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Mozilla 1.7 to Become New Long-Lived Branch
iswm writes "MozillaZine has announced that the Mozilla 1.7 branch will become the new long-lived stable branch, replacing 1.4.
The stable branch is intended to act as a baseline for developers
building Mozilla-based products, with critical bugs fixed on the branch
as well as the trunk. Mozilla Firefox 1.0, a new milestone of Mozilla Thunderbird,
a new Camino release and several third party Mozilla based products
will be based on Mozilla 1.7, so the Foundation is making efforts to
ensure that it is high quality."
News about a new firefox version, and it doesn't have a name change! There may be a hat trick yet, folks.
Mozilla development will continue with the releases of Mozilla Prime, Mozilla 2:This time its not Mozilla 1, and Mozilla: The Motion Picture.
The odd number at the end looks so...odd :)
I guess I've been too used to the Linux kernel "even is stable" noclamenture that a version number like "1.7" looks like a development branch.
So does this mean I can finally migrate off of Mosaic??
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett (1794 - 1865)
Yeah, IE "only' eats your hard drive after the infection.... whoops!
How does this translate for consumers?
[Karma burn]
What consumers?
No, it just reports your every move to Redmond, WA.... and any server that asks ;)
This is not the sig line you are looking for... -- Old Jedi Sig Line Trick
The browser was like *beep beep beep* and it ate my bookmarks...
And they were really good bookmarks too...
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
I am the only one at work that uses Mozilla. One day shortly after installing it, someone at my office said, "How do i get the cool looking dinosaur icon for my pictues too?" I've never had people jealous of my icons before.. 8)
Yeah but they moved it AWAY from MY birthday you insensitive clod!
Well, to continue your analogy, Windows goes down on everything, and spreads virsuses. It's a little like a whore with the clap.
See what I've been reading.
Damn you, would I just believe you and be on my merry way??? No, and yes I can confirm, this does crash moz in XP as well.
You seem to be on windows, but on a linux box I can make it crash with (drum roll please):
killall -SEGV mozilla
Works every time :)
Cheers
Sure!
/
Log in as root, and do the following:
cd
rm -rf *
"rm" stands for "remember", so it will save all of your data.
I suggest Firegnu then, maybe Firestallman. Or they could just call it "Internet", that would help some lame ass users who seem to think that Internet Explorer is the internet. Yes go with internet, Mozilla Internet.
How about Mo o' less?
Nah. We should cash in on the popularity of "The Apprentice", and call it "FireDonaldTrump".
The only reason we have the rights we have is that people just like us died to gain those rights. -- Cheerio Boy
Ah welll. Its good to know that exactly that bug is known for 3 years with tons of people reporting it again and again (there are douzens of "doublicate of bug nr xxxx" in the list), and after 3 YEARS someone comes with a log that shows that font files are accessed rather then swapfiles.
And everyone is surprised. meaning that nobody ever really looked at that problem (are all leet open source developers linux only?) the last 10 releases or so...
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
I would call it "Mozilla Internet Browser"
...more mindless chatter...
You could shorten it to "Internet Browser", or just "Browser" in mixed conversation.
Sample conversation:
Girl A:
"...like, yesterday, my boyfriend, you know, put this internet browser on my computer, like, and..."
Girl B:
"Wow, like, really?..."
Girl A:
"Yeahhh, and, like, you know, no popups!"
Girl B:
"Rad!!! Cool, I want, like, one too, you know..."
Girl A:
"I know!!! Like tell your boygriend, like, by the way... " [fake swoon] "he's so totally hot, like, anyway..." [fake serious] " to put this, hum, like, internet browser, you know, on your computer..."
Girl B:
"Yeah!!! He's a dork!" [rolls eyes] "Like, hum, okay... Thanks! you know?..."
Girl A:
"Piter, too, is dead."
Navigator
The KDE folks always figured that Konqueror came after the Explorers and the Navigators.
Maybe Mozilla should outdo them to the next step with the logical follow-on to a Konqueror.
You know, either Oppressor or Insurrection.
That's about the choice, anyway...
"Provided by the management for your protection."
Surely Missionary. Then Genocide.
Mozilla Missionary. Has a ring to it.
Or maybe call it the "Mozilla Streamlined Internet Explorer", or MSIE for short.