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Mozilla 1.0 Officially Here
hhg writes "People of the world, rejoice! At last, the long awaited Mozilla 1.0 is released, and has emerged on the ftp.mozilla.org ftp-server. Let the release parties loose!" And there's even an Ann Arbor party now ;) Congratulations
to all the developers that contributed to the mighty lizard. And bahtama writes "The latest IE gopher hole patch is out! :) ... Check the release notes and then grab it from here."
http://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article2278.ht ml pretty much says it all :)
Congrats to all the hackers on the moz project. Fantastic job and well worth the wait.
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
Cm'on if you have 1.0_rc3 and you are not having problems, please do everyone a favor and DON'T download today...
Unless you are having problems.. try this weekend after the mirrors have had time to catch up!
if you wait for a while, I will have the files at ftp.fredan.org/mozilla/
FAQ: http://mozilla.org/start/1.0/faq/
Don't bother looking at these in IE 5.0, its PNG support is rubbish.
http://rocknerd.co.uk
While the ultimate goal of the Mozilla project is to produce source code that can be used by other projects and companies, the Open-Source project Beonex tries to make a browser for end-users out of it. (See Beonex vs. Mozilla). Beonex Communicator stays relatively true to Mozilla. Special emphasis is being put on security and privacy. The software is configured defensively, to avoid security holes to appear in the first place. For example, it sanitizes incoming HTML-email to the largest part.
The current version is available for Windows und Linux and bases on the final Mozilla 1.0 source code.
BTW: Congratulations to the whole Mozilla project!
Disclaimer: I am a member of the Beonex project.
I hope, Slashdot will also run this as main news article.
Please, don't use the developer groups for your questions. A good place for user discussion where you can ask for support or discuss and propose features is the new newsgroup:
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla(Note that slashdot adds a space inside the link)
After long last, its finally here. Don't think that this is the end of Mozilla. It's only the beginning! Netscape 7.0 is most likely coming off the 1.0 branch, and the trunk has already been getting bugfixes that will go into later Mozilla releases (releases). So, if a fix to a bug you wanted fixed isn't in Mozilla 1.0, its not the end of the world. Stay posted. :-)
Volunteer Mozilla developer, RPI Student.
I just got the release binary from mozilla.org, but it looks like the mirrors aren't ready yet (at least the 2 that I checked).
Perhaps we shouldn't get too frenzied to download until the mirrors are updated.
All things in moderation.
but still, the problems with sorting bookmarks still exists. I was hoping this would be fixed before release.
After downloading Mozilla you can install Java and Flash automatically.
This bug is why mozilla insists on adding .exe extensions to anything delivered as application/octet-stream, .txt to text/plain, and likes to fool around with lots of other extensions depending on your exact setup (on my machine it tries to rename every mp3 file to .mpga).
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I want to personally thank everyone that downloaded Milestone and nightly testing builds and contributed feedback in the form of Bugzilla bug reports, TalkBack crash reports, comments in the newsgroups and at mozillaZine.org. And a special thanks to those people that gave a hours, weeks, months or years of their lives to the care and feeding of our bug database (triage and testcasing bug reports). Without Mozilla's amazing QA and testing community we wouldn't be where we are today. ;-)
Oh, and all the developers too
No worries. It's enough alike to keep him happy. In fact, had I not erased his entire hard disk earlier in the day ("Why shouldn't I open attachments again?"), Mozilla probably would have been able to import all of his settings automatically.
Do not touch -Willie
Now that they have hit 1.0 are versions without talkback going to be availible.
Most likely not, talkback helps them debug!
Have they or will they remove debug information?
The debug menus have been removed since 1.0RC3
The pacakage is still ~10megs for windows. I was hoping to see some reduction for 1.0 since I still use a lowly 56K Modem.
Simple solution, use the Net Installer! It is a 200KB download that lets you choose the options you want, and then download them. If you don't want/need Chatzilla or Mail & News, you can install a smaller package.
As for 10 megs for the full package, that's not big AT ALL! Remember that it comes with Mail & News, an IRC Client, a browser, a WYSIWYG editor, and an address book.
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Edit
Preferences
Advanced
Scripts & Windows
Uncheck 'Open unrequested windows'
Because this release is the gopher hole patch for IE. That is, Mozilla replaces IE. It took me a second to get it, too.
Please do not use the above mirror. It's primarily for use by the developers. If it becomes unusable they won't be able to get any work done.
P.S. I replaced the splash with one of the splash screens found here:s h
http://www.lotekk.net/index.php?page=moz&sub=spla
Very professional, and very fitting!
Man, are you still crying about that? We already told you that it isn't a bug and that the change was necessary. This will be the final behavior of the browser.
The complete list is at http://www.schnitzer.at/mozparty/
It looks like we'll finally be able to close out Bug #100309.
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
I notice they're using the May 31st 1.0-branch build as 1.0 . I'm on the 2nd of June 1.0-branch build right now. Maybe they decided to junk several days' work due to mistakes.
:-)
Actually, we're already moving forward to Mozilla 1.0.1
--Asa
Near the end of the release notes, there is the warning
The bug report itself contains this pathetic comment:
that is to say... If Netscape can't use a Mozilla profile(and vice-versa) without causing nasty corruption then it shouldn't be trying. We should offer to import and create a new one without harming the old one - just like we do with other browsers that we like/share users with/ and support but with which we have incompatible profiles. (uhh 4.x)
Believe me, I'm overjoyed to mark bugs that stem from this behavior as invalid (and I will) but that doesn't strike at the core issue. Lots of users, QA, and developers have spent a ton of time chasing down these demons - no one knew of this incompatibility. Isn't there something to be done?
I don't know or recall if there's any shreds of Mosaic in IE 6.0 (or even if there were any in 3.0, the first IE to be a "contender") but like MS buying QDOS and making it MS-DOS, they did the same with Mosaic.
All I remember is that it used to suck to have to set up Windows NT 4.0 on a system and try to download all the latest service packs, browsers, etc. to discover that the POS IE 2.0 they bundled with it couldn't read ASP pages (insisted on .htm or .html) which is what MS put its updates on microsoft.com in.
Actually since MS bundled IE 2.0 with NT all along and no one complained, then they bundled IE 4.0 with 98 and caught hell about it, if IE 4.0 is so bad, why did people complain? IE 2.0 was bad and no one griped...
Schnapple
I'm sorry but your asking for too much. IE already supports non "IE-Style" layers. It's called CSS1. It's fully implemented on both IE5.5+ and NS6+ (Mozilla, etc)... Same goes for scripting objects. Both support (more or less) the Document Object Model standard.. DOM1. As for Image alignment. The "align" property is deprecated, you should be using style sheets by now. See W3.ORG.
Overall looking very good (other then the Netscape 4 interface).
The "Modern" interface is much nicer:
1. Click Edit | Preferences | Appearance | Themes | Modern.
2. Close Moz *and* QuickLaunch (right-click the system tray icon and choose "Exit Mozilla").
When you start Moz again, you'll have the Modern theme.
I have not downloaded Mozilla 1.0 yet, but I do have RC3 installed on this Ultra5/270Mhz/512Mb .
While this monster is by no means a speed demon, Mozilla is so slow it is unusable. Takes 30 seconds to start up, 1-2 seconds to register a click. The rendering of pages is fine, but everything else is really, really slow.
Netscape4.7, on the other hand, is fine. Not fast, but perfectly usable.
I also use Mozilla all the time on a Win98 & RH7.2 (Dual boot/366Mhz/512Mb), and it's way way FASTER then Netscape4.7.
Why is Mozilla so slow on Solaris?
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
I did the stub installed on Windows 2000 and everything was required except for Personal Security Manager.
I don't think that's helping reduce bandwidth requirements of the servers much.
mbbac
Seems pretty fast, though I haven't run tests. Love the tabs, especially the ability to have multiple windows and/or multiple tabs.
Anyone with a recent JDK/JRE installed already has the plugin for Mozilla/Netscape and does NOT need to install this package!
o ji140.so (for Linux at least).
I don't know why the installer does not do this automatically if it detects Java, but all you have to do is go to the Mozilla plugins directory and make a symbolic link to the plugin. In the case of JDK 1.4, the plugin resides in ${JAVA_HOME}/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_
In Windows, in some directory that looks like that, there are some dll's you can copy to the Mozilla plugins' folder to make the Java plugin work.
Marcelo Vanzin
Under the directory on the ftp server with the stub, there's an XPI directory which has the packages for the individual components. The install also has an option to save the downloaded files.
I believe the splash screen is disabled by default on *nix. Try starting mozilla from the command line with 'mozilla -splash' to see it. I believe it is enabled by default on Windows; try launching it as 'mozilla -nosplash' to hide it.
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Runnin' around, robbin' banks all whacked on the Scooby Snacks...
one US mirror has mozilla-1.0 on it site and is currently giving me the maximum download my IDSL line's bandwidth will allow.a 1.0/
 
The mirror is:
 
ftp://archive.progeny.com/mozilla/releases/mozill
 
This seems to be the only one that has it at the time of this posting.
 
I am the penguin that codes in the night.
Not trolling, but you do realize the Willam F. (?) Gates foundation donates millions and millions of dollars to charities each year... Gates' has a lot of things you can flame him for, not being kind isn't one of them...
Mozilla has several (around 3500) unconfirmed bugs, most of them seam to be gone since a long time or dups, but we need some help to get through them - just ask on irc.mozilla.org #kill-unco and read there: http://sucs.org/~sits/mozilla/unco/
I did the stub installed on Windows 2000 and everything was required except for Personal Security Manager.
Did you already have a version of Mozilla installed previously?? If so, you need to uninstall it first, or else everything but PSM will be required. If Moz is not previously installed, you can turn the other options on and off. For example, right now I only have the browser & address book installed.
"On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami."
If you followed the project for so long then you would know the answer to your question.
IE was passed by Mozilla in terms of functionality ages ago.
In Soviet Russia...michael would be rotting in Siberia!
If you're sick of that curly, blue lizard icon that appears on EVERY window, try installing the icons found here:
http://www.grayrest.com/moz/resources/icons.shtml
They're nice looking, and more importantly, I can now differentiate between the browser windows and the mail windows...
Supposedly these and other icons are available from the following page, but it's really slow right now for me...
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/icons.html
"And like that
The official Mozilla RPMs for RedHat 7.2 are still built without TrueType font support. If you care for decent fonts on your screen, here is a build with freetype2 enabled:0 -freetype2
http://nil.ics.uci.edu/~gal/download/mozilla-1.0.
Actually, what it really means (though this is not explicit in the release notes) is that you can't share a profile between mozilla 1.0 and existing versions of netscape. I read elsewhere (maybe in the FAQ?) that this will be doable in future netscape builds (i.e. ones based on moz1.0). Also, from the bug report, which you rather unfairly neglected to quote:
The 1.0 relnote for this bug is good but not enough. The solution should be that
Netscape creates its own registry.dat and doesn't touch Mozilla's. That should
be done for the next major Netscape release, or there will be a lot of users
with profile corruption caused by sharing profiles between Netscape and Mozilla.
That could lead to user frustration.
It sounds like it is actually a problem with current netscape builds.
If you'll search the web for "mozilla.bmp", you'll get some other sites for splash screens.
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Here are some:
first - the Bugzila page. Full of links and attachments: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32218
http://latinmoz.f2g.net/mozillation/
http://www.vorstrasse91.com/moztips/tricks.html (those are quite nice...)
http://www.geocities.com/mozamp/mozspla
Enjoy.
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NOTE: you can't start the profile manager unless Mozilla is fully shut down.
http://rocknerd.co.uk
Nope. It's all included cross-platform.
Bank of America is my bank and it works just fine in Mozilla and Netscape 7 PR1.
--Asa
I run mozilla mail with about 15 folders, only 2 or 3 of which ever have fewer than about 10,000 mails each. I get between 300 and 1000 messages a day and they get filtered to my different folders. Mozilla mail has no problems with my volume.
--Asa
~/mozilla#
Usage: configure [options] [host]
Options: [defaults in brackets after descriptions]
Configuration:
...
--enable-calendar Enable building of the calendar client
...
This is from the 1.0 source-tree. So if you want it, calendar is in 1.0 (Note: I haven't tested it, and you need to install a special libical, but it's there).
Yes, but that only works on the same X display. If you have one Mozilla open on, say :0.0, there's
no way to open a new browser window on :0.1, which
I need to do for my monitoring...
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown