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Mozilla 1.8b1 Released, Firefox Growth Slowing

Posted by Zonk on from the get-out-there-and-download-people dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla 1.8 Beta 1 has been released, and in addition to numerous bug fixes now includes ECMAScript for XML (E4X). Mozilla 1.8 will serve as the code basis for Firefox 1.1. In other Mozilla related news, WebSideStory saw Firefox's usage growth slow down to just 15% (Jan-Feb) from 22% (Dec-Jan) making Firefox's 10% marketshare goal for 2005 potentially more challenging. Their stats also saw Internet Explorer usage drop below 90% for the first time in many years."

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  1. Re:Not quite accurate by Michael+Hunt · · Score: 0, Troll

    No. Firefox is as much a Mozilla as Seamonkey (Moz Suite) is.

    Case in point, the titlebar for this window is 'Mozilla 1.8b1 Released, Firefox Growth Slowing - Mozilla Firefox'

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  2. Re:Not quite accurate by Michael+Hunt · · Score: 0, Troll

    Of course, that merely highlights a greater need for internal consistency.

    I'm sorry, but an application which calls itself 'Mozilla Firefox' is obviously somehow 'some sort of Mozilla.' If people related to the project decide to claim otherwise, then the left hand and the right hand need to talk to each other a little bit more.

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