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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. Summary is incorrect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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!

  2. Re:Why I still use Mozilla... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:Why I still use Mozilla... by djocyko · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  4. 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?

  5. Re:Why I still use Mozilla... by Kristoffer+Lunden · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

    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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