{"id":14348,"date":"2004-02-10T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/10\/mozilla-firebird-firefox-08-mozilla-thunderbird\/"},"modified":"2004-02-10T00:44:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-10T00:44:00","slug":"mozilla-firebird-firefox-08-mozilla-thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/10\/mozilla-firebird-firefox-08-mozilla-thunderbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Firebird Firefox 0.8, Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Firefox\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/firefox_large3.png\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/press\/mozilla-2004-02-09.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla Firebird version 0.8 has being released<\/a> and has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/firefox\/firefox-name-faq.html\" target=\"_blank\">renamed<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla Firefox<\/a>.  Some of the new features include an improved download manager, a real Windows installer (no big deal for geeks versed in the lore of .ZIP, but still nice :-p), and improved handling of some file types.  Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/releases\/\" target=\"_blank\">complete list of release notes<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/help.mozillazine.org\/firefox\/faq.html\" target=\"_blank\"><acronym title=\"Frequently Asked Questions\">FAQ<\/acronym> page<\/a>.  The one thing that I&rsquo;m not sure I like is the availability of extensions.  I have a bunch of extensions that I use to add even more functionality to Firefox, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/firefox\/releases\/#install\" target=\"_blank\">installation notes<\/a> state that you should disable any Firebird extensions before installing Firefox.  I&rsquo;m still playing with Firefox, and so far I haven&rsquo;t had any problems re-enabling <a href=\"http:\/\/texturizer.net\/firefox\/extensions\/\" target=\"_blank\">extensions<\/a>, but it&rsquo;s definitely something to keep in mind when installing over an old version.  This is only the first day of the release, so I&rsquo;m sure that their servers are swamped and the extension situation will be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/products\/thunderbird\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 was released today<\/a>.  The main new addition is the ability to synchronize address books with Palm <acronym title=\"Personal Digital Assistant\">PDA<\/acronym>s (long overdue), but there is a multiple identity feature that looks intriguing as well.  Take a look at all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/thunderbird\/release-notes.html\" target=\"_blank\">new features and fixes of this release<\/a>.  I don&rsquo;t have a PDA yet to test Thunderbird&rsquo;s capabilities with this, but it certainly spurs me on to buy one now that I know I&rsquo;ll be able to synch properly.<\/p>\n<p>As many of you know from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/custom?q=mozilla&amp;sa=Search&amp;cof=AH%3Acenter%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.driko.org%3BAWFID%3Ac69b7d6cfab1342e%3B&amp;domains=www.driko.org&amp;sitesearch=www.driko.org\" target=\"_blank\">frequent raves about Mozilla products<\/a>, I use the Mozilla Firebird web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail application pretty much exclusively (unless an application forces M$ upon me).  I can&rsquo;t say enough about how much I prefer them over M$ products, although from the frequency of my posts about them, I guess I say a good amount. \ud83d\ude09  I won&rsquo;t belabor the point too much, but I find these products indispensable and infinitely more reliable and secure than the equivalent M$ products.  Try them out and you&rsquo;ll see, or feel free to post a comment with any questions or opinions&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-107634000747714136?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Firebird version 0.8 has being released and has been renamed to Mozilla Firefox. Some of the new features include an improved download manager, a real Windows installer (no big deal for geeks versed in the lore of .ZIP, but still nice :-p), and improved handling of some file types. Check out the complete list &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/02\/10\/mozilla-firebird-firefox-08-mozilla-thunderbird\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mozilla Firebird Firefox 0.8, Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 Released&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}