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Mozilla 1.5 Alpha Available

Posted by timothy on from the excellence-improved-upon dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla.org released Mozilla v1.5 alpha today, with flavors available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Some of the new features include Composer enhancements, Chatzilla logging, multiple tab window closing confirmation, and quicksearch support in about:config. A more detailed rough changelog is also available. In a somewhat related note, Mozilla 1.4 has been downloaded over a half million times in the past 3 weeks (not counting mirrors)."

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  1. sweet by qewl · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I can enjoy some new and completely unnoticeable changes!!

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    1. Re:sweet by TummyX · · Score: 5, Funny


      tell me about it... I thought Firebird and Thunderbird was supposed to be integrated into 1.5a. That sucks. I guess we'll have to wait until 1.6.

      Why would you want to integrate a database into a webbrowser?

    2. Re:sweet by BlueGecko · · Score: 2, Funny
      Why would you want to integrate a database into a webbrowser?
      That's certainly a question that the EMACS development team would never have asked, and I would certainly hope that Mozilla can be every bit the browser that EMACS is.
  2. stats? by di0s · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mozilla 1.4 has been downloaded over a half million times in the past 3 weeks (not counting mirrors)
    Is that the *official* count, or the RIAA count?

    1. Re:stats? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      If the RIAA was counting, we'd have to consider how much bandwidth each user has, and how many times they could download it within a month. So, by their method, Mozilla has been downloaded 72 billion times in the past 3 weeks.

  3. Re:Firebird based? by sharkey · · Score: 2, Funny
    Firebird and Thunderbird are already proving to be ready for prime time

    That's all well and good, but when will Trans Am and Viper be out?

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  4. Re:Firebird based? by CanadaDave · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, that was never fully decided upon. The roadmap is a joke. ahem, I mean it's not exactly accurate.

  5. dam it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I only got round to updating from 1.3 to 1.4 a week ago.

  6. Re:Bloat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    At this rate, Moz 1.6 will have an included oral sex plugin.

    Fuck, I just installed Firebird.

  7. about:config by cavegrub · · Score: 5, Funny
    After typing about:config and browsing to the bottom of the list...
    timebomb.first_launch_time 1034222022286000
    I always knew that IE had a built in crash timer, but Mozilla? ;)
    1. Re:about:config by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Millions of years from now, Blow' K-bibben-Gordo shakes his thought tentacles with rage: "Mozilla just shut down on me! Open source sucks."

  8. Re:still no MNG support? by idiotfromia · · Score: 5, Funny
    Other apps that display PNGs do not have this problem.
    Have you ever used Internet Explorer?
  9. Re:Firebird based? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    and Thunderbird are already proving to be ready for prime time .... give them a month or two to straighten things out, it'll be worth it.

    That sounds eerily familiar to those proclamations back when Mozilla M14 was released...

  10. MSIE works, eh? by LPetrazickis · · Score: 4, Funny

    IE is free, dumbasses. And guess what? It actually WORKS!!!

    In other news, the Wheel will never catch on because Dragging Things on the Ground works and is very widely deployed already.;)

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  11. Re:Bloat by rolocroz · · Score: 5, Funny
    At this rate, Moz 1.6 will have an included oral sex plugin.

    Some people tell me Mozilla sucks, but this would be proof.
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  12. Re:Bloat by Mikey-San · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not really. IE would come out with a plug-in of their own, but instead of taking it in the mouth, you'd take it in the ass.

    Oh, wait. My bad--it /already/ bends you over when you use it.

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  13. Ugh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just run pwm fullscreen and get it over with :)

  14. Re:Firebird based? by Anime_Fan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Firebird needs to evolve. And it needs a grass roots movement promoting it. If every developer out there could convert 10 people - and those 10 convert 10 more. Well I don't have to tell geeks how to do math. Do I?

    Nope, and we'll all count correctly despite the fact you didn't tell us how to do ;)

    Binary 10*10 = Decimal 2*2 = 4 = Binary 100
    Decimal 10*10 = 100

    100 no matter how we count.

  15. Re:Mozilla news, but what about Opera? by clambake · · Score: 3, Funny

    If that's true it's a good thing for Ferrari/Porsche/Aston Martin/ Rolls Royce have plenty of rich dumb customers who don't know that they could buy a cheap Ford/GM/Crysler/Nissan/Skoda that'll work just as well.

    They aren't rich and dumb, they are rich and have very small penises.

  16. Re:Firebird based? by blibbleblobble · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Yeah, I'm sure we'll se ASSLOADS of innovation from IE7"

    Longhorn being a large, dumb animal which consumes vast quantities of resources and turns most of them into shit?

    pic

  17. Re:Bloat by CGP314 · · Score: 2, Funny

    At this rate, Moz 1.6 will have an included oral sex plugin.

    Where do I sign up for the beta?