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Mozilla 1.5 Beta Released

Posted by simoniker on from the morrissey-said-to-be-delighted dept.

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."

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  1. Neded feechor. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    A speelchacker for any tects entery.

  2. Re:Spell checker by Swaffs · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  3. Re:I still doesn't have the feature I want by dracocat · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    Here, this one might work better for you.

  4. Re:I still doesn't have the feature I want by thumperward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

  5. Re:Thunderbird by Penguin2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whenever it creates a child process

  6. Re:And they call this an upgrade? by imnoteddy · · Score: 4, Funny
    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.

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  7. Re:Wow, Moz is still alive? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.