Mozilla 1.5 Beta Released

asa writes "Today mozilla.org released Mozilla 1.5 Beta, available for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. This beta release features lots of bugfixes, the inclusion of a spellchecker for Messenger and Composer, and lots of minor feature improvements to Navigator, Messenger, Composer and Chatzilla. More information is available at the Mozilla Release Notes."

Comments

Neded feechor.

[Anonymous Coward]

A speelchacker for any tects entery.

Re:Spell checker

[Swaffs]

That's a good idea. Maybe we could even get Malda to use it.

Re:I still doesn't have the feature I want

[dracocat]

which is booting in less than a century on my PII-266 / 96M of ram.

Here, this one might work better for you.

Re:I still doesn't have the feature I want

[thumperward]

Firebird? Galeon? Epiphany? Is software meant to stay usable on a P-266 for its entire lifetime?

Go buy a packet of Raisin Wheats, dude. They're giving away Athlon XPs in every packet just now. Oh, and they actually changed the formula of the cereal from wheat-wrapped raisins to sticks of special edible DDR RAM because it's cheaper to produce.

- Chris

Re:Thunderbird

[Penguin2]

Whenever it creates a child process

Re:And they call this an upgrade?

[imnoteddy]

This is a classic example of why Linux is still not quite ready for prime time on the desktop.

Until Linux gets more stable, not changing libraries willy-nilly, it is still just a hobbyist's OS.

Re:Wow, Moz is still alive?

[Anonymous Coward]

Not quite. What AOL donated were 2 million AOL CD's, with the stipulation that they would pay the foundation $1 for every new subscriber that they signed up.

Re:And they call this an upgrade?

[Anonymous Coward]

This is a classic example of why Linux is still not quite ready for prime time on the desktop.

Ah, yes, slashdot post template #58:

Insert name of open-source project here's

• incorrect support for Big Hairy Standard #5789
• lack of a driver for the $5 acme throbulator I picked up at that yard sale last week
• inability to interoperate with my neighbor's lawn mower

is the classic example of why

• Mozilla will never win back its browser share
• Linux is not quite ready for prime time on the desktop
• Evil will triump over the world

If the developers don't solve this problem for me tommorow,

• we will all become slaves of Redmond
• BSD will die
• I will taunt you again

Don't forget to also file a bugzilla bug and starting a long flame war on their developer's mailing list! They love it when you do that.

Re:The amusing part

[russellh]

Here's the amusing part: if it were a Microsoft product that did this, hordes of Slashbots would post hundreds of "+5" posts decrying the evil antics and poor design. But it's standard procedure when it comes to major Linux apps, and nobody bats an eye.

Hey Overly Critical Guy, I was going to write a nice, well thought-out response but then I thought, so what?

so my response is: so what?

Re:It's hard to win a rigged game.

[Malcontent]

"no other browser compares the blinding speed of lynx."

Open up preferences in mozilla. Go to appearance->colors and choose "Use my chosen colors, ignoring the colors and background image specified".

Under privacy and security->Images turn off images.

Voila a superfast browser a-la lynx or netscape 3.x but with HTML support.

If you want you can even specify a black background and white text ;)

Re:It's hard to win a rigged game.

[Jugalator]

And the equivalent procedure in Opera, for users of that one :-)

View -> Styles -> User Mode -> Emulate Text Browser.

... or use ...

View -> Styles -> User Mode -> Nostalgia.

... to get a C64 look & feel. ;-) (for those of us who liked the Contiki look, but want it with better HTML support, hehe)