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Posted by michael on Friday October 12, 2001 @10:54PM 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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* Mozilla has a new experimental Tabbed Browsing.. by cyba · 2001-10-12 23:04 · Score: 1, Troll

> Press Ctrl+T to open a new tab. (Bug 101973.)

It looks like they copied this feature (together with the shortcut) from Galeon.
Not very portable by evilviper · 2001-10-13 00:00 · Score: 1, Troll

Let me know when it compiles out of the box on OpenBSD then I'll believe that it isn't a horrible product.

As is now, there's a million ways for a webmaster to crash Netscape6/Mozilla, and I'm sure more than one of those bugs will allow arbitrary file execution (meaning it doesn't mesh with OpenBSD in the first place).

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far off is right by truesaer · 2001-10-13 01:40 · Score: 0, Troll

I had tried mozilla a long while back, and it was pretty buggy. So after the last release, I downloaded a new copy because I heard it was much improved, and was in fact nearly a production release.

The first thing I tried to do, was sell something on eBay. Mozilla didn't handle eBay's listing screens very well. I couldn't get it to work, I had to switch to IE.

But, I figured, there are lots of unusual things on that page like the category selection and iPix and stuff.

So, next I went to the weather channel's site. Part of the top of the page didn't display, but it was only graphics and the rest of the site seemed functional. I typed in my zip code, hit ok, and it wouldn't display the resulting page correctly. Again, I had to switch to IE.

So I've gone back to IE. I'll wait for 1.0 I guess, which will presumably be completely functional. But these kinds of issue *must* be worked out before average people will consider using it for their browser.
Re:When will Mozilla Innovate? by tim_maroney · 2001-10-13 14:03 · Score: 1, Troll

Open source isn't about innovation. It's about creating free versions of commercial software. In a recent /. discussion, I asked for examples of open source innovation. There were only two that more or less held up -- emacs and the web browser. emacs is a programmer tool from which any normal person would flee shrieking in terror, while the web browser only became suitable for end users after Netscape tried to take it commercial.

As a free knockoff of commercial web browsers, Mozilla is pretty darn good, but expecting innovation from people who don't have a commercial interest in profiting from their innovations is unrealistic.

Tim