Mozilla 1.6 Released

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."

Comments

Re:awesome

[PReDiToR]

The browser wars have already been won.

FireBird has beaten IE and we are just waiting for the inertia to bury the old stalwart.

Are you telling me that you aren't waiting with baited breath for tonights nightly 0.8 build that really says 0.7+ in it?
The fact that there are nightly builds and every week a couple of builds optimised for Athlon/P4 or older processors should entice you to at least try it, free of charge, and see if it actually works for you.

Most people that have tried it are still trying it, and a fair number of us have it as default browser.

Re:Fantastic!

[HanzoSpam]

Firebird is a great browser about to hit 0.8 and stepping closer towards the great 1.0 release that took Mozilla years to obtain.

Well, yeah, but you have to consider Firebird uses the Gecko rendering engine, the same as Mozilla. Having a pre-written rendering engine wasn't an advantage enjoyed by Mozilla.

Thunderbird is still in need of lots of work, but the progress is fantastic and I exclusively use it even in its immature state.

I've been using it across Linux, Windows, and MacOS X, and I haven't had a single problem with it. I'm not really sure how much more work it needs, since it seems pretty clean of bugs, unless they're planning on adding some more features.

I hope not. Creeping featuritis has been the death of too many fine pieces of software that were fine just the way they were.

Firebird..

[xankar]

Should be prepackaged with various popular plugins like Flash and Shockwave.

I've reccomended firebird to all of my windows-using, non tech-savvy friends and they love it, but they wouldn't have done it without my encouragement because it was such a pain to redownload so many plugins.

People are lazy. Lazy people buy(in the loose sense of the word, since the software's free) convenience.