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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."
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?
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
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.
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
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?
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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
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