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Mozilla 1.7.5 Released
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?"
Nearly all of the 1.7.5 Mozilla Suite fixes are in Firefox 1.0. Firefox 1.0's code is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0. This is a small upgrade for Mozilla 1.7 to reach Firefox 1.0 parity. Firefox v1.1 will be based on Mozilla 1.8 (currently at 1.8 alpha 5), and Mozilla 1.8 should be released first. I wouldn't say either one is ahead in terms of technology, since they share so much.
Whether we'll one day have a suite of applications replace the actual suite seems to vary month to month and depends on who you ask. Personally, I would've liked that as a goal for Mozilla's 2.0 release.
PS: Mozilla 1.8/Firefox 1.1 should have the new user stylesheet code to support a color override for it.slashdot.org!
Right click on a toolbar in Firefox, and you can add/remove/re-arrange all you want. Don't want a search? Remove it. Don't want a Forward button? Gone. Ctrl-L still takes you to the address bar, and you could easy set up bookmark keywords for your searches that way.
In Mozilla, I just hit Ctrl-L, type my search commands, hit up arrow and enter. I haven't found any way of achieving the same thing in Firefox,
Hit ctrl-k, enter search terms, hit enter.
and I hate the small size of the box I'm given to enter my search terms.
Can't help you there.
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?
In Mozilla, I just hit Ctrl-L, type my search commands, hit up arrow and enter. I haven't found any way of achieving the same thing in Firefox
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Without using Mozilla, it is hard to know exactly what you mean and what happens when you use up arrow, but I think it can be acheived - I don't use the search box at all, instead I use a combination of:
1. about:config -> keyword.URL set to http://www.google.com/search?oe=UTF-8&q= instead of the default (not very intiutive no), which causes Firefox to search on Google with anything entered that doesn't look like an URL, which is anything that hasn't got a dot embedded in the first word I think(?).
2. Keywords on bookmarks, making it possible to search wikipedia with "wp search terms", CPAN: "cpan search terms" and so on. Look in the Quick Searches folder for examples. I suppose Mozilla has this too, though.
Maybe that helps, that is, if you do want to try a switch.
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Thunderbird 1.0 will read a local mbox file. Setup a "movemail" account instead of an "Email" account. I had to fix some permissions so Thuderbird could write the .lock file, but other than that, it's working fine.
Exactly.
Firefox feels a little too much "dumbed down" for me.
An example is that I coulnd't find a preference in Firefox to turn off gif-animations (v0.9 IIRC). Yes, I'm pretty sure there is some way through extensions or about:config, but what's the point, it's the same browser engine anyway.
...by Ctrl-A, Ctrl-X, Tab, Ctrl-V (a real pain)
Back in my day we didn't have a Ctrl key. You had to hold down C-T-R-L all at the same time as the the A, the X, and the V. Then you had to run the deck and check back with operator in a few hours to see your paste ran ok.
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You can get Nvu.
It's the third component to the seperated suite, financed by the Lindows team. Currently sitting at 0.60, it's looking better and better all the time.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
You are missing the point entirely.
Mozilla "out of the box" does more of what some of what some of want and are used to and it is not worth switching to Firefox if we have to waste time adding it all back in.
Frankley I'm amazed that the Firefox developers saw fit to compltely remove the search option from the location bar. Those who knew about it could keep on using it and newbies could use the easier to find search box.
What harm would it have been to leave well enough alone?
I for one regularly need use Mozilla Composer to correct ugly ass webpages into something less harsh on the eyes and more readable. I like having Chatzilla around too. Just because I could add it back in doesn't mean I think that would be a worthwhile way to spend my time.
Fact is that I do use a lot of the suite, some of it more often than other parts but just because I dont use it often doesn't mean I want to get rid of it. The improvements to the gecko rendering engine are shared between Mozilla and Firefox which is what is really important and any improvements I have seen in firefox do not outweigh all the little annoyances and missing bits I would have to add back in.