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MozillaZine Celebrates 5th Anniversary

Posted by timothy on from the how-may-picoseconds-is-that dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine, the Mozilla news and advocacy site, is five years old today. They've got a fifth anniversary section, containing a message from their founder, a chronology (which makes a pretty good Mozilla timeline generally), some trivia (who's bright idea was Music to Code By?!) and an acknowledgements page. I think it's amazing that a free site like this has provided such a great service to the open-source community for half a decade. Cheers!"

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  1. Firebird by kgbspy · · Score: 4, Informative

    It took them five years to do it, but they've come up with the best web browser known to man: with daylight second, and Opera third.

    Here's hoping that the next five years sees the same committed focus to Firebird as has been poured into Mozilla.


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  2. Re:Picoseconds? by *xpenguin* · · Score: 5, Informative

    For the uninformed:
    http://www.google.com/search?&q=5%20years%20in%20p icoseconds

  3. loving firebird by planckscale · · Score: 5, Informative
    This browser *in use now* is my newest best friend (I know, sad huh). Simple, elegant, tabs, history, caches, privacy, and it's download manager are all that I need. Also, it just performs faster, blocks popups, it's free and just seems to have more for my money. I'd like to see better plug-in support; java, shockwave, Wild tangent and some other plugins aren't exactly mindless installs in some cases. Also I would like to see Firebird run in memory in the background like Mozilla does, and a download "acceleration" with mulitple FTP sites would be a bonus. Otherwise, it's my favorite DEFAULT browser :-)

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    1. Re:loving firebird by Kytakh · · Score: 2, Informative

      + Crashes too often (but it's beta, so whatever)
      + Displays css font sizes "correctly", which in IE universe is incorrect.
      + Slower on low-end hardware. (Low end being a 1 GHz P3!)
      + Plugin installation is a pain -- even though Mozilla has cloned ActiveX, Adobe/Macromedia/etc don't support it.
      + No compelling advantage if you aren't interested in tabs. Why go to the trouble

      1. Mine rarely crashes, if ever... on both windows and linux. You may not be reading the installation instructions carefully
      2. I prefer the correct method rather than the M$ method, standards are best enforced by a body rather than corporation wouldnt you say? Developing for IE is getting more and more like developing for Netscape 4.x, I expect this to continue without any substantial upgrades to IE until the next version of windows is released
      3. I was using phoenix/firebird on a p3 550 for a while and it ran smoothly (again your install may be the problem)
      4. Plugin installation is getting better, it is still a beta release as u said and i would expect this to improve further
      5. There are many features, tabs included that i find extremelly useful and they are very little trouble

    2. Re:loving firebird by pmsyyz · · Score: 2, Informative

      There is a checkbox for smooth scrolling under Options -> Advanced -> Browsing

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  4. Re:Nightly Mozilla builds with AA Support compiled by ishmalius · · Score: 4, Informative

    ftp to:
    ftp.mozilla.org/pub/nightly/latest-trunk

    it is:
    MozillaFirebird-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz

  5. Re:5 years....awesome! by afidel · · Score: 2, Informative

    Local folders are for clients using IMAP with a limited amount of storage space who wish to retain archives without running a local IMAP server. You can also use them to collate email from multiple accounts (say you have various aliases and want to combine all PO's into a single location).

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  6. Re:In light of Mozialla's excellent baysian filter by Channard · · Score: 3, Informative
    That wasn't a spelling mistake, by the way.. I was in fact referring to Mozialla, the splinter browser developed from Mozilla. Honest.

    Seriously, kudos to Mozilla for having a spam filter that is better than any of the non confirmation spam-tools I've seen.

  7. Re:Mozillazine deserves kudos... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    What really slowed mozilla down was not XUL, nor support for outlandish platforms, but gecko. The decision to go to gecko meant that they had to rewrite most of the browser suite. And since the goal was always making a product that was equivalent to communicator, not navigator, it took them a long time to rewrite everything. XUL and bugzilla were tools designed to speed up development, not slow it down.

    Ofcourse, they didn't really have a choice but to go to gecko, since the existing rendering engine was so deeply broken it could not be fixed. If they had released something based on the old code, it would most likely have sucked bigtime, and driven people away from netscape, just as not releasing did.

    You could say they should have made just a browser, and not the entire suite/development framework, but what would have been the point to that? A single browser is never going to take marketshare away from IE, because IE is good enough. You have to do things that IE can't. The XUL/javascript based development framework is one of those things, the mail/news component another.

    The mozilla project has made the best browser (firebird) and best browser suite (mozilla) in existance. That their marketshare is so tiny is more a tribute to the poor way AOL handled netscape releases and netscape/mozilla marketing than to the quality of the product.

    Thankfully, now that mozilla has been freed of AOL's limitations, maybe we can see some real growth marketsharewise.