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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."
Once Microsoft improves its browser mozilla will not have much chance on the windows. Right now even they don't put much energy for becoming the dominant browser on the windows. They simply refuse to do so many things just because they can't do the same on the Linux. Mozilla developers themselves acknowledge this.
So over the long run, the future of mozilla is not very bright. Mozilla foundation's money will dry up sooner or later. Sun is one of the companies funding mozilla, they may stop funding mozilla. AOL certainly will not put more money into something that doesn't make any money. So in essence mozilla will be doomed.
So I don't know why you guys are so excited about mozilla. When a project turns into pure open source project, without a company backup, it becomes very very hard to beat the closed source competition. Very few projects are there that can compete with closed source, but those are not as complicated as mozilla.
Why is it that every once in awhile all links will die for no reason?
Like, I'll click a headline and get a "games.slashdot.org" cannot be found. Clicking any other link will give me the same error. It's like it just stops trying to resolve stuff.
The only way to fix it is to shut down and restart. Bloatzilla does the same thing, and it's been this way for several versions.
It also often misrenders slashdots submission page, though not as often as it used to.
What gives? Lots of work on neato whizbang features like the new download manager, but the fundamentals - actual web browsing - still have annoying issues.
Guess that's just OSS. Noone can make anyone work on something as boring as a "this browser doesnt work" bug, when they'd rather invent some new way to click links.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Deleting randomly?
/dev/null. After that, you stop using Mozilla for e-mail.
Yep.
Were you using a bleeding-edge release or something?
Nope.
That's crazy talk for a stable release.
That's nice. It still happens.
Most things like that are caused by user error, not random delete subroutines.
Uh huh. That works for the first eight times your entire e-mail system vanishes into
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
Attitudes like this are another reason why Open Source consumer software and the Linux desktop are so successful.
Don't give consumers what they want. Instead, call them "ignorant idiots" and tell them what to do.
Only Women Bleed (Sex, Sharia remix)
Please provide a link to that story