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Mozilla 1.1 Alpha Released
theBrownfury writes: "Mozilla.org has released Mozilla 1.1 alpha, the first post 1.0 milestone.
This release has been in the works for almost 2 months now incorporating
over 1700 bug fixes and more than a dozen new features. Including: Quartz
rendering for OS X 10.1.5 users, new layout performance enhancements targeted
at DHTML, faster startup times and more. Here are the release notes and
the link to the releases page
or FTP
for downloads."
* Selecting text for copy/paste is difficult. I often have to select more than I want, and then trim it down.
* In the Windows browser, selecting text will even do strange things like go back the the previous page, or close the browser window! It may be the gestures getting confused, but it's highly annoying.
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
Mozilla needs at least Java 1.3.1_02 on Windows and Java 1.4.0_01 on Linux for applets to work properly.
:-).
Even then, lots of applets are MS pseudo-java (and only work in the Microsoft VM) rather than real Sun/IBM/etc. Java. AFAIK the games.yahoo.com used the MS-Java specific crap (for no good reason) last time I checked.
Applets actually written for Java 1.3/1.4 work brilliantly, I find, and the fact that 1.4 applets get the DOM of the page they are embedded in is cool, too. Next step: drag-n-drop applets in Composer
Tobe honest, I don't see the other problems you mention. When you say "mozilla is often the first app to lose its icons and its interface starts falling to pieces..." -- well this just never happens to me, on NT4 or Linux. Are you trying to use win9x or something? If so, I suggest you nuke that PoS first, install a real operating system (I'd count NT as "real", others may disagree ;) and a pound gets a penny most of your issues will clear up.
The other major cause of issues is installing over a previous version. Try nuking your ~/mozilla (on Windows: %SYSTEMROOT%/profiles/[username]/Application Data/Mozilla ) and reinstalling.
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -- Goethe
* Not supporting my (home) wheel mouse. Telling users they need new drivers is not an option!
* Losing an entire folder of bookmarks being dragged. The bookmark section in general needs a fair amount of work
Despite that, the pop-under tabbed browsing is the best thing since er the wheel mouse. I just want 'em both!
I just figured this one out the other day.
To select a portion of the word, drag your cursor so that the next word is highlighted, then back up. IE extends the selection word by word, but retracts it character by character.
"200 Quatloos on the newcomer!" "300 Quatloos against!"
So how many bugs are open on IE? How do you know it's 10x as many bugs? For that matter, how do you actually raise a bug on IE if you find one? Microsoft do their best to hide that kind of information.
The fact is Internet Explorer is closed source. You have no idea how many bugs are open on it, how many are fixed between builds, the quality of patches, the quality of the code or even what features are being worked on at any given time. Mozilla allows you to do all which consequently means a lot of people are motivated to find and reports bugs and often submit patches.
Besides, a lot of the so-called bugs on mozilla are covering feature work, more deal with embedding and API cleanup, more are dupes, more are issues restricted to specific sites and more deal with issues on specific platforms. They might all be labelled "bugs" but the number of crash/non-functional/quirk issues are actually a subset.
If you are using a proxy like junkbusters then This will solve your problem:
10.3. I'm using a transparent proxy (such as Junkbuster) and I'm having weird browsing problems. What's happening?
Some transparent proxies (including some versions of Junkbuster) do not handle HTTP/1.1 properly. The first thing to try is to go to Edit | Preferences | Advanced | HTTP Networking and select 'Use HTTP 1.0'.
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Huh. I've had antialiasing in mozilla since about 0.9.9... I don't know exactly how it was turned on because I use the debian packages, but those packages give you a nice little option at install time of whether to enable antialiased fonts.
Admittedly I needed a bit of hackery to set the font in the UI, because by default the UI font uses a non-antialiased font (it picks up the GTK setting and there's no GUI to change that). But you can even override that easily by putting the following in a file called userChrome.css in your profile directory:
dialog, window, menu, menuitem {font-family: sans-serif !important}
That last remaining issue will go away when the port to GTK2 is completed because GTK2 will allow an antialiased font to be the default. Alternatively, you *might* be able to pick a truetype font as your default GTK font and have it work now, but I haven't tried that so I'm not sure.
Stuart.
If you check mozilla.org you'll see that 1.1a is Mozilla 1.1 ALPHA! The roadmap clarifies more:
The mozilla 1.0 stable branch will continue as 1.0.x, and the 1.x series will continue as test milestones for evaluation of the latest features added to the trunk development. Each release cycle will be about 13 weeks long, consisting of 5 weeks work then an ALPHA release, another 5 weeks then a BETA release, then a week or so freeze before the milestone.
This release is 1.1 ALPHA. Lots of nice things in there for those who are following Moz and don't mind the shortcomings, but if you just want to complain, stick to IE.
Mozilla
Actually, I found that the biggest problem with Mozilla in RedHat 7.3 was that I had installed the AbiWord word processor when I installed the system. AbiWord happens to have some really poor quality fonts named according to the Microsoft convention.. Arial, etc. So any web page that gives you something like
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
will cause Mozilla on X to go and find the lousy AbiWord fonts, no matter what you try and do in the Mozilla font preferences.
The solution is to comment out the reference to the AbiSuite fonts in /etc/X11/fs/config from finding the AbiWord MS-named fonts.
Mozilla on RedHat 7.3 was totally unusable until I did this.
- jon
Ganymede, a GPL'ed metadirectory for UNIX
Mozilla 1.1 Alpha was not released "days ago". It was released on 2002-06-11 in the late afternoon.
--Asa