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Mozilla Tree Closes for 1.0

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bring-it-on dept.

fire-eyes writes "After many years, the Mozilla cvs tree just closed for 1.0. " It's been a long time coming. And I'm glad that on Unix we still have a browser war since Konqueror and Mozilla are both excellent browsers. Congratulations to every developer who committed a line of code, but mostly to you guys in the middle who had to wrangle the whole project.

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  1. about time by McVeigh · · Score: 1, Funny

    its about damn time!

    great job people!!!!!!!

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  2. In other news... by eth1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Several airliners were hit by airborne pigs today, and ACME sweaters reports their largest order ever has come in from Hell.

  3. Go moz! by InsaneCreator · · Score: 3, Funny

    They grow up so fast... it brings tears to my eyes

    *snif*

  4. Mozilla wins. by fmaxwell · · Score: 4, Funny

    I always wondered whether we would see Duke Nukem Forever or Mozilla 1.0 first. Sort of a tortoise and tortoise race.

  5. Re:great browser! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Too bad that "Web surfing is losing it's luster"...

  6. other reports indicate... by mikeee · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...that Mozilla 1.0 will be the default web browserin the GNU/Hurd OS.

  7. Re:AOL's Pressure To Close by J'raxis · · Score: 3, Funny

    Except every Joe Sixpack who uses AOL will have his Windows default browser quietly changed to Mozilla next time he upgrades his AOL.

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  8. Oops, too late... by chinton · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nobody will want to use it now because web surfing has lost it's luster...

  9. And most important... by SexPig · · Score: 2, Funny

    With faster page rendering there is now an improved chance at first post ;)

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  10. Re:Diehard IE User by garcia · · Score: 2, Funny

    it does not perform well.

    http://onlinebanking.huntington.com does NOT work.

    Most porn sites flash the single picture up and then show only the text of the image (usually the
    URL).

    thus, for my usage it is worthless.

  11. Re:AOL Timewarner by bobdehnhardt · · Score: 3, Funny
    No, that's far to coincidental to get the conspiracy theorists going. They need something like:
    • Mozilla was designed by the guy on the Grassy Knoll
    • The SSL code was derived from code lifted off alien spaceships in Area 51
    • The NSA/CIA/FBI/MI5 has embedded code that will allow them to feed subliminal messages into the X10 popup ads
    • Microsoft is a major contributer to Mozilla, which explains why it's been in development for so long
    • Mozilla actually died in 1967, and was replaced by a Mozilla look-alike. If you compile the source code backwards, you'll get error messages like "I buried Moz". Mozilla's death is the real reason behind the breakup of Netscape.

  12. Re:the prophecy will be fulfilled! by WhiteKnight07 · · Score: 2, Funny

    WOA!!! THATS AWSOME!!!

    That like, goes out and finds random ass and then kicks it to add to its collection of kicked asses.

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  13. Re:Congratulations...BUT... by jim3e8 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmm? Alt+tab is faster than ctrl+pgup, because it requires fewer hands. Are you using one of the Linux window managers that forces you to switch windows by moving the mouse?

    Are you using one of those keyboards without a right Ctrl?

  14. Re:Diehard Netscape user by The+Dev · · Score: 2, Funny

    Netscape 4.x is NOT crap. It's fast as hell,
    and it renders pages that were designed with a clue very well.

  15. Re:Version 1.0? by majestyk2000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    That must really come in handy when you are trying to rob a bank or infiltrate the girl's dorm shower, eh?

  16. BIG THANK YOU by Kryptolus · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would like to give a big thank you to the wonderful readers of slashdot who posted links to bugzilla pages.
    Thanks to the traffic you generated, I can't do any work on bugzilla right now.
    Slashdot should have a new article posted: "Slashdot impedes mozilla development"

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