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Mozilla 1.0 Officially Here

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it's-only-been-how-many-years dept.

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."

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  1. Re:mozillazine by nirvdrum · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Start Guide is pretty cool too. Was this around in any form before, or is this completely new?

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    If there was a "-1 Not Funny", that'd be my most used mod.
  2. Re:The ONLY thing annoying me... by RedSynapse · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Oh no, not the return of the Never-Ending-Splashscreen-Debate-From-Hell.
    Oh it all starts out nice "we need a prettier splashscreen, here I made one check it out." Then the accusations of satanism and communism begin (seriously). [to view the links you'll have to copy the link location into the address bar. Bugzilla doesn't accept direct links from slashdot]

    Long story short, they can't change the splashscreen because of the legal wrangling necessary. But ANYONE can change the splashscreen to anything by putting at .bmp file named mozilla.bmp in their /mozilla directory.

    Personally I think the best ones are here, and no it's not listed on the big list of splashscreens given before.

  3. Re:new king by aengblom · · Score: 4, Interesting

    IE is fabulous in Windows until you have a problem. Then you're pretty much sunk. I've recently encountered two IE bugs that have gone unfixed and they are pretty much showstoppers for me. The first (on my home machine)... IE would often not display images--there were a variety of complex temporary fixes, but I couldn't get it to work. Most problematic: to fix my IE I had to reinstall the OS. This is the largest problem with it's integration Uninstall/Revert to previous version wouldn't work because it broke my MS Outlook!

    More recently, I have come across a bug that prevents IE from saving a photo as anything, but a BMP when the cache gets full (or something). This is a problem at work because I use IE to browse web accessible database of large image files.

    For both CPU's I had to switch to Moz. Thankfully, it was there when I needed it. IE is still a pleasure to use... but only when it works.

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  4. Is there a good CD image to distribute? by stienman · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Obviously we're all excited to take this to our friends and families. Is there any effort to make a good installation CD with all the binaries, source, and a windows autorun (either open an html file on the CD or run the full talkbak installer)?

    I can put one together myself, but I'm not certian what the best (most easily understood) directory structure would be... Perhaps something like this:
    • Root
      • Linux
      • Suse
      • Redhat
      • ...
    • BSD
      • FreeBSD
      • NetBSD
      • ...
    • Windows
    • Source
    • DOCS
    I'd like to have something burnable by next Wednesday for the Ann Arbor Destroyed by Mozilla party...

    -Adam
  5. Re: from the it's-only-been-how-many-years dept. by tweakt · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Jan 22nd 1998 - Netscape Communicator Source is opened to the public

    June 5th 2002 - Mozilla 1.0 Released

    Roughly, about 4.5 years.