Mozilla 0.9.4 Released

asa writes: "Lots of bug fixes (1,467 at last count) since 0.9.3 including the ability to disable the JavaScript window.open() method during page load and unload events. You can find more information on what's new at the release notes and mozillaZine."

Actually...

[bconway]

Disabling window.open has been around for a couple of releases now, it's just not the most straightforward thing to enable. I was most pleased to find that hitting enter after filling in a form will actually submit a request everyplace I tried it, assuming that's the intent of the form (i.e. a search engine). This seemed to be a hit-or-miss thing in previous releases.

Looking good

[boaworm]

Mozilla is turning out to be a really good browser nowdays. I missed a few features in 0.9.3 though, mostly that it tends to crash while at java-intense pages, as well as encryption.

Hopefully these things have gotten better, it is quite annoying when the browser crashes :-(

If Mozilla is going to be able to compete with the major browsers, it (IMHO) has to be a lot more stable. I can cope with a page being rendered badly, but not with a browser crash. IE is still a lot more stable. Or.. perhaps it is just bad Java Runtime integration ?

Thanks anyway Mozilla team, i'm off to the download zone :-)

I love it!

[Brazilian Geek]

I've been using Mozilla's daily builds as my standard browser since M18 and as my email client since 0.8 and I've got to say that I love it - yes, it is a memory hog but I have more than enough memory to give a fsck.

I've been trying to evangelize the users from my work place into using Mozilla since 0.9.2 and so far I've managed to get 10 out of 90 to switch (from Netscape 4.75 of course, IE is a no-no acording to company security policy).

Way to go Mozilla Team - it gets better every single day, congratulations!

Re:Looking good

[chabotc]

From my experiances experimenting with java, it is mostly due to the fact that mozilla uses a java2 envirioment. (the jre1.3.xpi and sun java and blackdown java plugins for mozilla are all 1.3+ based).

Most of the applets you will find on the web will still be java 1 based. (This is what IE ships, duh)

There are some 'known' problems, leaking resources, threads and not relaunching applets when a java 1 applet is loaded in a java2 VM

big miss feature if you ask me, but in both sun's bug DB, and mozilla's bugzilla, its gotten marked as 'solved/wontfix', so don't hold your breath to see it resolved ;-)

why i'm not solely running Moz...

[xuvetyn]

note: i'm predominantly running windows lately on my desktop machine. don't start with me. it's the curse of being a gamer.

last year i ran in to NetCaptor (http://www.netcaptor.com [netcaptor.com]), which, uses IE and, among other things, is "tab-able", and i simply can not go back now. (i'm addicted to tab-able apps. PowerShell rules! having 20+ windows open at any given time doesn't). so, my suggestion to developers is an add-on app that incorporates Moz for this. i'm sure i'm not the only one that would love to see this.

just my .02

Re:Hangs on startup is probably sound "bug"

[rasjani]

This is typical error if you have flash plugin installed or possibly java (I havent really verified this).

Flash plugin opens /dev/dsp in initialization state and depending on your sounddrivers, it wont open if you have, for example xmms (or anything else using sound devices) running. Someone also mentioned that java does the same but i havent noticed this myself.

So, here's a list of what you can really do:

• get rid of offending plugins.
  
• Stop all sounds when starting mozilla
  
• Use esddsp to lauch mozilla
  
• Get Alsa. Oss that comes with stock kernel doesnt support soundmixing and thus, multiple instances cannot use /dev/dsp "simultaneously".