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

After installation...

[snake_dad]

Check out the radial context menus or the mouse gestures. Look at edit->preferences->navigator->internet search, and edit->preferences->advanced->Scripts&Plugin s. And finally take a look at the preferences bar to quickly enable or disable certain options. These are always the first things I install with any new Mozilla, release or nightly.

Re:Not complaining, but gave me two crash messages

[snake_dad]

Ctrl-pgup, and ctrl-pgdn under windows. ctrl-t for a new tab, ctrl-w to close one. Or use mouse gestures or piemenus.

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?

Re:Coverage for other browser projects as well

[Plug]

While I'm the first to say that monopolies are bad, I like the fact that the OSS community has banded together enough to make something of the scale of Mozilla, instead of being tied up in lots of little sub-projects.

I like the fact that Galeon exists, that K-Meleon exists, that Chimera exists - and because they're all based on Mozilla, they're all as good as each other at rendering web content. If they all started as projects from scratch then none of them would be anywhere _near_ as good as they are now.

Instead of a million ICQ clients out there that implement 80% of the functions, if we had one decent ICQ library that all the clients used, then they could all use that library (Yes, I know there a couple of libs that are getting there - there weren't when I looked a couple of months back.)

I think it's a great thing that there is a standard library (Gecko) for rendering web pages that other projects can implement and build on. While I don't want to suggest the stifling of competition, I don't want to see people wasting time developing an alternative to something that is the best there is, and that they can just grab and use.

With the addition of calendaring, Mozilla is almost in a position to take on the IE/Outlook combination. Who would have suggested that a year ago? Mozilla is more than just another in the sea of browsers.

Thought you guys would like this

[dcstimm]

Thought you guys would like this:-) http://linux.darylstimm.com/mozilla1280.jpg

But Mozilla still has some weaknesses

[norculf]

1.1 is still a very immature version, compared to the Internet Explorer family of technologies, which is currently in version 6.x and still being improved daily.

When will Mozilla feature speedier web browsing, and better integration with best-of-breed Microsoft products such as MSN messenger and Outlook XP?

A theme that more closely matches the award winning Windows look-and-feel would also be helpful.

Re:But Mozilla still has some weaknesses

[Captain Large Face]

You can simulate the MS experience (this is a platform-independent tip, BTW) by closing down your browser half way through an important task. I recommend halfway through online banking (works for me). Also, try altering your firewall to allow some moderate security breaches. You'll soon feel right at home.

Re:But Mozilla still has some weaknesses

[SmileyBen]

So long as you're happy to use tabs to hold your news sites (which most people love after about three days usage):

1) Open each site in a tab.
2) Click Bookmarks | Bookmark this group of tabs.
3) Place resulting bookmark on your personal toolbar.

Re: That's sarcasm, right?

[Antity]

There is a way to open tabs "in the background":

Preferences->Navigator->Tabbed_Browsing->Load_li nks_In_The_Background

(Space inserted by Slashcode.)

Re:Tab bar issues in Mozilla 1.1

[Aanallein]

why do tabs now have to close left to right, prey tell?

Because this allows for hugely more efficient browsing if you follow more than one link per page.
Imagine googling for a specific subject. You open the first five links and keep the results page open for further searching if by some strange impossibility the first five results werent what you're looking for. So now you hit ctrl-pagedown to go to the next tab, which has the first search result. You quickly glance over the page but it isn't what you were looking for. ctrl-w closes the tab.
Now with the old behaviour, the tab to the left would be focused. But you don't want that tab! You want the next result. So you have to manually focus the next tab again (oh, bother). And when you close that one, the same friggin first tab focuses and you once more have to manually go to the next one...
With the new behaviour however, the tab to the right gets the focus - when you're done with the first search result and close the tab - the second search result shows. And when you're done with that one, the third one shows. No other actions needed than closing tabs.

Imagine the use of this for reading forums, or archived mailinglists, or... well, everything that consists of a collection of links where it matters in which order you read them. Yes, it is somewhat disconcerting to see the behaviour change like that when you were used to the old way - but change is good! Give it a few minutes, really try to see the use of it, and you'll almsot certainly come to see that the new way to do this is a vast improvement.

Re:Wrong forum, but I'll ask anyhow

[re-Verse]

The Customizing mozilla page is also very useful. You can change nearly everything from there.

Customizing Mozilla

easy to fix!

[Felipe Hoffa]

Remember its open source, you can adapt it to your own needs.

Just take the file piemenu.js in mozilla/chrome/radialcontext/content and change this line:

this.labelTrigger= setTimeout("PieMenu.prototype.act.showLabels();", 900);

The timeout is fixed in 900 by default, you can make it lower.

While you are there you can find a lot of options, just don't be afraid to try.

Fh

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

Re:Dynamically enable/disable plugins

[asa]

Try Jesse's Zap embeds bookmarklet. It's not perfect but I've come to depend on it. Just add the bookmarklet to your personal toolbar and whenever you visit a site with an annoying flash ad or java plugin just bonk on the personal toolbar link and the plugin gets zapped.

There are lots of great bookmarklets at Jesse's site. Take a look around and give some of them a try. I couldn't get by without them.

--Asa

Re:Source code tarball?!

[asa]

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozill a1.1/

If it's not there yet then it's not done yet. Check back later today.

--Asa

Re:Is this version more buggy?

[asa]

Clean install doesn't touch your bookmarks and if you installed your plugins into your profile directory you'd be able to hold onto them (or just back up your plugins dir. if you're reading slashdot you should be able to do that).

--Asa