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Mozilla.org Releases Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate
asa writes: "Today mozilla.org made available for download binaries of Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 1. RC1 will be used to gather feedback and crash data in preparation for an RC2 or a final release. Please hammer on these builds, report bugs and send in talkback reports.
New to RC1 are fixes for about 2000 bugs including more than 150 crash fixes so grab a build and let us know what you think."
I'm using Mozilla 0.9.9, and even that earlier version is excellent.
Good work, Mozilla team.
I know that some people will have trouble with a warm statement such as this, but here it is anyway:
Mozilla is an act of love. There are many ways to be loving, and supplying a much-needed tool to the whole world is one of them.
Quick plea - if you have filed an unconditional bug that hasn't seen activity for a month or two check whether it is still valid. If not resolve it worksforme. Thanks.
With all this increased testing, more and more bugs are being filed at increasingly speedier rate and the Bugzilla database could always do with an extra hand to stop bug counts spiralling out of control.
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Over in #kill-unco on irc.mozilla.org we are trying and reduce the number of unconfirmed bugs. The more help we get, the sooner people's complaints are serviced and the sooner they can be fixed.
Sometimes unconditionals slip through intial net of bugzilla marshalls and just wind up being forgotten about. This can happen because the intial marshalls don't have access to the same platform or don't use a particular component much (macs, mail and news/java spring to mind). Other times the reporter doesn't file enough information and needs to be prompted for more. Often unconditionals are filed subsequently fixed by other bugs but not closed by their original reporters. All these things make for a messy database and engineers could use up
time marking dups rather than fixing bugs.
A few moments of your time could save engineers from going mad seeing the same bug reported by reported in 30 different places. If each slashdot reader helped resolve just two mozilla bugs a day then we could all get a better browser...
Don't install alpha products. Wait for them to mature. They make whole mozilla to crash constantly. Especially the google toolbar.
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020418
Downloaded the i386 RH 7.x RPMs and rebuilt on RH 6.2. Works like a charm.
Thanks, Moz team!
Using your sig line to advertise for friends is lame.
Why the heck isnt this on the frontpage? Mozilla *needs* testers especially right now and were stuck in the developer section??
Especially since the articles saying Mozilla 1.0RC will be out soon was posted on the frontpage. Come on slashdot lets go!
Last time I looked, helping to find bugs was part of the communal development of Free Software. We should try stuff out, report bugs, and supply patches so we can all have better software. If we "[w]ait for them to mature" they'll mature far more slowly (if at all) and we'll be waiting longer.
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