Mozilla 0.9.6 Released

bluephone writes: "Yessireebob. mozilla.org has released the 0.9.6 milestone. Here are Release Notes and a link of files on the FTP server. For milestones 0.9.7 and 0.9.8, the focus is on performace enhancingment, and stability of the Mail/News end of the suite. And boy, is it getting good..."

Comments

Re:Cross-platform performance.

[Magila]

Maybe it's because windows is a better OS?

What?

[shaunak]

"For milestones 0.9.7 and 0.9.8, the focus
is on performace enhancingment, and stability
of the Mail/News end of the suite."

You mean to say all these previous milestones
focussed on making Mozilla slow, buggy and
unstable at the Mail/News end?

Gosh, I would never have guessed!!

Re:Mozilla

[frleong]

Yeah, by the time mozilla 1.5.* is out, IE should be in version 8 or .NET or whatever. Even Opera would be at least in version 7. At that time, I think no one will ever bother running Mozilla again.

I mean, it is extremely slow, even on my PII-400 with 256MB of RAM. IE is ways faster in load time and crashes less (trust me, the first time I loaded the latest Mozilla Mail/News, I got a crash within 3 minutes). You may say that IE is preloaded, but what about Opera? I'm using Opera 6 beta from time to time and its browser loads at about the same speed of IE.

Versions have nothing to do with the code

[HanzoSan]

Mozillas codebase currently is IE 6.0 level in terms of features quality, and speed.

It took Microsoft 6-7 years to get to this point, It took Mozilla 4 years.

4 Years is pretty good.

Opera is about 3 years behind Mozilla so dont even mention Opera. Opera isnt nearly as powerful, Opera is a light weight browser thats nothing special, its something anyone could have written up in a year or two.

Mozilla on the other hand has alot more features and the only browser to compete with it feature for feature is IE, currently Mozilla supports more standards, has better security and is more stable than IE 6.0 making Mozilla more complete.

When IE 7.0 releases, it will essentially be updated to be more secure, support more standards and basically be more like Mozilla.

As far as Mozilla 2.0, Mozilla has the base done, the base what took 4 years, once the base is done all they have to do for 2.0 is add a few new features most likely to support new standards, optimize it for speed to make sure its faster than IE and Opera, fix bugs so it never crashes, and then allow Netscape and AOL to intergrate ICQ, AOLIM, Winamp and so on into it in a way that doesnt make it seem overwelming.

Right now AOL isnt properly intergrated, but once it is, i see it being very useful, more useful than email for sure.

And ICQ intergration would be good too.

From there intergrate netscape into AOLs software suite.

Now while Microsoft fixes all their bugs and security, Mozilla will be adding new features.

If Mozilla developes at the pace it is right now, it will be about 2 -3 years ahead in development of Microsoft when 2.0 comes out.

Re:Fast connection to ftp.mozilla.org

[netwerk]

hahaha... When will all those linux fools out there finally realise that BSD is a better OS?

http://www.freebsd.org/
http://www.openbsd.org/
http://www.netbsd.org/

Closing tabs

[Rupert]

I find that I use the RLR mouse gesture almost every time I want to close a tab.

DULR (think "T") to open a new tab is sweet, too. I just wish I had a 3 button mouse so I could use the "drag over the link" gestures.