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."

Comments

Wasn't Mozilla

[The Grey Clone]

Wasn't the Mozilla All-In-One browser supposed to be disbanded and effort placed into Firefox a while back? Are they going to continue delaying and delaying this? I tried to read the article, but it didn't seem to say. I'm curious as to how many people still use Mozilla, anyway.

Re:Wasn't Mozilla

[Omniscientist]

I still use Mozilla, Mozilla 1.7.5 with gtk2+xft x86_64 build. The reason I use Mozilla is because all I have to do is download one program and I get the browser and an email client.

Now the reason why Mozilla Foundation is still making Mozilla is because Mozilla is aimed at vendors who will customize Mozilla to include the necessary or wanted features. We all know Mozilla has an big amount of features, many of which we never use, so the idea is that there would be some sort of vendor or someone making a distro who would customize it properly for its users/customers. Firefox is aimed at the end-user exclusively.

Composer?

[slim]

Now we have Firefox, the only time I load up Mozilla is when I want to use Composer. It's far from perfect (that poxy

$lt;br> problem!) but it's a free WYSYWIG HTML editor withoout too many frills or complexities, and it throws out reasonably tidy HTML which can be cleaned up by hand much more easily than (say) Frontpage output.

So what's the future for Composer? I'd love to have it either as a standalone alongside Firefox and Thunderbird, or as an extension to Firefox.

I notice that Thunderbird contains vestiges of Composer (e.g. CSS styles for display modes no longer available)...

Mozilla vs FireFox

[martok]

I recently started using FireFox at home and am wondering if someone would mind explaning the difference between Mozilla and FireFox. I understand they're both free software projects and are based on the same core technology. Why are there then two browsers? Is it simply a code fork?

I hope they improve on the Mac version

[slutsker]

I use Firefox for my Mac, and I have used it for a while now. However, I have found it to use up a godly amount of memory, which sometimes leads to crashes on my mere 512 MB machine. I noticed the 1.0 version was better than the 0.9 version at this, and I hope the 1.1 version is even better.

Anyway, I'm just wondering... does anyone else have these memory problems on their Mac's, or is it just me?

And where does Sunbird fit into all of this ?

[DARKFORCE123]

I don't see Sunbird in any of those slides. We still seem to be far away from a complete Outlook replacement that is stable enough to pitch to people. I would think replacing Outlook would be a good investment of resources.

Re:Composer??

[digitalgimpus]

NVU is by Daniel Glazman, and based on Composer.

Much better.

Re:Firefox security updates?

[mr_jrt]

Would you prefer non-root users to be able to overwrite your browser binaries? I've not used firefox on linux, so I'll assume the situation could prehaps be more highlighted to the user, but it's hardly a bug.