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Mozilla Project Turns 5

Posted by timothy on from the child-prodigy dept.

GreyWolf3000 writes "As this notice in tinderbox shows, Mozilla turns five years old today. A great testament to the ability of open software models debunking the myth that while the community can hack a kernel or compiler together, we can't build a large scale project designed for everyday folks to use. The trunk is feature frozen for the upcoming alpha release for 1.4. Can't wait to see what's in store next!" Read on for another odometer reading -- Mozilla's 200,000th bug report, perhaps just as auspicious a landmark.

zzxc writes "The 200,000th bug has been filed in Mozilla's bugzilla, MozillaZine reports. It was filed at 5:11pm EDT. (21:11GMT) The bug, which is already 'verified invalid,' is 'MailNews crashes after extremely long 'joke of the day' html spam mail.' This comes on the 5 year anniversery of the release of Netscape's source code, also reported by MozillaZine. Bug 100000 was opened on 9/16/01 after three years of development, while bug 200000 comes in less than 19 months from the previous milestone."

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  1. Bloat bloat bloat bloat bloat.... by Bonker · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'd much rather use Phoenix. I mean, really, what serious chatter uses an in-browser IRC client?

    Moz may be good for the public, but I'm glad that I can get the same Gecko quality in a lite-sized package.

    Now if only they'd release a .6 milestone.

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  2. 5 years and version 1.3 by Billly+Gates · · Score: 0, Troll

    Pretty impressive for just a browser don't you say?

    I wonder if any Gnu/Hurd code is in there?

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  3. Re:Celebrate by converting people by Malcontent · · Score: 0, Troll

    " OTOH, Mozilla's performance is abysmal on Windows. It takes long to start up and responds slowly to mouse clicks."

    Liar. Mozilla preloads at startup. It launches faster then IE in most cases.

    " I get instant response and rendering from IE."

    Liar. For most web sites Mozilla renders as fast or faster then IE.

    " What would you think are the biggest incentives to use Mozilla vs. newer Netscapes for ordinary end-users (i.e. not open-source zealots)?"

    Faster loading, faster rendering, no popups, tabs, gestures, better customization, skins, bookmarklets.

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  4. Re:A little whack from the perspective stick... by Malcontent · · Score: 1, Troll

    "It took nearly 5 years to get to version 1"

    So what? It was usable way before it got to 1.0. Why do you care so much about version numbers?
    Is windows 2000 1996.5 times better then nt 3.5?

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