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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. Dont you mean... by fredistheking · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1.49999999999?

  2. w00t! by MattyCobb · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    yay for mozilla! :)

    ..but when will they make thunderbird able to auto-open links in a new tab instead of having to click something to do that.

    --

    Matt
    You have 1 Moderator Point! Use it or lose it! Is that a threat? -vapid
  3. staying with 1.2 for now by m_evanchik · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was running Mozilla 1.2 on win98 for a while because IE6 had gone into 60-second-hang mode every time a form came up.

    Tried upgrading to 1.4 but it was constantly crashing, so I went back to 1.2 .

    Then again I'm running win 98 because I'm too stupid/addicted-to-games to switch to Linux.

    And one of my wife's hard drive died on her Mac, that's what's really pissing me off.

    --

    evanchik.net

  4. Eh, by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm with marc anderseen. So what? Is this going to change the world? Someone please wake me up when we get to that point.

    --
    Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
  5. Re:It's hard to win a rigged game. by thumperward · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Except he's wrong. What the parent was going on about is the way IIS -always- ignored usual HTTP handshaking protocol when dealing with IE, saving it a couple of acknowledgements. It's bad enough with Slashbots running around all over the place without people trying to be smart about it.

    This is so not working. I'm trying to lose karma on this thread and I'm up 4 already. Can someone mod this offtopic please?

    - Chris

  6. Re:A conversation between two Mozilla programmers by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    "Damn, the downloads have gone down. People are losing interest in Mozilla."

    "Quick! Increment the version number!"

    "There's a surge in downloads. It worked! We made Slashdot's front page again!"


    Truely great satire makes one wonder if the joke is really a joke. Kudos.
  7. Re:Spell checker by Wordsmith · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you WERE trolling, right?
    You wrote "beleive" instead of "believe."

  8. Re:Spell checker by buttahead · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    i would have modded it funny.. but then again... many trolls are funny. there is some overlap there... leading to the conclusion that the mod-terms should be updated.

  9. Re:Spell checker by pipingguy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://www.urban75.com/Mag/troll.html

    I note that the above site doesn't appear to have been updated in a while (or is that, "awhile"?) but it's still relevant.

    Some errors can legitimately be explained by the, "I-was-typing-so-fast-and-made-mistakes-because-I' m-so smart/cool-ADD-disabled-and-don't-have-time-to-che ck" phenomenon, but mostly it's just laziness.

    One thing I've noticed about the best Slashdot comments (+5, where I read) is the care taken with the structure and spelling.

    However, some people intentionally misspell things trolling for corrections.