Monthly Archives: November 2004

Firefox 1.0

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Fire­fox 1.0 is now released!

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — November 9, 2004 — The Moz­illa Found­a­tion, a non-profit organ­iz­a­tion ded­ic­ated to pre­serving choice and pro­mot­ing innov­a­tion on the Inter­net, today announced the world­wide avail­ab­il­ity of the Moz­illa Fire­fox 1.0 web browser.

See press release for more.
Down­load it from Mozilla’s homepage. Full details are avail­able on the Fire­fox homepage.
I’m using it now and it’s great. There were couple of annoy­ing issues with the last pre release ver­sion but they are now fixed.

I may back it out later as a couple of exten­sions I use haven’t yet been updated. But then I’m not doing any­thing that requires them at this moment.

Update: In the end I didn’t back this ver­sion out, and by the end of the day had updated my exten­sions to 1.0 com­pat­ible ver­sions. Ver­dict: Get it now you won’t regret it.

More Gmail Updates

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Although it is not yet men­tioned on the ‘New fea­tures’ page, Google have added a ‘report phish­ing’ link to gmail. It’s under the more options link when view­ing an email.
I for­got to men­tion a while ago that they star­ted mark­ing emails with from addresses at gmail.com, but which were not sent through gmail with the following.

Warn­ing: This mes­sage may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of fol­low­ing any links in it or of provid­ing the sender with any per­sonal information.

And then they don’t make all the links in the email click­able any­way!
Unfor­tu­nately, this one is applied too rig­or­ously for me, or at least the rules are too simple minded. For exampe, any­thing on a mail­ing list from someone with a gmail account gets flagged thus.