What’s New in Firefox 2.0.0.8

Release Date:

October 18, 2007

Security Update:

The following security issues were fixed.

Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Support:

Firefox 2.0.0.8 is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5, although there are some known issues affecting some media plugins.

New Languages:

Official releases for Georgian (ka) and Romanian (ro) are now available. Beta release for Kurdish (ku) is also available for testing.

Earlier Changes:

For information about previous changes, please see the Firefox 2.0.0.7 Release Notes

Firefox 2 Features:

For an overview, please see Firefox 2 Features.

via eq2players.com:

Legends of Norrath™ is a bigger hit than we had ever imagined and we want to thank all of you that have helped by introducing four new loot cards to Legends of Norrath Oathbound booster packs. There will be two new loot cards each for EverQuest and EverQuest II.

Check out the details here:

EverQuest

EverQuest II

These addition to the Legends of Norrath packs will be retro-active to the launch of the game. Therefore, these cards will be added to the collection of every person that opened a pack that would have contained these loot cards had they been included as part of the initial assortment. If you opened a pack that would have received one of the cards, it will be automatically granted to your LoN account.

For more information visit Legends of Norrath website.

via eq2players.com:

 The Rise of Kunark expansion for EverQuest II is now available for pre-order! Can’t wait to get your hands on the expansion? Want to see what’s inside the box? Now you don’t have to wait to see it on the shelves, you can check out the RoK pre-order website and get all the details. As a special bonus, everyone who pre-orders EverQuest II, Rise of Kunark will receive a Burynai Seeker house pet!

Via the german eq2players.com site:

Gameupdate 39 wird morgen auf den US Servern aufgespielt. Da war sicherstellen wollen dass unsere Aktualisierungen qualitativ hochwertig sind, haben wir uns entschieden die internationalen Versionen für 1 Woche zu verschieben.

Damit gewährleisten wir dass die deutsche Version ausgiebiger getestet werden kann und die Übersetzung vollständig ist.

Die voraussichtlichte Freigabe von GU39 auf allen internationalen Servern, inklusive Runnyeye, ist nun für den 23.10.07 geplant..

Diskussionen dazu können auf unseren Foren geführt werden.

For those of you who are not speaking german here is a quick and dirty translation:

Gameupdate 39 will get pushed to the US servers tomorrow. To ensure the high quality of all our updates we decided to postpone the international versions for 1 week.

This ensures that the german version can get tested more extensive and translations are complete.

The anticipated release of GU39 for all international servers, incl. Runnyeye, is planned for Oct. 23th 2007.

Discussions about this can be dome on our forums.

I just stumbled upon this:

The new unified Station Launcher seems to be finally available as BETA. Go grab it now!

Station Launcher is a simple one-click application that delivers all your Station games, friends, and community news right to your desktop. Manage your Station gaming library like never before; it’s fast, easy and secure!

Via SOE EQ2 Forums: (link to Aaron “Gnobrin Gearbender” Bisnett/Community Relations Representative/Sony Online Entertainment post, link to Vanessa - Eovania - Barrera/Internationale deutsche Community Betreuerin/SOE - Community Relations post [in german]):

This is how the Rise of Kunark Retail Box should look like — artwise:

This does not really look any “kunarkish” but well it will do and actually it looks pretty descent. What do you think about it?

Via SOE EQ2 forums:

GAMEPLAY

• The Shard of Fear is now open for adventurous groups to explore (waiting for real text from a designer on this).
• Further sighting of mysterious visitors from Kunark have occurred in the waters near Freeport and Qeynos. See Admiral Marc Grenich in Qeynos Harbor and Livia Montellus in Freeport East to join in the investigations of these visitors.
• “The Tablets of the Blademaster” quest no longer requires that the player be in the Pillars of Flame zone to examine the spirit vessel.
• The Valley of the Magi instance off of the Commonlands should be functioning properly again.
• The Misty Mustang whistles should now summon pinto looking Misty Mustangs instead of Elddarian Chargers.
• The quest “A Portrait of Destiny” can no longer be shared.
• Vhalen’s Tools can now be examined outside of the Acadechism for a quest update.
• Server Performance Improvements for dungeons and raid encounters.
• Usable Items that are not usable from inventory will always show darkened out while not equipped.

PETS

• Deity pets can now be used along with collection pets.
• Pets with random names will now persist that name through zoning.

TRADESKILLS

• Provisioners now have a recipe for prickly pear pie, and no longer have two different recipes for prickly pear cookies.
• Carpenters, inspired by the Night of the Dead, have begun researching new and sinister furniture items. A limited selection is now available with more development expected to yield further results in the future!
• Harvested items will now display the level of recipes they are used in.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Mystic
• Weapon Mastery should now improve the dps, max health, attributes and crushing skill of the shaman pet

• Fury
• Pact of Nature will scribe the spell for the player even if their inventory is full

SPELLS

• Clarified the Slaughter spell scrolls to be Assassin: Slaughter and Berserker: Slaughter to reduce confusion
• Instant cast non proc spells will now get a small bonus from +spell/heal/combat art mods
• Spells that summon multiple limited pets will display that information more concisely in the tooltip.
• Inquisitor
• Contempt now uses ordination like the other spells in the line do.

HOUSING

• You can no longer relinquish your home. Instead, while moving go to your new home and buy it, your items will be moved into the new home.

GUILD BANKS

• Guild banks have been extended with several new options:
• Each guild bank tab can have its own name.
• There is a space on each guild bank tab for a comment.
• Each guild bank tab can now be set so withdrawing any quantity from a stack is considered as withdrawing one item for the purposes of the withdrawal limit.

BROKER:

• Two-handed weapons will no longer be returned in broker searches for “Primary” slot weapons.

UI

• When you run out of a charged item (* totem) the tooltip will no longer say “Charges: 5 / 5″ it will instead say “Charges:0/5″ to reduce confusion.
• There is a new UI window that will show only debuffs on your character:
• The UI window is called MainHUD.DetrimentalEffect
• The old effects window will now only show beneficial effects