Three New Releases (And Other News) From Mozilla

An anonymous reader writes "A couple of interesting releases by mozilla.org. First of all Mozilla 1.5 was released. This is supposed to be the last version of the old Mozilla suite. Mozilla Firebird 0.7, the stand-alone browser by mozilla.org was also released today. It includes many new features, e.g. Web Panels. For more information see the newly designed product page for Firebird. A third release is the stand-alone version of the Mozilla mail-program Thunderbird , which has now reached version 0.3. The Mozilla Foundation also launched new end user services, like CD Sales and Telephone Support. As an effort to target more end-users, a redesigned website was also created. As always MozillaZine has all of the stories, too. Give these new releases a try, but please use a mirror if possible."

Comments

Serves them right

[NeoSkandranon]

Those dang mozilla fools for being forced to a lower bandwith server. Let's slashdot the hell out of them then! And Mozillazine too!

Re:Guess it's not the last release

[VargrX]

so sayeth thesolo:

Essentially, it boils down to this: Everyone uses their software differently.

Your absolutely correct.

What's annoying to you is not annoying to everyone else. This is why Firebird exists; instead of giving everyone the "kitchen-sink" SeaMonkey approach,

I'll take the kitchen sink approach, thanks.

give them a lean browser

Lean? Yes. So lean that it's bereft of the majority of the features that endeared Moz to so many people.

, with a good set of default preferences, that the end user can configure however they want.

Good? Not. And not even arguable, really. And oh yeah, the end-user can configure it any way that they like, if they don't mind spending 2 hours or so finding and installing extensions that may or may not work correctly, and then praying that the extensions aren't broken in one form or another.

Finally, Firebird (Especially as of 0.7) is MUCH smaller & faster than SeaMonkey Mozilla builds.

So what? You save what in load time, a possible 2-3 seconds? If someone's that impatient, I suggest that they get a rj45 jack installed in thier head so that they can plug right into the net...

It flies on this P3 733 system I'm on, whereas the Mozilla App Suite crawls, and is much less responsive.

a) see prior comment, and b) this almost sounds like a configuration issue (I have 2 p3733's here, and they are both lightning fast).

I can't wait for the day that Firebird fully replaces Mozilla Seamonkey!

And then there are those of us who value productivity over 'bells and whistles'....

P.P.S. I like Automatic Downloading ;)

Why am I getting the feeling that your a windows user???