Mozilla 0.9.5

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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[hereticmessiah]

What I like best about Moz 0.9.5 is its better support for the tag. It's really about time the more browsers started to actively support this tag considering its great utility and vintage.

Re:Mozilla is the BEST browser!

[Mr Spot]

Its Debateable that IE is more stable, but Mozilla is faster.

But what use is a fast program if it isn't as stable as the program it is meant to replace? Don't get me worng, I use Mozilla too, but saying it's better because it is faster, even though it is less stable, is flawed logic to say the least.

Intergrate ICQ + AOL into mozilla ...

Mozilla's codebase is big enough already, adding features like these would simply be increasing the code's complexity while not being as well suited to the task as a dedicated program. This is also the basis of the Unix philosophy: make several programs to do one thing, and do it well, instead of one program to do everything and suck at them all. Add to that that you do not want your instant messaging programs to die when your browser does, and vice versa.

... pre caching of entire websites ...

This is a horrible thing to do! In essence, you would end up downloading countless megabytes of data that would never get read and cause needless congestion on the internet. Say you follow a link from an article: you may only end up going to one page in that site. But your browser has downloaded the whole thing, only to end up throwing it away. That would be extremely pointless and possibly perceived as rude by the operators of the server whose bandwidth you have just wasted. Also, broadband users wouldn't need to have pages pre-cached -- their connection is fast enough without the help of a web accelerator.

Not meaning to attack you personally, but I had to voice my opinion on some of your ideas, so don't get offended by what I say.

Rebuild for faster operation.

[Anonymous Coward]

The first thing you should do is pull down the source and reconfigure and build with --disable-debug "--enable-optimizations=-O4 -finline -fno-omit-frame-pointer -march=pentiumpro -mcpu=pentiumpro" in addition to what ever components you want.

You would n't believe how much more snappier it makes mozilla run, for example the java sdk framed docs index pages goes down from 2.5sec to 1.5sec's on my athlon 850.

Also add this line to your prefs.js file:

user_pref("nglayout.debug.disable_xul_cache", false);

This speeds up loading time by using the pre-compiled versions of the javascript controls.

Q: Why should an IE user switch?

[Sara Chan]

Consider the typical Windows user, who uses IE 6. What are the reasons that I should give to such users for switching to Mozilla, or perhaps Netscape 6.1?

Please note that political arguments about open-source software are not what I'm looking for. The typical Windows user isn't going to listen to this.

What about features, speed, reliability, etc.? The things that I could tell users.

Google Toolbar

[ecliptik]

I know this sounds pretty stupid, but one thing that I like about IE is the google search toolbar you can add. Is there a way to have this in Mozilla?

AOL, Winamp, ICQ, Intergrated.

[HanzoSan]

Most Windows users use AOL, ICQ, and Winamp, these tools should all be intergrated into a package.

I dont mean crappy intergration like what was done with Netscape 6 either.

I mean GOOD intergration, example, you have a feature where you go to a website and you see all the other AOL and ICQ users on the site and can even initiate a group chat with them.

Imagine going to slashdot with this feature and getting into a debate with serveral people, pushing a button and ICQ chat opens up and all of the people are now in an ICQ chat with you where you can continue your debate.

Also Imagine the file sharing possibilities, of going to a site and deciding to send files to people on the site via ICQ in annonymous fashion.

Imagine embeded winamp to play your mp3s as they download similar to how quicktime works.

Imagine AOL instant messager people and ICQ people all being able to communicate via the MOzilla instant messager, which basically connects to both, all your important windows tools on one menu, Mozilla.

This is how Microsoft beat Netscape, and its how Mozilla should beat IE.

Re:90 percent of MOzilla staff work for AOL.

[Gerv]

Heard of the GPL?

Sure I have. What's that got to do with Mozilla? ;-)

Until the relicensing is finished, Mozilla is effectively under only the MPL.

Gerv

Mozilla 0.9.5 is getting better and better

[agupta_25]

Starting with release 0.9.4, I have been using Mozilla exclusively, both on my Windows and on my Linux PPC machine, without even knowing it! I mean ... originally I used to come across sites that had problems with mozilla and had to use IE or Opera, but now, without even realizing it, mozilla has become my default browser of choice.

I suspect it has something to do with the 'Quick Launch' feature. Without this feature enabled, I had to wait almost 10-15 seconds before mozilla even started up, while IE almost loaded instantly. And I was unwilling to leave mozilla running all the time since it was such a memory hog. But with the 'Quick Launch' feature, I am pleased to say that mozilla loads as fast as IE on my machine and works better too! Plus, I don't have to keep mozilla running all the time.

I love certain features, e.g. being able to turn off those annoying javascript popup windows, and now ... with 0.9.5 tabbed windows! It just keeps getting better and better.

I definitely have to disagree with people who claim 'There is no such thing as a free lunch ...'. Mozilla 0.9.5 proves them wrong.

Mail/News/Chat clients, better Java support

[jonabbey]

Mozilla is being built as a successor to Netscape Communicator, and so includes a bunch of tools to take advantage of a variety of open Internet standards, including POP,IMAP,NNTP,LDAP, and IRC. Mozilla also includes a web page editor (Composer) which can be used to create mail and news posts as well as web pages, if you're into that kinky HTML stuff. This makes Mozilla vulnerable to the (misleading) bloat charge, for those who don't like flexible tools, but it also gives you a one-stop tool that can take you all over USENET as well as the web.

One of the most important benefits that I can see on Windows is that Mozilla comes with support for using Sun's recent, vastly improved, Java VM's integrated into the browser. Yes, people can write HTML for Java applets that will work on IE and Netscape 4.x using the Java plug-in, but Mozilla automatically uses the Java plug-in for all Java code, with significant benefits in performance and stability. If you have any use for Java in your browser, Mozilla will support things better.

There's also things like themeing, the sidebar, the improved cookie management, and the lack of operating system exploits that IE and Outlook seem to continually fall prey to.