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Firefox 1.1 Scrapped

Posted by Zonk on from the doing-it-up-right dept.

An Anonymous Reader writes: "The Firefox team has decided to scrap the planned 1.1 release (already in Alpha 2) and instead release the final version as 1.5 due to the significant number of bug fixes and changes. The 1.5 feature complete beta is expected next month." From the article: "We are planning for a Firefox 2.0 and 3.0, but will divide the planned work over (at this point) three major Milestones, 1.5 (September 2005), 2.0 (unscheduled) and 3.0 (unscheduled). All major development work will be done on the Mozilla trunk, and these releases will coincide with Gecko version revs."

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  1. So shouldn't the headline be by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Firefox 1.1 renamed"?

  2. Re:They really need to fix autoupdate by recoiledsnake · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you read the comments yesterday you would have found that mozilla does staggered updates to ease the pressure on their servers and hence the auto update feature will be working in a day or two.

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  3. Re:They really need to fix autoupdate by linuxci · · Score: 5, Informative

    One of the main advantages of 1.5 is the improved update system. Everyone knows that the 1.0 one was not up to scratch that's why they spent a lot of effort improving it. Based on current nightlies I'd say they've done a good job.

  4. Re:Can you read this? by generic-man · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just get Opera. For years (as in, since their Windows 3.1 days) they've supported a zoom feature that enlarges text, graphics, and even Flash animations. They also support CSS-based modifications that, with one or two mouse clicks, render a site easily readable by anyone with bad eyes, no tolerance for Comic Sans, and/or people who disagree with the decision to render a page in 7-point grey-on-white text.

    Firefox and its army of extension developers will eventually re-implement Opera, but in the meantime the real thing is much better.

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  5. Re:Can you read this? by linuxci · · Score: 4, Informative

    They do have a preference where you can set the minimum font size which would make things easy to read for you while not zooming text that's already big enough to read.

    Look in prefereces/options for fonts and there's a pref to set the minimum font size. It's not like it's a hidden pref or anything it's in the standard dialog

  6. Re:Does this mean they'll fix launch.yahoo.com bug by kbrosnan · · Score: 4, Informative

    I gave you a full answer yesterday.
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156428&cid=131 16785

    Not to mention you posted the same comment
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156428&cid=131 14118

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