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Mozilla 1.6 Released

Posted by michael on from the version-inflation dept.

Jack Comics writes "Asa Dotzler of the Mozilla Foundation has announced this evening the release of Mozilla 1.6. The Mozilla 1.6 release notes can be found here."

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  1. Keep 'em coming... by natron+2.0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    More security fixes and the ability to reload the source view...nice.

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    1. Re:Keep 'em coming... by brasten · · Score: 5, Informative

      From what I've been reading, more people are interested in the suite over the *birds than originally anticipated, so they'll be keeping it around for a while.

      However, most developers working on the suite are focused primarily on the Gecko engine, with very little work being done on the front-end of things. Since the *birds are obviously Gecko-based as well, they are essentially being worked on by most Mozilla developers, even if indirectly. So it's not like the *birds are missing out on much development effort.

    2. Re:Keep 'em coming... by badmonkey · · Score: 5, Informative

      I just read yesterday in the firebird documentation that it has a 250 millisecond pause built in before rendering so as to not have to reflow the page as much as bytes stream in. It can be deactivated as in the instructions here
      So that'll make it a little faster I think

  2. But No One's mentioned the most important feature by Hal+The+Computer · · Score: 4, Informative
    As listed in the Release notes mozilla's greatest feature yet:
    One step closer to the kitchen sink, about:about has been implemented. Typing about:about in the address field will give the user a nice list of available about:s.
    By the way, if you haven't yet, if you use mozilla, you need to check out about:mozilla
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  3. use the mirrors by a.koepke · · Score: 5, Informative

    When downloading this you should have a look at the mirrors list and find one near you.

    http://www.mozilla.org/mirrors.html

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  4. Re:Mozilla and popups by Photon+Ghoul · · Score: 4, Informative

    Most people stick with what they are used to. Even when pop-up blocking is given as a feature of Mozilla to users that suffer from excessive pop-up ads, most still seem to prefer using the IE (or Windows?) add-ons that stop them.

    Side-thought: I have no experience with IE pop-up blockers, but it would seem like a very effective method for spreading malware. Maybe that's just the old tin-foil hat I'm feeling.

  5. Mozilla is great, but I stopped using it today... by DaedalusLogic · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because Firebird plays nicely "out of the box" so to speak with MS Outlook, and my customers want that. I know it's a horrible notion to some the overall goal is to convert folks on using these pieces of OSS has to be gentle and user friendly. Business users get Firebird suggested to them and home users Mozilla. I haven't touched IE for daily browsing in a couple years now thanks to these awesome browsers.

  6. NTLM and Proxy Server by falsification · · Score: 4, Informative
    If you have Microsoft Proxy Server or some other NTLM proxy at work or wherever, take a good hard look at 1.6. It's the first Mozilla version to have a built-in NTLM solution.

    For the first time, Mozilla will work on many corporate networks.

  7. Re:Am I the only one... by el-spectre · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Godzilla" is a poor translation to english. The original japanese name sounded like "Gojira". It's entirely possible the dude was playing on that.

    Ah, the courage and wisdom of AC.

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  8. Eolas and Mozilla? by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 5, Informative

    I submitted this story today, but as usual, since I am not a friend of the /. Editors, they shot it down big time (within minutes of when I submitted it), but I'm not bitter (that's a joke, OK?)! The guy from Eolas who brought the action against Microsoft about his browser patent, is in talks with "major Linux players." In fact, according to the eWeek story (rejected by /.), he's an Open Source contributor. Read between the lines, because this bodes VERY well for Mozilla. While W3 and Microsoft are hemming and hawing about what this kind of patent meant to them, and it means something very bad for Internet Explorer, I suspect Mozilla will not be a target. Perhaps it's wishful thinking, but "what if" this guy is into Open Source, and saw a nice way to screw MS? I know, "so what, he still has a patent for something that is obvious and should not be patented." Well, my position is just the same as with SCO / IMB. Lessor of two evils, and my enemies' enemy is my friend (for now).

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  9. And any moment now.... by Crypto+Gnome · · Score: 4, Informative

    As outlined in the Mozilla project roadmap , the Mozilla Firebird browser will eventually replace the Seamonkey browser as the premiere end-user browser from mozilla.org. As part of the journey towards that goal, from milestone 0.7 onward Firebird 0.x releases will occur at the same time (or approximately the same time). Firebird Roadmap

    Yes, you heard it right. This release of Mozilla is significant ALSO in that it heralds an impending release of FireBird.

    Of course, Firebird 0.8 was due out December 2003, so we're overdue for that anyways.

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  10. Re:But No One's mentioned the most important featu by ocelotbob · · Score: 4, Informative
    A rough interpretation:
    And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced.
    AOL's killing of the netscape brand as a web browser, and the subsequent laying off of the dev team.
    But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them.
    The rebirth of the Mozilla project as a non-profit and the rebirth of Mozilla as separate browser and mail components.
    For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.
    Ph33r Mozilla ;3 .
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  11. Re:Am I the only one... by Onan · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, to be really pedantic, there isn't a sound that maps directly to either the English R or L, there's a single sound that's about halfway in between the two. Hence the tendency of Japanese speakers to swap them in both directions; to someone who has spoken only Japanese, it seems like an arcane distinction between two tiny variants of the same sound.

    Romanji tends to transcribe the sound as R, but they're both equally accurate.

  12. Re:NTLM and Proxy Server by thegrommit · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you have Microsoft Proxy Server or some other NTLM proxy at work or wherever, take a good hard look at 1.6. It's the first Mozilla version to have a built-in NTLM solution.

    It's been available in Windows builds for quite a while (since at least 1.4). The key difference is that the new method is cross-platform.

  13. Re:Cool.. what about SVG? by khanyisa · · Score: 5, Informative

    Have a look at the svg project page (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/) Basically, not for quite a while yet, but feel free to help out!