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Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 5 Out And About

Posted by timothy on from the to-shout-about-and-tout dept.

asa writes "Today we've shipped the latest Alpha release on the road to Mozilla 1.8. With nearly 600 bug fixes since Alpha 5, A6 contains some exciting new Gecko work. You can help the Mozilla team as we drive toward 1.8 by downloading and testing this release. Get the release builds and notes at mozilla.org."

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  1. Roaming Profiles by Matt+Perry · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This release is supposed to have roaming profile support like hte old Netscape 4 had. If you've been waiting for that, give it a try to help shake out any bugs.

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  2. Correction by JavaRob · · Score: 4, Interesting

    With nearly 600 bug fixes since Alpha 5, A6 contains some exciting new Gecko work.

    This should read "...since Alpha 4, A5 contains some..."

    I don't use the Mozilla suite anymore (moved to Firefox), but the Gecko improvements will of course end up in Firefox as well, so it's all good. Time to browse over to the roadmap to figure out how that development path actually works nowadays...

  3. Seamonkey over Firefox by 0x461FAB0BD7D2 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I probably belong to the minority of people who prefer SeaMonkey over Firefox, even though I've tried Firefox 1.0 final.

    I sincerely hope that Mozilla.org does not stop supporting the suite, as most of the users of the suite have been Mozilla supporters far longer than the current influx of Firefox fans. Hopefully, our dedication in testing would convince them that seamonkey is just as important as Firefox.