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Mozilla Branches For 1.0 RC1

Posted by timothy on from the frustrate-your-modem dept.

At the end of last month, the Mozilla Project closed the tree for what will become Mozilla 1.0. Now jkeiser writes "Mozilla has branched for 1.0 RC1, which is the first last step to a final Mozilla 1.0! Mozilla has spent four long years getting the browser standards-compliant, fast and solid. Cross your fingers for a rockin' final release around the corner." Reader whovian points to the just-modified roadmap, too.

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  1. I must admit that i didn't think it would happen by colmore · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When I first started playing around with Mozilla (mid-99) I figgured they would *never* have a usable product. The thing just plain didn't work.

    And while they are a bit behind schedule. 4 years for a 1.0 doesn't sound bad when you realize that this is a .0 that means something, as opposed to most commercial vendors (and a lot of OS projects) that usually wait until 3.x to begin getting things right.

    Good job guys.

    (posted on 0.99)

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  2. Re:I must admit that i didn't think it would happe by idiotnot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It has become a quite good app; the same could be said of many open-source products. I was thinking about this the other day....I'm in my fifth year of college, and I graduate next month. When I started, I couldn't do my work on Linux without either spending loads of $$ for ported commercial products, or constantly grinding my teeth. Two and a half years ago, I went pretty much linux all the time, using StarOffice as my suite. Still, I was stuck with Netscape 4.x as my browser. But now, I'm able to do all my work in a pure open-source environment (I'm not a CS major...I'm one of those social science types). It's a big change. Mozilla is a very good product. Congrats, and thanks folks.

    --typing this on Galeon, one of the many Mozilla kids.

  3. Disappointed by olman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ohh, And here I thought we have a RC1 available for download. Dang. Never mind, I didn't realize Mozilla is such big news that /. publishes even plans to have a beta build :-)

    I've been using Mozilla starting around .92 and moved toward the point I'm at right now, which is about 95% mozilla and rest for IE. Usually the culprit is some kind of fancy menu-system or dysfunctional scripting gimmick. The important thing is, however, that for majority of the sites Mozilla works just great!

    I'm just feeling a little odd about thinking it'd be a good thing to have AOL use Gecko so that we'd get standards-compliant web sites. Who'd have thought of it, AOL as a force for the white hats?

  4. Bitch, bitch, moan... oh look! 1.0! Yay Mozilla! by Gryphon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have been galled, if not suprised, to observe the pattern of most comments regarding the Mozilla project over the years at Slashdot.

    In the early days, it was:

    "My GOD, this will NEVER be a usable product! Blah! Mozilla bites!"

    This attitude has prevailed (morphing to nitpicking) even with the most recent 0.9.x releases:

    "My GOD, Mozilla doesn't cook my bacon and eggs, and make my bed in the morning! Blah! Mozilla bites!"

    Now with 1.0 days away, we finally see many more encouraging messages:

    "Way to go Mozilla! We were with you all along! Hooray for the glories of Open Source and Free Software!"

    I guess I'm being a bit cynical, but it's a good thing that most of the Mozilla developers probably ignored /. over the years anyway. It's not like, say, abot 80% of comments were completely unconstructive, nooo....