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Mozilla Roadmap Update
wikinerd writes "According to a recent roadmap update for Mozilla, the beta 1.8 version will be unveiled this month, while in the next month a second beta will be prepared. After the Beta2, Gecko engine 1.8 will be finished and it will power Mozilla 1.8, Mozilla Firefox 1.1 and Mozilla Thunderbird 1.1. The developers will then start working on Mozilla 1.9. Here are some nice graphics depicting the roadmap."
The Mozilla Suite may not be disbanded, but how many people even know about it anyway? Its got its little niche, but whether or not it truly "goes away" now seems irrelevant. Firefox is the focus of all the publicity, and the Suite goes on about its business on its own.
They better be. Go read the support forums for firefox if you want an idea on what could be improved. Also look at how many posts there are per day. There's a lot that can be made better. Personally I'm tired of the hype. It's a good browser but until it gets better I'm sticking with mozilla.
I just want to know if Firefox 1.1 will support rendering Slashdot?
Just an idea, absurd I know, but... since every OTHER site I visit works great with the fox, so maybe somebody should stop posting dupes and fix the HTML?
Yea, too absurd...
- Adam L. Beberg - The Cosm Project - http://www.mithral.com/
Still no SVG?!?!
Firefox is an attempt at seperating the browser component of Mozilla, and hopefully making it smaller, more portable, and more memory-efficient.
The rendering engine for both Seamonkey (the Mozilla Suite) and Firefox remains the same, the Gecko rendering engine. What differs is the UI, the functionality and large parts of the codebase.
Originally, Firefox, and Thunderbird, were scheduled to replace Seamonkey, but after some developers voiced their concerns over this, the Mozilla Foundation has decided against this move.
In short, it's not so much as code fork as it is a functionality fork. Firefox is geared towards IE/Opera/Safari users, while Seamonkey is geared towards old school Navigator/Netscape/Mozilla users.
The only official release of Firefox is 1.0. There are a number of outstanding security flaws in Firefox 1.0 as reported by Secunia and none have been addressed yet. I don't know if there is a nightly release that fixes these flaws, but even if there is, those are not the releases that Mom and Pop download, and it is that type of user that tends to be affected most by security flaws. Doesn't the Firefox/Mozilla team need to release a version 1.0.1 that fixes these flaws sooner rather than later? Unfortunately there is no 1.0.1 on the road map, and version 1.1 is not scheduled to be released until June, if it is on time. By then the oldest unpatched flaw, from August 2004, will be 10 months old! While the severity of current flaws is nowhere near MSIE territory, the age of unpatched flaws will be getting into MSIE territory (well, somewhat, anyway.)
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... wouldn't one centralized Mozilla suite be better to begin with?
I know a number of people who have downloaded Firefox, Thunderbird, and Sunbird, and who are adamantly awaiting a Composer-esque stand-alone app. And yet they won't download Mozilla, citing it's "huge".
Just sayin'.
Have you tried using the suite anytime remotely recently?
The only place it's slower than Thunderbird or Firefox is in startup time. If you turn on the preload feature, then the suite will load faster than the individual apps will. I consider the preload worthwhile, since I've got a browser open the vast majority of the time I'm working on the computer, and if not, I usually at least want the email app open.
If you use multiple individual apps, the suite ends up using less memory as the apps each have their own instance of the Gecko core.
Completely different. Safari is built on KHTML, used in konqueror. Which, IME, is a much nicer browser than firefox, at least if you're using kde.
I am trolling
You GOT TO BE KIDDING, right? Almost all people here are using Mozilla as a mail reader and web browser on Linux and Solaris boxes. Now, if they all have to switch to Firefox/Thunderbird THAT would be bloated because Firefox and Thunderbird DON'T SHARE A SINGLE BIT OF MEMORY at runtime (well, they probably share some system libraries but that's not what I mean). They both come with an IDENTICAL Gecko engine but they don't share a single shared library. The result is that memory consumption goes up quite a bit. And also, if I download the source tree for Firefox and Thunderbird I always get the impression that I download the whole Mozilla tree twice and then compile some selected bits and pieces of it (and I still believe that I compile to much and produce some unneeded libs). Why oh why can't they make the promised GRE (Gecko Runtime Environment) which you have to install once and which is shared between all Mozilla products (Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, Nvu and who knows what'll come in the future). THAT would finally convince me to give up the suite. Maybe with Mozilla 3.0 ....