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Mozilla 1.2 Betas Start Flowing
Asa Dotzler writes "Today mozilla.org released Mozilla 1.2alpha. This is a preview of what's to come with Mozilla 1.2 expected in early November. The new alpha contains great new features like Type Ahead Find which allows quick web page navigation when you type a succession of characters in the browser. In addition to the new features Mozilla 1.2a contains stability and perfomance improvements including a major boost in the speed of downloading mail on Mac OS X.This release comes on the heels of the security and bugfix follow-up to Mozilla 1.0. If you're a 1.0 user and you're not upgrading to Mozilla 1.1 or newer then you are strongly encouraged to get Mozilla 1.0.1 for security and stability fixes."
Each quarterly cycle has an alpha, a beta and a final release. We recently released 1.1final, and 1.2alpha is the first release in the next cycle.
If you are looking for "major improvements worthy of a version jump", you need to compare 1.1final and 1.2final (for example.) Comparing 1.1final and 1.2alpha is not correct, because not all the 1.2 features are in yet.
I had Win2K swap trouble too, but new versions appear to be a lot better.
Gerv
The headline is misleading - this is Mozilla 1.2 Alpha. See the roadmap for full details on the numbering scheme and release schedule.
1.0.1 was also released recently. This is a bugfix release for those people using 1.0 who don't want to upgrade to 1.1final or 1.2alpha.
Gerv
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Put the following line in prefs.js, which is in your Mozilla profile directory.
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.ma
I liked pinball but the backwards and forwards buttons seemed flaky because they wouldn't work unless you hit them correctly. I then found the orbit theme here and like it better.
"The area of penetration will no doubt be sensitive." ~ Spock
The next release of IE isn't a story mainly because it's proprietary and Windows only. Mozilla is cross-platform and open source, meaning its development is accessible and relevant to everyone interested.
And those who don't like tabbed browsing, I believe, haven't given it a try. Take Slashdot, for example. I middle-click on all sorts of associated links on the right of the screen, which load in tabs in the background, while I continue reading the page. I can then peruse the other tabs at my leisure, and close them with another middle-click.
Another feature Mozilla has that IE doesn't: shortcuts to bookmarks. For example, if I type "gg [something]" in my location bar that does a search of Google Groups for that thing. "PW" takes me to Pricewatch. "Dict" to Dictionary.com. These can be combined with Javascript ("bookmarklets") for truly nifty automation.
TANSTAAFL
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The mozilla people know, that it's not implemented in the best way right now (see bug #167921). If this stays, as it is, many JavaScript applications won't be useable anymore, for example our recently open sourced Wysiwyg XML Bitflux Editor (*shameless plug*) and other similar applications.
And there is no way to prevent it from the application side. But Mozilla promised a fix in the next week for that problem.
chregu
If you do a custom install and unselect the mail client, Mozilla will use your default mail client.
You know, Microsoft's street address also says a lot about their mentality.
I can confirm that the version on the Spellchecker installation page does indeed work with builds from mid-August and earlier (likely including 1.0 and 1.1).
Really, it's just the recent nightlies (and possibly 1.2alpha) for which the Spellchecker is broken.
Alex Bischoff
HTML/CSS coder for hire
The most important thing to ask: did you file a bug?
Downloaded and installed 1.2a. Typeahead works well and also took the time to try bannerblind . It works well for the few sites I tested it on - no more banners on pages. With a tool menu item you can turn it on and off and you can tweek its effect - removing them entirely or hiding them (leaves page layout the same). Way to go mozilla.
The Mozilla Spellchecker is scheduled to be added to Mozilla.
What a fool believes, he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.
You need to download a recent Linux JRE (Java Runtime Environment) from Sun and link to the included Java plug-in from your mozilla plugins directory. I believe there are more detailed instructions in one of the readme files that come with the JRE.
You have to build the sun jre from source code. This is something that Gentoo 1.3/1.4 users have had to do for quite some time, and it is quite a pain in the bum. You can find instrutcions on how to go about building the jre from soure here.
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OK, I'll give that a shot.
Those are the features I personally like that I can think of right now. There may be more if you ask other Opera users.
Constitutionally Correct
If you install the preferences toolbar and decide you don't like it, you'll have to delete some files and edit some XML RDF files to uninstall it.
Yes, "lisp" is powerful, but emacs' lisp engine does not implement lexical scoping. Quite frankly, this is a serious flaw of "elisp" (as well as other early lisp implementations) which the folks who subsequently set the standards for Scheme and Common Lisp obviously realized.
... might want to check out the article for details if this sort of thing interests you.
Vim itself has powerful scripting capabilities, as evidenced by all the goodies you can find on www.vim.org. They have attempted to build a language independent model, kind of like GIMP allows users to script in Scheme, Python and whatever else. An interesting article appeared in a recent Linux Journal or Linux Magazine issue that compared the VIM and the GIMP's attempts at providing a language independent scripting framework. Their conclusion was that the GIMP is more successful on this front