Mozilla 1.2 Unleashed

asa writes "Mozilla 1.2 has just been released. New to this version are features like Type Ahead Find, basic toolbar customization (text/icons/both), support for GTK themes on Linux, multiple tabs as startpage, Link Prefetching, "filter after the fact" and filter logging in Mail, Palm sync for Mozilla addressbook on MS Windows, and more. This is the latest stable release from mozilla.org, and all users of Mozilla 1.0, Mozilla 1.0.1, Mozilla 1.1 or any of the alpha/beta/release candidates are encouraged to upgrade to this release. You can get builds and more info at the Mozilla releases page and you can find daily Mozilla news and discussion at mozillaZine.org."

Comments

Re:Anyone still using Mozilla?

[ciryon]

I'm using Phoenix in Linux but Mozilla in Mac OS X.

Mozilla is a good, stable browser with lot's of plugins available. It you have a fast computer it's probably a better choice than Phoenix.

Ciryon

New roadmap

[edgrale]

For those of you who are interested, here is a link to the new roadmap

source: mozillazine.org

Re:Anyone still using Mozilla?

[colinramsay]

I don't know if that was a play on words or a reference to Type Ahead Find, but either way Type Ahead Find is a feature of the latest Phoenix milestone.

Re:Why do they all go to GTK/GNOME?

[ultrabot]

Why is it that they all go in for GTK/GNOME not QT/KDE? Are the latter combination more difficult to integrate? Something about the QT license? Better mktg by the GNOME guys?

Something about the QT license. It's GPL or proprietary (it's your choice), while LGPL (the license of GTK) is more corporate-friendly.

Re:funny

[Rovaani]

If you'd read the whole FAQ you are quoting you wold see that

Are anchor (<a>) tags prefetched?
No, only tags w/ a relation type of next or prefetch are prefetched. However, if there is sufficient interest, we may expand link prefetching support to include prefetching tags, which include a relation type of next or prefetch in the future. Doing so would probably help content providers avoid the problem of stale prefetching links.

So content-providers can decide all by themselves if they want to pre-serve the content. Althoug it is possible for a malicious web-site to set pre-fetch headers pointing to third-party web-site , thus draining their bandwidth.

Also:

As a server admin, can I distinguish prefetch requests from normal requests?
Yes, we send the following header along with each prefetch request:
X-moz: prefetch
Of course, this request header is not at all standardized, and it may change in future Mozilla releases.

Please use mozilla net installer

[suds]

Please use the netinstaller (~250kb) which would find a closest mirror for you automatically to download.

Re:Anyone still using Mozilla?

[The Original Yama]

Take a look at the Thunderbird/Minotaur Project.

Re:shame there aren't more users

[rseuhs]

You should really try Phoenix. It's very stable (I only had 2 crashes in 2 or 3 months of near-exclusive use) and fast.

Also very nice is the fact that Phoenix needs not to be installed. It just works anywhere you unzip it. No registry problems, no risk of destroying settings, etc. And when you don't like it you just delete the directory and it's gone. Really gone.

So unlike most other browsers (including IE) you don't risk hosing your system when you install/upgrade.

So I would really recommend you to give it a try.

Re:Immediate theme change?

[Christopher Whitt]

The feature was called Dynamic Theme Switching or something like that. I can't get to bugzilla right now to search on it. I remember that it caused a whole pile of regressions and new bugs and it was backed out. I think there was an intention of giving it another try later, but I would say that any patches that are lying around are probably completely bit-rotted by now.

When mozilla.org recovers from the 1.2 release and slashdotting, try searching for dynamic theme switching in bugzilla.

Christopher

I like "view selection source"

[BroadbandBradley]

hightlight an area of a page, right click and there's an option to "View selection source". which opens the html source and cues it to the area you had selected.

Mozilla is IMHO, the best available.

Re:Anyone still using Mozilla?

[Lord Ender]

The Mozilla html editor is TOP NOTCH. It has never crashed on me. The code it produces is human readable! If you just want a quick, straight-forward HTML page, it is the way to go. Pheonix can't do that.