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Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0.6 Released
micpp writes "Only a short time after the release of version 1.0.5, Mozilla has released version 1.0.6 of both Firefox and Thunderbird . This update fixes a bug in the browser and email program which prevented some extensions from working."
...stuff that matters?
If the best thing they could come up with was that it had a single bug fix, perhaps not very newsworthy? Does it matter?
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OF COURSE, the British among us who chose to use the en-GB version of Mozilla Firefox instead of en-US (to have the word "color" spelt correctly) have to wait a week or two for new versions of Firefox to be available with the update feature, because we all know how difficult it must be to translate from American English to British English (clue: replace "colors" with "colours").
Those counting on the update feature are still suck on version 1.0.4 of Mozilla Firefox (en-GB). There is something seriously wrong with the Mozilla Firefox translation procedure (heck, even fr-FR is available before en-GB in the update directory).
I still prefer using classic mozilla (writing this inside mozilla 1.8 beta) to firefox, because last time I checked firefox (been a while), it was so low on features. It's like Gnome's Nautilus compared to KDE's Konqueror when it comes to file managers, I don't care how much marketing buzz I hear.
I don't want to add a zillion plugins for Firefox from who knows what script kiddie just to get a standard functionality working that the seamonkey mozilla already has. To me the richness if menus and features that standard mozilla has is not overwhelming, please don't simplify it for me. I also like email and composer and addressbook being bundled, and have used Netscap/Mozilla's email ever since I know my mind, ever since Win31/Eudora/Trumpet Winsock. I guess they'd rather have everyone keep their email on Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail servers, with occasional purges, because your emails are your legal documents. Whatever happened to Carnivor that logs all emails? Isn't that good enough anymore? I guess it's a lot easier if they get to purge your old emails for you themselves, because carnivor's storage requirements are getting too expensive.
I guess the mozilla foundation is finally like Redhat, being taken over, and soon they'll release a statement, like Redhat's CEO did during the Fedora Core 1 release, saying "don't use our product, if you're a desktop user you're better off using Windows." Any leader of any company should get capital punishment for saying something like that. It's one thing to acknowledge the competition having released a superior product, but you still should say, customers, we would like you to use your product anyway, and we're doing everything we can to make it better and catch up to the competition.
Mozilla composer smells already dead, nobody really cares, I haven't used it myself, but expect Thunderbird to fall to the side, which everyone would care about, a lot. Good thing about email is that it's easy to toss together a pop3 client, and you have a million choices.
It must have been gruelling to have to wait for the next Firefox story before you could use that one.
I'd give a lot for something like Remote Desktop in Linux. It's called VNC and it'll cost you ummm . . . nothing.
that's how I see it anyway . . .
Updates every two days.
Memory leaks. Why the hell aren't they fixing THOSE? Read my lips - not ONE NEW FEATURE until you fix ALL the memory leaks!
Crashes and slowness when running Acrobat Reader.
C'mon, Firefox is supposed to be BETTER than IE. Try not to fuck it up.
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bittorrent is shit. get over it.