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Mozilla Foundation's Future: No Mozilla Suite 1.8

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the calling-it-quits dept.

batb0y writes "The Mozilla Foundation has published its Mozilla Application Suite transition plan, confirming that there will be no official Mozilla 1.8 release. There will be a 1.7.6 release to be maintained by the Mozilla Foundation. All future suite versions from the Foundation will be minor updates only." Don't despair, however, as there is already a community effort underway to continue development.

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  1. How Fitting: by homeobocks · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In Douglas Coupland's book "Microserfs", "Seamonkeys" is a term used to describe a project that is never going to be completed.

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  2. I agree... by Omega · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Also missing:

    The Mozilla web page editor. I don't actually write web pages using it, but I do like to hit Ctrl-E every now and then to show coworkers the underlying table structure of a page. It's just a handy visual tool. Especially when I'm doing webdev.

    The sidebars. I don't know about you, but I love custom sidebars. I have one for MapQuest, one for IMDb and one for Lorem Ipsum.

    Edit->Preferences. The only reason Options is under Tools in Firefox is because it's trying to mimic IE. :)

    Mozilla Tools:

    Translate Page

    Cookie Manager

    Image Manager

    Popup Manager

    Form Manager

    Password Manager

    Download Manager

    The File dialog. I'm sure the new open/save file dialog is easier for easily confused users, but I like having all the file managing options ready when the dialog first opens.

    I guess you could call Mozilla the programmer's web browser. Feature rich and not ashamed of it.