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Mozilla M16 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the snag-em-if-ya-got-the-bandwidth dept.

Mozilla M16 Builds are now up at the Mozilla FTP site. Check your local mirror first! This release supposedly has the switchable skins stuff in there. You can also read the release notes if you're interested in some details.

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  1. Feature set. by Matt2000 · · Score: 5

    I hate to point out the obvious, but I've seen alot of posts here saying we've got a few milestones to go before the feature set is complete, and then speed optimizations begin.

    This does not make sense.

    IE has something like 70% of the browser market now, mainly because it just browses, nothing else.

    Mozilla Team: Please consider freezing the features right now. You already have the best rendering engine, prove it by making the necessary optimizations. Then we can all have a prominent UI based opensource app to point to as a success.

    "Stop eating your own dog food, and finish the damn browser."

    Hotnutz.com - Funny

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  2. Re:I'm not saying Mozilla is taking forever... by thales · · Score: 5

    You don't need to know how to program. Every day about 100 bugs are reported. You can help by checking them for duplicates. Another way of helping is to test the bugs reported on Windoze and Mac and see if they also affect your Linux Box. This will prevent the people who can "program worth a lick" from wasting time that could spent fixing bugs.

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  3. Mozilla is NOT a web browser... by mk2337 · · Score: 4

    Everyone seems to be looking at Mozilla as just another version of Netscape, but if you look at it that way, you really miss the point and potential impact of this project. The true importance is in the cross platform development that it makes possible at a high level. Not to mention that it employees the newest technology like XML, DOM and JS to create an interface that is so flexible, that it is written and interpreted at runtime. Oh and it is still fast! Skins are not the key to Mozilla, "Mozilla Total Conversions" are... as are "Chromes". Mozilla is versatile enough to write any program within it... I personally would like to see ICQ written with Mozilla. Check out the ChromeZone for projects that modify or use Mozilla as a development platform. I am involved in a project that customizes the Mozilla UI and adds some features for power users.(not a skin, but a Chrome) You can look at it here: Wayfarer Chrome.

  4. Re:Why don't we give this a chance to mirror... by Syberghost · · Score: 4

    Every daily for the past 3 weeks, including last night's, has crashed consistently within 10 minutes of running it for me.

    I'm on Linux kernel 2.4.0-test1, though; that may or may not have anything to do with it.

    It's too bad, because during that 10 minutes it rocks.

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  5. Lucky Number by nebby · · Score: 4

    Judging from the first couple posts, it seems that it might be safe to say that milestone 16 should be dubbed as the people are really pissed it's still a milestone milestone.

    Though I haven't downloaded 16 yet, M15 is slow as anything on my Linux box (Celeron 450/64MB RAM).. but maybe that's because of all the debugging crap. I'll try M16 sooner or later I guess.

    I agree with the guy who said they should tone it down a bit with the features. I switched to IE because it has a simple interface, its fast, and it works (I choose to ignore the gaping security holes :)) .. it seems to me that Mozilla is already beginning to suffer the ridiculous feature bloat and slowness that was the downfall of Communicator. It amazes me that Communicator has so much absolute _crap_ in it they took the time to code, yet the HTML renderer is way far from perfect. Deep enough tested tables take tens of seconds to render on a p500!

    Just make a browser that works and is fast guys.. leave the e-mail/chat/news/widget stuff for an addon or something.

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