Mozilla 1.8a3 ReleasedWednesday August 18th, 2004mozilla.org today has released the third alpha build of 1.8. Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 3 release includes a large amount of backend work, including site-specific CSS rules, transparent windows on Windows and GTK2, and undetected Update: The attack of the alphas won't stop here: a Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 4 is coming soon. As recently as 1.7, each release cycle had just one alpha milestone; a second alpha was added in time for the 1.8 cycle in May. A few weeks ago, Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 3 was announced to prevent 1.8 clashing with the 1.0 releases of Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. the URI has an " at the end, which 404's. So, are there going to be more than 4 alpha's? "the URI has an " at the end, which 404's." Thanks. Actually, it was more the lack of a matching quotation mark at the beginning that caused problems. "So, are there going to be more than 4 alpha's?" I believe there's only going to be three. Alex There's going to be four (although not many people know, because MozillaZine hasn't carried the news :) The announcement is at http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=cfgn76%24i971%40ripley.netscape.com No-one ever tells me anything. Alex Yay, Now I can make IT.slashdot.org look good. And I can make slashdot stories not be in all italics! Yay! Yay! IMarv from the Release notes: "The new npruntime plugin scriptability API has been added to Mozilla 1.8a3 (bug 250666.)" what does this mean for extension developers. does any one know where we could find more detailed information on this ? Cheers, -S #10 IMHO Fx could put the extra testing to better useby Linuxn00b Thursday August 19th, 2004 2:42 AM >> "A few weeks ago, Mozilla 1.8 Alpha 3 was announced to prevent 1.8 clashing with the 1.0 releases of Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird." Hmmm... Actually, I figure Fx could have used a couple of extra prolonged betas (or "Preview Releases" as they are gently called those days) instead, to ensure that Fx 1.0 doesn't clash with Moz 1.8 (which would probably get by with just 2 alphas anyway)... After all, Fx 1.0 will be the first Fx not having that "Technology Preview" excuse for the bugs that get shipped... But I know Ben et al have a different view on things. Perhaps unfortunately so. Yes indeed! This is backwards. Firefox needs a great deal more work on the versions I have used. They have gotten much worse than they were and are slowly recovering, but Firefox needs the extra time. Let's move along to Beta/Preview Release for Mozilla! Yes indeed! This is backwards. Firefox needs a great deal more work on the versions I have used. They have gotten much worse than they were and are slowly recovering, but Firefox needs the extra time. Let's move along to Beta/Preview Release for Mozilla! I tried a1 and a2, and in both, uploading didn't work for me. The same happens in this a3. I guess this stems from the fact that I use an Automatic proxy configuration URL. Nonetheless, HTTP uploading works fine (e.g., when I try Yahoo! Briefcase). The authentication seems a little buggy, too. I first tried to access the server passing the login information via the URL (e.g., ftp://user:password@ftp.acme.com/), then Mozilla said the site didn't require authentication and that I could be being tricked. Then I tried uploading a file, which yielded a progress dialog. Then I tried to refresh the directory listing, which in turn started requesting my username and password and, when I introduced this information, Mozilla kept requesting it over and over. Then I restarted Mozilla and then not even the login encoded in URL worked, as it seemed to “remember” that across browser sessions, and a dialog requesting login and password was prompting me over and over. It's kind of weird. And the number of the bug report you filed is....? ;-) --Asa Anyone know if the site-specific CSS rules (bug 238099) will be in Firefox 1.0? I know there are some extensions that do similar things, but this fix seems a more complete solution. Doesn't look like there's any plan for it, and I would think it's unlikely. The Firefox devs chose to work from the 1.7 code, so they could focus on fixing up the Firefox stuff without worrying about back-end changes introducing bugs underneath them and having to wait for 1.8 to stabilise. Firefox 1.0 is supposed to be out some time in the next couple of months - all of that time is needed to work on the front-end features. Firefox will pick up all the back-end 1.8 improvements later on. They're not aiming for any kind of perfection with Firefox 1.0 - they want to get a 1.0-quality release out the door, and then they'll move onto fixing more stuff up and adding stuff in for 1.1, 1.5, 2.0, etc. I tried the Mozilla Alpha 2 and 3, both freeze. Maybe it's just my current Mozilla 1.7.2 installation that is damaged. Every time I close Mozilla 1.7.2 it crashes. The error started after installing digital signatures for use in Mozilla Mail. Is there a way to completely uninstall Mozilla? Uninstalling by Windows XP doesn't clean out all files since I can install Mozilla 1.8 and then back to 1.7.2 and still have all my settings, XPI's, bookmarks, etc. There's three things I don't understand about Mozilla. The first is why there's no homepage button. It's not annoying for me that's used to just hit F6 and start typing an URL, but my parents would find that very hard so that would be a showstopper for them. Secondly there's no easy way, if at all, to remove XPI plugins. I find that extremely annoying. Thirdly is the Mozilla Mail rules. I've set up a filter to delete certain emails from my POP3 server, but emails continue to be downloaded. Why is that? |