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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."
it had to happen sooner or later : mozillazine
What the article fails to mention however that there appears to be a point of contension between Mozilla developers over whether or not the next long-lived stable branch of Mozilla should be 1.7 or 1.8. Many feel that it is too late in 1.7's development cycle to make it the next stable branch after 1.4. For more information, see here. It's a shame that the Mozilla Foundation apparently feels pressured to make decisions based on time frames instead of quality.
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
On the other hand people are happy that there's finally something to replace 1.4 which was showing its age.
Note that this means that the next version of Netscape, if there is one, will be based on 1.7 etc.
1) Go to about:config.
2) Select "Print Preview"
3) Crash.
On Firefox 0.8 on Windows 2000.
I like using a lot of div tags and css styles. 1.7b is better with several bugs fixed. But this bug:
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http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204
This one still makes me go back to IE. With the wrong setup, you can't access links for form controls. While the bug is marked as fixed in 1.7b, the test case I put in still fails.
Go to CSS Zen Garden for learning by example on stylesheets. My pages mostly just have div tags any more, and the style sheet does the rest.
(And why does Mozilla prevent links to it via Slashdot? If I create a link it says "Ook! Sorry, links to Bugzilla from Slashdot are disabled.")
The biggest problem such a person will face is the build system - as in, there isn't one for OS 9 any more.
Gerv
If you hack macs, please do the silent majority a favour and port a stable version of mozilla for us!
They have! It's called Web and Mail Communicator (WaMCom). They have produced a version of Mozilla 1.3.1 with hundreds of additional bugfixes that works on Mac OS 9.
Sure, it's only based on 1.3.1 (though with extra bug fixes), but it's better than nothing.
More details availble in these MozillaZine articles: 1 and 2.
Here's your answer (from the roadmap):
We are not retiring the SeaMonkey [Mozilla] application suite, or its XPFE front end, in the foreseeable future. Several companies have shipped and will ship products based on this venerable component of the application suite, and on the entire suite. Many organizations deploy it or a derivative of it, such as Netscape 7.x. We intend to keep supporting these deployments in at least a conservative, sustaining engineering fashion. However, we still intend to focus on evolving Mozilla toward the more flexible application architecture pioneered by Firefox and Thunderbird. That's where our innovative engineering effort should go.
> I think Phoenix was always supposed to be an internal codename like Whistler or Longhorn.
The slight difference between the two names is that Phoenix wasn't trademarked. Firefox is. They spent a lot of effort on finding a proper name and trademarking it and are not going to abandon it anytime soon.
They are keeping the name Mozilla Firefox. See the Firefox roadmap if you don't believe me:
"Firefox 1.0 will be called simply "Mozilla Firefox"... or "Firefox" for short."