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Mozilla 1.7 Released
kashif-khan writes "Right at the verge of Firefox 0.9 and Thunderbird 0.7 being released comes the official release of Mozilla 1.7. Updates include smaller size, increased speed and faster start up times. Be sure to read the release notes for the complete list of features and download it from mozilla.org."
By your own logic you should ask your boss to be fired. If people just can't control themselves, can we conclude that you post inflamatory comments to discussion sites during work hours?
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Does this release actually render slashdot correctly? :(
Not a troll, but theres nothing more sad than to read about people forced into using IE because of banking sites, yet i have to refresh 5 times just to keep the article text from bleeding into the left column.
For starters, you seem to be confused about which project is which, that's understandable. Let's break it down.
Mozilla - The big, all encompassing suite, including a browser, e-mail client, chat, web editor, etc.
Firebird - Standalone browser based on the same code as Mozilla's browswer, but with speed and small memory footprint in mind.
Thunderbird - Standalone e-mail client based on Mozilla code.
As for why - any number of reasons. Tabbed browsing and pop up blocking are commonly cited. It's almost as quick as IE to start and often loads actual pages faster. It also isn't the huge vector for viruses and spyware that IE tends to be thanks to ActiveX. To me, that alone is worth it.
So there really isn't any one big single feature that makes it better, but there are lots of smaller ones that I feel make it a much better browser overall.
Does anyone know if there was any change from RC-3 to the final version?
Keep your eyes to the sky.
I know the OP was trying to be funny about the momentum Mozilla has built up since Netscape fired everybody, but he's really far from the truth.
When out of work, I was massively unproductive. Between looking for a job, being depressed, and day-time TV (which is hypnotically bad), it's difficult to get things going with your open source work.
It wasn't until I was contracted to work on my preferred open source project that we made tangible progress.
If you want to help Free Software (which is different open source) then hire the developers to work on Free Software projects. Then they'll be doubly productive motivated by both the project and the fact they can survive in todays dog-eat-dog money-makes-the-world-go-around pay-the-mortgage-or-live-on-the-street civilization of ours.
I do believe some ex-Netscape guys are paid to work on Mozilla by the Mozilla Foundation, and various others are paid to work on Mozilla by the various Free Software oriented companies. I think it was more Mozilla being unshackled from Netscape than the Netscape employees being unshackled from Netscape that has unleashed the recent wave of Mozilla improvements.
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Most web designers design their web pages with IE in mind.
Most web designers couldn't write standards-compliant HTML if their life depended on it, and rely on WYSIWYG editors like Dreamweaver & Frontpage. That's why web designers should stick to design, and leave implementation up to web developers.
I've tried pointing out to people that their calendar software is really a piece of crap, but most of them don't understand timezones any better than Microsoft. The ones that do just claim I'm being pedantic. Sorry, but who is it that insists on spelling out the timezone in full so it makes up 80% of the meeting request? Getting time and timezones right seems to me like a fundamental feature for calendaring and scheduling software.
I have a *lot* of windows open, usually 4 browsers with 20 tabs each. When 1 window crashes, ALL of them crash. (I copied an url from Mozilla into OpenOffice and had them both stall :(
Everytime there's a story about browsers someone posts something like this. I've always wondered; what the hell are you doing with all these pages open?
Honest question.
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