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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..."
Yup... its a fucking first post boys.
-AC
ps0t tha fr1st!!
FLUFF!!!
2nd post
you don't mind booting up your older computer at 7am, double-clicking on the Mozilla icon at 9am, going to work, coming home for lunch, click on the location bar around 12:30, entering the URL blindly and returning to work at 1, returning home at 5 and perhaps see the UI refresh by 6:30pm.
By the next morning you might be logged into hotmail.
Seriously, though, they really need to do some streamlining of the user interface for that browser. I'm sure Gecko is a wonderful rendering engine and all that, but the performance gain is totally lost on us Pentium-120mhz users.
"Look at me, I invented the stove!" -- Ben Franklin
on each release go up for mozilla is like watching old people screw.
Now I won't start to talk about performance issues....
..at least till I try it out i suppose.
Ursula Andress, Catherine Deneuve, and Charo, twice...
What does this mean for Joe Sixpack?
Maybe it's because windows is a better OS?
"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!!
-Shaunak.
Damn, that was a might fine read sir. I feel very informed after that dissertation on this softwares.
"And boy, is it getting good..."
No it's not. It's bloated, it's slow, it's buggy. It is, pardon the pun, a dinosaur.
Opera(www.opera.com) is far, far better.
Hey, Microsoft astroturfers! If you're trying to turn people off to Cheap Software, show them Mozilla!
Mozilla: every time it's installed, IE and Opera gain marketshare.
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I like to watch.
Mozilla can't even compete with NS4.x. (That's sad, because did you know that it is possible to crash NS4.x with W3C-validated XHTML?) Even the die-hard Netscape weenies that I know who won't touch anything else because of some strange religious devotion to obsoelete technology won't touch NS6/Mozilla, other than the one initial installation which forver scarred their souls. Mozilla was obsoelete before it reached its first milestone, back in 1974. That isn't a typo. Nineteen seventy-four. BC!
You have to be either a zealot or an idiot to think that Mozilla is anything besides a steaming turd with little pieces of other turds in it, because it eats other people's turds and then poops them out as second-generation turds. Mozilla is such shit that coprophiliacs reach orgasm just by reading the changelog. (And I think you know what I mean by changelog, boys.) I curse you all!
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I like to watch.
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.
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I.E. for Solaris is the biggest piece of shit bloated sorry excuse of a web browser there is, so you obviously have no clue what your talking about and have totally invalided the rest of your useless dribble.
and is now getting close to giving IE a run for its money
ha ha, that's funny. get a life.
A very windy, ineloquent way to make excuses and say
"Maybe it's because windows is a better OS."
Parent is promoting non open source software!!
-- Homer
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.
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
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/
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.
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