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Mozilla Firebird Soars Into View

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the birds-planes-and-browsers dept.

About a zillion people wrote to announce Mozilla 0.6, but asa was the first: "Mozilla Firebird 0.6 (formerly Phoenix) is available for download. This release features a fresh new look, a redesigned preferences window, preliminary support for Mac OS X and much more. Read why you should be using Mozilla Firebird and get the latest release." I'm not exactly clamoring for a new web browser, but it looks worth checking out.

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  1. Re:FreeBSD by AmunRa · · Score: 4, Funny

    Use the source Luke!

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  2. In other news... by The-Bus · · Score: 0, Funny

    Pontiac releases the new Pontiac Phoenix GT.

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  3. Oh Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now we have another gazillion years to wait for a 1.0 release.

  4. The Win32 binary is a 6.66 MB Download by Gruturo · · Score: 5, Funny

    6.66

    Man. that's evil! :-)

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    1. Re:The Win32 binary is a 6.66 MB Download by graveyhead · · Score: 3, Funny

      Actually isn't that:

      number-of-the-beast
      --------------------
      100

      Which is the number of the micro-beast, IIRC.

      Seriously, though, some people take that number *way* too seriously. When I worked in retail in my youth, I came across more than one customer who would actually purchase something else to change their total. I always wanted to say to them:

      "It's not the total of your video and candy that's going to send you to hell, I promise."

      But I never really had the balls to say it ;)

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    2. Re:The Win32 binary is a 6.66 MB Download by Robert+Hopson · · Score: 3, Funny

      Actually, that's the number of the centi-beast.

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  5. Glendale!? by tbmaddux · · Score: 3, Funny
    At the top of the release notes it says "Mozilla Firebird 0.6 (Glendale)" and at the bottom it lists earlier names of Pescadero, Santa Cruz, Lucia, Oceano, and Naples.

    Glendale is making progress towards a trashy cityname, but for true consistency with Camino I suggest the code name for the final release of Bakersfield, or perhaps Fresno.

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    1. Re:Glendale!? by Dr.+Spork · · Score: 2, Funny

      How about "Lodi"?

  6. Uh.. crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Under "Known Issues":

    - Form auto-complete is still an unstable feature and may lead to crashes.
    - Disabling of form auto-completion is not working.

    Sweet.

  7. Re:Firbird or Camino? Make up my mind! by Arker · · Score: 2, Funny

    Umm I think you got that backwards.

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  8. StrokeIt? by allanj · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, if you want mouse gestures, you can always get StrokeIt. It adds mouse gestures to Windows as a whole. Essentially, it recognizes a gesture and performs a macro based on which gesture it was and which application is active. It can even do global gestures like close, minimize all, and restore all.


    StrokeIt? StrokeIt?!! I would never EVER buy anything called StrokeIt, if there is even the slightest chance of my wife finding out I bought something called that.

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  9. A Little /. History by chasingporsches · · Score: 3, Funny

    About a zillion people wrote to announce Mozilla 0.6

    i guess that was, what, 2-3 years ago? i wonder how many people submitted the story about Firebird 0.6... :-)

  10. Coming Soon! by Sebastopol · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mozilla Trans Am and Mozilla IROC-Z !!!

    Sorry... Firebird takes me back to my gearhead days...

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  11. Re:Font Magnification by ryanvm · · Score: 4, Funny

    As of course does Opera (and has done for some considerable time).

    Man, you Opera guys are getting to be as annoying as the Mac users.

  12. Re:Fix the installers first by asa · · Score: 3, Funny

    Call it a troll, but I've been using .5 for a while, and am not going to upgrade until I can use my old data reliably. It took enough playing around to get some plugins working right the first time around. I don't want to play the game again.

    "Call me crazy if you want. I'm using a pre-alpha snapshot from 6 months ago and I'm not about to upgrade to another pre-alpha testing build until these pre-alpha test builds are bug-free and release quality. What are those crazy open source developers smoking? "

    --Asa

  13. Re:Mac OS X version is pretty zippy by commodoresloat · · Score: 2, Funny
    Safari, in its most recent incarnation, works well standards-wise, but one can really feel how different it and the Mozilla code really are (and I do like Moz better). It's also "slow". Camino is coming along well, but it too is "slow".

    Usually when people put words in inverted commas it means the words are being used in a different way than is usual. So, by "slow," I assume you mean "fast."

  14. Re:Difference between Firebird and Mozilla? by BrokenHalo · · Score: 2, Funny
    it's the Emacs of Browsers.

    But... but... emacs is a browser :-)

    man emacs if you don't believe me. I've found it quite handy from time to time when I've had to ssh to a host from a dumb terminal after a failed X11 session. While I mostly use Gnome nowadays, it is perfectly possible to use emacs as a complete desktop environment.