[olug] Mozilla Bug in .99-RC1 on all OS's

[einer]

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>Don't you think you should check with the 1.0 release and see if the problem has already been fixed?
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1.0 hasn't been released yet.  

>PS can you give a quick review of the pros and cons of mozilla for thos of us who are curious but unwilling to load the software?
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The current stable incarnation of Mozilla is RC1 (Release Candidate 1). 
 Mozilla is an open source, cross platform internet suite that has a 
spec compliant (at least I thought) html browser, a nice mail client, a 
news client, a chat client, and a laundry list of features that I 
couldn't possibly start to iterate through.

Mozilla also has an incredible gui.  Tabbed browsing has changed the way 
I use the internet.  I believe that this is one of the best features of 
the browser.  Basically, it allows you to open a new window within the 
current one.  This new window is accessible by clicking a small, 
unobtrusive yet well labeled, tab at the top of the browser.  Multiple 
tabs are allowed and you can open up a page in a new tab while 
maintaining focus on the old one.  I really can't say enough about 
tabbed browsing.

Mozilla renders pages so fast it hurts.  Nested tables are usually no 
problem, and in fact, this is the first show stopping bug I've run into 
while using a version after .98.

Mozilla allows you to block pop-ups and pop-unders with the click of a 
preference button.  This is wonderful when I'm browsing all of those 
pop-up intensive basket weaving sites that I frequent so often....

Mozilla allows you to alter your user agent string.  This string 
identifies your browser (Mozilla, IE, Konqueror, Opera) to the server. 
 A while ago, when Microsoft was blocking access to it's site from 
certain browsers, this feature allowed Mozilla users to access the site.

Mozilla is skinnable meaning you can alter the look and feel of the 
browser.  This feature has been enhanced so that it no longer requires a 
browser restart to work.  I prefer the 'modern' theme that comes stock 
with the browser.

As for cons?  Well it's not the dominant browser in the marketplace. 
 This means that some sites will not fix bugs that affect Mozilla as 
quickly as they'll fix bugs that affect Internet Explorer.  Also, as 
noted by my previous e-mail, there are still some bugs left to work out. 
 Lately I've noticed that Mozilla has been much faster and more stable 
than any other browser I currently use, but that hasn't always been the 
case.  Spell checking has not been implemented yet and manual 
configuration is still required if you want a flash capable or java 
capable browser.  (It's not terribly hard to do, but it's not as easy as 
with Internet Explorer).

These are just some of my observations and I'm sure I've missed a few 
big points.

Andrew

Jonathan Warren wrote:

>Don't you think you should check with the 1.0 release and see if the problem has already been fixed?  PS can you give a quick review of the pros and cons of mozilla for thos of us who are curious but unwilling to load the software?
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>-Jon Warren
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>On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:41:07PM -0500, einer wrote:
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>>Just a quick FYI:
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>>My mozilla crashed today while browsing slashdot.  After a quick 
>>re-install, I tried bringing the page up again with the same result.  
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>>The culprit appears to be this comment: 
>>http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=31513&cid=3388652
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>>Apparently this is not a Mozilla/Linux issue, but a Mozilla .99 - RC1 
>>issue as Mozilla on Windows (9x,Me,2k,XP) is also affected.
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>>The comment contains a link that has some odd characters in it.  I'm 
>>going to put them into an html document by themselves and see if they 
>>kill Mozilla.
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>>Regards,
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>>Andrew
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