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Mozilla 1.1 released!

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August 27, 2002 2:17:07 AM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Popup window supression, skinable, tabs, what more could you ask for? Well, applying skins without restarting and a less monolithic nature (no email/news integration), but I digress. Check out the latest incarnation of what some are calling the best browser out there.

The Mozilla team has chosen the interesting aproach of a branching development tree where incremental updates on the original code are developed alongside new versions so version 1.01 will be out soon for people who aren't ready to jump to 1.1.

A little confusing, but well worth the download if you missed 1.0!
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Reply #1 August 27, 2002 5:34:05 AM
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wOOt !! This is one FAST browser!! Very good version.
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Reply #2 August 27, 2002 5:47:24 AM
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Yep a good version...but its in desparate need of some decent icons....
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Reply #3 August 27, 2002 10:54:00 AM
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I'm not quite sure I understand the "less monolithic" comment. I'm going to assume Sander means that Mozilla should integrate with other mail and newsreader programs instead of forcing the user to use the Mozilla options.

If you install only the browser, Mozilla will use your system defaults. For example, when I click on a "mailto:" link in Mozilla, a Microsoft Outlook "compose message" window opens.

Mozilla will integrate with your chosen programs, but only if you don't give it a "Mozilla-based" option.
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Reply #4 August 27, 2002 1:28:03 PM
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Yes, by less monolithic I meant I only want the browser, I didn't see that option when I installed 1.0. My mistake.



I retract my original comment (or the "monolithic" half at least) and I'm going to reinstall with just the browser.

IMHO the default distribution should just be that since you can install other components (like the calendar) separately, but I'm sure they have their reasons.

Also I don't understand why the skinning doesn't work better. I just installed Red Hat 7.3 on a machine and that Mozilla version (o.9x) skinned on the fly.

Thanks for the clarification.
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Reply #5 August 27, 2002 6:43:45 PM
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I just installed it. They have a "net" version that is very small, and when you go to install, it only downloads what you want. The only two things I downloaded and installed were the browser (a must) and the password manager (or whatever it's called). I didn't install email and news nor bugzilla nor any of that other stuff.

It's not that I don't have plenty of disc space; I just didn't have any need for that other stuff, and my experience with Netscape 4.x was that bug reporting can do more harm than good. That is, NS' error trapping made it more unstable than if you had it disabled.

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Reply #6 August 27, 2002 6:52:43 PM
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BTW, regarding the tabs, I'm glad to see they're now integrated instead of being a separate install. However, they have a long way to go in that area. I had three or four Mozilla windows open, despite having tabs enabled. For example, clicking on the option to download more themes opened up a new Mozilla browser window. By contrast, I *never* get a second NetCaptor browser window, and that's just the way I want it. I don't want a half-assed tabbed interface, where sometimes new browser windows are tabbed and sometimes they're not.

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Reply #7 August 28, 2002 11:36:28 AM
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On-The-Fly skin changing support was removed because of some crash bugs. It will be re-enabled when all of the crashing is resolved. As for tabs, I prefer the ability to have multiple windows each with tabs to related sites/links, as do a number of other people. But "Get New Themes" does not open in a new browser window for me, it opens in the current tab. As far as I know, there's no way to install Mail/News after installing Mozilla, so it has to be in the installer.
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Reply #8 August 29, 2002 12:00:44 AM
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Thanks for the update scratch! I like the project, but I can't seem to find if there's any list of features in the upcoming versions. My final wish for Mozilla would be a permenant tab like Opera.
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Reply #9 August 29, 2002 11:58:40 AM
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It is having sizing problems on my machine.
The Address bar takes up the entire window. The dialogue window's buttons are positioned outside the window. >
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