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First Reviews of Mozilla 1.0 Roll In

Posted by timothy on from the jaundiced-eye-of-the-beholder dept.

Since the announcement of Mozilla 1.0's release, at least a few journalists have been quick to turn the beast over and poke its belly. Tina Gasperson's review over at NewsForge makes an interesting contrast to CNET's review; strange how they give a rating that would barely merit a "C-" after describing Mozilla's robustness, standards compliance, speed and convenience features.

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  1. Re:Built for IE! by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And I've been wondering about Apple. Many web designers still use Macs for web design.

    If Apple started to distribute Mozilla as the default browser instead of IE, it would also help Mozilla to gain market share.

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  2. Re:Don't submit by gambit3 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Thanks for the thought. I appreciate your advice and your honesty.

    However, I'm not going to do it because of propaganda. I'm going to do it because my first experience with an Open Source product (Mozilla), has been excellent. Especially the power to customize it to what I want it to do. This is the one thing that absolutely caught me off guard. I don't have to Beat It Into Submission like I've had to do with commercial to mold it to my liking.

    From what I've read about Linux users, that it also a strength of Linux, and THAT'S why I'll probably give it a try.

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  3. Re:hahaha by CynicTheHedgehog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It does too discriminate (or can). You can disable all popups or only "unrequested" (for instance, onLoad) popups. You can also diable moving or resizing windows (take that hollywood.com!). It's granular and configurable, as the C|Net reviewer would have discovered had he done his job.