Mozilla 1.7 to Become New Long-Lived Branch

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Mozilla 1.7 to Become New Long-Lived Branch

Posted by michael on Tuesday April 6, 2004 @05:36AM from the long-live-the-gecko dept.

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."

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Oh glorious day! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-06 05:37 · Score: 5, Funny

News about a new firefox version, and it doesn't have a name change! There may be a hat trick yet, folks.
1. Re:Oh glorious day! by arvindn · 2004-04-06 06:18 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I think the real reason they're changing the names every 2 months is that they can now assert their superior intellect and geekiness just by asking people what browser they're using!
  Just imagine this conversation in a bar (assume, for the sake of argument, that at the time of this conversation the current name is FireChameleon):
  Cool Moz Dude: Hi! So... what's your browser?
  Hot Chick: Uhh... firefox.
  Cool Moz Dude: What?? Have you been living under a cave? FireChameleon was released a whole week ago! All the l33t people have already switched!!
  Hot Chick is impressed by Cool Moz Dude's uber-geekiness and falls all over him.
  That's the intention anyway. In reality, of course, the reply would be at best "oh, that explorer thingy, same as everyone else" and at worst a glazed look of complete apathy ;^)
2. Re:Oh glorious day! by red+floyd · 2004-04-06 07:45 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I suspect that it would actually go this way...
  
  Cool Moz Dude: Hi! So... what's your browser?
  
  Hot Chick: Get lost, Loser!.
  
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1.7 by Mithrandir_The_Wise · 2004-04-06 05:40 · Score: 4, Funny

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.
1. Re:1.7 by HungWeiLo · 2004-04-06 06:32 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  1.7 - the '33' in 1337 is silent.
  
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Wow! by Wavicle · 2004-04-06 05:40 · Score: 5, Funny

So does this mean I can finally migrate off of Mosaic??

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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett (1794 - 1865)
1. Re:Wow! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-06 05:56 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You work for the government don't you?
2. Re:Wow! by arvindn · 2004-04-06 06:21 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  No geek points for you! Real hackers telnet to port 80 and parse the html themselves :)
Re:Deleting bookmarks by jazzis · 2004-04-06 05:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Yeah, IE "only' eats your hard drive after the infection.... whoops!
Re:So What? by NineNine · 2004-04-06 05:43 · Score: 4, Funny

How does this translate for consumers?

[Karma burn]

What consumers?
Re:Deleting bookmarks by Junta · 2004-04-06 05:49 · Score: 5, Funny

The browser was like *beep beep beep* and it ate my bookmarks...

And they were really good bookmarks too...

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XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
Re:Mozilla vs. Firefox by RealAlaskan · 2004-04-06 06:12 · Score: 4, Funny

Firefox 0.8 ... eats memory like a whore in a chocolate dick factory. It crashes and takes down Windows with it ...
Well, to continue your analogy, Windows goes down on everything, and spreads virsuses. It's a little like a whore with the clap.

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Re:how exactly do they crash Mozilla? by dcgaber · 2004-04-06 06:17 · Score: 4, Funny

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.
Re:Yeah, never mind the long life branch by Simon+Lyngshede · 2004-04-06 06:46 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
Re:Yeah, never mind the long life branch by chris_mahan · 2004-04-06 08:34 · Score: 4, Funny

I would call it "Mozilla Internet Browser"
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: ...more mindless chatter...

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Re:Yeah, never mind the long life branch by 4of12 · 2004-04-06 09:42 · Score: 4, Funny

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...

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Re:Yeah, never mind the long life branch by wkitchen · 2004-04-07 06:13 · Score: 4, Funny

Or maybe call it the "Mozilla Streamlined Internet Explorer", or MSIE for short.