Mozilla Firebird 0.7.1 for MacOS X Out NOW!

[bengoodger]

This is a MacOS X only release. This is an <b>essential</b> upgrade for all Mac users. Basically these things are fixed:
<ul>
<li>External Application URLs open a window with an XML error in it if Firebird is set as the default browser.
<li>Save As does not work
<li>Double clicking on a tab in pinstripe opens a new tab
<li>First new window after having no windows open (just menubar) is broken
</ul>
Also the build is now static, and prebound with thanks to bryner... which means measured performance gains on warm starts ranging from 14% (Dual 2GHz G5) to a whopping 40% (average Single 867MHz G4) are now evident. (MacOS X 10.2 Jaguar and 10.3 Panther only) I haven't done cold start testing, Macs take too long to start up

Basically I fixed only the worst bugs that made Firebird 0.7 irritating or impossible to use on MacOS X.

The final build is now available for download from the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/">product pages</a>

[yusufg]

Can you not respin all the platform builds (Linux/Windows) to also be 0.7.1 (bump the version number on them). IMO, It would be less confusing

[Geronimo]

At the very least say that you are releasing 0.7.1 for the Mac.

[martind]

hm, an updated release using the current code base would also be interesting since bug #<a class="postlink" target="_blank" href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217286">217286</a> has been fixed ("Session cookie option overrides cookie whitelist"). well, maybe there'll be a 7.2 in a couple of weeks.

[jrobbio]

Cool

That is all

Rob

[thenightfly42]

Excellent, I can't wait to grab it. Thank you, Ben.

[alanjstr]

This sounds like it would be built from the 0.7 branch, so all those 0.7+ fixes won't be in it, most likely.

[MozSaysAloha]

Shouldn't the 0.7.1 release be called 0.7a, since it's fixes a few flaws on one platform?

Or...0.7 for Win & GNU/Linux and 0.7a for OS X?

[mr magoo]

[hackworth]

Finally, I can use Firebird in OS X again. Thanks!

[cb]

i do not<a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/releases/"> see it</a>

anyone else?

<a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/releases/0.7.1/firebird-0.7.1-mac.dmg.gz"> link</a> from release notes, be sure to check out the beta aqua theme!

[ehume]

i do not<a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/releases/"> see it</a>

anyone else?

<a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/releases/0.7.1/firebird-0.7.1-mac.dmg.gz"> link</a> from release notes, be sure to check out the beta aqua theme!

It's not in the release directory. It's on the product page (see Ben's revised inital post).

[ants]

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<a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firebird/releases/0.7.1/firebird-0.7.1-mac.dmg.gz"> link</a> from release notes, be sure to check out the beta aqua theme!

Where can I get the beta aqua theme?

[cb]

It's not in the release directory. It's on the product page (see Ben's revised inital post).

If it's not in the release directory, then where is it? Let's follow the url's

from the product page:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/f ... mac.dmg.gz

from the .7.1 release notes:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... mac.dmg.gz

Now both work. I think the server had not caught the update yet is all... but the ftp link started to work in FB, put a salted gzip on the desktop, and crashed... now both are working fine!

Sorry, not aqua theme but pinstripe. It is in the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/0.7.1-release-notes.html">release notes</a>. It blends in much better (but seems darker or bluer than the system stripes... I think they are thicker) and has shiney blue buttons (except stop of course)

cheers devs!

[old dn15]

The update is great. I've been tracking the nightlies lately and Firebird for Mac has been making lots of nice improvements in the last couple weeks. Thanks to anyone and everyone who's contributing to it.

It's also great to hear that Kevin Gerich's theme is going to be made default for the Mac version. It'll let Firebird make a much better first impression on new users.