Mozilla Branches For 1.0 RC1

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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More Testers!!!

[Screaming Lunatic]

[rant]

[plea for help]

Now is the time to increase the testing effort. Everybody out there, please download the latest nightly build. Get out there and test and submit bugs to Bugzilla.

You can poke fun as much as you want about the release timeline, but these Mozilla guys really work their asses off to get this product out to you at no charge. The least we can do as part of the open source community is help out by testing.

[/plea for help]

[/rant]

PK

P.S. Posted using April 9th Mozilla nightly build. A testament to how well it works and the stability of the nightly builds. I install a nightly build almost every morning and never had to revert back to using an older build because something major was broken. I always install the Linux tarballs, but of course YMMV for other platforms and installation methods. But I don't expect anything would be different for the Windoze and Mac builds.

My list of showstopper bugs

[The Cunctator]

Mozilla has been my browser of choice for a while now, but it still has some serious bugs. So consider this criticism based in love. It's also encouraging that all these bugs have a real chance of being fixed. Even I could theoretically fix them.

There is a huge bug with bookmarks:

51683: Unable to have 2 differently named bookmarks for the same url.

This is more than a bit ridiculous, since the bug was submitted September 2000.

Another, less serious bookmark bug:
85469: Bookmark select/cut/paste operation is sensitive to order of selection

This is a major meta-bug:
73812: Browser doesn't fit with Mac OS X UI Specs

Anyone who uses a Mac uses it because of the user interface--having a program that doesn't comply with the guidelines is extraordinarily frustrating. But they're definitely getting closer.

128658: Typing in textarea really slow

Large textareas overwhelm Mozilla. This makes editing in WP, for example, very frustrating. Totally unacceptable.

However, it's great watching bugs get steadily fixed. So vote for the above bugs, get them fixed, submit patches, hooray. The rendering engine really is marvelous.