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Full Article Attached Some Significant Improvements

Saturday December 11th, 1999

M12 is right around the corner, and will boast significant improvements in the responsiveness and layout rendering times of the application.

First, Dave Hyatt has checked in some changes which do "memory recycling of all layout frame objects". This recycling seems to be the cause of significant improvements in the responsiveness of the UI. In #mozillazine, I heard "nearly as fast as 4.x" (on a P90 with 16M ram; I think that it's as fast or faster than Communicator 4.x now, at least on my P2-450). Menus and context menus now respond smoothly and quickly, the sidebar expands and contracts quickly (albeit with some bugs, still), and new windows pop up much faster than before. These improvements have been noticable on Windows, Linux, and Mac platforms, but to different extents. You will just have to try downloading a build for yourself!

Next, Vidur Apparao added changes that allow you to tune the incremental reflow. A number of people complained about how the incremental reflow changes of M11 were a good idea, but they were interfering with UI responsiveness as a page loaded. These tuning options address that problem, but even more improvements are expected after the M12 release. To try out the tuning for yourself, download today's build (December 11), and then follow the instructions on the next page (click "Full Article..." at the end of this news item). These options are only for people who are comfortable editing preference files. If you're not one of those people, these options should be enabled automatically at M12's release, so you'll be able to try it out then.

I would suggest picking up today's build when it's available (December 11), as it should contain a fix for alert-box buttons that you'll want to have. You can get the latest build from our builds page, or the nightly builds directory.

Remember, as always, these builds are not for the casual user. None of the software is guaranteed to do what you expect. MozillaZine makes no guarantees about the stability of these builds. Download at your own risk.

#1 mozilla kicks so much ass now

by lubricated

Saturday December 11th, 1999 8:57 AM

This is the most stablest and most responsive build of mozilla yet. I'm using Dec 10 linux build and Its fast. I haven't gotten it to crash yet. Not even after an hour of browsing. This is definately alpha quality maybe even beta. There are much fewer bugs and mozilla has replaced netscape as the browser I use.

#2 Re: mozilla kicks so much ass now

by WillyWonka

Saturday December 11th, 1999 10:32 AM

Its still alpha... I loaded it up. Clicked on the buttons on the status bar which don't work. Opened messenger. Checked for email in 2 accounts. Closed the messenger window. crash.

unfortunatly I can't reproduce it when I try it again. A total of 1 minute up.

#5 not yet

by gerbilpower

Saturday December 11th, 1999 10:57 AM

It's not officially alpha yet, just wait for M12 in a couple days THEN it would be alpha :)

<:3)~~

#15 Why did Chris delete the first post?

by fresh

Saturday December 11th, 1999 12:53 PM

Its not there anymore...

#18 What first post? Didn't delete anything...

by mozineAdmin

Saturday December 11th, 1999 1:01 PM

I didn't delete anything. let me check the database...

#19 All the messages are here. Which one...

by mozineAdmin

Saturday December 11th, 1999 1:03 PM

Which one did you think was missing?

#29 Re: im not crazy!

by fresh

Saturday December 11th, 1999 5:35 PM

It was there, then gone, now its back! (the very top post)

I must be losing it..

#35 Re: Re: im not crazy!

by basic

Saturday December 11th, 1999 7:43 PM

or your browser is loosing it. ;-)

#25 I didn't check that.

by lubricated

Saturday December 11th, 1999 3:33 PM

All I really need out of mozilla is a browser that works correctly. All that other stuff like mail, composer, addressbook are extras and I would rather they not be in mozilla at all. I'm glad mozilla supports all the standards. xml and css. Mozilla renders much better than netscape already. Mozilla also starts alot faster than netscape. I will only be using mozilla from now on.

#43 some thoughts

by asa

Sunday December 12th, 1999 11:59 AM

keep in mind that 'all of that other stuff' in mozilla (mail, news, bookmarks, irc, history, addressbook, whatever) are not large chunks of code. They are built out of the same pieces that the browser is built from (and requires). There is very little code associated with any one component so it's not as if mozilla's mail or any other non-browser functions add bloat to the program. I'm sure someone will make a version of mozilla that is just a browser but about all that will be removed to do this are some .xul, .css and .js files. That and a few changes to the UI (.xul, .css, and .js files) of the browser to remove the menu items for mail, news, etc. will be all that is required and pretty easy to do.

#61 Hrm... not QUITE that rosy

by leafdigital

Monday December 13th, 1999 3:30 AM

I don't think mail or news are trivial tasks: I suspect they involve quite a lot of code and therefore do add "bloat" (though personally I think the whole "code bloat" thing is an unimportant issue.) Switching some XUL might hide that code, but it won't reduce the download size etc.

(Of course mail/news are not enormous compared to the browser core, but I would expect them to be several hundred kb at the least...?)

--sam

#63 Re: Hrm... not QUITE that rosy

by WillyWonka

Monday December 13th, 1999 8:49 AM

I think the mail and news is a couple hundred k. Its composer which is small. The Mail and News has all sorts of code for handling Mime and all of the other fun stuff that can be sent through email. In the status updates they used to have the size of M & N listed. Last time I saw it I think (On windows) that it was about 300 000 bytes.

#3 Couple noticable bugs left

by WillyWonka

Saturday December 11th, 1999 10:35 AM

Frame targets aren't working still. I sure hope this is fixed by the 15th.

Also, in the last couple of days, as the page is downloading, it erases the entire screen and paints it again, what is that? I've never seen it before in ANY build.

#4 Re: Couple noticable bugs left

by gerbilpower

Saturday December 11th, 1999 10:56 AM

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21287

Bug 21287, I filed it earlier this week for frame targeting already and they might have a fix checked in this weekend.

<:3)~~

#7 Menus more responsive, Slashdot less responsive

by smartin

Saturday December 11th, 1999 11:57 AM

The menus are more responsive with the 3 additional preferences added, but I think Slashdot is less responsive.

Unfortunately, the mail and news client is still way behind the browser in terms of performance. I would use Mozilla everyday if it were not for the badly performing mail and news client.

#13 Re: Re: Couple noticable bugs left

by WillyWonka

Saturday December 11th, 1999 12:48 PM

I know, I've been following that bug.

#40 Checkins occurring to fix this at this very moment

by mozineAdmin

Sunday December 12th, 1999 10:52 AM

http://cvs-mirror.mozilla.org/webtools/bonsai/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=all&branch=HEAD&branchtype=match&dir=&file=mozilla%2F&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&date=hours&hours=12&mindate=&maxdate=&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot

#44 Update - FIXED!

by gerbilpower

Sunday December 12th, 1999 12:14 PM

The frame target bug has just been fixed into today's build. Great job! Just in time for alpha!

<:3)~~

#49 WOOHOO!

by WillyWonka

Sunday December 12th, 1999 1:57 PM

Alright! Downloading the build now :)

#6 Paint problem...

by mozineAdmin

Saturday December 11th, 1999 11:40 AM

The latest Windows build doesn't exhibit the paint problem you mention, as far as I can tell. File a bug regarding it if it's duplicatable -- that's the surest way to get it fixed.

#14 Re: Paint problem...

by WillyWonka

Saturday December 11th, 1999 12:50 PM

I filed a bug on it already. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21508

#60 Re: Couple noticable bugs left

by shaver

Monday December 13th, 1999 12:56 AM

Travis checked in a fix for 21287 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21287 this morning.

#85 Cracks in tables

by Hard_Code

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 9:40 AM

The one thing I have noticed for a very long time on the Win32 builds, is that sometimes there are "cracks" in tables, where the cells don't line up exactly flush, and a 1 pixel line of background color will show through. Go to Slashdot, for instance, and size horizontally, and you will see "cracks" show up in the table rendering. Not really a big deal, but something to smooth out.

#8 notification interval

by beastie

Saturday December 11th, 1999 11:58 AM

The article states that the second setting "sets the time between reflows in microseconds." Just a guess, but I'm thinking that's probably supposed to be milliseconds.

#12 The post from Vidur says it's microseconds (N/T)

by mozineAdmin

Saturday December 11th, 1999 12:34 PM

#16 Re: notification interval

by FrodoB

Saturday December 11th, 1999 12:57 PM

Hence the reason 1000000 = 1 second. :)

#82 Re: notification interval

by beastie

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 12:02 AM

I missed wherever it made the correlation between 1000000 = 1 second. I wonder how exact that is, because I know that the standard Windows timer will get you a max precision of, I think, 25 milliseconds.

#9 I take back what I said before

by ywwg

Saturday December 11th, 1999 12:03 PM

I don't know what happened on december 8th, but the change in mozilla is striking. I made a post about the linux version of mozilla being unusable and very far from alpha. I take that back. The latest builds are _awesome_ in their improvment, including speed, stability, cleanliness, and useability. I _still_ can't log in to my news server, but that's the only dogfood issue (besides plugin support) that I've come across.

Bravo!

#21 You can thank Hyatt and Vidur and the rest

by gerbilpower

Saturday December 11th, 1999 1:14 PM

Hyatt checked in the memory recycler last weekend, which improved responsive time.

Vidur checked in the incremental reflow changes around the same time, and says that more adjustments are in the works (including improved table reflow).

Don't you just love them right now?

Yes, this all occurred a week ago Chris decided not to break news of this until this week because there were some regressions that made last weeks builds slightly buggier and crash more, but they seemed to have recovered from that now.

<:3)~~

#10 Latest Linux build no in nightly

by benmhall

Saturday December 11th, 1999 12:27 PM

Hi,

For some reason, Linux's nightly is still Monday. They've been building new ones, just not putting them in the right place. Try here for Dec 11:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/1999-12-11-08-M12/

#11 Mozilla unstable at home. SMP??

by benmhall

Saturday December 11th, 1999 12:33 PM

Hello,

I've been testing Mozilla since... M5 I think. I've made it a habit of pulling down daily builds for Win32 and Linux.

At work, on my 133, 150, and 200 systems, it's pretty solid. The Win version seems a bit better (as of a week ago) but both are great.

But... On my system at home, I launh Moz, walk away for 2 minutes, and it's HISTORY. It ALWAYS dies.

My home system is an SMP Celeron w/ a voodoo3 and 128MB RAM.. I've used RH6, RH6.1, Mandrake 6&6.1 as well as Debian potato (what I'm using today)

The only dif. between my work system, that reliably works for hours at a time, and my home system is that I have an SMP here. Has anyone else had this problem? Do I need to compile it myself?

Thanks for any insight,

Ben

#36 Re: Mozilla unstable at home. SMP??

by bsemrad

Saturday December 11th, 1999 9:11 PM

Yeah, I have a dual PII400 system running Windows NT and Mozilla dies without fail within seconds every time I start it.

#48 Re: Mozilla unstable at home. SMP??

by hamstra

Sunday December 12th, 1999 1:52 PM

Likewise. Dual PPro200, Red Hat 6.1 is unstable.

#54 Re: Mozilla unstable at home. SMP??

by dbaron

Sunday December 12th, 1999 5:06 PM

There doesn't seem (although I could have missed it) to be any bug filed on being unable to run Mozilla on certain SMP systems. Considering the comments on this bug, someone who has experienced the problem should file a bug with a detailed description of the hardware on which he/she has problems. (And possibly even post the bug number to this talkback so others could add information.) I say "certain SMP systems" because I think (although I'm not sure) that some of the machines used as on tinderbox http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/seamonkey/ and other Netscape machines are SMP systems.

If there's no bug filed, then one must assume that the Mozilla developers don't know the problem exists. If they don't know it exists, they're probably not going to fix it.

#56 Re: Re: Mozilla unstable at home. SMP??

by bsemrad

Sunday December 12th, 1999 6:17 PM

I submitted a bug report for Mozilla crashing on my SMP system. It is bug #21666 if anyone cares to examine or add to it.

#57 Re: Re: Re: Mozilla unstable at home. SMP??

by bsemrad

Sunday December 12th, 1999 6:30 PM

Make that bug #21556

#68 Update On SMP crashing problems

by bsemrad

Monday December 13th, 1999 4:08 PM

I just got a report back from dougt@netscape.com about Mozilla blowing up on SMP systems and he said that it at least partially appears to be related to bug #18110. This appears to be entirely possible based on the description of the bug which is as follows:

-----------------------------

We are not locking down our hashtables. This needs to be fixed and a total analysis done on the thread saftey of xpcom/proxy.

------- Additional Comments From dougt@netscape.com 11/23/99 01:11 ------- marking as dogfood to get attention. This will bite us soon. We should fix this asap.

------- Additional Comments From leger@netscape.com 11/23/99 17:06 ------- Without a reproducible testcase, cannot put on PDT+. Putting on PDT- for now. But yes, you have our attention :-)

------- Additional Comments From dougt@netscape.com 1999-12-06 22:30 ------- will never make it for m12.

#17 Mozilla On Mac

by mstearne

Saturday December 11th, 1999 1:00 PM

I can't tell a significant boost in Mac performance from a week ago, although the preferences dialog looks a lot better, I thought for a second I was using Communicator's. One thing that has happened recently is that when I use the Mozilla Installer app to convert my NS 4.61 profile, it converts it but then says there is an illegal character in the Mozilla User Preferences and the profile is unusable. This is strange because it converted the same profile about a week and a half ago fine.

Also, is the Preferences->Appearence->Themes function supposed to be working. I can't see any changes.

Finally, ANY developers out there PLEASE, PLEASE add a keyboard shortcut for View Page Source (Like Apple-U). This is something that has been missing for a while. If a big feature of IE 5.5 is "Print Preview" you could probably put a new version number on Mozilla if you add this feature!

Michael

#20 Re: Mozilla On Mac

by gerbilpower

Saturday December 11th, 1999 1:10 PM

I've noticed performance gains on the iMacs at my work. They are still slow (because that's with only 32 megs of RAM) but performance is improved.

None of the hot-keys work (maybe except for copy/cut/past but even that is a quirky sometimes) yet so don't panic, they will be added in time, no one has completely forgotten them.

<:3)~~

#22 Re: Mozilla On Mac

by feldercarb

Saturday December 11th, 1999 1:19 PM

Yesterday's Mac build looked more stable. It didn't crash on launch, it opened a few web pages, and only crashed when I opened the bookmark menu. The appearance is still terribly amateurish, though. The widget set looks terrible -- buttons are just rectangles with labels in the application font, radio buttons are tiny and don't include the text label in the hit area, text reflows over borders, etc. And I notice the thing is still a thousand files wide in a deep-nested folder tree, instead of a single application file, with no intent to change that in sight. There's a real lack of understanding of the expectations and critical sensibilities of Mac users there. I'm sure this looks spiffy to Linux users, from whom most of the positive comments seem to come, but there's no way it could fly in the Mac market without major improvements.

#23 Re: Re: Mozilla On Mac

by bmetzler

Saturday December 11th, 1999 1:27 PM

"There's a real lack of understanding of the expectations and critical sensibilities of Mac users there."

Don't worry :) First we walk, then we run. The UI is still in development then, you aren't looking at the final product yet. Those things will come in due time.

-Brent

#102 Understanding

by Martyr

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 9:44 PM

The one thing that is continually irksome is when people critique pre-shipping products as though they were retail. I don't like the car on the assembly line because it doesn't have headlights yet, but I recognize that someday it will. That's a different attitude than condemning it because it simply doesn't have headlights.

#122 not quite in the assemply line, though

by lunatic

Wednesday December 15th, 1999 7:57 PM

It's the app being installed that are similar to a car in the assembly line. Moz being installed may not have headlights till the installation completes, but if it's designed with no headlights it's a big problem. And folks have their freedom to point it to designers IMO.

#24 That's why Moz is not out yet

by gerbilpower

Saturday December 11th, 1999 1:31 PM

When Mozilla is released it will be more customized towards each OS. But that's not being done now because it's not critical in fixing bugs and improving stability, which is a much higher priority right now.

Just give some time, I'm not satisfied about the widgets either (on the platforms I've tested Mozilla on) but I'm much more interested in seeing them fix bugs.

<:3)~~

#26 Re: Mac...Getting MUCH better

by foamy

Saturday December 11th, 1999 5:23 PM

Yes there are still a lot of bugs. Yes the UI is not what Mac users expect. Yes the prefs aren't all working. These issues will be fixed.

But, if you have been following the process, you would hopefully realize the great progress that has been achieved lately. With the incremental reflow prefs activated, I find the 12/11 build to be very useful and much faster at loading complex pages than recent builds. Once all the 'niceties' are added I am convinced the browser will be a joy to use.... as long as the RAM requirements can be lowered and the startup time cut down significantly.

Chris

#30 Re: Mozilla On Mac

by basic

Saturday December 11th, 1999 5:37 PM

Remember this is pre-alpha, not beta. The bugs and features you mentioned are known ones. The more critical bugs (crash/leak/formatting the hardisk... kidding! ;-) ) are being fixed right now. When that is done, more attention will be given to the bugs and features you mentioned.

Basic

#27 Wheel mouse page forward/back?

by reid

Saturday December 11th, 1999 5:28 PM

I was pleased to find that my wheel mouse suddenly started working. I can not scroll up and down several lines at a time. However, it still doesn't do quite everything I have Netscape configured to do. When I hit control-up/down, it moves by screenfuls; when I do meta-up/down it moves forward/back in my history list (like the green arrows). Does anyone know if it's possible to configure things that way, or if the developers are planning it?

#28 Re: Wheel mouse page forward/back?

by reid

Saturday December 11th, 1999 5:30 PM

That "I can not" should of course be "I can now". Stupid fingers....

#32 Re: Wheel mouse page forward/back?

by aengblom

Saturday December 11th, 1999 7:07 PM

This beings up a question I've had for awhile. Does Mozilla (or netscape v5) plan on support of the ms wheelmouse? (including the "press and scroll" as well as "click and scroll") If not I'd like to err register a complaint :) .. sadly it was one of my favorite features in IE 4 over Netscape 4...

#33 Re: Re: Wheel mouse page forward/back?

by basic

Saturday December 11th, 1999 7:34 PM

Search bugzilla for it, if you don't find it, file an enhancement bug and get lots of people to vote for it. (I'd do it, but I promised myself not to search bugzilla for at least a week. Been doing too many searches at bugzilla, starting to dream in bugzilla. Not a good sign.) :-(

#88 Re: Re: Wheel mouse page forward/back?

by basic

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 10:44 AM

Take a look at these bugs:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=wheel&short_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&status_whiteboard=&status_whiteboard_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&newqueryname=&order=%22Importance%22&form_name=query

See if they cover what you want. If not file a new bug asking for all the wheel-mouse functions you want! (I'd love to do it but I'm not familiar with the wheel-mouse, and don't have one handy)

Basic

(Broke promise to self. Will regret this.)

#94 Re: Re: Re: Wheel mouse page forward/back?

by gerbilpower

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 2:11 PM

Well just to let you guys know, there are known problems with Logitech mice wheels under Mozilla. The quick work around is under Preferences, Debug, and uncheck gtk scroll bars and restart Mozilla. You'll end up with native scroll bars instead of the ones that come with the skin but the Logitech mouse wheel, such as mine, will work with it.

The bug filed on this issue is http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20618

<:3)~~

#97 Re: Wheel mouse page forward/back?

by WillyWonka

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 2:27 PM

I upgraded the logitech mouse drivers to 8.6 or whatever the latest is and I have the DllHook registry entry entered (As the bug report talks about)

Now the mouse wheel works in mozilla but it stops working in programs, such as Quake 3 - and we can't have that. Games are so much more important than work. :)

#118 I added one

by reid

Wednesday December 15th, 1999 3:05 PM

I didn't see anything quite like my request, so I added my very first bugzilla entry:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21780

#31 what's next

by arielb

Saturday December 11th, 1999 6:00 PM

Incremental reflow is a very important feature. Now I would like mozilla to download and display all the text before any graphics.

#34 Re: text before any graphics

by basic

Saturday December 11th, 1999 7:37 PM

I thought there was a bug filed on this. Could someone check the status on this?

#37 Sound interesting ...

by danielhill

Saturday December 11th, 1999 11:03 PM

Yes, it does look interesting. I will download this build right now, while I have lunch.

#38 Here it comes...

by commrade

Sunday December 12th, 1999 12:08 AM

... the Golden Age of Mozilla.

Usabilty-wise it may have taken a while to get going, but based trivialness of most of the above complaints/requests (no offense to any of these posters, this is a good thing), I would say mozilla is doing pretty good. When your biggest usabilty concerns are all interface related, blue skies are in sight. I can't wait to make all the IE fans at school eat their words with a shovel.

#39 Responsiveness

by chabotc

Sunday December 12th, 1999 5:41 AM

Owwww man im loving this. A while back the question was asked, what do you think could be a show stopper for the alpha release. Now i know alpha means big bad bugs, and i was more then willing to live with that, the performance however was a showstopper for me. The new releases however are more then up to speed! they could use some optimasations im sure, but its acceptable already for me! Great going mozilla team! your doing one hell of a job

#41 proxy-enabled?

by rgelb

Sunday December 12th, 1999 11:24 AM

Is the proxy working yet? Because otherwise, I can't try it at work.

#42 Re: proxy-enabled?

by gerbilpower

Sunday December 12th, 1999 11:29 AM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't proxy been working for months now? I don't mean working in the regular preferences, but working by manually inputting the lines into the pref.js file.

<:3)~~

#45 Re: Re: proxy-enabled?

by rkl

Sunday December 12th, 1999 12:29 PM

Is M12 going to tie in proxies fully into the Preferences dialog box at long last ? Whilst we technofreaks are happy editing preference files with a text editor, Joe Public, who may be seeing Mozilla for the first time, certainly won't be. They'll try the browser, find they can't configure their proxies via the browser and give up :-(

OK, I could download a nightly build and find out the answer, but only do that at work and it's the weekend now :-)

#46 Re: Re: Re: proxy-enabled?

by gerbilpower

Sunday December 12th, 1999 1:02 PM

Well that's why alpha isn't designed towards your average Dick and Jane, and there should be an appropriate warning attached. But we all know nothing is going to prevent people from trying Mozilla and think its complete crap while we remind them that it's only alpha and they're rushing to conclusion.

sigh

<:3)~~

#55 Re: Re: proxy-enabled?

by Digger

Sunday December 12th, 1999 5:14 PM

Apart from only a few of the nightly builds, you have been able to use the Proxy for month via editing prefs.js. However I know as a fact that at least on build 199121208 (Win NT), you can use the preferences to changes your proxy settings. You may however need to restart Mozilla. (I'm getting inconsistant results on when it kicks in).

#66 Re: proxy-enabled?

by wwrafter

Monday December 13th, 1999 1:00 PM

I tried to edit the prefs, and Mozilla still blew up on start up. Then, I downloaded the Installer version (for NT). Installed, converted existing profile, came right up.

#47 Stupid Question, I Know...

by zontar

Sunday December 12th, 1999 1:46 PM

What's the difference between mozilla-win32-installer.exe and mozilla-win32.zip? (Other than the obvious, that one's an executable and a lot smaller...)

Thanks.

#50 Not a stupid question.

by asa

Sunday December 12th, 1999 2:01 PM

The win32.zip is the standard zipped package with all the stuff you're used to seeing in a mozilla nightly build. The installer.exe is a self extracting build of mozilla that has a fairly standard installer (like netscape communicator install wizard). The installer will let you select the directory and program group name and location and adds a start menu shortcut. It will also let you install the browser without mail-news (or mail-news without the browser I presume). Another note: the installer is smaller because while it has the added code to automate installation it does not have many of the ..test.exe programs and files.

Hope that helps clear it up a little.

Asa

#51 Re: Stupid Question, I Know...

by gerbilpower

Sunday December 12th, 1999 2:01 PM

They are the exact same build, but the installer doesn't have the test programs that the zip file has, which explains why it is much smaller.

The installer installs it for you and the zip you do it yourself, but I still prefer the zip method way over the installer method.

<:3)~~

#52 beat you by 26 seconds :) n/t

by asa

Sunday December 12th, 1999 2:05 PM

:)

#53 8P <:3)~~ (n/t)

by gerbilpower

Sunday December 12th, 1999 2:12 PM

8P

#58 linux news authentication?

by ywwg

Sunday December 12th, 1999 8:09 PM

I'm still having problems with news authentication for linux. The login/password prompt comes up briefly, then it disappears and it says "authentication failed." I would put this in bugzilla but I don't have a password. Is anyone else in linux getting this?

#59 slight mistake

by ywwg

Sunday December 12th, 1999 8:14 PM

it says "authentication required," not "failed".

And mozilla needs a "refresh" (not to be confused with "reload") button!

#62 gerbilpower & asa

by zontar

Monday December 13th, 1999 5:49 AM

Thanks for the explanation -- that's kind of what I'd figured, but I appreciate having my assumptions verified. I'm used to the zips, so that's what I downloaded, but maybe next time I'll give the installer a go.

1999121208/Windows is awesome -- I can't believe how much faster it is! :)

#64 Java in Alpha?

by WillyWonka

Monday December 13th, 1999 10:10 AM

Will Java be enabled in the alpha? I just installed the JRE and ran a program using it, but mozilla still shows a gray box labelled Applet in the banner ad space. It should be showing the monkeys bouncing around (I don't mind the fact that, that particular banner ad didn't display, but I would like to see some Java working in the builds)

#65 Re: Java in Alpha?

by basic

Monday December 13th, 1999 10:57 AM

Which platform are you talking about? On win32 there is a problem of plugin folder. For details, look at these bugs:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18248

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21576

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14010

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5369

Broke my own promise to myself again (not to search bugzilla for a week) Basic

#67 Re: Re: Java in Alpha?

by WillyWonka

Monday December 13th, 1999 3:31 PM

I'll assume, by the sheer number of bug reports on the one subject and the length of each bug report, that its not going to make the alpha. :)

I'm using windows. Its not crashing on me at all like the bug reports are talking about... its just not doing anything.

#69 Java does work, I think

by Tekhir

Monday December 13th, 1999 5:20 PM

A few people I know of said they had java working about a month ago, unless they're pulling my leg.

#70 Re: Java does work, I think

by gerbilpower

Monday December 13th, 1999 5:22 PM

I know Java has been working since late August, but heard that it's tricky to get it working sometimes. I haven't tried it myself.

<:3)~~

#80 JAVA WORKS!

by yancey

Monday December 13th, 1999 10:56 PM

A co-worker of mine got Java 1.3 Early Access to work with Mozilla under Windows 2000 RC3 (might work on other OS's, but we haven't tried it).

The only "trick" is to copy the np*.dll files from the C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3\bin directory to a "plugins" directory under Mozilla's bin directory.

You'll probably have to create the plugins directory yourself.

Mozilla DOES REQUIRE Java 1.3 because this is the only release of Java that supports the OJI (Open Java Interface) specification.

Last I heard, Java 1.3 is scheduled for official release in January.

#76 Re: Re: Re: Java in Alpha?

by basic

Monday December 13th, 1999 9:54 PM

Which version of JRE are you using? I tried using JRE 1.3 beta a week ago and it worked (sort of). But it was so unstable that I had to remove it. I know that JRE 1.2 does not work with Mozilla. Not sure about the earlier versions though.

Basic

#77 Re: Re: Re: Re: Java in Alpha?

by basic

Monday December 13th, 1999 10:02 PM

To use JRE 1.3 with Mozilla look at this:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showattachment.cgi?attach_id=2875

Basic

#124 Re: Java in Alpha?

by lubricated

Wednesday December 15th, 1999 11:46 PM

Is Java working under linux. If so how would someone go about getting it to work.

#71 Tried it, loved it ...

by damian

Monday December 13th, 1999 5:39 PM

I'm using the nightly build for linux to post this. It's looking really good. Most of the bugs are UI funkynes, it's only blown up on me a couple of times when i tried to preview some Chrome or something. And it is FAST. Can't wait to try out the next milestone build. Congratulations to the Mozilla team. Looks like you're going to have an awesome browser. Which is something linux desperately needs. Did i mention it's really REALLY fast?

#72 I Lied

by damian

Monday December 13th, 1999 7:51 PM

Actually the build in latest was from a week ago. I got the real new one, and even the UI weirdness is gone. Now i'll try to make it crash...

#84 Memory Leakage

by damian

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 9:39 AM

(just love replying to myself) Running the latest build for linux, watching the resident memory size for mozilla. Starts at 60 megs and goes up and up. Got all the way to 120 megs before i had to put it in it's place. BAD MOZILLA! Down boy! It'll be interesting to see how much the performance goes up when they fix that.

#86 Re: Memory Leakage

by feldercarb

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 9:53 AM

I took a look at the source code and was astonished to find that they are still using naive manual new/delete conventions throughout, which are known to cause more than half the bugs in software that use them, and which are certainly responsible for your memory leaks.

No smart pointers, no exception handling -- what year is this, anyway?

Heck, what DECADE is it?

#89 Re: Re: Memory Leakage

by FrodoB

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 11:10 AM

Actually, the nsCOMPtrs used quite extensively through the product are "smart", as you put it (they do their own refcounting).

I think exception handling is not in use because compilers for some platforms have trouble with it (a good deal of the better C++ features have to be omitted in Mozilla for this reason).

#87 60 MB not likely

by lubricated

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 10:20 AM

I trullly doubt mozilla is taking up 60MB. top and gtop will see threads as taking up memory space and will add them up. so if you have 4 threads on a 15 MB program then it will show 60MB.

#91 Threads?

by damian

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 12:06 PM

Ok, so to calculate memory usage using gtop would you divide the total memory shown for all processes named mozilla-bin by the number of processes named mozilla-bin??(in this case 4) Still this doesn't explain the gradual increase as it just sits there.

#93 you misunderstood

by lubricated

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 1:57 PM

Mozilla leaks memory.

It's bad that it does that. All I was saying was that mozilla doesn't take up 60MB of ram. That would be insane.

#96 Heh....

by FrodoB

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 2:16 PM

I broke out laughing thinking about the system requirements of a fictitious 60 MB RAM-sucking Mozilla running on Win2K. Minimum system requirements: Athlon 700 with 256 MB 200 MHz SDRAM. :)

#99 Re: Heh....

by Tanyel

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 2:35 PM

That is probably what Windows 2000 will need to play Solitaire.

So when is Mozilla going to be complete enough for me to use it without having to edit preference files or delete files?

#109 Win2K

by leafdigital

Wednesday December 15th, 1999 6:50 AM

Actually, I heard from somebody (a friend, works in networking department of a large company) who's been extensively testing Win2K: he says that it's both faster and more stable than NT4.

However, I've heard that the recommended memory will be either 128 or 256 MB, so you might technically need 256 to run Solitaire :) [In practice I don't think it needs much more than NT4.]

On systems with all that memory, the small matter of a 60 MB web browser wouldn't cause any problems :) Dead memory should eventually get swapped out anyway, so...

--sam

#100 Sorry

by damian

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 4:36 PM

In my previous post I implied that mozilla was taking up way more memory than it actually was. This was because of my misinterprentation of the output of a program that displays memory usage and my lack of understanding of the concept of threads. In short, don't believe anything i say.

#101 no problemo! :) (n/t)

by url

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 4:43 PM

(n/t)

#73 Mozilla is SOOOOO Quick now

by Hendy99

Monday December 13th, 1999 8:18 PM

I just downloaded build 1999121314 for Win32 and I have found Mozilla loading pages so quickly that I thought it was raiding my NC cache *grinz*

Ah Well, I haven't had time to test stability, but I've never had stability problems in the past :)

only annoyance is that I can't use the arrow keys in text entry boxes (like this one) - is this a known bug as I don't have a bugzilla account yet :P

Good Work Guys :)

#74 Re: Mozilla is SOOOOO Quick now

by gerbilpower

Monday December 13th, 1999 8:27 PM

Yes, the non-functional arrow keys is a recent bug while I filed, but I think someone may have filed it before I did so now it has twice the attention :)

<:3)~~

#75 Same Problem in Linux

by damian

Monday December 13th, 1999 8:41 PM

No arrow keys, no Page UP/DOWN. But damn it's fast. And looks better too. :-)

#78 Re: Mozilla is SOOOOO Quick now

by basic

Monday December 13th, 1999 10:13 PM

Definitely a known bug:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&email1=&emailtype1=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&email2=&emailtype2=substring&emailreporter2=1&changedin=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&short_desc=arrow+key&short_desc_type=regexp&long_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&bug_file_loc=&bug_file_loc_type=substring&status_whiteboard=&status_whiteboard_type=substring&cmdtype=doit&newqueryname=&order=%22Importance%22&form_name=query

Basic

#81 Re: Re: Mozilla is SOOOOO Quick now

by Hendy99

Monday December 13th, 1999 11:52 PM

so I see, and I have already voted for it :-) (I just got a BugZilla account :)

#105 Re: Mozilla is SOOOOO Quick now

by ERICmurphy

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 11:13 PM

Layers need some work, but Slashdot loads as fast as a bullet.

#106 Re: Re: Mozilla is SOOOOO Quick now

by gerbilpower

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 11:27 PM

Are you talking about layers as in the tag LAYERS? I think it's a proprietary tag so it won't make it to Mozilla since DIV can perform similar things.

#79 Very Old Milestones

by basic

Monday December 13th, 1999 10:42 PM

Does anyone have M1 and M2 (win32) lying around somewhere? I'm interested in comparing all the milestones.

Basic

#83 Do they exist?

by gerbilpower

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 12:20 AM

I checked the Mozilla FTP server, they don't seem to exist. The earliest build is Milestone 3. Maybe they used Milestones 1 and 2 as "target goals" but never released them formally until Milestone 3. ::shrugs:: Just speculation, I don't know, anyone care to jump in and answer?

<:3)~~

#120 Mozilla Classic

by basic

Wednesday December 15th, 1999 4:03 PM

How about Mozilla Classic? Does anyone still have Mozilla Classic hanging around?

Basic

#90 Memory Footprint

by basic

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 11:47 AM

For those who are worried about memory footprint and whatnot. Checkout

For linux, not very good news:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7623

and on mac:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20743

For mac mailnews should shrink by about 20% in beta according to this bug:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7620

for win32 (though I think they affect all platforms):

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21468

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11935

for all platforms:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15755

Basic

#92 Bugs Bugs and more Bugs

by WillyWonka

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 1:38 PM

Has anyone else seen the download dialog box display: Percentage downloaded: 105%

Also, I've noticed some dancing text boxes When Javascript is used to tally up quantities in online stores. (It doesn't draw the text boxes in the correct place at first, and then you see them move. When the javascript is polling, it keeps redrawing the text boxes the same way)

#95 Re: Bugs Bugs and more Bugs

by gerbilpower

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 2:12 PM

hehe, there are other bugs like that. I haven't seen it myself, since I can't get news working for some reason, but there's a well known but where news will state that it had just downloaded 20 news headers of 19.

<:3)~~

#98 Re: Re: Bugs Bugs and more Bugs

by WillyWonka

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 2:32 PM

I get stuff like that all the time. If you leave the messages on the server, the inbox count gets all messed up over time. It says that there are 9 messages on the server but it doesn't realize that you already have 6 of those, so the total is off by 6.

#103 In preparation of Mac M12

by Mike_S

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 9:49 PM

I was unable to get M11 to launch on my Mac so in preperation of M12, which sounds like it's much improved over anything before it, I want to prepare my system to maximize my success rate. I know that certain files like the Mozilla registry and users folder should be removed but just to make sure I didn't overlook something can someone please tell me anything I should look for an rid myself of? Any pref files, aside from Mozilla Registry? How about the Netscape Registry? Any hidden files that may have not been deleted for whatever reason I should look for? Folders? I just want to cover the bases. Any Netscape files that can cause trouble with Mozilla? I've got the latest Communicator. Thanks.

#104 Re: In preparation of Mac M12

by Waldo

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 10:20 PM

Mike, someone on the netscape.public. mozilla.mac wrote a little applescript program that clears out yer shit (preferences, etc.) automatically...

Here's a link that MIGHT work:

news://news.mozilla.org/38517A7E.9AFBE0EB%40netscape.com?part=1.2

Otherwise, the subject was: Re: apple script that removes your "Mozilla Registry" and your "Users50" directory and it was posted Dec 10 by Seth Spitzer. Use the news.mozilla.org nntp server.

W

#107 Re: In preparation of Mac M12

by gerbilpower

Tuesday December 14th, 1999 11:29 PM

Rest assured, Communicator will have no affect on Mozilla.

<:3)~~

#108 When exactly?? (I'm so impatient;) )

by sab39

Wednesday December 15th, 1999 6:48 AM

According to the mozilla.org schedule page http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/milestones/index.html M12 will be "on the wire" today (12/15, that's 15/12 for europeans). What does that mean as far as when we will be actually able to download builds? Today, or just "real soon now"? I haven't been following the schedule of previous milestones, so I was just wondering...

Thanks, Stuart.

#112 Re: When exactly?? (I'm so impatient;) )

by asa

Wednesday December 15th, 1999 8:30 AM

Stuart, this is a total stab in the dark but from things I've heard and read I would guess that we might see m12 (alpha?) released in about a week or so. Again, this is a total guess based on the number of M12 bugs left, the rate that they are fixing them, and a whole bunch of the wish/hope factor thrown in for good measure Anyone who thinks that they have a better grip on reality than me, plase chime in. :)

posted from mozilla win32-12/14 Asa

#113 Re: Re: When exactly?? (I'm so impatient;) )

by gerbilpower

Wednesday December 15th, 1999 8:47 AM

Usually a draft of the release notes are up just days before a milestone release, which hasn't happened yet :'(

<:3)~~

#114 CRAP!

by WillyWonka

Wednesday December 15th, 1999 8:59 AM

Damn, that means I owe someone a lunch

Damn you mozilla!!!

#115 Re: CRAP!

by gerbilpower

Wednesday December 15th, 1999 9:13 AM

You placed a bet on Mozilla?

<:3)~~

#119 Re: Re: CRAP!

by WillyWonka

Wednesday December 15th, 1999 3:58 PM

Yeah, I was telling people that it would be alpha on the 15th a couple months ago... they didn't believe me. They were right :)

Yet another computer program which doesn't make the release date... oh well, what else is new.

#135 Re: Re: Re: CRAP!

by KaiRo

Thursday December 16th, 1999 6:09 PM

Also previous Mozilla Milestones were late one week or even more, it's nothing unsusual....

#139 Hmm...

by Tanyel

Thursday December 16th, 1999 9:12 PM

Maybe they should set the release dates to 10 days earlier than they actually hope to release the milestones.

#117 Re: Re: When exactly?? (I'm so impatient;) )

by rkl

Wednesday December 15th, 1999 1:15 PM

My guess is that they'll not only want the standard platforms at http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=SeaMonkey to be all green, but also most of the Seamonkey-Ports at http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey-Ports/ to be either green or orange (i.e. no failed builds).

At this moment in time, it's mostly red :-( HP-UX just busted with a recent checkin - I know cos I've got a lynx cron job that parses the page and e-mails me when the HP-UX status changes :-)

#110 Woo, I can now *almost* post to forums ;)

by leafdigital

Wednesday December 15th, 1999 7:53 AM

I tried the forum at http://www.animeondvd.com (which didn't work with the 1202 build I tried last time due to some problem w/ cookies or something weird) and it now does work... almost. At least, it now remembers my login, unfortunately whenever I try to post I get "Posting error - please contact your admin" (this is an http page sent out by the forum software, not a Mozilla error).

Anyway, it's looking a lot more like usable now, once they fix the obvious keyboard-control problems (arrows in forms and tab).

--sam

#111 Re: Woo, I can now *almost* post to forums ;)

by mozineAdmin

Wednesday December 15th, 1999 8:15 AM

>>"Anyway, it's looking a lot more like usable now, once they fix the obvious keyboard-control problems (arrows in forms and tab)."

Looks like the arrow problem should be fixed in the daily builds today:

http://cvs-mirror.mozilla.org/webtools/bonsai/cvsquery.cgi?treeid=default&module=all&branch=HEAD&branchtype=match&dir=&file=mozilla%2F&filetype=match&who=&whotype=match&sortby=Date&date=hours&hours=12&mindate=&maxdate=&cvsroot=%2Fcvsroot

#116 DCForum problem reported as 21794

by leafdigital

Wednesday December 15th, 1999 9:27 AM

I investigated the forum problem a bit further and filed a bug, if anybody cares. The problem seems to affect the "DCForum" message board software.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21794

I'm surprised to say that when/if they fix that one (I realise it might be a low priority but I check that forum like 5 times a day so for me it's essential), I might switch to using Mozilla most of the time... it's pretty good now and hasn't crashed once today - a better record than 4.7...

--sam

#121 120 posts and counting

by arielb

Wednesday December 15th, 1999 7:55 PM

wow so many posts-and no anon posters! m'zine is doing quite well

#123 Re: 120 posts and counting

by Tanyel

Wednesday December 15th, 1999 11:06 PM

There is much less criticism of Mozilla too. The messages all seem to be either bug reports or praise.

#125 well...

by spwolf

Thursday December 16th, 1999 12:03 AM

...hmm, dont tell me that we got moderated since there was crtiticsm? Reason for no criticsm is that people signup (fairly complicated) because they are interested in the project... you dont really see bashing from people who support it...If I didnt like it, I sure wouldnt take 30 min of my time to sign up and post the comment :)

#126 Re: well...Well What?

by asa

Thursday December 16th, 1999 7:35 AM

If you look at the title of the front page you will see that this site is intended as a Mozilla advocacy and news site. If you don't like Mozilla and won't take the time to become a member then most people visiting this site don't really give a shit what you have to say.

Don't get me wrong. I value criticism and one of the reasons that I come to MozillaZine is to read and contribute criticism. What I don't come here for and what I don't think the creators and participants of this forum intended is an ongoing battle between those who want Mozilla to succeed and those who don't. This is a forum for _advocates_! This is a place to discuss how to make Mozilla better and to read about Mozilla's progress. For these reasons I support 100% the decision to disallow anon posting at MozillaZine and by the quality and quantitiy of posts since the member requirements were instituted, I'd say that lots of people agree with me.

posted with mozilla win32_12/15

Asa

#127 Disallowing anonymous posting isn't moderation

by mozineAdmin

Thursday December 16th, 1999 8:04 AM

I'd call it remediation. Removing anonymous postings isn't a panacea for people wanting to eliminate criticism -- note the forums on Ain't It Cool News, which also disallows anonymous posting. That wasn't the purpose behind removing anonymous posting. It does tie comments to a specific name, but that hasn't stopped people who have had criticisms (at least not as far as I can tell). One effect it probably *has* had, however, is cutting down the back-and-forth flaming, because people seem to be ignoring the least constructive critics, or at least not responding in kind. If there is any moderation going in, it's occurring only in the heads of forum participants. That's good. It means we might be able to avoid actual moderation down the line.

Removing anon posting virtually eliminates imposters. We've had two imposters in our forums who passed themselves off as well-known people (people who were mentioned in our articles, for example). In one case, one of these people mentioned in an article was *actually* in our forums, and his post was replied to, and an imposter did the followup to the reply. I'd like to avoid that kind of childish crap, if possible, and requiring membership is a simple solution to that problem.

Posted this using Mozilla. This works really well now, but I can't wait for the keybinding fix today. Tabbing between fields will also be handy - hint, hint.

#128 Proxy

by bstephan

Thursday December 16th, 1999 10:23 AM

Hmm, Setup the proxy in prefereneces. Didn't save the first time. Second time it did save. Verified in \user50\pref.js Restarted Mozilla as it didn't pick up the change till boot.

Problem is I get... Error 407Invalid Userid/Password,please try again! Argh!

Also, can't shop via Mozzila very annoying! Speed is GREAT!

#129 Posting from Debian M12pre package

by sab39

Thursday December 16th, 1999 12:16 PM

Debian just put out an M12-pre package, and the most noticeable things (apart from the cool responsive page-loading, still punctuated by some annoying pauses for reflow, though:( ) are some regressions since M11 - there seem to be some issues with transparency causing the toolbar and MozZine's header to look ugly (are they working on getting true alpha support? That would be WORTH graphics corruption... wow). It looks like when there's a transparent image over an image background, the background is replaced by random stuff.

Other observations... I noticed a theme selector in the preferences dialog... not yet implemented but that will be *cool*. The editor has funny behavior the first time it's clicked, although that was the same in M11. Arrow keys in forms seem to work although backspace sometimes deletes the wrong character... however, it does feel a lot more *solid* than M11 - stability and responsiveness are way up.

Way to go mozilla team!

#130 Re: Posting from Debian M12pre package

by basic

Thursday December 16th, 1999 1:59 PM

Have you tried the latest nightly build? If it still exist in the nightly build, file a bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

Basic

#131 Problem is installing unpackaged stuff

by sab39

Thursday December 16th, 1999 2:41 PM

My problem is that my Mozilla is all installed by the debian packages that install it automatically. I don't know how to install Moz by hand, and especially, I don't know how to do it without f-ing up the package-based installation that was done for me. The problem could also be in the packaging of this version. I'll wait and see when M12 itself comes out, and if it still exists, *then* I'll file a bug.

Stuart.

#136 Re: Re: Re: CRAP!

by KaiRo

Thursday December 16th, 1999 6:16 PM

AFAIK, the transparency/background problem is known. Check out my personal link pages at http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9805220/links/links.html

Is it the same problem as there? (look at the iframe in the bottom right corner) Could it be bug #4209 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4209 ?

#137 false title of this past message

by KaiRo

Thursday December 16th, 1999 6:19 PM

Sorry! Mozilla (win32-1999-12-14-08) filled in the title of the message from where I saved mozine password... Don't know why that happened!

#138 Re: transparency

by KaiRo

Thursday December 16th, 1999 6:43 PM

BTW, it's no iframe. It's only a <div> with position:fixed in it's CSS class what you see in the bottom at the right corner...

#145 Transparency problem

by sab39

Friday December 17th, 1999 8:54 AM

(wow, tabbing between form elements works! cool!)

Anyway... I didn't see a problem on that page, but it does sound like the bug you refered to from the bugzilla comments. The only thing is, it's happening to the XUL of the toolbar! Instead of the slick-looking blue-and-green striped background the toolbar used to have, it's now random junk (currently grey with flecks of gold and black, but it varies, of course). I haven't seen this problem in any other builds, and presumably other people aren't seeing it (it's hard to miss) so I'll assume it was just a transient problem when this package was put together - unless it happens in M12 too.

Stuart (waiting eagerly... :) )

#132 Problem downloading Mozilla

by roman

Thursday December 16th, 1999 3:02 PM

For the the last several days I've been having problems dowbloading the nightly builds. At the end of a download (several bytes short of being complete) the process halts, and the file ends up being invalid zip file. I am using an NT system to download win32 builds. It happens regardless what machine and browser I use, so that makes me think the problem is on the mozilla.org's side.

#134 Re: Problem downloading Mozilla

by asa

Thursday December 16th, 1999 4:54 PM

I'm not sure what it is tht you're experiencing but I do not think that there is anything wrong with the builds themselves or the server that they sit on. Have you tried to download the installer.exe This is a self-extracting and installing (an install wizard that will set up program group and start menu shortcut, etc). This version is also smaller because while it has the install wizard, it does not have many of teh test executables and other such junk. Good luck.

posted with mozilla

Asa

#133 Finally running again on FreeBSD!

by petejc

Thursday December 16th, 1999 3:32 PM

I am now running apprunner for the first time on FreeBSD since pre M10.

I am a very happy camper.

I am submitting this via mozilla!

yea baby!

#140 Really big improvements on Linux and FreeBSD

by konmaskisin

Friday December 17th, 1999 1:11 AM

But various things about hte keyboard remain hosed ... (Alt-V to paste selects _V_iew on the menu. Arrow keys don't work and paging with PgUp PgDwn appears broken. Emacs keys (Ctrl-A , Ctrl-E, etc) and mouse selection don't work yet or any more either.

But it's much more stable and renders faster.

This CGI (AnyURL) is doing strange things for me (the POSTed data doesn't get flushed or something)

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/AnyURL.html

#141 Re: Really big improvements on Linux and FreeBSD

by kidzi

Friday December 17th, 1999 6:05 AM

I think the problem with Alt-V bringing up the menu instead of paste is because that is what alt-v is supposed to do. You may be confusing it with Control-V which is paste. Alt-any letter should bring up the corresponding menus which have the accesskeys set in the toolbar.

#142 Re: Re: Really big improvements on Linux and FreeB

by WillyWonka

Friday December 17th, 1999 6:18 AM

It depends which operating system he's on. The standard for unix is alt I believe. Windows uses control and the mac uses the apple key.

#143 it will be addressed soon

by RvR

Friday December 17th, 1999 6:26 AM

i'm sorry i can't remember where is the post in the newsgroups (netscape.public.mozilla.???) of a mozilla.org team member who announced that platform specific keyboard bindings will be checked in in the future... for now, you can modify one file to get this working.

so, don't worry ! you will have your emacs bindings (this is necessary, IMO)

(posted with mozilla, of course ;) -- Hervé

#144 Waiting

by asa

Friday December 17th, 1999 7:32 AM

Keep in mind that milestones are really just a sort of checkpoint. The goal of a milestone is to pause just long enough to see what you really have. Development on M12 is pretty much wrapped up. I think that M12 is branched and in a "clean-up" phase and M13 work will begin today (I may be wrong, feel free to correct me if you have better information.) So if you grab a nightly M12 build from today or yesterday, you're probably getting a very close approximation of what will be called the official M12 release (note: the morning windows build from the 15th and the evening windows build from the 16th are pretty solid). But if you're like me and you need to be on the bleeding edge (and you don't mind spending 30 minutes to download a build that may not work) you'll be grabbing that first M13 nightly.

posted with mozilla win32_121508 Asa

#146 Everyday browser

by spaetz

Friday December 17th, 1999 9:16 AM

Mozillas perfomance has improved a lot, so I decided to use mozilla from now on as my everyday browser. Even if already said a hundred times here, the most important stoppers are still: - paint errors (Linux), - slow typing (and navigating in forms/mails) - slow mail/news - memleaks (not everybody has 2 Gigs RAM)

Keep up, the good work

#147 Re: Everyday browser

by basic

Friday December 17th, 1999 10:51 AM

Don't know if you noticed, but the nightly build of 16/12 has much less memory leaks than M11.