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Mozilla 1.0 RC2 is out

Posted by michael on from the zeno's-paradox dept.

ferratus writes "The Mozilla organization just released the second release candidate for the upcoming 1.0 due out in a few weeks. See the updated release note and remember to see the mirror list before hitting the main server."

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  1. Better story about RC2 by Nicopa · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mozilla 1.0 RC 2 has just been released and is already available for download. This is what has changed from the previous RC. New stuff include support for "HTTP pipelining", something which can increase performance by 50%! (disabled by default, check the releases notes).

    This was the story I have submitted, Slashdot staff is weird, really.. =)

    1. Re:Better story about RC2 by Nicopa · · Score: 2, Informative

      Be my guest. =) You can include a pointer to my page for installing plugins too (check it out).

  2. Au revoir link-toolbar by sab39 · · Score: 5, Informative

    We hardly knew you. [http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13849 6 - not linkified in hopes of not /.ing bugzilla again]

    Back for 1.1, hopefully...

    1. Re:Au revoir link-toolbar by asa · · Score: 4, Informative

      If you look at what actually happened this feature was removed for 1.0, not for the 1.1. And if you look even closer you will see that it wasn't disabled because of 1 bug. It was disabled because of performance problems and incompatability with tabbed browsing.

      --Asa

  3. Re:According to Bugzilla... by cscx · · Score: 2, Informative

    You want to cut and paste this instead:
    http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi ?id=143200

    damn HTTP_REFERRER

  4. Re:What gives?.. by asa · · Score: 5, Informative

    Did you install on top of a previous install? If you did then remove that install and start fresh (you won't lose your profile, it's stored in a different location).
    --Asa

  5. Does it respect proxies yet? by oGMo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mozilla is good, mozilla is great. The only thing keeping me from using it over Konqueror right now is the fact it seems to ignore my proxy setting. I use The Internet Junkbuster to remove unwanted (read: all) ads and other things. Mozilla up to RC1 seems to overlook this and I see ads all over the place. It may be due to JavaScript url fetching not going through the proxy, but I'm not sure

    And don't tell me to use moz's built-in ad blocking, because I've already got a huge blockfile, I want to block for all browsers across the network, and it usually screws up rendering to use the builtin stuff anyway.

    This is a great web browser; it's really faster than other GUI browsers I've used, renders nicely, and has all the features. But until it respects proxies (I use Squid to cache stuff too, helps a lot when all you've got is a modem), I can't use it. :-(

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    Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage

    1. Re:Does it respect proxies yet? by MrEfficient · · Score: 2, Informative

      Junkbuster has a bug. You'll need to go to your preferences, in Advanced, Networking and change your HTTP Protocol from 1.1 to 1.0. Junkbuster should work fine after that.

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      Check out AbiWord.
    2. Re:Does it respect proxies yet? by Nessak · · Score: 2, Informative

      I had this problem a long, long time ago. If I recall correctly (which I might not) the problem is with junkbuster and not mozilla. I stoped using junkbuster a while ago, so I wouldn't know if your problem is the same as what was discussed. But read Bug report for bug 38488 for more information. As I recall, there was a way around it.

      I think mozilla rules. Go mozilla.

    3. Re:Does it respect proxies yet? by ilyag · · Score: 4, Informative

      Try BannerBlind. Look at many other useful things at mozdev.org, too.

    4. Re:Does it respect proxies yet? by galaga79 · · Score: 4, Informative

      I am not sure if you have tried this but there is a section in the release notes about using Mozilla with Junkbuster at www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0/#general

      And here is the text for those too lazy to scroll down....

      Mozilla needs to be configured to work properly with proxies such as Junkbuster that do not support the most recent HTTP specification. By default, Mozilla tries to use HTTP 1.1. To use Mozilla with a proxy that only supports HTTP 1.0, edit the HTTP Version from 1.1 to 1.0 in Edit | Preferences | Debug | Networking. (Bug 38488)

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      aus.music.scrapbook
    5. Re:Does it respect proxies yet? by MrEfficient · · Score: 5, Informative

      Any while you're at it. Switch to Privoxy. It's based on Internet Junkbuster but has some advanced features like the ability to replace text within the html code itself. I use this to block flash ads on a per website basis.

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      Check out AbiWord.
    6. Re:Does it respect proxies yet? by oGMo · · Score: 2, Informative

      First of all: you guys rule, the HTTP 1.0 thing worked great. I'll have to see if I can make Junkbuster HTTP-1.1-aware sometime.

      Second: free-riding. Well, it goes like this. I've always ad-filtered since I discovered Junkbuster (and will soon try Privoxy, because I've wanted HTML-filtering for awhile too), because ads are annoying and are the largest consumer of my meager 2k/s bandwidth. So screw ads. Web pages look lots prettier without them.

      That said, I have nothing against supporting sites I like, especially this one. I support IGN but subscribing to IGN Insider. for over $20 a year. You know what? It was the best $20 subscription I've ever bought. IGN has lots of content, up-to-date stories, the IGN Unplugged PDF magazine (free for insiders). $20 a year for daily updates is great.

      What's the difference? IGN's subscription is value-added. I pay to get stuff I didn't have before. Slashdot's subscription is stupid: I pay to not get something I had. In fact, since there's junkbuster (the geek solution; isn't this a geek site?) I'm paying for not getting something I already didn't have. Kinda silly.

      When slashdot starts offering exclusive pay-only features with enough value-added pay-only content, you will see me being the first to pay $20 a year to subscribe. Spellchecked and slightly edited stories would be kinda nice too.

      Think of it like this. If the RIAA started giving away CDs (ok, implausible, but follow me here ;-)) that had ads between tracks, and offered ad-free versions for $20, would you pay or just rip and skip those tracks?

      Add value, ask money for it, I'm there. Otherwise, something strikes a sour note in my geek side for paying for not getting something I could avoid anyway.

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      Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage

    7. Re:Does it respect proxies yet? by dimator · · Score: 3, Informative

      One thing I don't like about the stuff I install off of mozdev.org is that I have to reinstall everything whenever I upgrade mozilla. With plugins, I can at least use a symlink to keep the same ones installed throughout, but I don't know the equivalent trick with mozdev.org type stuff.

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      python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
  6. Re:Alternate Mail Handlers by StarHeart · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check out Protozilla. It is a project over at mozdev.org that lets you use mailto to other mail clients, in my case evolution. It is planned to be included into Mozilla in the future, but probably not till after 1.0 because of the api havoc Mozilla is still going through.

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    Havoc Penington, the bane of my Linux desktop.
  7. Re:Alternate Mail Handlers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    See this post and the Bugzilla bug it references for how to make the prefs changes.

  8. Re:Are back menus fixed yet? by jonabbey · · Score: 3, Informative

    I couldn't possibly agree more. Run to bug 135331 and put your vote in on this. One of the mozilla user interface guys, mpt, even suggested that it was a mistake to leave back off of non-link images and that it should be changed, but a lot of the developers seemed to make the new UI spec for context menus holy writ and ignore all the howls of protest over this issue.

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    - jon

    Ganymede, a GPL'ed metadirectory for UNIX
  9. Re:Icons? by txsable · · Score: 3, Informative
    Here's a starting point for Mozilla icons (these are the ones I use....
    http://www.lotekk.net/index.php?page=moz&sub=icons

    This is a link that will auto-install the icons (and some additional ones including for "mail compose" and bookmark windows) into Mozilla for the title bar:
    http://www.grayrest.com/moz/resources/icons.shtml

    Lotekk.net has a few other useful Mozilla tricks, like some alternative Splash box graphics and a couple of search engine additions to the sidebar.

    Google Search can get you more references as well.

  10. Re:please!!! produce an unstripped linux nightly by asa · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are talkback nightly builds for linux. If you can reproduce a crash consistently then file a bug. You don't have to have a stack if you can repro regularly. If it's reproducible then someone else can get the stack.

    --Asa

  11. Re:Where's the criticism? by asa · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because the page that comes up comes up for all previous builds. They all suffer (except RC1) and it was easier this way.

    --Asa

  12. Privoxy is junkbuster. by Inoshiro · · Score: 3, Informative

    Stephen Walderr (probably spelt that wrong :)) created a fork of IJB 2.whatever which used blank GIFs in place of the broken icon or IJB logo. Then his project grew and continued. Everyone reported ads to the communal blocklist, which could be easily synchronized with a cron job. It was the best ever.

    Then his site seemed to stop updating, and many people wondered what had happened :-(

    But soon, the software was brought back by some great efforts by other people. It has many features I like. However, there are still bugs keeping it from 3.0:
    * It stops responding after a few days unless you HUP it.
    * It doesn't re-gzip data after it's been deziped and filtered.
    * The re_filterfile code sometimes doesn't work (I use it to filter Google's link-wrapping, which I feel is a big of a cheater's way of looking at what I go to)
    * Some minor HTTP 1.1 unhappyness.

    All in all, a good piece of software -- just not complete (yet).

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    Internet Explorer (n): Another bug -- that is, a feature that can't be turned off -- in Windows.
  13. Re:Just to keep us more informed by Misch · · Score: 4, Informative

    Try MozillaZine for information on nightlies, and daily status updates. Or, you could add the MozillaZine Slashbox to your homepage.

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    --You will rephrase your request for me to go to hell. Goto statements are not acceptable programming constructs
  14. Re:Alternate Mail Handlers by Fnord · · Score: 3, Informative

    Galeon supports it. In fact galeon will use your gnome default mail handler (if its set). Which nicely pops up an Evolution send window for me.

  15. DHTML compatability is perfect by rufusdufus · · Score: 3, Informative

    I wrote 3000 line javascript program that uses fairly sophisticated logic with dhtml objects, frames and forms. I have battled every browser I've tested it on until now; it worked the first time with no problems at all.

    Of course, this code has already been carefully constructed to be compatible with NS4,NS6 and IE, but still, I'm impressed.

  16. Re:plug-ins by fczuardi · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/

  17. Still incompatible with Netscape 6.x by smagruder · · Score: 3, Informative

    As a web site developer who needs to test his web sites on multiple browsers, it would be nice if Netscape 6.2 and Mozilla 1.0 RC2 could coexist on the same machine. But they don't. Image display and CSS utilization goes awry. CPU utilization is high. Mozilla's quick loader cancels out the one for Netscape.

    However, when I installed Mozilla on a system without Netscape, I could only see one bug: Named anchors without an href got the CSS a:hover setting applied when hovering, even though that shouldn't happen.

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    Steve Magruder, Metro Foodist
  18. Yes - it can cause Win2K to BSOD - Re:Odd problems by Malc · · Score: 3, Informative

    RC1 has been causing the BSOD on my machine. There's a discussion in the group news://news.mozilla.org/netscape.public.mozilla.wi n32 - look for a thread started on the 4th May entitled "Win2000 system crashes with 2002050306-1.0 branch?". My contribution is here: news://news.mozilla.org/3CD6E0F6.C4C33025%40yahoo. com

    There is also a bug on it. The bug has been marked as INVALID because the powers that be deemed it impossible for Mozilla to crash Win2K. If it's valid to your situatiom, please comment on it, and perhaps it will get re-opened.