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Posted by michael on Wednesday September 1, 2004 @09:40AM from the no-popups dept.

mpeach writes "Mozilla Organization has launched its new Web site and it's looking a fair bit sleeker than it used to. No new product releases to go with the new look unfortunately, but, according to the Firefox 1.0 Roadmap, release candidates of the latest browser are getting closer by the day."

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Duh by over_exposed · 2004-09-01 09:44 · Score: 5, Funny

...release candidates of the latest browser are getting closer by the day.

Isn't that kind of how time works?

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1. Re:Duh by sploo22 · 2004-09-01 09:51 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Normally, yes, but not always. For example, take Duke Nukem Forever...
  
  *rimshot*
  
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2. Re:Duh by someguy456 · 2004-09-01 09:54 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Isn't that kind of how time works?
  
  Not if its Duke Nukem Forever, in which case the release date actually gets a little farther away every day
  
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3. Re:Duh by Phroggy · 2004-09-01 10:00 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Isn't that kind of how time works?
  
  Yeah, that's a bug. They're working on it.
  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60455
  
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4. Re:Duh by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-01 10:17 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Why didn't we get a new name for FireFox with this update?
Re:It's free.. by Nos. · 2004-09-01 09:45 · Score: 3, Funny

I didn't realize that a new template was front page news here on slashdot... either that or its a VERY slow news day.
Re:Hrmph... by Rei · 2004-09-01 09:50 · Score: 3, Funny

What I found amusing was that when I clicked on their new website in Konqueror, it crashed. Subtle coding ploy? ;)

It worked the second time... I got a grin out of it, though.

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Re:Great new look! Same old shit... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-01 09:50 · Score: 1, Funny

I believe it was Larry Wall who said that a program should do what the user wants and do its best to figure out what the user wants, even if the user put in incorrect commands.

But then again, he's talking about Perl and you're talking about line noise. Big difference there.
Good to see their money is going to good use by flend · 2004-09-01 09:54 · Score: 3, Funny

Were they stuck for something to do when they realised they no longer had to keep renaming Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox?
Mirror by romper · 2004-09-01 09:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Mirrored here.

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Re:Great new look! Same old shit... by schon · 2004-09-01 10:01 · Score: 1, Funny

he's talking about Perl and you're talking about line noise. Big difference there

Judging from some of the perl scripts I've seen, it's not as big as you think. :o)
Stallman's Purges by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-01 10:02 · Score: 1, Funny

Oh, for fuck's sake...
Looks nice! by lpangelrob2 · 2004-09-01 10:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Rumor has it they also tried to change the name of the site to http://www.firelizard.com, but the technical barriers were too high to overcome.
(Yes, I use Firefox ;-) )

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Re:Great new look! Same old shit... by el-spectre · 2004-09-01 10:05 · Score: 2, Funny

If we're talking about 1 programming language and 1 interpreter, this is ok (I'm a perl fan myself). But since we're talking about scores of browsers from different makers in different countries, the standards should be adhered to.

Besides, real programming languages have enough built in intelligence (scoping, flow control structures, etc) to make some assumptions. Basic HTML does not.

BTW: Only GOOD perl looks like line noise :)

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Re:KISS by darth_MALL · 2004-09-01 10:05 · Score: 2, Funny

Personally I preferred the old Judas Preist style, but hey...Diff'rent Strokes, Eh?
Re:Bad choice of hook by justforaday · 2004-09-01 10:10 · Score: 4, Funny

They should instead say something like "Free software", "Free to get, free to use", anything that doesn't have the bad vibe that comes with "free download"

I'm sure posting a big flashing "Free as in Beer" graphic will boost it's popularity with the college crowd.

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Re:It's free.. by Creepy+Crawler · 2004-09-01 10:21 · Score: 2, Funny

And I get -1'ed for it. It's a new fucking template.
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Great! Now I just have to wait by i_r_sensitive · 2004-09-01 10:21 · Score: 2, Funny

until Oct 11 next year for Debian to percolate it out of unstable!

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Re:Not Even The Half Of It! by Stephen+Williams · 2004-09-01 10:22 · Score: 4, Funny

I hope Microsoft never decide to copy that idea.

Talking plush Clippy: "It looks like you are trying to cuddle me. Would you like me to offer suggestions for improving your hugging technique?"

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Just glad by A_Non_Moose · 2004-09-01 10:23 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm just glad the got rid of that damn "find toolbar".

Dear $deity in heaven, why would they screw up a perfectly good feature like find as you type?

Insult to injury was when typing in passwords to my Novell server, the new find bar proudly displayed my password in plain view. Thank the same $deity no one was around, and my monitor faces a wall.

Why didn't they just add a Clippy type character that can speak through the voice software in windows:
"It looks like you are typing in "$password" as your password, would you like some help typing in your passwords?"

Whoever thought that find bar up deserves 10 lashes with a cat5 o' 9 tails.

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Re:Not Even The Half Of It! by Mr+Smidge · 2004-09-01 10:28 · Score: 4, Funny

I do actually feel an unstoppable compulsion to buy one of them..
Re:Great new look! Same old shit... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-01 11:21 · Score: 3, Funny

So /. renders really poorly in Gecko,

It's a huge problem for me as well! Firefox renders /.'s IT section in an absolutely putrid color scheme spawned from at least the 9th circle of hell. I wish those lazy developers over at mozilla.org would actually get around to fixing some bugs instead of just working on a slick web presence that looks incredibly tight and professional.
Re:Great new look! Same old shit... by sploo22 · 2004-09-01 11:33 · Score: 2, Funny

And in other news, "sudo rm -rf /" has been found to cause crashes and data loss on virtually all UNIX systems. Obviously this is a critical bug which must be fixed immediately.

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Re:Hrmph... by Richard+Dick+Head · 2004-09-01 14:38 · Score: 2, Funny

huh? I think you need to go to kde-look.org to get your themes buckaroo!

Jeez, next you'll be going to Windows Update to patch your distro!

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Re:Great new look! Same old shit... by eric.t.f.bat · 2004-09-01 17:24 · Score: 2, Funny

It's not that the editors don't use the site -- they have to waste time at work like the rest of us! It's just that they only use IE. Didn't you know Slashdot was invented in-house at Microsoft to distract the MS-haters of the world so they'd have no time left to actually achieve anything? Duh! How else do you explain Gnome and KDE?

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Re:Finally sheesh by RasputinAXP · 2004-09-02 00:25 · Score: 2, Funny

There are sigs on /.?

Really?

Good thing I can filter them out in my user prefs panel!