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Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.1 Cancelled

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the be-right-back dept.

geekwithsoul writes "mozillaZine is reporting that the Mozilla Thunderbird 1.01 release is cancelled. While they just released 1.01 of Firefox and intended to release an updated Mozilla Suite and 1.01 version of Thunderbird shortly thereafter, they've decided to address some additional issues and release ver. 1.02 of Firefox and Thunderbird 'soon.' The fixes will also be included in the Mozilla Suite 1.7.6 release. Ah, the joy of awkward numbering conventions!"

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  1. Confused by cortana · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Confused...

    Are they just trying to keep the version numbers of Firefox and Thunderbird in lockstep?

    1. Re:Confused by puiahappy · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I don`t think so, but maybe they have realised that Mozila FireFox is the first real opponent for M$IE, and they are developing it as fast as they can. A very good thing to do.

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    2. Re:Confused by garroo · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Yes, they have, especially in light of how many people are clamoring to continue the Moz Suite as a viable business tool.

      That being said, I suspect they've identified some serious new bugs in 1.01, such as "right click>save as(video)" that causes mpegs and wmv etc to become corrupt.

      I can see that being a problem they'd rather not replicate.

      Now I gotta roll back to ver. 1.0. doh.

      Anyone else getting this bug?

      That being said, sort of ironic, eh, that they do away with the Suite, which by it's very nature would ensure all aps are the same "version", but then go to seperate apps whereupon they immediately begin to merge their release/development schedule!!!!

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  2. Re:That big of a deal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As far as I can tell, it isn't meant to be big news, just simply a notification to the community that we'll have to wait a little longer for Thunderbird updates.

    I'm currently thoroughly enjoying Tbird 1.0, so I have no problems waiting.

  3. Will Slashdot finally render correctly? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I understand the bug has been fixed months ago. When will it finally make it into a release?

  4. Firefox really DOES need help! by templest · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think FF is in desperate need of soome tweak'uns... Pop-ups are comming back with a force to be wreckoned with. Some sites (Won't mention what ones ;-) upload worms to my box through java, with nothing but Norton warning my that it was even being loaded. I even compared the sites with IE and FF; and IEs popup-blocker stops all while FF stops some. Alas.. popularity sucks. But it's still safer and more competent than IE. :-)

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  5. Re:"Want pi now!" as he shot Knuth by JimmehAH · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They had to change it because Hasbro/Mattel have a line of toys called Weebles that look a little like Weebl.

    weebls-stuff forum post

  6. Wow, Mozilla is having a rough week by menace3society · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It used to be, Mozilla was one of the more "reputable" open source projects. I'm not trying to flame anyone here, but it sounds like they've had a pretty rough week. Coupled with the announcement to cancel future releases of the Mozilla suite and the announcements abotu IE7, this could tarnish Mozilla's reputation. Obviously, normal projects miss deadlines and drop releases with large flaws all the time. But Open Source being what it is, when it has these kinds of problems they tend to be more high-profile. Hopefully everyone will look past this and continue to recognize that the Mozilla tools beat the pants off of Microsoft's.

  7. Re:numbers by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There was a Netscape 5.0 project, but it was scrapped. You can probably still get the source code somewhere.

    If I remember right, Netscape 5.0 used most of the UI-code base for Netscape 4.x, but used the new 'Gecko' rendering engine.

    I remember soon-to-be Mozilla Developers at Linuxworld and some Bay Area LUGs talking about how 5.0 was so horrible, they basically decided to rewrite the browser from scratch, using a few components from Netscape.

    Check out this Netscape press release from 1998: Netscape 5.0 was going to be released under a 'GPL-like' license.

    Somewhere in there, Mozilla was born. My memory is fuzzy... so people with more knowledge feel free to correct me.

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  8. Re:"Want pi now!" as he shot Knuth by interiot · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And much later, Pugs the Perl6 emulator, whose version number is supposed to approach 2*Pi (Pugs 6.2, Pugs 6.28, ...).

  9. Re:numbers by edwdig · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Netscape 5 was entirely based off the Netscape 4 code. Gecko was no where near ready for primetime use at the time. It was just an incremental upgrade from Netscape 4. It was scrapped because it wouldn't have been a very big step up from 4.x, and the thinking was that would've just given people an even lesser opinion of Netscape.

    Netscape 6 was always planned to be Gecko + XUL. Unfortunately it took a lot longer to develop than originally expected, so they ended up rushing it out due to how long it had been since there last was a major Netscape update. Of course the rushed 6 was barely usable and just hurt Netscape's reputation more.

    The open source version of the Netscape code was always called Mozilla. The Mozilla website used to always say something like "You probably shouldn't be using this unless you are a developer. Use something built off it such as Netscape instead." Which means the Mozilla Suite was never advertised, but rather they recommended people avoid using it. Hence why the suite never got a huge following. FireFox's success compared to Mozilla's is most due to the fact that that there was actually a lot of effort put into marketing FireFox, opposed to the anti-marketing of the suite.