or so away...

Waleed

May 26 2005, 04:35 PM

I think I can wait.... *tap, tap, tap*

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