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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. omg 500!! by atari2600 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Those guys actually list about 500 issues they've taken care of with this release. Go people go!
    some useful ones imho
    *Mozilla crashes when magnifier is used
    *Browser crashes when javascript closes a window [@nsDocShell::InternalLoad]
    *Save As > withoua> extention result is a html fila> and a directory > *When saving a .zip file "as...," Moz appends a .x after the .zip extension
    *mozilla can't subscribe to existing imap folders
    *Browser crashes on HTTPS urls - Trunk M140RC1 [@cert_get_next_general_name
    *Loading personal certificates
    *pop3 password failed error msg missing

  2. Re:Firebird based? by reaper20 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read the updated roadmap, they're not going to make it for 1.5 it seems. Considering that Mozilla recently gained its independance, and a good portion of fulltime gecko developers have been let go, I think they're due for a milestone or two of of getting their bearings and realigning around the *birds.

    Besides, IE7 comes with longhorn, Mozilla has plenty of time, and is already in the lead, Firebird 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.

  3. My settings by Skeme · · Score: 5, Informative

    I always set

    user_pref("dom.disable_window_flip", true);
    user_pref("dom.disable_window_move_resize" , true);
    user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature .close", true);
    user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature .directo ries", true);
    user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature .locatio n", true);
    user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature .menubar ", true);
    user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature .minimiz able", true);
    user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature .persona lbar", true);
    user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature .resizab le", true);
    user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature .scrollb ars", true);
    user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature .status" , true);
    user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature .titleba r", true);
    user_pref("dom.disable_window_open_feature .toolbar ", true);
    user_pref("dom.disable_window_status_chang e", true);
    user_pref("browser.block.target_new_window ", true)

    to keep crappy web pages from disabling my menus.

  4. Re:Firebird based? by tfreport · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was thinking the same thing. Apparently that was the plan but they have been forced to change things (perhaps due to the Netscape break).

    Buried deep in the To Do list on the official Roadmap page is one small but significant change. This is the passage that has been added. (There are probably other changes today as well but that is the one I noticed and pertains to this question).

    It's clear now that we will not be able to switch to Mozilla Firebird by the Mozilla 1.5 final milestone. Instead, we expect Mozilla 1.5 to coincide with Mozilla Firebird 0.7. But we intend to implement the new application architecture in the next several milestones, till most of the community is won over to the new apps.

    Hmmm... At the bottom of the page, the Roadmap states that it was last changed July 22, 2003 - so it appears that they were forced to make the change and only sort of let it be known. Wonder what is going on?

    Well, until then, I will keep using Firebird. But for those migrating - another positive is that 1.5alpha is 1.4 Mbs smaller.

  5. Re:about:config by cavegrub · · Score: 5, Informative

    A bit of explaination: the "timebomb" preference is a relic from the Netscape days. It provides a countdown until some final date, which when reached, the application will provide an expiration notice popup and request that the application stop working.

  6. Re:Firebird based? - not quite yet by patrickjolliffe · · Score: 5, Informative

    Unfortunately it may take a bit longer than that. It'll take a year to get something shippable to end users (brendan)
    This is disappointing to me as I use Firebird regularly and am really impressed, but I guess they (the developers) know what they are talking about.

  7. Re:Firebird based? - not quite yet by Brendan+Eich · · Score: 5, Informative

    That quote from staff minutes was out of context. I was citing the agreement I'd reached with all-volunteer Mozilla Firebird developers before the Mozilla Foundation was announced, where 0.7 would coincide with 1.5, 0.8 with 1.6, etc. I went on to say to staff, at that meeting, that if we get more time from the developers, the schedule could be shortened.

    Now, we hope to hire a Firebird developer fulltime at the Mozilla Foundation, and we expect to go faster. No promises yet; the roadmap will be updated in due course.

  8. Mozilla tips ! by MythMoth · · Score: 5, Informative

    Lots of tips & tricks for mozilla at MozillaTips logically enough.

    They've got some good stuff already, but could probably use the extra traffic !

    D.

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