Firefox 1.0 released

Well if you haven’t heard it already (where have you been hiding?) Firefox 1.0 has finally been released.
I’ve been using it on both Windows and Debian for the last few months and love it. Why?
Tabbed browsing is the main thing for me, but it’s not the only one.
I made a few comments on it in the past when PR1 was released. I also ran into a few issues with getting its links to work in evolution
Needless to say quite a few people in the “techie” community have been talking about this today.
Tom should be providing a review later, while Slashdot et al have been raving all day (they might also have been ranting, but we’ll ignore that)
So far I have found one minor “bug”, which was not an issue in previous versions. For some odd reason FF cannot communicate properly over SSL with sites like amazon, so you have to do some messing with your settings!!
Under Tools>Options>Advanced>Validation >Enable OSCP

If you’re having problems downloading from the main site you should have a look for a torrent source. There seem to be a few floating around…
If you want to design or develop for Firefox you should really learn to use standards compliant coding: