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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."
I thought Netscape killed it off because they were buying AOL.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Mozilla is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Mozilla community when IDC confirmed that Mozilla market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all web browsers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Mozilla has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Mozilla is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Mozilla's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Mozilla faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Mozilla because Mozilla is dying. Things are looking very bad for Mozilla. As many of us are already aware, Mozilla continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Netscape 7 is the most endangered of them all, having lost 100% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant firing of all 50 Netscape developers by AOL only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Mozilla is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Mozilla.org leader Mitchell Baker states that there are 7000 users of Mozilla. How many users of Firebird are there? Let's see. The number of Mozilla versus Firebird posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Firebird users. Camino posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Firebird posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Camino. A recent article put Netscape 7 at about 80 percent of the Mozilla market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Netscape 7 users. This is consistent with the number of Netscape 7 usenet posts.
Netscape went out of business and will probably be taken over by AOL who sell another troubled browser. Now AOL is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Mozilla has steadily declined in market share. Mozilla is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Mozilla is to survive at all it will be among browser dilettante dabblers. Mozilla continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Mozilla is dead.
Fact: Mozilla is dying
i want verson for Linux, is there a verson? were can i get it? last time look, no verson for linux, onyl a "tar.gz"-flie wich i cant use.
were is linux verson??
regardsfuly
Fnordsghan Kallalagh.
I do believe there are some minority members of a homesexual organization that post here. They are probably the ones to turn to for all your felching needs.
an open source project has bugs? who woulda thunk it. not anyone here.
"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!"
"Derp de derp."
Or
No incompatability based on compiler.
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Why should a spell checker be a priority? Is it intended for non-native English speakers?
I beleive that spell checkers are the equivalent to changing your grades by hacking into the school's computer.
It takes about 4 seconds to type a possible misspelt word into an online big dic to check its meaning and correct sequence of letters. They even suggest alternate, widely-understood arrangements of the letters in case your spelling of "fish" begins with a "p".
Or are all the brilliant Slashdot spelling apologists so involved and busy that they can't take the time to check stuff.
"This sentence contains exactly threee erors."
KHTML all teh way. Why can't everyone be as talented as teh KDE developers?
I am a newbie and have been browsing this website for a few months now. Is the email application in Mozilla better than Eudora? I don't want to use IE and OE anymore, so I need an alternative.
Download a new version of a web browser, break all your old plugins because of a compiler incompatibility.
This is a classic example of why EVERYTHING on Linux must be installed ONLY from the source code.
Compile a new version of a web browser, recompile your old plugins both using the same compiler to guarantee compatibility.
Less is more !
Mod me down if you want, but IE still opens faster, renders pages better, and has built-in media features.
People who bitch and say "OMGWTF LOL!1!! IE SUXX!11!" are the same people who got hit with MSBLAST and never patch their systems.
Mozilla has it's own security issues just as any application nowadays.
Open source isn't the cure to cancer.
When the winds of change blow hard enough, even the most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles.