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You must be talking about this http://mozillanews.org/?article=1837003d295cdddb31 a353594e95bce1

Firefox 2 which will be out in the third quarter of 2006 is the last version of Firefox to support Windows 9x. Mozilla has a policy of supporting a milestone release till two add ional milestone releases are made. This means that Mozilla will be supporting Firefox 2 with security patches until Firefox 4 is out or whatever the milestone release after Firefox 3 is named. An educated guess would be that Mozilla support of Firefox 2 will end some time around the middle of 2008.

"So they kind of lied, and wouldn't Opera would be vulnerable if the user has Java installed?"

Opera? Lie?. Nah, couldn't be.

1.7? a while ago,
Its really 1.7.7

I said Google bought Mozilla. :)

Mozilla was a long time a developement framework
However developeing a browser is much more inspiring that building a framework.

So i think the question "should we release mozilla 1.8" is a valid question since it is starting too lose from thunderbird/firefox. Maybe they just should maintain a Unstable(trunk) and an stable (1.7.x) branch and let the forking (foxfire/thunderbird/minimoz) make the applications.

Mozilla will die... long live mozilla!

earlier I did post story on this subject and get rejected , then I submitted the same story at OSNews here , it's on front page there hours ago, wtf slashdot?
anyway, this is text of story:
In sad news for people who prefer Mozilla Suite over Firefox, seems will be there no Mozilla Suite 1.8 Final while developers already start talking about fork , others are just happy over the situation. More here.

Nice conjecture you have there, but in fact there's no reason that the embedding application needs to be very dependent on the inner workings of the component -- that's the whole reason behind object embedding specs like KPart and ActiveX.

Apparently XUL templates is the way to go, but I don't know how to supply the datasource implemented with JavaScript.

"1.7.4 was reserved for any neccessary security update before the bigger 1.7.5 update."

http://mozillanews.org/?article_date=2004-11-24+21 -26-21

Damn. Always preview. This story on MozillaNews I mean.

(This 2 minute Slashcode post delay rule is really stupid BTW, and I'm not a cowboy.)

These maybe? I'm pretty curious myself, because nobody in #firefox on GimpNet seems to know either.

MozillaNews mentions a workaround, but that doesn't solve the problem for me if I start with a fresh profile, and I don't recall ever having done that with this profile either.

MozillaNews has a post describing how to unconditionally turn on the location bar in a window. This reveals that the popup comes from Secunia.com (Having the Spoofstick extension for Firefox also reveals the originating site. Also the Mozilla bug number is 273699.

According to MozillaNews the following work around can be applied to Mozilla/Firefox:

1. Enter about:config in the Location Bar.
2. Enter dom.disable_window_open_feature.location in the filter field.
3. Right-click (Ctrl+click on Mac OS) the preference option and choose Toggle (the value should change to true).

This issue is already being worked on bug 273699 (copy link location, paste) filed a few hours ago.

As a side note, being able to see the bug fixing progress unfold is one of the many reasons why i love open source. I am able to learn so much from just seeing the process take place from start to finish, how it is reported, test cases created, problems that arise, insights into other parts of the system, who the people involved are, reviews, patches, etc.

The html got messed up somewhere along the line. Here's my original submission:

An article on Mozillanews.org is reporting on Google's registration of the domain Gbrowser.com (nothing to look at there yet). The article provides a summary of rumours that Google will release a branded version of Mozilla Firefox (along with some interesting speculation).

The html got messed up somewhere along the line. Here's my original submission:

An article on Mozillanews.org is reporting on Google's registration of the domain Gbrowser.com (nothing to look at there yet). The article provides a summary of rumours that Google will release a branded version of Mozilla Firefox (along with some interesting speculation).

In Mozilla (and I assume Firefox; it did the last time I tried it), you don't even need to do this. Just type in site, without the 'www' and the 'com' and hit enter; it will automatically try the site with the 'www' and the 'com'.

Unfortunately, that only works if you aren't behind a proxy. When I try that, I get a message from Squid telling me there was an error "While trying to retrieve the URL: http://HOSTNAME/" because it can't find the host HOSTNAME.

Funny enough, IE for Mac works the same way (I know they're from completely different code bases, but you think someone would suggest it to the IE Win team).

Now that they are regrouping, maybe someone will.

(from Burning Edge)

New features

* Windows installer
* New download manager
* Work Offline
* Add Bookmark dialog: recent-folders dropdown and folder-selection tree (replacing a single dropdown listing all folders)
* DOM Inspector is now included in zip builds
* IDN support
* IPv6 support on Windows 2000/XP/2003

Major improvements

* 220807 - prompt user about invalid text/plain content. (Solves most problems like "Firebird tries to display some .rar files instead of downloading them.")
* 214266 - Find should wrap by default
* 217286 - Cookie whitelist should override session cookie option.
* 142459(?) - Shift+click and middle-click on scroll bar should jump to that location
* 214260 - XPInstall UI improvements
* 33282 - enable external scheme handlers (like aim: and telnet:) in Linux
* 6% faster page loading (comparing December to September on a Tp (pageloader time) graph)

Important bug fixes

* 210910 - Right-clicking a file within a bookmarks folder in the bookmarks menu or toolbar makes that folder inaccessible.
* 203102 - URL typed into address bar lost after switching tabs; "Open in new tab" should prefill URI in address bar.
* 222157 - View Source: Find and Save don't work.
* 213250 - Autoscroll prevents middle clicking on links in XML (XHTML) documents.
* 224416 - Tabs don't remember focused element.
* 216170 - Send Page (as Link) omits query string
* 98564 - caret overlaps the last character in textfield (if positioned after the last char).
* 212366 - Make -moz-opacity apply to descendants as a group, as required by CSS3 opacity
* 219705 - Linux: Blackdown Java crashes, saying "Internal error on browser end".
* 102578 - Linux: Clicking wrongfully fires onmouseout (breaks some dhtml menus, css/edge menus)
* 201209 - GTK2: -moz-opacity makes things invisible.

... and much more!
You can also download a non-installer (.zip) build based on official installer build here and if you look around in the MozillaZine Firefox Builds Forum there's some Windows/Linux Firefox 0.8 builds optimized for AthlonXP/P4/P3/P2/whatever you have.

the .zip will be up within the week according to ben goodger (one of the main developer guys)
there's an unoffical build (based on the installer build) here

Lecturers often (usually) use Macs, though I've come across several running Linux; but you might be surprised at the amount of server-side work that happens on Linux.

being a Westpac customer, and I must say that I've never had any problems using their online banking

I have no personal knowledge of Westpac, I was referring to this link which came up recently.

That aside, it looks like the South Australian govt may be more enlightened than our WA lot; but I have heard (unconfirmed) that MS has, indeed, stitched up Federal contracts.

Read the details at bugzilla.m.o bug 195280. It was around June 3 I think. Several people have linked to an XPI that you can install to restore MNG support to post-June-3 builds. Try http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0225227/.

There is a much older bug to restore MNG support but if you feel the urge to comment in bugzilla be sure to read the rules and add something useful...

Most of this info is summarized in this Blogzilla entry

Christopher

It has always been an internal codename with the intention of publicly calling the browser component "Mozilla Browser" after 1.4 is released. This is not a retraction of "Mozilla Firebird."

Please see this MozillaNews article for reference to the real story.

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Then perhaps people would switch away from Flash, to a fully open, free, W3C-supported standard like Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)? (See a comparison of SWF and SVG functionality and a description of how Flash animation maps to SVG - both fairly old articles BTW.)

I wish, but MS will use their browser market dominance to make sure that IE doesn't support it. Or if they do decide to incorporate it they'll use their tried-and-trusted tactic of "embrace(alter) and extend", so any W3C standards that are supported suddenly only seems to work properly in IE, thanks to a few subtly different things (not that they've done that before, cough - document.all, element.innerHTML - cough!). And as they'll have also aquired Dreamweaver (the most popular web development tool) they will therefore control the output format of 90% of the code produced; I dread to think how this'll affect the web as a whole.

Wouldn't surprise me if they just stuck their middle finger up at the W3C and took control for themselves... or am I being overly paranoid?

Damn I sure do hope this is just a rumour...

You can probably get help on the IRC channels. Read the article on IRC at MozillaNews.org to get you started. Once you can get into the Mozilla newsgroups, you can get futher support there.

And MozillaNews.org and their article Lies, damned lies and MozillaQuest.

And MozillaNews.org and their article Lies, damned lies and MozillaQuest.

Where should one go to keep track of what features and what bugs are in a particular build?

Mozillazine build bar talkback,
Mozillanews build votes, or cc yourself on specific bugs in Bugzilla to find out when they're fixed.

Also, where is this "wild-west" repository? I don't see anything like that in http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/

nightly/latest-trunk

For mozilla news, I generally read Mozillazine, the major mozilla news site, as well as Mozillanews, a somewhat more community-driven site. For downloads, try XULPlanet, which has a good collection of themes and a good tutorial, and Mozdev (I usually follow projects like Optimoz- gestures- and Googlebar, a mozilla Google Toolbar. Most community development projects wind up here.) Mozillaquest is reserved for cheap laughs, though they have a few article templates to choose from....

Yet another wonderful Mozilla related site. We'll have a review up in the next day or two, so visit. :)

Yet another wonderful Mozilla related site. We'll have a review up in the next day or two, so visit. :)

"JayPee" has made available Navigator-only optimised builds for Linux that you might find useful.

Mozillazine is somewhat better but is something of a house organ and doesn't tend to report the negatives.

A more neutral site is Mozillanews which seems to have reasonably accurate information but not as much of it.

There is also of course the "official" Mozilla site which does have some information as well.