Mozilla 1.3 Beta Released

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Mozilla is an open-source web browser and toolkit, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. Mozilla.org provides binaries for testing and feedback.

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This is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your system

What's new in this release:

Image auto sizing allows a user to toggle between full-sized images and images sized to fit the browser window. To give it a try, load a large image into the browser window or size the window to be much smaller. Now clicking on the image will alternate between auto-sized and full-sized.The feature can be disabled (or enabled) from the Appearance panel in Preferences.
Mozilla Mail's junk-mail classification is mostly complete. Users can now automatically move junk mail to a spam folder.
Users can now "dynamically" switch profiles. To give it a try, from the tools menu select "Switch Profile..."
Find as you type, formerly known as type ahead find, has a new preferences panel (Advanced: Keyboard Navigation).
When installed, Chatzilla now has a normal Mozilla preferences panel.
about:config, the listing of most of Mozilla's preference settings is now editable. Power users can now tweak just about every pref available without opening prefs.js in a text editor. Warning: tweaking some of these prefs may break Mozilla completely. Use at your own risk.
This release of Mozilla marks the kickoff of a research project to apply machine learning to improve the browser's autocomplete feature. The project's first phase needs as many Mozilla users as possible to participate in collecting data. All you need to do is turn on a pref, use this build for daily browsing for a couple of weeks, zip up a data file on your local drive, and submit it online. Please read http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ml/autocomplete/ for more details.

#1 ~eskimo-nz on 11 Feb 2003 - 08:50

[quote]about:config, the listing of most of Mozilla's preference settings is now editable. Power users can now tweak just about every pref available without opening prefs.js in a text editor. Warning: tweaking some of these prefs may break Mozilla completely. Use at your own risk.[/quote] Finally, I was getting sick of manually editing it so my fonts look good. Now I hope that phoenix and galeon include this feature. And yes I have 3 browsers, well actually 4 including konqueror

its becuase I can't make up my mind yet

(2 replies) #2 Fotix on 11 Feb 2003 - 08:55

Just a reminder to anyone who finds crashing bugs and the like... it could be linked to your profile from the old release not being 100% compatible with the new milestone beta, so try to delete the old profile first and then see how it's working.

#2.1 linglok on 11 Feb 2003 - 09:02

[neoquote=#2.0 by Fotix]Just a reminder to anyone who finds crashing bugs and the like... it could be linked to your profile from the old release not being 100% compatible with the new milestone beta, so try to delete the old profile first and then see how it's working.

[/neoquote] thx for telling us, buddy

#2.2 tmaxxtigger on 11 Feb 2003 - 13:06

Great advice, I had this exact problem before, and clearing my profile got everthing working again.

(2 replies) #3 Toxikk on 11 Feb 2003 - 13:18

over the past week, mozilla has gotten soooo much better. im loving it now.

#3.1 wyoung76 on 11 Feb 2003 - 14:12

[neoquote=#3.0 by Toxikk]over the past week, mozilla has gotten soooo much better. im loving it now.[/neoquote] I agree. However, I'd also like it if they concentrated more on making it faster as well. I know some people will say "use Phoenix, or K-Meleon, or blah blah blah yada yada yada", but I don't want to have to use something else which is JUST a browser. If Mozilla was blazingly faster, then everything else based upon it will get a free speed increase anyway.

#3.2 Toxikk on 11 Feb 2003 - 15:15

true

#4 Dark Vageta on 11 Feb 2003 - 17:40

might have to give the new Buid a Go

#5 CatnipOligarthy on 11 Feb 2003 - 18:19

still havent tried mozilla...people seem to like it so maybe its time to give it a shot...

#6 Kaneda on 11 Feb 2003 - 19:34

in my opinion, two of the simplest mozilla pleasures are the popup blocker and the fact that you never get those stupid windows that pop up that say "do you want to install 'xupiter toolbar' or 'comet cursor' or this and that kind of spyware?"

(1 reply) #7 Hills420 on 11 Feb 2003 - 22:28

So two thumbs up for installing mozilla 1.3beta? Two thumbs down?

#7.1 wyoung76 on 12 Feb 2003 - 00:01

To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't give ANY browser two thumbs up. They all have their weaknesses and strengths. I'd recommend Mozilla if you do any web design work, like tabbed browsing (or wondered what's so great about it. And if you use tabbed browsing, have you tried middle clicking on a tab?), like to have more control over cookies, don't care about ActiveX controls, want to try something new, like skinning apps, or (if you're like many of the slashdot zealots) just want to use something other than IE. In my experience, I haven't needed to worry as much about privacy or security problems in Mozilla compared to IE. That may be because not too many people target Mozilla, or it may be that it's just got better security or programming. Either way, I don't know or care too much, since it's one less worry for me. Also, if you love plugins in IE, then you may be disappointed in Mozilla not supporting all the stuff you normally like. Things like Flash, Shockwave, Director, and a bunch of others have Mozilla compatible plugins now, so that covers most things on the web these days. As always, your mileage may vary...

#8 MyMaster on 11 Feb 2003 - 23:47

hmmm, i love Mozilla but this new beta seems buggier than the alpha. i had a lot of crashes in about ten mins of use, the browser seemed unresponsive at times, i say thanks but no thanks. reverted back to 1.3a. happy again.

#9 raekwon on 12 Feb 2003 - 03:45

much more stable than 1.3a for me. thumbs up.

#10 JLP on 12 Feb 2003 - 09:57

Great new version of my favourite browser is here. I tested it for a couple of hours and it is stable as rock. And I love the new antispam feature. Great job. mozilla team you are the best!

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