Mozilla News
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Posted Thursday, October 16, 2003 at 04:27 PM [GMT-6]

Mozilla LogoThe Mozilla team has launched a beta version of their new website, presumably to give visitors a chance to preview and comment on it before it goes live. Interesting approach. And a nice new layout, too.

They've also released Mozilla 1.5, in beta form. I'd try to summarize the new features in this release, but the link to the release notes yields a 404. Maybe it'll be working by the time you read this, but it's not the most propitious beginning, is it?

Regardless, these guys continue to do good things on the browser front, and I'm greatly mystified why anyone would continue to use Internet Explorer -- slow, buggy, non-secure, bloated, feature-short Internet Explorer -- when a Mozilla derivative is available for the choosing. (Oh, I retract that statement; I know a lot of reasons for not switching, and a few of them are even legitimate.)

Having said that, I confess that my browser of choice continues to be Netscape 7.02, which shares the Gecko engine with Mozilla. But I have installed Mozilla, and occasionally switch to it as the mood strikes me.

I'm also planning to download and install Firebird and Camino on my laptop. These are alternative Mozilla browsers for OS X (Firebird also works with Linux and Windows).

[Link courtesy of Stopdesign]

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I use Mozilla Firebird for browsing and Mozilla Thunderbird (brave of me, eh? It's in version 0.2) for email. I'll never, ever go back to IE.

Posted by: Bill at October 18, 2003 09:58 PM

Bill, I hesitate to get too publicly vocal about IE, but it's just amazing how many otherwise really smart people don't realize what a nag they're riding, and how so many FREE thoroughbreds are just leaving 'em in the dust.

Posted by: Eric at October 18, 2003 10:35 PM

I'll second Bill's thoughts -- I'm really happy with the Thunderbird/Firebird combo for Win machines. I only open IE on those rare occasions when a site has been (badly!) designed not to work with anything else.

Posted by: kevin whited at October 19, 2003 05:19 PM
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