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Mozilla.org Launches Mozilla 1.3
theBrownfury writes "Mozilla 1.3 is out and about. New to this version are features like image auto sizing, bayesian junk-mail filtering, dynamic profile switching, about:config for a pretty view into all of Mozilla's "secret" settings, an initial version of Midas for rich text editing, and a lot of other fixes for performance, standards compliance and site compatability. Also with 1.3 Mozilla is now applying machine learning to improve the autocomplete feature. Mozilla 1.3 is now the official stable release from mozilla.org. Users of all previous versions should upgrade to 1.3 for the latest in features and stability. More info at the 1.3 release page and discussions at mozillaZine.org."
If you use linux because it works for you, that's just great, but don't go making blanket statements that are dead wrong. Wishing doesn't make it so. If IE 'sucked,' it would be obsoleted by popular opinion. It doesn't and it isn't.
And, WRT your familiar commentary about the magic of having "the source," how much does that mean to the 99.6% of the world who can't code? I certainly can't code beyond scripts, so I don't care and I'm not about to hire someone to do it for me. If it's broken, I find something that ain't, just like everyone else.
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Inventor of the term 'pardon my French'.
You only think IE is reliable as you've not experienced anything better. Some versions of Mozilla do suck especially if you're grabbing random nightly builds. Of course with Windows a lot of if this sucks or that sucks depends on fine tuning for the individual apps. IE has been an ass on all the machines I've used it. Users typically don't complain but if they sit down at a machine that only has Mozilla for a while a lot of them don't want to go back.
/anything/ comes without bugs you obviously aren't any kind of an engineer. Everything has bugs. If it's not important sure you can throw it away and look for a new one. If there are no better alternatives and you can't fix it and you can't make a new alternative from scratch then you're shit outta luck. Try throwing your car away if a fan belt breaks. Gets expensive fast.
As for my own experience I can run Mozilla with a dozen tabs open and being used and have it run for weeks with never a problem. The only irk I have with Mozilla is their fonts can be weird sometimes if you don't compile it yourself.
You really think the average person is smart enough to know IE sucks? Remember how many copies of Windows 95 Microsoft sold to people that didn't even own computers? For the most part people are sheep and take what they are given. They don't think to look for anything else. If they try something else and it's better though sometimes they'll make the effort to switch.
Just because most people can't code doesn't mean source isn't useful to them. They can still pay someone to fix a bug for them if needed. If you think
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
You idiot! It's "its", not "it's" when you don't mean "it is".
There... I beat the grammer nazis...
Withdrawal before climax is very ineffective and those who try this are usually called "parents."
i agree. Mozilla gives opensource a shit on the head. I downloaded it and it always crashed. Xul language is bullshit and from what everyone says that's what so slows the mothafucka down . Asshole 14 yearold programmers also can't use c++ right!