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mozilla.org Releases Mozilla 0.9.8

Posted by timothy on from the chatzilla-rocks-hard dept.

asa writes: "Today mozilla.org released the Mozilla 0.9.8 Milestone. New to this release are improved Address Book functionality, page setup(for printing), MNG/JNG support, native-style widgets on winXP and OS X, dynamic theme switching, improved BiDi support, speed, stability and footprint improvements, and much, much more. www.mozilla.org and www.mozillazine.org have the full scoop." The build I'm posting with (2002020305) is a little crashy, but most aspects are shaping up very nicely.

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  1. Re:Cool Beans... by bunratty · · Score: 4, Redundant

    According to the roadmap, Mozilla 1.0 will be released on or shortly after April 5.

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  2. Never fails by JediTrainer · · Score: 2, Redundant

    It never fails. I just finished downloading and installing 0.9.7 yesterday :)

    Sigh.

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  3. What's New ... by ukryule · · Score: 2, Redundant
    Somehow, I find it hard to get excited about a new release where the first item in What's new in this release starts:
    • Hebrew is now supported on Solaris. Hebrew and Arabic now supported on Mac OS ...

    ... and then goes on to mention the 6 new bugs introduced with this.

    Not meant as flamebait, but I think i'll wait for 1.0 all the same.
  4. Re:Skins by peterjm · · Score: 2, Redundant

    http://www.themes.org/skins/mozilla is the best place that I've found to get skins for mozilla.
    it takes a while to load, so be patient.

  5. Future News by DanThe1Man · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In today's news:
    Mozilla come out with their 1.0 browser.

    In other news:
    Hell froze over, pigs are flying, and the south rose again.

  6. I know I'm not unique... by Arker · · Score: 3, Redundant

    I also know not everyone agrees with me. But, for whatever it's worth, I gave up on Mozilla along time ago. Why? Featuritis. God, no offense, but on this issue you guys are worse than MS. Every release has more and more features that I don't want or need, and takes the inevitable hit from that on speed and reliability and footprint.


    I'll be happy to give it another try when I find out that you have a usable configure script that will let me simply compile all that stuff out (I've heard rumblings about that possibility on and off,) but I'm not holding my breath. You could throw at least half the code right out the door and I, and many others I know, wouldn't miss it at all. At the same time, the few features I do want never seem to be a priority.


    For now I'm using Opera, and except for being closed source, I really like it. Fairly small footprint, very fast, the few features I want (like intelligent cookie handling) are pretty much there. Unlike Mozilla, it doesn't make my PII/128MBram system perform like a 486.

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