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Mozilla 1.4b Loosed

Posted by timothy on from the lizardly-goodness dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The fine Mozilla folks have decided to bless us with the release of Mozilla 1.4b this weekend. Highlights include support for NTLM authentication, usability improvements, and lots of performance, stability, and site compatibility fixes. As always, the release notes have more detailed info on changes."

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  1. Re:support for NTLM authentication by Lieutenant_Dan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually, that could be a good thing. It may lead to a deployment of Mozilla within an organization that has resources secured by MS server packages (IIS, SQL Server, etc).

    In my opinion this shows the Mozilla team being a bit more agressive in making inroads into the corporate (sometimes MS-dominated) world. Good for them.

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  2. NTLM is good for some people by koh · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Many people will consider NTLM support as superfluous pro-MS bloatware and another useless addition to Mozilla.

    I'd like to point out this is just plain wrong. There are many developers that are forced to use IE to do their job just because the company's product runs on IIS and uses NTLM.

    Mozilla supporting NTLM means better ways of testing software for these developers, as well as giving a better idea of the web homogeneity of the product.

    Free myself from IE at work ! Go for NTLM, Mozilla ! :)

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