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Mozilla 1.1 Beta Out And About

Posted by timothy on from the versus-mothra dept.

asa writes: "Today mozilla.org released Mozilla 1.1 Beta. New to this release are full-screen mode for Linux, BiDi Hebrew improvements, Arabic shaping improvements for Linux, and significant improvements to Venkman, the best cross-platform JavaScript debugger on the planet. Binaries and release notes available at http://www.mozilla.org/releases/. You can read more about this release at mozilla.org and mozillazine.org and if you want to see how this release fits into the overall 1.1 development cycle there's a pretty picture available at the Mozilla Development Roadmap."

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  1. MSIE disk usage... ~9MB to ~30MB by green+pizza · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    I was fooling around with a fresh download of MSIE 5.2.1 on Mac OS X earlier today. The download was 7.2 MB compressed and I belive the final install took up a little over 11 MB. I didn't have time to see what the breakdown was. As I recall, version 5.1.5 for Mac OS 9 is a bit smaller, about a 5.5 MB download and 9 MB installed. Though 5.1 has fewer features and less help/readme fluff.

    MSIE + Outlook Express for Solaris and HP/UX is well over 20 MB compressed (www.microsoft.com/unix).

    It's hard to tell how much space MSIE takes up on Win32 given that it relies on libraries and bindings built into the OS and windowing system.

    That said, I think mozilla's current size isn't too bad. I'd much rather see performance improvements, especially for older machines and the latest crop of tiny all-in-one machines. (Such as those VIA Mini-ITX boxes... WinChip-like performance, but really small/quiet/cool). RAM usage could use some trimming as well.

  2. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by 1u3hr · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Then the $64,000 question is when will Mozilla get the spell checker?

    When will Slashdot editors USE their fucking spell-checkers?

    MOZLLA? Slashdot does 6 or 8 stories a day. About one per editor. I used to edit 80 stories a day for a news site.

  3. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by Bistronaut · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hey! I said that they were from the 1.1 alpha release notes! I posted them for the people moving from 1.0 to 1.1beta! (like me) Are the moderators so fickle that they'll mod a post down from +4 to -1 without reading it?

  4. Re:Serious questions by JPriest · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Might be modded as flamebait but I thought it was rather humorous.

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  5. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by Alsee · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If Slashdot readers put in half the effort of bitching into making a spell-checking feature for Slashcode they'd have the problems dealt with by now.

    Quite possibly true, which leads me to the following intriguing hypothosis:

    (programmer && bitching) == NULL

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  6. Re:Mozlla 1.1 huh? by MS · · Score: 4, Offtopic
    You're new to slashdot - aren't you?

    Otherwise you would know: there's not a single posting by some slashdot "editor" which does not have typing, spelling, grammar, syntax and/or even semantic errors.

    Slashdot "editors" do not know about spellcheckers and never do proof-reading. They even don't read the articles they link to and put misleading titles, or don't read what the other "editors" published a few hours before, which result in duplicate postings.

    Please don't flame me: I also happen to make errors when writing, but at least I don't call myself an "editor", and english is the 4th language I learned.

    ms