Planning For Mozilla 2.0

wikinerd writes "The MozillaWiki maintains a number of pages on Mozilla 2.0 which reveals lots of possible new features of the popular browser. What does your wishlist include about Mozilla 2.0, and how has the release of Firefox affected your use of Mozilla?"

Comments

Use of Moz

[StevenHenderson]

Personally, I use Mozilla a lot less now that I have a Gmail account. With having a web-based e-mail service, I really have little use for a bundled email client.

Plus, Firefox seems quicker and more stable to me since I have been using both.

Re:Wishlist: Slashdot

[byolinux]

The problem is not Mozilla. The problem is Slashdot's piss poor HTML.

Granted.

[sethadam1]

This has been fixed in the trunk for a long time (but not the branch Firefox 1.0 comes from), and will be in Firefox 1.1, whether Mozilla increments to 2.0 or not.

Bug 217527
Bug 264913

If you really, really need a fix now, visit this URL and download one of the nightlies from the trunk [fair warning - some nightlies have some annoying bugs in them, but generally, are pretty good]. It works just fine there, but I'm told requires too many changes to backport into the ff1/mozilla whatever branch.

Re:Firefox never worked for me...

[Mornelithe]

Mozilla can be compiled without a lot of frills. For example, on Gentoo, there are Mozilla flags as follows:

mozcalendar : Enable mozilla calendar extension, http://mozilla.org/projects/calendar/
moznoirc : Disable building of mozilla's IRC client
moznomail : Disable building mozilla's mail client
moznocompose : Disable building of mozilla's web page composer
moznomail : Disable building mozilla's mail client
mozxmlterm : Enable mozilla's XML-based command-line terminal

There may be some I missed. In other words, you can install Mozilla with just the browser. However, you have to compile it for yourself if you want that.

Re:Wishlist: Slashdot

[S4t0r1]

Slashdot rendering bug was fixed too late for firefox 1.0. It's going to be in version 1.1 (march) or if you cant wait download a nightly ( here http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nig htly/ )

It's also the HTML

[SamMichaels]

Slashdot won't let you validate it...so I had to save a copy and validate it:

File: slashdot.html
Encoding: utf-8
Doctype: HTML 3.2
Errors: 60

With a community full of nerds, you'd think SOMEONE would make an XHTML 1/CSS 2 version...that is, unless slashcode is such a mess that it's nearly impossible to make the changes.

Re:build in page validator.

[GregWebb]

Try Chris Pederick's developer toolbar - built in validator plus a bunch of other bits. I love it, makes my job lots easier :-)

Re:Wishlist: Slashdot

[tehshen]

Slashdot does have piss-poor HTML, but there's also a minor Gecko bug (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21752 7) which is why it works fine in other browsers.

A List Apart did an article on how to fix it but nothing seems to have happened.

Re:build in page validator.

[jiggity]

I would like to see a build in page validator.

You can download an HTML validator for Firefox that builds it right into View Source. It will validate it within the browser and also provide accessibility warnings. It's based on Tidy.

Re:Wishlist: Slashdot

[c0p0n]

Nope, not true. It's a Mozilla problem with relative table sizes. It simply calculates the distribution the wrong way (before the end of the document load), so it can only render the page properly if it's on the cache.