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Three New Releases (And Other News) From Mozilla

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the excellent-smithers dept.

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."

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  1. ghastly new firebird website by pangloss · · Score: 3, Insightful

    it looks...awful. the new moz 1.5 beta site looks good, as does the thunderbird site, but the firebird site looks like a bad joke. i'm just waiting for a flash jobbie screaming "SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY". they ought to at least put up a link to the 0.7 release notes (maybe explain the new auto-download feature). ok enough ranting on the site.

    anyway, i love the product. in fact, i'm posting this with 0.7. actually i'm just glad they fixed the form completion bug back with 0.6.1.

  2. Looks don't make a brand by Max+Romantschuk · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The website redesign won't make Mozilla more successful. Advertising is what's needed, plain and simple. How the site looks won't affect people's awareness of Mozilla, advertising will.

    Making the site UI more streamlined does make sense though.

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    .: Max Romantschuk :: http://max.romantschuk.fi/
  3. Thurderbird needs a good spell checker by Tanaka · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I like Thunderbird, but the spell checker is really bad, especially at guessing words. Wish they would use ASpell. What this e-mail client really needs in an inline spell checker.

  4. Re:MozillaFirebird is the best by Peer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ideally it should just not load them ;)

    NO, it should load them, otherwise the site is able to detect you're blocking the ads, and may take precautions. (That's probably why ./ has those annoying text ads.)

  5. Re:mozilla 1.5 to be the last?? by jvervloet · · Score: 3, Insightful
    what is so damn hard about unzipping it to C:\Program Files and creating a link for the executable in the startmenu and on the desktop...

    Indeed, for us, the Slashdot crowd, this is not difficult at all. But If I tell this to 90% of my friends, then they'll say that I shoud talk normal and don't use all this difficult computer science speak.

    They don't know what unzipping is, they don't know how to find C:\Program Files. They don't know what an executable is, and how to find/recognize it. They don't know how to create a link to it, they even don't know what a link is. Nevetheless they aren't stupid.