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Mozilla.org Relaunched

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Latest nightly is already called by acariquara · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040901 Firefox/1.0 PR (NOT FINAL)
    as of 09/01/2004... Broke some extensions BTW!

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  2. The Previous Design by adam+mcmaster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why not actually compare it to the previous design they had?

    1. Re:The Previous Design by asa · · Score: 5, Insightful

      So when an IE user goes to the site, some stuff appear to be broken (like the green box that says "Free Download" doesn't have rounded corners on IE)... Small details, but still...

      "broken"? What's broken? Everything degrades well. Different is not "broken".

      --Asa

  3. Duh by over_exposed · · 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 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Normally, yes, but not always. For example, take Duke Nukem Forever...

      *rimshot*

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    2. Re:Duh by Phroggy · · 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. Great UI Improvements by grape+jelly · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I, for one, think they have made some great UI improvements. Most people don't hit moz.org seeking news and whatnot about the project. Instead, they just want to know where to get The Better Browser(TM). More than once, I've had to hold a few slower-than-I'd-like hands in finding where to download the latest and greatest version of Moz and variants. I just wonder why they featured FireFox so prominently and put the full version of Moz in the "bottom" row.

  5. Slow News Day? by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Ok, this is bordering on infatuation. "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" This is effectively saying we looked at 500 submissions and this was the best of them.

    Slow news day or infatuated with Mozilla? Heck, I like Mozilla and use it at home and work, but I don't drop everything to see what's happened with their website in the last day. Gee willikers.

    Here's some other fine articles which could probably have been posted:

    Philadelphia Considering Free or Low Cost Wireless For All

    Microsoft to Exploit Japan's Post Offices to deliver SP2 (their word, not mine!)

    The Road Ahead, According to Steve Ballmer

    X-Rays Reveal Mummy Faces (Low Cancer Risk to Mummy)

    Owls Use Poop to Lure Beetles

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  6. Bad choice of hook by cicho · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They shouldn't be using "Free download" as the prominent eye-catching link. "Free download" does not mean the software is free, only that it costs nothing to download it. This semantic fuzziness is often used by commercial software vendors (and spammers) as a way to entice people to download trial and/or crippled software. 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"

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  7. Not Even The Half Of It! by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Interesting
    how Firefox is being plugged. It's pretty obvious IMHO from the site that Firefox has the wind in its sails

    Let's talk understatement here. You don't offer this kind of thing without a significant commitment to the package.

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  8. Mirror by romper · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mirrored here.

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  9. Looks nice! by lpangelrob2 · · 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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  10. They know my system. by vitaflo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It seems the website knows what system I'm running, as they offer for me to download the OS X version of Firefox, yet the screenshot of it to the right shows the Windows version. It'd be nice if they tailored this page to me a bit more and showed a screenshot with OS X chrome.

  11. Just glad by A_Non_Moose · · 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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  12. Re:Great new look! Same old shit... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217527