Mozilla 1.2-Beta and Phoenix 0.3 browsers were recently released. Additionally, Opera Software released beta versions of 6.1 for Linux, Linux PPC and FreeBSD. Also, the Dillo web browser’s CVS seems to not have any check-ins for 3 months now, so if you want to code for a small and fast browser for Unix, here’s your chance.
Mozilla 1.2 Beta Released
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It’s sad that Opera supported os/2 to a higher version than BeOS!
Quick questions, does either Mozilla 1.2 or Phoenix 0.3 have xft2 support?
I was trying Phoenix and ran across this link in their discussion forums. The feature seems to be working quite well in Phoenix 0.3.
http://www.cc-net.or.jp/~piro/xul/_tabextensions.en.html
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that’s because os/2 is still very much alive, at least in the business sector. with beos not even booting on new athlons without a patch, it’s definately showing it’s age.
I don’t know why, but I kept getting error msg and was unabled to log in HOTMAIL with the following browsers
Konqureror,
mozilla,
netscape 7,
galeon and
opera 6.x
I don’t have this problem with Opera 5.x or Netscape 4.x
some body please help!
BeOS was great but the entire Be adventure failed. BeOS is dead for several years now. Denial has never been the right solution. So by some tissues and get over it. Regarding OS/2… I am sure Opera is still maintained on this os because it generates enough revenue.
1) Don’t use hotmail – there are tons of other free MS-independent not-so-spammy mail services
2)If you still use it – remove Mozilla profile. It is known issue with latest internal changes on hotmail. Then it should start to work normally again
dude – OS/2s development will cease in less than two years. That EOL for OS/2. If you consider that to be alive then I have an omlette to sell you.
speaking of BEOS .. anyone know where i can get a “pre-patched for AthlonXP” version to install on my box…. ?
something i can install without having to repartition my drives … (c: = NTFS, d: = FAT32)
thx!
Anyone know when Opera 7 is due out? Last I heard, there was to be a new, improved rendering engine for it that is a total rewrite of the old one.
I have such a CD yes. I have an AthlonXP and I manually patched my BeOS, and then I created a CD image from it, just in case. So to install BeOS easily on any AthlonXP, it requires the patched bootable floppy (this is easy to create from anywhere) and just my CD image.
[BTW, this is off topic, please write about this on our BeOS Forum, not in this story]
The Beonex version flies thru the Hotmail site with no problems. On Opera, in the preference change it so the browers is seen as MSIE. Absolutly no problems in using Phoenix on Hotmail : – Try Phoenix, for something at 0.3 in dev its pretty good.
> Quick questions, does either Mozilla 1.2 or Phoenix 0.3
> have xft2 support?
Mozilla 1.2b already has Xft2 support, but it’s not enabled by default. So I guess there are still some issues with it.
There exist prebuild RPMs for Red Hat 8.0 which have Xft support enabled. You can find them here:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.2b/Red_Hat_8x_…
So far they work fine for me and the anti-aliased rendering — with exclusion of italic fonts — of the Microsoft web fonts is quite good.
Cheers,
A.
I have no problem with Opera 6.03 and 6.1beta in FreeBSD to login the hotmail. If you want to get rid of warning message about that you aren’t use right browser, then follow what Greg said above.
To: s_d
>> 1) Don’t use hotmail – there are tons of other free MS-independent not-so-spammy mail services
Quit troll, this isn’t solution nor answer. Also, it’s complete off point from to his question. I own two hotmail accounts and I have ZERO spam in my input right now (sometime, I do get less than five), because I know how to use it.
One of my friend told me that Hotmail already has improvement on the spam issue, which it cuts down pretty big time. Because, M$ signed with one company to work on it.
I dont know about opera 6, but all the others will require SSL support. Which is new to konqueror, so you might want to get the latest version. For mozilla/galeon, get the mozilla-psm package, and for netscape…maybe you unclicked “personal security manager” (is that what psm stands for?)?
Anyhow, i tried dillo, and all i can say is “wow”. Pages load like *BOOM*. The only reason i uninstalled it was cause it segfaulted on osnews and any other decent site. Works well for google though. Dont let my problems with it make you guys not want to try it though, its probably because of non-64bit ready code (sooooo many apps have that problem its not even funny).
“I dont know about opera 6, but all the others will require SSL support. Which is new to konqueror, so you might want to get the latest version.”
Konqueror has had SSL support for over a year and a half now, and it’s ssl configuration is one of the most robust and mature I’ve ever seen.
SSL support is *not* new in konqueror. Anyway, i just succesfully signed in and used hotmail using both konqueror 3.0.4, and mozilla 1.0.1, without any problems. I don’t recall ever having used a browser that couldnt access hotmail.
I’ve tried Phoenix and I was considering switching to it since there weren’t noticeable speed improvements from 1.0 to 1.1. I downloaded 1.2 for Windows last night, I’m using right now in fact, and I’m not only pleasantly surprised but I’ll stick with Moz.
The pages render much more quickly, it doesn’t appear to use as much ram or CPU time. I haven’t had any stability problems at all (yes, its been 2 days
). Try it out.
That seems strange. What version of Mozilla are you running? My old man has a Hotmail account and uses Mozilla 1.0.1 and is able to log in/out without any problems. Try removing the profile:
rm -rf .mozilla
and then load mozilla again. Maybe there is something stuff up in the cache/history/cookies?
Seems i was mistaken about konqueror, but every time i’ve installed it on my debian boxes it was never able to sign into hotmail, or any other SSL site.
My apologies.
just installed moz 1.2b on my redhat 7.3 laptop…it rocks!!!
up until then it was running 1.1, which i was having stability problems with (i used the official Mozilla RPMs from their ftp site)
1.2b is a lot faster than 1.1…and so far it feels more stable than 1.1 which would crash randomly on me
so far i’m very impressed
great work Mozilla team!!!
I’m gonna have to upgrade my windows install to 1.2b tomorrow
This is a good beta. The font or icons onlu is just an answer to may families.
It works stable for me in a 2 days period … Keep prying…
I sent this story 2 days ago, and now you post this? 🙂 (don’t get mad, just kidding)
Anyway, I’m currently using Mozilla 1.2 beta, and for the first time I love it. I’m trying out Phoenix, but I doubt I would like it until they allow it to be themable (and in the minority that doesn’t like Orbit).
beos user: It’s sad that Opera supported os/2 to a higher version than BeOS!
It is sad, but the fact is that IBM was until recently supporting OS/2 Warp, while eCs has taken over development of OS/2, while it would never be a Windows replacement, the future for OS/2 is far more rosy than for BeOS, sorry to say.
someone: I don’t know why, but I kept getting error msg and was unabled to log in HOTMAIL with the following browsers
Now, I didn’t try it with Netscape 7, Konqueror and Galeon, but I have tried it with the rest of the browsers, and the only browser you mentioned that isn’t working right with Hotmail is Opera 6.0 (which BTW doesn’t work all that well with Yahoo either).
I would have to assume, seeing this, that it works with both Galeon and Netscape 7 being recognized as the same browser on the web as Mozilla. While I’m not sure about Konqeuror, but maybe it is like Opera.
(Besides, I have a Passport account because I have a few classmates using MSN, and I prefer MSN to AIM (they have that too), so MSN it is).
Troela: I don’t recall ever having used a browser that couldnt access hotmail.
I remember once (when MSN 7 was release, IIRC), where Hotmail (and any other MSN site) blcoked me and ask me to use *gasp* Internet Explorer or *double gasp* Netscape 4.x.
That’s when I moved everything to Yahoo!, and never looked back 🙂
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Besides, did I forget to mention that I love Mozilla 1.2b? *wink* *wink*
Opera: You better hope that Opera 7 would be good otherwise….
Try press F12 and “identify as IE 5” or something. Might help.
Speaking of BEOS By Xtreme (IP: —.65-200-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca) – Posted on 2002-10-19 18:49:08
speaking of BEOS .. anyone know where i can get a “pre-patched for AthlonXP” version to install on my box…. ?
something i can install without having to repartition my drives … (c: = NTFS, d: = FAT32)
thx!
Don’t know anout the re-partitioning, you usually need to add a partition to add an OS, but try the new BeOS download site … BeOS 5 PE Max Edition V2 at http://www.vasper.net. Again, this makes a bootable CD and this one includes the Athalon XP patch!
The Dillo maintainers are having some problems with public CVS access (on CIPSGA — the SF CVS repository is no longer used), but work on the browser progresses, albeit very slowly. Just a heads up.
All I want is support for my forward and backward buttons!
Soon as I loaded Opera 6 beta for mac OS X, Yahoo stopped recognising my password.
Any clues? Any help? Any idea when they might give us a real version of the browser?
Soon as I loaded Opera 6 beta for mac OS X, Yahoo stopped recognising my password.
Any clues? Any help? Any idea when they might give us a real version of the browser?
check out http://phoenix.ragweed.net/