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Mozilla Poised for Revival?

Posted by michael on from the hallelujah dept.

MarkedMan writes "An interesting and fairly lengthy CNET article on Mozilla and the pending 1.0 release. Kind of shallow research, making some common mistakes (Like many others, he half implies that AOL picking Mozilla as the default browser automatically puts 35 million users in the Netscape camp.) Good to see this getting some fairly mainline press."

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  1. Jurrasic park by line-bundle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe it will turn out like the dinosours in Jurassic Park, and destroy Internet Explorer?

  2. Cell Phones by guinnessnwhiskey · · Score: 5, Funny

    The next generation of cell phones, pagers, PDAs (personal digital assistants) and set-top boxes will require slimmed-down technology to access the Web, and Mozilla could model itself as the technology of choice.

    So the next generation of cell phones will have 256MB RAM?

  3. Mistakes by Knunov · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Kind of shallow research, making a some common mistakes..."

    Yeah a it is a easy to a make a some a common mostakes.

    Knunov

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  4. Re:AOL Using Mozilla/Netscape by zulux · · Score: 2, Funny

    because something tells me the typical AOL user will happily complain about anything. :)

    ME TOO!

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  5. Re:All right by bofkentucky · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh I beg to differ, they are morons, by and large, we have some customers at our ISP (AOL doesn't have a pop here...yet) who insist on paying the full $20+/month for AOL instead of droping AOL together or switching to the bring your own. I'm just waiting for our DSL customers to start doing this.

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  6. Here's a Good Question by tswinzig · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the past, Netscape browsers had Mozilla/x.x at the beginning of their user agent string. Then MSIE mimicked that in their early browsers so that sites built for Netscape would see MSIE 3.x as compatible (or whenever they started doing this). Now MSIE 6 continues this, with a user agent like:

    Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)

    The new Mozilla browser, which AOL calls Netscape 6, is showing a user agent string like this:

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.9+)

    So when the 1.0 version is released, are they really going to follow that same trend? Or will they use the user agent I propose here:

    Mozilla/1.0 (No, really, this is Mozilla 1.0, not Netscape or shitty old MSIE pretending to be Mozilla.)

    And just imagine when we get to Mozilla 4.0:

    Mozilla/4.0 (No, not Netscape 4.x or MSIE 6.x, this is truly Mozilla 4.0... PLEASE, YOU MUST BELIEVE ME!)

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  7. Will it be better than mosaic 1.2? by Alien+Being · · Score: 2, Funny

    You be the judge.

    http://home.attbi.com/~beef.jerky/xmosaic.bin