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."

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[MikeFM]

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.

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 /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.