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Mozilla M16 Up For Grabbing

Posted by timothy on from the this-is-my-browser-there-are-many-like-it dept.

Cioby writes: "No news on the homepage (yet), but on [the mozilla.org nightly builds page] M16 builds started to appear. Go Mozilla, GO! :)" True enough -- though M15 is the latest milestone listed, M16 has been available from the nightly builds for over a month. M16 rocks pretty well, too, though I haven't tried out its transparent gif feature yet. Hard to complain about a nightly release schedule ... [Updated 8:50GMT by timothy] (Sigh) -- Yes, that ought to say "transparent png," not gif. Guess I haven't tried that either.

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  1. Uhh... by legoboy · · Score: 5

    Since nobody else has said so outright, I'll remind you all the actual milestone build of m16 is not yet out. These (as others *have* said) are the nightly builds along the path to m16. These have been available since before m15 was released.

    When M16 actually does come out (and it should be within a few days), it'll be available at ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/m16/.

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  2. Mozilla nightlies by Sits · · Score: 5
    Here's a working url for nightly builds (the one /. gave appears to be broke)
    Latest nightly builds

    M16 builds have been appearing for ages. The nightly builds are named after the upcomming milestone, so when M15 comes out all nightlies are now called M16... Take a look at the directory structure...

    On related stuff the new builds are getting quite a bit faster and now have stuff like autocomplete in them. There was a feature freeze not long ago so we should (hopefully) see builds becoming more stable.

    Linux moz is looking good although some old favourites (such as the scrollbars coming free bug) are still there.

    The mac builds are still lagging behind other platforms which is a shame. We really do need more mac helpers to stop it becoming a third rate platform (in terms of the quality of it's mozilla builds).

    From the little testing I've done on Windoze those builds seem good too.

    Plugs/Links:
    Visit Mozillazine! It has a build bar that informs you how good previous builds are.

    Hang out in #mozillazine. If you've got irc (and you should because moz has one built in which can be launched from the prompt using mozilla -chat) use /server irc.mozilla.org then /join #mozillazine

    Got spare time and a fast connection? Help Smoketest the daily builds.

    New to mozilla? Take a look at NewZilla

  3. M16 is a complete delight.. FOR ME TO POOP ON! by Jikes · · Score: 5

    For real, M16 and all the nightlies are becoming ridiculously good...

    Experiences with Win32/x86/133/40/unloaded:

    Fast on a 133/40 box... no shit... I spent an hour or two testing my CSS pages and it didn't crash once... The flakiness from generating new browser windows is almost gone...

    The sidebar is ACTUALLY cool.. check out cnn.com with NS6PR1 to see how cool questionless/seamless sidebar/install can be.. This ISN'T like those shitty IE4/5 toolbar conquests from noname companies... It just slips in, giving actually cool information and shit...

    The UI has calmed down lots... it is clean, rather functional, and what's best, can be COMPLETELY OVERHAULED to be faster/better/simpler/more-complex, ANYTHING...

    Mozilla isn't just a lets-clone-netscape thing anymore, it's a big collection of XPCOMponents that you can use to create apps... Mozilla is just one of them..

    The default mozilla/netscape skin is still pretty damn slow but managable on my win32/x86/100/40 you will see mozilla FLY when the lighter-weight skins are made... I have used them and they just feel so much lighter...

    Experiences with linux 2.2/x86/90mhz/32MB

    this machine is used for like three different services and at the time had 6 people using it, plus three people using X apps all over the network...

    It was SLOW. FUCKING SLOW.

    It took forever to unpack.. It took forever to load.. it took FOREVER for anything to happen...

    Then i realized it was running almost entirely in swap, and still hadn't crashed.. that was cool..

    The machine was RIDICULOUSLY burded at the time, so i can forgive it...

    Experiences on linux 2.2/x86/400/128

    Ridiculously fast. Ridiculously good. First time user startup in under 15 seconds... from there on out, starts up in 3 seconds... if mostly cached in memory starts up in under a second...

    Crashes are becoming significantly more difficult to find... it is now more pleasant to use than NS4 for me... less UI niggles... FASTER. Good.

    Goodbye netscape 4... FUCK IT.... Mozilla is going to be so radically more modifiable and fluid and extensible and NICE... oh wait, it already IS.

    Goodbye NS4, we hardly loved ye...

    P.S.: crystal-note-perfect CSS is an utter joy... my heart leaps...

    from coworker: "where are your graphics stored?" (referring to complex CSS1 box with lots of color-tricks on no-graphic page)

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