Today, Mozilla 1.5 Beta, the next version from the Mozilla Team was released. As per usual; Linux, MacOSX and Windows packages are available. A spellchecker for Messenger and Composer in addition to many bugfixes are just some of the updates in this beta. For more info, read the release Notes.
Mozilla 1.5 Beta Released
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Is the UPS being bought out by a software company? I had no idea that even cardboard boxes now had to be compatible with your computer. Maybe this is a copyright issue.
Mozilla should no longer cause GDI problems on Windows.
That should make Eugenia happy!
Anyone have any idea when the composer will get some work? It’s *almost* a nice app. And it’s been that way since I started using Mozilla over a year ago.
(okay, unimportant gripe, but when you’re trying to write straight text in it, and you’ve got bold or italics going, then change the cursor’s location and then go back to the bottom of the page, it loses formatting. ack!)
Are you able to say something on topic, fellow? Ever, eh?
I thought the 1.5 series was supposed to be the shift to a Standalone browser (firebird). That’s what it said in their roadmap/FAQ last time I checked (which wasn’t too long ago). Did this whole AOL/Mozilla.org split cause a change of plans?
The mozilla calendar is quite nice now (in 1.4)
It handles multiple calenders/users and the calendar entries can be stored on a webdaw enabled web server. It’s not an Exchange replacement, but for small companies it could be of real use. As it is not installed by default I think many users are not even aware of its existense.
I agree that the Calendar is a very good app which could be very useful.
But the problem is that Seamonkey is quite slow as it is already, at least when you have tried Firebird. What me myself is waiting for is that they get control of these standalone apps, FireBird/Thunderbird especially. When these are functional (which firebird already is) then move on to Sunbird (calendar app) and make it astonishing.
The idea of separating the applications was probably the best idea Mozilla Foundation ever had =)))
Its changed. I believe the mozilla suit will use the XPFE (if i got that right) stuff untill at least 1.7 now. And MozillaFirebird will continue to be stand alone. The reasons where that there was still too much work to do. Im guessign this has something to do with thunderbird too.
Im sure there is information @ mozilla.org about this, cause im not making it up… I read it there somewhere
I don’t think adding the calandar would slow Mozilla down any. It would be optional… Just like all the Mozilla components currently are… I only install Mozilla here with Navigator and Composer. I don’t even bother with mail & news and stuff…
And I haven’t really noticed Seamonkey being any slower than Firebird?? They both take the same amount of time to load, and they both seem to render pages equally fast. Which is why I’m still using Seamonkey… I think Firebird still needs work!
I agree that separating the different components is a great idea. But At this time, Firebird, Thunderbird, Sunbird, and whatever Composer will be called still need a lot of developement work before they’ll be able to replace Seamonkey. I wouldn’t be suprised if we see a Seamonkey based Mozilla 1.6
Firebird is getting there, and it might be ready very soon. But Thunderbird and the other stand alone components are still in the early stages of developement.
So it looks like it’ll be a while yet before we see the transition from Seamonkey to the ‘birds.