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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."

2 of 367 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Type Ahead Find by unixmaster · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Need More info?
    Visit http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ui/accessibility/t ypeaheadfind.html

    Btw Kudos to Mozilla team!

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  2. Re:No major news, and still a memory hog by Gerv · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Mozilla's versioning is not like the Linux kernel. 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 feature jumps, you need to compare 1.1final and 1.2final (for example.)

    Gerv