Mozilla 1.1 Hits The Street

asa writes: "Mozilla 1.1 has arrived!. This release has many new features including full-screen mode for Linux, Mac MathML support, a redesigned JavaScript Debugger, new window icons for the different Mozilla applications, view selection source, display HTML mail as plaintext, and much more. Along with all the new features, Mozilla 1.1 also contains many improvements to performance, stability, standards support, and web site compatibility. You can get Mozilla 1.1 by visiting the mozilla.org releases page or directly from ftp at ftp.mozilla.org. Now that 1.1 is out the door, the focus moves to 1.2 alpha, and beyond. If you're confused as to how all of these releases relate to each other, be sure to check out the Mozilla Roadmap and the community hub over at mozillaZine.org."

Comments

Mozilla has good karma.

[bjornte]

I've been a Moz 1.0 user since it was launched, and I've been very pleased with it. Many nice touches, like tabbed browsing (try ctrl-shift-clicking), banning images from ad-serves, anti-popup and so on. Best of all, it manages all the security routines my internet bank throws at it.

Having downloaded Moz 1.1 the difference is not so great, as expected. Some minor bugs have vanished, like the frequent paralyzation of the http-input field.

In general, there is nothing IE can do for me that Moz can't. And Moz is just... a smoother ride. Plus it's got good karma. Recommended.

Re:Mozilla has good karma.

[Aanallein]

Hitting the checbox in: edit, preferences, navigator, tabbed browsing: "load links in the background" will make opening tabs in the background the default action - no need to even bother with the shift key anymore.

Other nice touches for tabbed browsing: Try dragging a plain text link - http://www.mozilla.org - to an ampty area of the tab bar (if you have many tabs open: near the close button) - this will open a new tab with that link. Dragging the link to a tab itself will load the link in that tab.
Middle-click on a tab in the tab bar will close the tab.
Dragging a bookmark from the personal toolbar onto the tab bar will open that bookmark in a new tab.

Coverage for other browser projects as well

[jukal]

It is great, that Mozilla progresses and that Slashdot supports the work by directing traffic to their site. But I really hope that /. could give other and new browser projects coverage as well. Many of them have innovative ideas, and potential, and probably would not mind a few more volunteer developers. Slashdot is in great position to give these too the needed momentum. Why don't you release an article about one of them today already?

That funky graph

[Zaffle]

I just want to know what program they used to generate that funky milestone graph. Anyone know?

Re:That funky graph

[asa]

I just want to know what program they used to generate that funky [mozilla.org] milestone graph. Anyone know?

I used a combination of Paint Shop Pro and the Gimp. I'm actually interested in finding some kind of CVS graph program that would generate a picture like this from CVS data. It obviously wouldn't be able to predict the future but it should be able to build an image of CVS activity (branches, checkin volume, tags, etc). I have tried in the past to take some cvs measurements and use checkin volume to determine the thickness of the branch lines but it was just too much effort. If something like that could be done programatically I'd be as happy as a pig in shit. :)

--Asa

The Only Thing Else I Want

[Quila]

Please, please, please can I have the ability to rearrange the bookmarks live as in IE, rather than going to the bookmark editor every time.

Need integration with external e-mail

[KjetilK]

I'm running Opera, Mozilla and Konqi every day on my box now, and I really can't decide between them. Opera is a bit unstable and unfree, Konqi doesn't have tabbed browsing (will soon), and lacks a few other nice features too.

Mozilla lacks something very important: It doesn't work smoothly with KMail which is my mail program of choice right now.

Mozilla really needs to integrate well with other applications. Most importantly, it really needs a way to launch an application when users click on a mailto-link. This is bug 11459.

Also quite important is that you can launch Mozilla and have it open a new tab (not window) from other applications. This is Bug 104204.

I would encourage everybody to join in to get this working! :-)