Mozilla 1.7, Firefox 0.9, Thunderbird 0.7, Nvu 0.3

[zero0w]

The open source web browser suite, Mozilla, plus its separated component Firefox (browser), Thunderbird (mail client), and Nvu (Web page composer) all have a new round of refreshment release in this week:

 

Mozilla 1.7

Firefox 0.9

Thunderbird 0.7

Nvu 0.3

 

You can grab them at these places:

 

http://www.mozilla.org/

http://www.mozillazine.org/

 

Update: Mozilla 1.7 Linux GTK2+XFT build can be obtained here:

http://www.scottbolander.com/mozilla-xft.html

 

And Nvu from here:

http://www.nvu.com/

 

Also you can now grab updates, themes and extensions from these locations:

 

1. Mozilla.org Update site:

http://update.mozilla.org/

 

2. Localization Project home, Mozilla 1.7 localization XPI kit:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/mlp_status.html#moz_1.7

 

3. Firefox & Thunderbird Help site

http://texturizer.net/firefox/

http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/

 

4. Extension rooms:

http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/

[somedude]

Have you noticed how M$ didn't bother to come up with a new version of IE after they won the browser war? All they did was to release SP1, as it was too messed up...

[zero0w]

Because a browser that is too cool, is just not good to Microsoft business:

 

From Joel on Software:

 

So the Web user interface is about 80% there, and even without new web browsers we can probably get 95% there. This is Good Enough for most people and it's certainly good enough for developers, who have voted to develop almost every significant new application as a web application.

 

Which means, suddenly, Microsoft's API doesn't matter so much. Web applications don't require Windows.

 

It's not that Microsoft didn't notice this was happening. Of course they did, and when the implications became clear, they slammed on the brakes. Promising new technologies like HTAs and DHTML were stopped in their tracks. The Internet Explorer team seems to have disappeared; they have been completely missing in action for several years. There's no way Microsoft is going to allow DHTML to get any better than it already is: it's just too dangerous to their core business, the rich client. The big meme at Microsoft these days is: "Microsoft is betting the company on the rich client." You'll see that somewhere in every slide presentation about Longhorn.

 

See more at:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html

 

But the recent news that IE is picking up development again may mean either the security problem is too severe, or maybe Longhorn isn't coming out soon enough. We can only guess I think.