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Mozilla 1.2.1 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the lather-rinse-repeat dept.

I shouldn't be allowed to work before coffee- I posted this at like 8:20 and must've forgotten to click that all important 'Save' button. Hey, Everyone's favorite web browser besides Chimera has released version 1.2.1. The fix includes security patches so it probably wouldn't hurt to snag it if you're running it.

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  1. This is a fix release. by Penguinoflight · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As the post said... this is a fix release. If you got to sites that use DHTML, or couldn't get Mozilla 1.2 installed (It had a nasty permissions bug on UNIX, which kept it from being run by a normal user). Basically, get this release, but dont expect any cool features... it's just a bug fix release.

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  2. Hmmm ... by SuperDuG · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since over half the slashdot crowd uses IE, should there not be stories out when MS releases new versions of it?

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    1. Re:Hmmm ... by gosand · · Score: 5, Insightful
      Since over half the slashdot crowd uses IE, should there not be stories out when MS releases new versions of it?

      Sure - but when was the last release? Way back in September. Have there been any bugs reported since then?

      Do you follow the progress of IE? What are they working on now? Are you able to download beta code? Report bugs that get fixed in a timely manner?

      That is the difference between a community and proprietary software. Maybe you can do these things with IE, I don't really know. I only use it when I am forced to, and more and more that is less often.

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    2. Re:Hmmm ... by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 5, Insightful
      " Since over half the slashdot crowd uses IE, should there not be stories out when MS releases new versions of it?"

      Because MSIE is not a community project. There are many, many slashdot readers who contribute to mozilla in terms of code, bug reports, add-ons and so on. There's a whole community of people surrounding this project and many of them also congregate here.

      You can't say that about IE. There is no development community. It's all privately developed by a corporation.

      The mozilla updates are announced so much more than MSIE because they are important because they are developed and perpetuated by members of this community.

  3. Re:Why so much bigger than 1.2? by Dog+and+Pony · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since when is that much? Depending on the compiler, and how it optimizes, it is quite possible to *remove* code and end up getting a slightly bigger executable.

    And the word we are looking for here is indeed "slightly".

  4. Minor release patches? by beeblebrox87 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why must Mozilla always release only the full version, even for minor fix releases like this one. I am on a satellite connection, so it took me hours to download 1.2, and now I will have to download almost the exact same thing all over again. Can't they release both a full version and a patch for the previous version?

  5. Re:Where's the tarball?!? by asa · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With most projects, the tgz'd (or bz2'd) source file is in plain site, but I can never seem to find the one for Mozilla.

    Mozilla source tarballs are _always_ a day or two later than the release binaries. We only have so many people working on this and so many machines to make this all happen. We release when we've got the four primary platforms built and a release tag created. That's usually late at night and when it's done we go home and the next day get to work on creating the source tarball. If you can't wait a day or two then pull MOZILLA_1_2_1_RELEASE from cvs.

    --Asa