Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday December 9, 2003 @07:40PM from the dinomonster dept.

Sick Boy writes "As reported on Mozillazine, the Mozilla Foundation today released Mozilla 1.6 Beta. This latest milestone adds support for NTLM authentication on all platforms and improves the implementation on Windows. The automatic page translation feature has been restored (now powered by Google Language Tools) and a new version of ChatZilla, 0.9.48, is now included. In addition, several security and crash bugs have been fixed during the beta release cycle. Builds can be downloaded from the Mozilla Releases page or directly from the mozilla1.6b directory on ftp.mozilla.org. The Mozilla 1.6 Beta Release Notes have more detailed information about what's new and known issues to watch out for."

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Re:Mozilla is a great browser by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-09 19:48 · Score: 3, Funny

Yeah, u get free Internet Explorer on Windows so why not use it then, what will u lose anyway
Re:Torrents by t0qer · 2003-12-09 19:51 · Score: 4, Funny

Not that I doubt they can take the load, but why make 'em?

Holy Smokes! 1 peer, 1 seed and 184kbps??

You sir are seeding from the bandwidth of the gods!! My hats off to you!
Re:Any news on AmiZilla? by mios · 2003-12-09 19:53 · Score: 3, Funny

I think the development team dropped that in favor of the ComiZilla project ... the port of Moz to the Commodore 64 ( ... the lead developer's email is apparently mccarthy@mozilla.org).
Re:because ... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-09 20:13 · Score: 5, Funny

Because IE is insecure, does not have popup blocking, lacks many other features Mozilla does have and supports W3C standards better. Plus, it comes with a mail client that is more secure than outlook and has a well working spam filter built in.

So apart from what's not in bold text above, you're saying that IE is a better browser?

Work on that syntax, son. ;)
Re:One flaw with Mozilla & Firebird. by Alex · 2003-12-09 21:08 · Score: 4, Funny

I think there is a lack of priorities by the top managers at mozilla. How could making an installer be more important than making the brower faster.

You haven't quite got your head around this "open source" thing have you?

Alex
Man by Nebajoth · 2003-12-09 21:34 · Score: 4, Funny

Does anybody else find it frightening that we have web browsers with automatic language translation? I mean, its awesome! But... where the hell was I when the world got all Star Trek?
Appease and Beat the Rush by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-09 23:57 · Score: 3, Funny

I for one welcome our new Mozilla 1.6 Beta overlords.
Re:It's because SVG sucks ass by CaptnMArk · 2003-12-10 00:17 · Score: 3, Funny

And all those clean looking blank pages saying just "skip intro".
Re:Torrents by pi+radians · 2003-12-10 02:09 · Score: 4, Funny

I download stuff at 2 Megabytes per second usually. I get my linux isos in 350 seconds.

Wow. I bet that gets the ladies all wet and anxious. You must be swatting them away like flies with bandwidth like that.

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