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Firefox 0.9 released

June 16th, 2004

The Mozilla foundation released the latest version of their Firefox web browser last night. Since I’ve been using 0.8 for quite some time now, I immediately downloaded it last night. Aside from changing the default theme it comes with, most of the changes are slight. They seperated the extension manager from the Options menu, gave the option to close the download manager when all downloads are complete, and changed the theme/extensions installer. Overall, it seems like an improvement. The only problems I had were with getting my mouse guestures and googlebar extensions working properly.

There was a big hubub about the new default theme, and I see what they were talking about. The new theme - dubbed “Winstripe” - doesn’t even compare to the Qute theme. I don’t know exactly what they were looking to gain from the new theme, but I hope they either improve the look or go back to Qute.

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