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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. Aighty then... by SuperDuG · · Score: 5, Troll
    Okay I like mozilla and I like what they're all about and I like just about everything about what they're doing. But I think if everyone is interested in the latest greatest opensource software releases that they can easily hop on over to freshmeat, you know a slashdot affiliate?

    Here's my little soapbox and I'm a "highly modded" poster so I get the whole plus 2 before I'm modded as a troll some more. Mozilla may be a very capable browser, but shaping the article to play more into the fact that it has better language support than IE and still holds 99% of the functionality of IE would be a better story than just announcing every release and a brief summary of the changelog. The last thing I would like to see is a list of mirrors for software, I don't like having to wait 3 days because the only place I know to get the software is the link that slashdot posted that is far out of date. While this doesn't apply to distros and software like mozilla, it does apply to projects not hosted on sourceforge or that have a lot of bandwidth to spare.

    I am very pleased to see that Mozilla is doing what some seemed would never happen and that's to make a browser that is not only free, but open source, runs on more platforms than I can name, and to top it all off, is actively developed on. I couldn't be happier with the way mozilla is working out, my main beef is that if /. wants to post PR articles or PR announcements at least say why the project is slashdot worthy, and moreso why the project is a benifit to all of us.

    I use mozilla all the time, you know why? Because no matter what computer I'm on, I can run it. That's what I like about mozilla. I don't care if it isn't as fast as IE in page rendering, or if it eats up a lot of memory, or if someone thinks opera is better. I like mozilla and I think slashdot is really doing them an injustice by explaining that a new version is out and not the benifits of the project itself.

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  2. new low by seanw · · Score: 0, Troll

    ok, this is a new low. you spelled "Mozilla" wrong in the FUCKING TITLE

    good work, guys

  3. Re:Mozilla by Phroggy · · Score: 1, Troll

    Could 1.1 be the version that AOL integrates with their client software?

    No, the next version of America Online will still use MSIE. Sorry.

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    $x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
    $x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
  4. Re:Humble request by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    fuck you, im not a programmer. i am a simple user.

  5. Quartz Rendering?? No antialiased Fonts for X ?? by sparkeyjames · · Score: 0, Troll

    Once again the X windowing system and the users of both Gnome and KDE desktop environments get left wanting. Ah well maybe someday day around version 2. Though by then we'll all be useing KDE 5 or 6 with Konqueror and Gnome 2.6 with Galeon 2.2 and we won't care if mozilla has good looking fonts under X because we won't be useing it.

    sparkeyjames

    If sense were common everyone would have it!