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.