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Mozilla 1.7.5 Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the here-comes-the-lizard dept.

shokk writes "Mozilla 1.7.5 is out for all platforms. See the changelog for more details. Quite a few bug fixes are in this. A number of the bugs are Firefox/Mozilla specific, so you can expect that these will be avilable in the upcoming Firefox 1.1 Deer Park (that's good browser!) release. Is the Mozilla suite no longer at the forefront of browser technology, long surpassed by Firefox and Thunderbird? Will we ever see a Mozilla suite composed of Firefox and Thunderbird to keep it all simple? What are your reasons for running the old standby suite over the Firefox/Thunderbird combo?"

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  1. Upgrading by StevenHenderson · · Score: 3, Interesting
    What are your reasons for running the old standby suite over the Firefox/Thunderbird combo?

    Might seem silly, but when upgrades come out for the Moz suite, IT teams need only upgrade/test one piece of software. Might seem insignificant, but at my school EVERY computer had Moz installed, and that would mean a lot of work.

    Also, Mozilla suite has a higher version number which, for some reason, keeps ignorant IT managers more at ease.

  2. Mozilla Suite for me by Spad · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I much prefer the suite to FF/TB.

    I still can't stand FF as a browser - it simply isn't as good as Mozilla for my uses. If I'm going to use both the browser and mail components then why the hell would I want to sacrifice performance and features (such as opening email links in a new Mozilla tab by middle-clicking) by running two seperate programs?

  3. 1.7.4? by slavemowgli · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Whatever happened to 1.7.4?

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    quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
  4. Why I like the suite by edwdig · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Type ahead fine works better in the suite. I prefer a links only search if i just start typing, with / for the fulltext. Firefox always does fulltext.

    Type ahead find doesn't work in the View Source window of FireFox.

    Type ahead find doesn't work in Thunderbird.

    Too many options have been removed from the preferences window in FF/TB. The new design isn't very usable for the more complicated tabs (such as Advanced).

    I like right clicking a link in an email and selecting "Open in New Tab".

    TB/FF don't have a window menu, making it slower to navigate between multiple windows.

    Those are the main ones I can think of. Probably more that I don't run into as often.