Mozilla M4 is Out

Greg Johnson writes "Mozilla Milestone 4 is out. I highly recomend you go snag it at the Mozilla Ftp site. " mozilla.org does not yet have a description of what exactly is new-and-improved from M3, but what the heck.

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Release notes here

[baby fishface]

Release notes

Read the release notes, please

[robinjo]

I'd like to point out that M4 is still very much a developer-only release. It has loads of bugs and everybody knows it, except you guys who are complaining that it's slow and buggy and lacks features. Oh, and one also said how Mozilla isn't improving.

I just wonder if you have bothered to RTFRN or to run Mozilla from the daily builds to see the progress? I have been trying them for a while already and there is progress.

A month ago almost no web pages were rendered correclty. Banners were here and there, text running in wrong places etc. But after each and every new version it started rendering better. That's progress.

Also I'd like to point out that apprunner is really pre-code. People really haven't been working on it for long. Most work has been done to create the rendering engine and not for the bells and whistles in the user interface. Also remember that they are creating cross-platform code so it required a lot of planning and programming to even get this far.

I usually use the viewer-program. It's the one that has been used to develop the rendering engine. No bookmarks or anything but it has been pretty stable and fast for me. To get an idea of Mozilla's speed, go visit sites with a lot of tables and resize the window. On my PII it's about ten times faster than Communicatore 4.51.

So if you don't mind it crashing 10 times a day, rendering pages wrong and not giving you everything a finished product does, go and try it. But if you don't understand what M4 is, do find out before whining.