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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:Well at this rate... by evilquaker · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Mozilla will become feature complete when compared to IE6 sometime in the beginning of next year :-)

    Really? IE6 has mouse gestures, tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking?

    Sounds to me like Mozilla is already more feature complete than IE... little conveniences like type-ahead find really don't compare to the three I mentioned above...

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  2. Re:Umm.. Just a question... by psykocrime · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What can the new mozilla do that I can't already do in Opera or IE?!?!?

    That you can't do in Opera? Don't know, I don't use Opera.

    That you can't do in IE:

    1. Tabbed Browsing

    2. Use mouse gestures

    3. use radial context menus

    4. use type ahead search (ala Emacs)

    5. Use Mycroft search plugins to search from the URL bar or Sidebar.

    6. Use other neat Sidebar plug-ins

    7. use custom themes to "skin" the browser.

    8. chat on IRC

    I'm sure there are other things as well, but those are the first ones that come to mind.

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  3. Re:Well at this rate... by MatriXOracle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Maybe if you read your own link (bugzilla bug 28568, copy link and paste in address bar) you would notice that this is fixed in 1.2a, but you have to use a hidden pref to enable it:

    user_pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true)

    So next time, try READING instead of posting a useless flame about your favorite bug.