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Mozilla 1.7 to Become New Long-Lived Branch

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Oh glorious day! by Anonymous Coward · · 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 · · 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. Wow! by Wavicle · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    1. Re:Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      You work for the government don't you?

    2. Re:Wow! by arvindn · · Score: 5, Funny

      No geek points for you! Real hackers telnet to port 80 and parse the html themselves :)

  3. Re:Deleting bookmarks by jazzis · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, IE "only' eats your hard drive after the infection.... whoops!

  4. Re:Deleting bookmarks by Junta · · 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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  5. Re:1.7 by HungWeiLo · · Score: 5, Funny

    1.7 - the '33' in 1337 is silent.

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  6. Re:Yeah, never mind the long life branch by Simon+Lyngshede · · 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.