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Mozilla.org Launches Mozilla 1.3

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the 1.3-beats-5.5-6.0-and-various-others dept.

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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  1. How do you spell 'bloat' -- M-O-Z-I-L-L-A by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm waiting 'til they integrate Emacs with it.

  2. Re:Hey, I'm smart! My comment says "bloat!" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm not complaining about Mozilla's bloat

    I'm complaining about the complete arrogance of some Mozilla contributors. It seems as if having ALT text pop up as a tooltip -- a trivial matter -- is a gross violation of web standards, so you should be using instead -- effectively having two tags for the same image, if you wanted to stay standards compliant.

    Changing the splash screen took THREE YEARS to resolve. After lots of wonderful contributions, kerz decided on a ugly orange screen that's aimed at "getting the distributors" to change it. Wonderful.

  3. Some ideas for BLOAT source ! by zymano · · Score: 0, Troll
    I have used opera and was disappointed about how it showed webpages. Most of the lettering was backwards on alot of them.

    I have used mozilla and was disappointed at the performance and memory consumption. I have a pii 266 with only 32 megs of ram so mozilla will not do it for me.

    My question is why there is no leadership at the Mozilla project . Make it lean and fast. Phoenix is NOT that fast. It's a start though.

    Mozilla has gotten slowed down by trying to use this language XUL. It slows everything into the crapper. Would any commercial product be like Mozilla . I don't think so.

    Mozilla and other open source projects like Staroffice need to hire leaders with vision and not make FRANKENSTEIN projects with every little doo-dad. Drop c++ and XUL and make cut the FRICKING FAT . Make the F***ING plane fly baby!

    I do like composer though

    peace , out.