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Mozilla 1.2 Betas Start Flowing

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the beware-the-lizard dept.

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."

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  1. Re:No major news, and still a memory hog by Gerv · · Score: 3, Informative

    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

  2. It's an alpha. by Gerv · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  3. Re:Can i use ANY mail software? by Mr.Strange · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes you can.

    Put the following line in prefs.js, which is in your Mozilla profile directory.

    user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mai lt o", true);

  4. Re:No major news, and still a memory hog by n3bulous · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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  5. Have you tried the preferences toolbar by vrt3 · · Score: 3, Informative
    I know it's not really what you want, but the preferences toolbar makes it a lot easier to enable or disable the popup blocker.

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  6. Re:Spellchecker may not work - what about 1.1? by abischof · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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  7. Re:Spell Checker? by bunratty · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Mozilla Spellchecker is scheduled to be added to Mozilla.

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  8. You have to download a JRE with the plugin by GroundBounce · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  9. There is no uninstall for the preferences toolbar by leighklotz · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.