Mozilla Releases Firefox 1.0 RC1

islandroots writes "Mozilla has finally posted the first Firefox 1.0 release candidate on their FTP servers. This could very well be the last official release of Firefox before the big 1.0 launch date on November 9th. Mozilla FTP Servers"

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[tarunthegreat2]

In Soviet Russia, The (manchurian) FireFox candidate releases YOU!

Mozilla 1.?

[ratta]

Is it based on Mozilla 1.7 or 1.8? When is planned first firefox based on mozilla 1.8? What are the main diff between 17 and 18?!? Thanx

Re:Actually, we're already playing the French vers

[DoctorPepper]

At the risk of being moderated as flamebait myself, I have to say that if the other Allies hadn't "rescued" France during WWII, they most certainly would have lost everything. Do you really think the Nazi's would have stopped with the Jews?

Re:Actually, we're already playing the French vers

[Darren Winsper]

The steel industry called, they want even more protection.

Re:Actually, we're already playing the French vers

[Eccles]

You mean they where too much cowards not to buy into Bush's lies about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?

You don't have to believe Bush lied about WMDs, just believed sketchy or forged evidence, to still object to the invasion.

It's pretty clear Bush and the Neo-Cons had invading Iraq and removing Saddam on their agenda even before they took office. (Given that he was a brutal dictator, this isn't a horrible thing to want, mind you.) But before 9/11. there was no chance they could get popular support. Post-9/11, the terror threat gave them the opportunity. Having this Iraq focus, Bush and co. first suspected Saddam's involvement, but it became pretty clear he wasn't, so that wouldn't fly. But a terror threat was a much more sellable angle, and when sketchy evidence came for WMDs, the administration jumped all over it.

So far, nothing too reprehensible. The problem came when they got the authority to use force, and Iraq allowed intensive inspections. Even early on, it quickly became pretty clear that the WMD claims were wildly overstated. But rather than back off on those claims, Bush and co. still wanted that invasion, and the longer they waited, the more obvious it would be that their pretext was bogus. So in went the troops.

That's the true dishonesty. Bush might have reasonably suspected WMDs in Iraq before the inspectors went back in. But it was certainly clear to the administration that the WMD threat wasn't there by the time they invaded, so they invaded under pretenses they knew to be false.

The fundamental problem with the Neo-Con strategy is that they have this belief that countries like Iraq have a few bad people and a lot of confused and intimidated good people, so if you take out a playing card deck worth of people at the top, "the Iraqi people will welcome as us liberators," and forgive the tens of thousands of civilian casualties (since, after all, Saddam killed far more.)

The problem is, the world doesn't work that way. The West has treated the Middle East as a resource to be exploited for too long.