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Mozilla 0.9.5

Posted by michael on from the more-happiness-than-one-person-can-stand dept.

agotneja writes: "Check out mozilla.org for details :) Another fine (hopefully!) release." For whatever reason, 1.0 still seems really far off.

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  1. Re:Q: Why should an IE user switch? by Kilobug · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can speak about:
    * security holes of IE
    * password-protected list of username/passwords
    * integration with search engines
    * tab browsing
    * faster and more accurate rendering for complex web pages (with many tables)
    * full alpha-channel in PNG
    * javascript pop-up control
    * intelligent cookies/pictures manager
    * pretty interface (new modern theme is so sweet)
    * ...

  2. Installing Java plugin by abischof · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you can't seem to get the Java plugin to work, please read the instructions in the release notes:
    http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla0.9.5/#java

    --

    Alex Bischoff
    HTML/CSS coder for hire

  3. Re:Are we the ugly stepchild? by Gerv · · Score: 5, Informative

    Seems like OS X is constantly a late release, if it gets released at all.

    That's because there are about five people on the planet capable of building Mozilla for OS X, and they are all very busy :-) Part of the reason is that it requires an experimental, pre-release version of Apple's gcc-based compiler.

    Gerv