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Mozilla 0.9.9 Released
OSSMKitty writes: "Mozilla.org has released the next version of Mozilla, version 0.9.9. Highlights include MathML enabled by default on Unix and Win32, and TrueType font support on Unix. Read the release notes and then download a binary to test on your platform."
The release after 0.9.9 will be 1.0, but it's possible that 1.1 alpha will be released before 1.0. If that happens, I'd expect to see a "1.0 beta" or "1.0 release candidate" before 1.1 alpha. (See the Mozilla Development Roadmap for more.)
The shareholder is always right.
Mozilla Roadmap
They're on track so far. Looks like 1.0 should be out in late April.On Linux, I switched from Netscape to Mozilla around M18, I think, and quite frankly although it's taken forever to get there it's now just about the best browser around (for me anyway).
At work the desktops are all NT4, but I use Mozilla there as well, rather than IE. Why?
- Tabs. Can't live without them, and on Windows it means that your taskbar isn't cluttered with 10,000 unidentifiable icons.
- Keyboard operation. Open a new tab (Ctrl-T), type your URL, switch back to what you were reading (Ctrl-PageUp) and wait for the new tab to stop spinning. Switch back (Ctrl-PageDown), read it and close it (Ctrl-W). I know you can control IE with the keyboard as well, but to switch windows you have to use Ctrl-Tab, which is an incredible pain if you've got a bunch of windows open.
- Speed. It's damn quick.
I just wish they'd build for more platforms... anybody got an Alpha build that doesn't need glibc2.2?
Configure your middle mouse button to open links in a tab in the background. Click on any interesting links, such as /. stories, while you're scanning a page; when you're done with the first page, they're all loaded and you never lost focus from what you were reading. Well, unless you have a jealous cat...
And yes, Mozilla rocks my 'fro.
MathML is currently not quite ready for prime time on mac. It is being worked on and should be in a future release near you. Something the Cross-Platform nature of moz has to bend a bit to allow new features to come in sooner.
/me gets back to fixing the mozilla mac build system
Zach
you cannot select a message without displaying it, thus you cannot forward a spam onto Spamcop without Mozilla starting to render it (and fetching any webbugs in it).
Try collapsing the message area (expanding the threadpane to the bottom of the window). You can do this by dragging the splitter or clicking on the splitter's grippy. When the message area is closed it doesn't load the message.
--Asa
This mozilla release (as mentioned in the release notes), has a fix for the zlib vulnerability, just a few hours after the vulnerability was discovered!
Exactly. If you want real news about the development of mozilla, check out Mozillazine
They keep you up to date on the status of nightly builds, rate them for you, and even have a build-bar talkback area so you can chime in on what works/doesn't work. It's the first place I go before I download a nightly.
No thanks. I don't smoke anymore.
I've been waiting for this for quite a while and now it finally looks like it's here. Yes! Read the changelog it's not truetype font support but anti-aliased fonts.
Developers fixed a little mroe than 2000 bugs in the 0.9.9 cycle.
--Asa
According to the road map, Mozilla 1.0 will be out March 27th. Only 16 more days. Of course, according to the roadmap, 0.9.9 was supposed to be out a month ago.
Unlike most people actually working on this project and other Mozilla-based projects, you don't know how to read the roadmap. Those aren't even the branch dates. Those are the freeze dates when the tree is closed to all but approved checkins. A week or so after the freeze is the branch for that Milestone. But, guess what, that's still not the release date. That's the date that the development for that relase goes onto a branch and there is parallel development for the release branch and the development trunk. During that time the branch takes strictly monitored fixes and at some point on the branch (for most milestones it's a week or so) the release tag is made and binaries are served up to the testing community. All of this becomes a little more obvious if you read the roadmap in addition to looking at the pretty picture (even just looking at the picture and reading the key would help a lot)
--Asa
Ok, every here should know by now that MQ is just one huge troll. The only good I can see could come from this would be to slashdot the server...
If you aren't familiar with MQ, go ahead and visit the site. Just be warned: treat it as a troll, and don't take his word for anything.
So anyway, linking to him is just going to expose the unsuspecting to the MQ misinformation. Don't do it.
Mozilla
Newsforge has reported that the new 8.0 version of AOL will use Gecko (the rendering engine in Mozilla) rather than IE!
It did no such thing. Here is the passage to which I think you refer:
Emphasis mine. For those playing at home, you may want to note two things:
Please don't fan the flames of speculation any higher. I would suggest taking a conservative approach to "news" pieces such as these in the future. Then again, why should you listen to me?
You should try 0.9.9. Both of your problem areas have received a lot of attention in 0.9.9 and should be greatly improved from your experience in 0.9.8.
--Asa
For those wondering, yes, there is a spellchecker for Mozilla (bug 56301). Or, if you're in a hurry, the installer is right here.
I've been using David Einstein's spellchecker for week's now without problem. Of course, it has its own quirks (such as there being no way to dismiss the spellchecker and avoid sending the message) but it's still a tremendous effort.
Alex Bischoff
HTML/CSS coder for hire
If you have a bug to report, or a suggestion to
make, can you take it to here?
--
Enter this into the URL field:
javascript:void(window.fullScreen=true)
And you get full screen! Note that this implementation is incomplete, and does not work with all window managers. But it's a start
Does it strike anyone else here that everything good that everyone has said here concerning Mozilla is already available in a web browser? Of course I'm talking about Opera, which I've been using for a few months now, and am extremely impressed with it. Tabbed windows, ultra fast page renders, fast startup time, can be controlled completely by either the keyboard or the mouse (really innovative and awesome).
Mozilla is open source and free, which is good, and Opera is one of the few browsers that is not free, but the penalty for not paying is a little banner ad that sits on your browser all the time while you browse. It isn't particularly annoying, but the Opera browser is totally worth the price. I absolutely recommend that everyone try it out, especially if you like the features of Mozilla or are unsatisfied by IEXPLORE.
Just thought I'd point this out, as Opera is a very viable alternative to other browsers, and it absolutely rocks.
Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
1. I tried "google" and hit enter, and it went to google.com, try it.
2. The ALT tag is not for tooltips. The TITLE tag is for tooltips. I know this annoys alot of people, but that's the spec.
> How does one install Netscape plugins into
.mozilla directory so you don't have to start over when you do a new install (new to 0.9.9)
> mozilla on unix and windows?
>>Just drop the shared libs in the plugins/ dir
>>in the Mozilla install directory.
Or put them in a dir called plugins in your
--Asa
How do I get it to launch into the browser automatically without first selecting the profile? Is there a command flag to specify the profile?
./mozilla -P "<profile name>"
run
--Asa
I'm not sure what you're doing but Java works for me for the applets I've tested. Download and istall Sun's 1.3.0_0x and copy the NP* files to your plugins folder in the install directory or to a plugins folder you create in your Application Data/Mozilla/ directory. Do this with Mozilla not running and when you start it up it should work.
If this doesn't work then type about:plugins and see if the Java plugin shows up in the list. If it's not there then you didn't put it in the right place. If it is there then go to java.sun.com and click on the applets link in the left nav area of the page. Test some of the games and other applets there and they should work.
--ASA
Try the OW SneakyPeeks! The latest SP I'm using is 10x better than 4.0.6 that's on their site... a lot more stable, and faster than IE, iCab, and especially Mozilla. Highly reccomended.
Working toward a usable PDA environment in the spirit of Newton OS: Dynapad
You can get an (alpha) spell-checker - it's one of the projects on Mozdev.
Gerv
As has already been pointed out, blocking popups at page load/unload is not a new feature. A sort-of related feature is, however: You can now prevent from opening a new window by flipping the "Open a link in a new window" switch in the Scripts & Windows panel.
:)
If you just hate it when someone makes all their external links open in new windows, this feature is for you!
You know, Microsoft's street address also says a lot about their mentality.