Mozilla.org Relaunched 427
mpeach writes "Mozilla Organization has launched its new Web site and it's looking a fair bit sleeker than it used to. No new product releases to go with the new look unfortunately, but, according to the Firefox 1.0 Roadmap, release candidates of the latest browser are getting closer by the day."
Latest nightly is already called (Score:5, Informative)
as of 09/01/2004... Broke some extensions BTW!
Re:Latest nightly is already called (Score:2)
Re:Latest nightly is already called (Score:2)
Re:Latest nightly is already called (Score:3, Informative)
Last night our champion hackers got a new update infrastructure landed into Firefox 0.9 branch builds and set up the new server and the new server-side code, moving away from the slow Java based stuff to some much faster not-Java based stuff. Grab today's branch builds and go hammer on this new stuff. Update should be working better and everything should be faster, hopefully.
http://ftp24moz.newaol.com/pub/mozilla.org/fire f ox
Re:Latest nightly is already called (Score:4, Interesting)
why is the latest version of firefox so hard to find for windows? all the download links are for gnu/linux! (or is this new page so "smart" that it detects what OS you are on and only print a link for that?)
Re:Latest nightly is already called (Score:4, Interesting)
What also doesn't make sense is why they used client-side Javascript for the rotating screenshot image, when they're already doing server-side scripting to include the latest RSS information, or why they have the screenshot as the background image for a DIV instead of an inline IMG.
It's still a lovely layout though.
Re:Latest nightly is already called (Score:3, Insightful)
Personally, I think it's much more elegant than a bunch of inline floated or, god forbid, align="right"ed image tags.
Re:Latest nightly is already called (Score:3, Insightful)
Background images should be used for background images only. Anything else breaks most of the normal user operations that can be performed on content images.
Honestly, I'm not sure it's even necessary to take this step on the Mozilla website anyway. I imagine that most of the users browsing without CSS would be browsing without images as well, i.e. tex
Great new look! Same old shit... (Score:4, Interesting)
Is that Firefox's problem for not gracefully accepting broken HTML? Or is it those web developers who write the broken HTML?
Re:Great new look! Same old shit... (Score:2)
Well... it started as a reply, before the rant... (Score:3, Interesting)
Instead of malformed tables possibly breaking the whole page, XHTML means that the page HAS to be formatted correctly, and with that, it damned well better work with all the browsers out there. The more strict standard makes less guesswork for HTML tool dev
Re:Great new look! Same old shit... (Score:3, Funny)
Besides, real programming languages have enough built in intelligence (scoping, flow control structures, etc) to make some assumptions. Basic HTML does not.
BTW: Only GOOD perl looks like line noise
Re:Great new look! Same old shit... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Great new look! Same old shit... (Score:3, Funny)
It's a huge problem for me as well! Firefox renders
Re:Great new look! Same old shit... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Great new look! Same old shit... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Great new look! Same old shit... (Score:4, Interesting)
Finally sheesh (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Finally sheesh (Score:4, Insightful)
Is the new Mozilla site actually more professional looking? No. Maybe compared to the link in the article from 1998, but not compared to how mozilla.org looked a month ago.
It just seems like this kind of ill-informed comment only serves the purpose of promoting said website.
Joseph Elwell.
Re:Finally sheesh (Score:3, Insightful)
The free ipod thing, which has been joined by the new "free flatscreen" thing is turning every part of the internet that didn't totally suck (like slasdot and fatwallet and . . ) into a spamfest.
Frankly, I'd like to see
Now mod me as offtopic, overrated, trolling flamebait. I know you want to because you want a free ipod too, and you're in so late in this
Re:Finally sheesh (Score:3, Funny)
Really?
Good thing I can filter them out in my user prefs panel!
Re:Finally sheesh (OT) (Score:3, Insightful)
Anyone with an IQ above 60 must realise that this scheme is not sustainable in the larger scale (not that I even think it's sustainable on the smaller scale). But what's that you say? It doesn't matter as long as you're at the top of the scheme. These things rely on
Re:Finally sheesh (Score:3, Informative)
`Download Now!`
Seriously, are you on the right page?
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
NeoThermic
The Previous Design (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:The Previous Design (Score:2)
Re:The Previous Design (Score:2)
But now
But I guess beauty's in the eye of the beholder
Re:The Previous Design (Score:3, Interesting)
So when an IE user goes to the site, some stuff appear to be broken (like the green box that says "Free Download" doesn't have rounded corners on IE)... Small details, but still...
On the other hand, looks very good on mozilla.
Re:The Previous Design (Score:5, Insightful)
"broken"? What's broken? Everything degrades well. Different is not "broken".
--Asa
Re:The Previous Design (Score:3, Informative)
Duh (Score:5, Funny)
Isn't that kind of how time works?
Re:Duh (Score:5, Funny)
*rimshot*
Re:Duh (Score:2, Funny)
Not if its Duke Nukem Forever, in which case the release date actually gets a little farther away every day
Re:Duh (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, that's a bug. They're working on it.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60455
Re:Duh (Score:2)
Isn't that kind of how time works?
It may depend on who's time [zapatopi.net] you're refering to. But yeah, I laughed at that too.
Woot (Score:2, Interesting)
Sorta OT, is anyone else irritated with how they are hiding the zipped binaries for windows now? You used to be able to get them as easily as the installer, and before that there was no installer. I just don't trust it...
Re:Woot (Score:3, Informative)
There were still problems with it on 0.9, I don't know if they are fixed yet.
Firefox (Score:4, Insightful)
Soon as that is fixed I'll recommend it to my mother.
Re:Firefox (Score:2)
I'm a big fan of Firefox. Only bit I don't like is upgrading the software where "installing over the top of an older version may cause unpredictable problems."
The beta versions of Mozilla had this problem. Not sure if this is still the case, though. (Back when I ran Windows) I installed each release in a separate (new) directory under C:\Program_Files.
In this case, let's say I installed a version of Firefox under C:\Program_Files\Firefox_0.9.2. When the new version comes out, I dump that in the Tra
Re:Firefox (Score:5, Interesting)
What worries me though is that very old and critical bugs like Bug 115174 are not considered important enough as to be release blockers. For the lazy to look this up, this bug manifests in realoading a dynamically generated page in certain cases, which may result in double-charging your credit card when you have just made a purchase and simply want to save your receipt. This bug is present in both Mozilla and Firefox and has been an issue since 2002!
I have been using Mozilla and Firefox exclusively for the past couple of years and have to say that this is a PITA. I got used to it and know which sites I regularly visit are problematic and how to get around it (save as text or print to file). But a lot of users might get hit by this bug if Firefox becomes more widespread and they would rightfully be pissed.
Another problem I have is that since about version 1.3 (or earlier?), Mozilla, and later Firefox, have been unstable and crashing a lot (e.g. once or twice a week under heavy load). I don't know is this is a Linux-only issue (I only use Red Hat 9 and Fedora core 2), but they seem to have a memory leak and that's not good if it creeps into the 1.0 release. I would gladly submit a bug report for this if I only knew how to reproduce it...
Great UI Improvements (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Great UI Improvements (Score:5, Interesting)
Honestly. Mozilla includes everything and the kitchen sink. That's overkill for most users. As the Gnome folks learned the hard way a few good options are much more welcome than every little tidbit of configurability.
Firefox is lean, fast forward, and one tool for the job. Just what mom needs. And what I need. The features can be added with extensions, if you really have to. Most people love Firefox from day one because they "get it".
Mozillas default interface also resembles the old Netscape Navigator interface wich feels kinda old to the people that switched over to IE back in 1996.
Re:Great UI Improvements (Score:2)
People seem locked in this belief that Mozilla Browser (Seamonkey) = Mozilla Suite and therefore it's bad if you don't want email et al.
OK, so the download is larger - big whoop - I've got broadband and it doesn't bother me. The browser components are e
Re:Great UI Improvements (Score:3, Insightful)
Try Firefox and you'll know.
I use Firefox as my primary browser, and I'm equally confused as to why it suddenly has centre stage. It's not ready for primetime. The current release version has got a half-assed incomplete default theme, there are still problems upgrading from version to version, there's still filler text where there should be text that is actually useful... it's not a finished product. That's why it isn't 1.0 yet.
Seeing as 1.0 is not too far away, why couldn't they have postponed pu
Unfinished != not ready (Score:3)
I have not encountered a single person who has been turned
Re:Great UI Improvements (Score:2)
Firefox is their flagship product now. Mozilla in its previous incarnation was a bloated hulk which many of us are trying to forget.
Camino? (Score:3, Interesting)
sad.
Re:Camino? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Camino? (Score:2)
Just out of curiosity, what does Camino give you that Firefox doesn't?
Web design to match browser (Score:2, Interesting)
Slow News Day? (Score:5, Insightful)
Slow news day or infatuated with Mozilla? Heck, I like Mozilla and use it at home and work, but I don't drop everything to see what's happened with their website in the last day. Gee willikers.
Here's some other fine articles which could probably have been posted:
Philadelphia Considering Free or Low Cost Wireless For All [forbes.com]
Microsoft to Exploit Japan's Post Offices to deliver SP2 (their word, not mine!) [japantoday.com]
The Road Ahead, According to Steve Ballmer [computerworld.com]
X-Rays Reveal Mummy Faces (Low Cancer Risk to Mummy) [iol.co.za]
Owls Use Poop to Lure Beetles [discovery.com]
Bring back the Quickies (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Slow News Day? (Score:2)
Interesting... (Score:5, Interesting)
Not Even The Half Of It! (Score:5, Interesting)
Let's talk understatement here. You don't offer this kind of thing [mozillastore.com] without a significant commitment to the package.
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Re:Not Even The Half Of It! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Interesting... (Score:3, Informative)
and really why not: lighter, faster and just as good if not better. firefox tries to be what most people seem to be looking from mozilla anyways: a good web browser(very few use the extra stuff in the 'full' mozilla anyways and if they're available as seperate in the future there's no problem there either).
Re:Interesting... (Score:5, Informative)
Yes, this has been the plan for sometime. See the Roadmap [mozilla.org] in particular point (1.) under "a new roadmap" and also Rationale [mozilla.org]
Yup (Score:4, Informative)
from http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html [mozilla.org]
Firefox is more popular (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Interesting... (Score:2, Interesting)
It takes 4 clicks for a Linux user to download the Windows version from the front page now, compared to 1 click for the old version. Generally everything has been dumbed down, and is more ugly looking. This new design sucks.
Bad choice of hook (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Bad choice of hook (Score:2)
What bad vibe is that, exactly?
Consider the target market for Firefox....
Re:Bad choice of hook (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure posting a big flashing "Free as in Beer" graphic will boost it's popularity with the college crowd.
Links to the Alphas buried? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Links to the Alphas buried? (Score:5, Insightful)
That was the first thing I noticed, I'd have to guess they are trying to go more mainstream and make downloading their brower less ambiguous for the masses.
Sunbird (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Sunbird (Score:2)
Re:Sunbird (Score:3, Informative)
Good to see their money is going to good use (Score:4, Funny)
Mirror (Score:5, Funny)
Don't work with MSN music (Score:3, Informative)
Nice site - make sure you refresh (Score:2)
If you've been to mozilla.org recently, make sure you refresh once or twice. I discovered an odd-looking page when I followed the link, and I was sure that the designers must have gone crazy. Turns out that my browser (Firefox) was using a cached version of their old CSS file and was applying it to the content of the new site. Yuck. Refreshing fixed this.
I think the site looks beautiful. Clean, slick graphics. The old site made great use of CSS, but the color scheme here is a lot more likeable. And
Firefox PR1 (Score:2, Interesting)
Slate (Score:2)
Looks nice! (Score:5, Funny)
(Yes, I use Firefox ;-) )
Thanks mozilla guys. (Score:3, Insightful)
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Re:Thanks mozilla guys. (Score:2)
Extensions vs. plug-ins (Score:3, Interesting)
I wish the Firefox page had easy front-page links to both the Extensions list [texturizer.net] and the Plug-ins list [mozdev.org]. Maybe I missed the link, but the most convenient way I know to find the plug-ins is through a search engine. Does anyone know why extensions and plug-ins have to have separate pages?
They know my system. (Score:5, Insightful)
Great! Now I just have to wait (Score:3, Funny)
until Oct 11 next year for Debian to percolate it out of unstable!
I like it! (Score:2)
I think the new design gives it much more of a professional look, which is good, I think it will attract more people, and overall be better for there company.
The blue look deffinatly looks professional. Regarding the old design, something about all that red made me see red
Conclusi
Just glad (Score:5, Funny)
Dear $deity in heaven, why would they screw up a perfectly good feature like find as you type?
Insult to injury was when typing in passwords to my Novell server, the new find bar proudly displayed my password in plain view. Thank the same $deity no one was around, and my monitor faces a wall.
Why didn't they just add a Clippy type character that can speak through the voice software in windows:
"It looks like you are typing in "$password" as your password, would you like some help typing in your passwords?"
Whoever thought that find bar up deserves 10 lashes with a cat5 o' 9 tails.
Nitpicking (Score:3, Interesting)
Also, a lot of pages like Module Owners are still pretty nasty.
Nice work though, it's always nice to see more standards compliant websites that actually look good.
Thunderbird integration? (Score:3, Insightful)
Does anyone know how well Firefox integrates with Thunderbird? Specifically, if I click on a "mailto" link in Firefox, will it pull up Thuderbird without any custom configuration (assuming Thunderbird is installed)?
Last I looked into this, Firefox and Thunderbird would not work together like this "out of the box". This was a real bummer, and it made me wonder if Firefox wasn't being targeted a little too much at the geek community. Compared to the simple integration of IE and Outlook Express, the Firefox/Thunderbird integration was really clumsy.
(On a side note, it kinda irritates me that Firefox is being pushed so hard over Mozilla. I've had a few clients download Firefox (thinking it was a Mozilla update), and then wonder why they couldn't get to their email program anymore when it replaced all of the Mozilla icons...)
CHANGE THE "FREE" BIT! (Score:5, Insightful)
Expect lets make it more clear that Moz is free. "Free Download" makes me think of a demo, or a trial, or the __download__ is free but might cost more later.
It should say "x is a FREE product. Free to own and use forever."
Errors when viewed in IE (Score:4, Interesting)
beautiful ... (Score:3, Informative)
No further comment!
Nick
Re:It's free.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It's free.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hrmph... (Score:4, Funny)
It worked the second time... I got a grin out of it, though.
Re:Hrmph... (Score:2)
For fun validate Microsoft web pages
Lets not slashdot Mozilla *again*... (Score:2)
Use this link instead: Mozilla.org.nyud.net:8090 [nyud.net]
Nice try (Score:5, Informative)
If you use Windows or a Mac, you'll get offered the downloads for those initially instead.
Re:But gotta love the Linux bias (Score:2, Informative)
Here's what it says for me:
Here's what my browser sends to them:
I'm not sure what they offer you if they don't know.
Yeah, I'm using Windows. But...uh...I'm at work...and they make me!
Re:The Wiki way? (Score:2)
Re:KISS (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Well...You finally got me (Score:3, Informative)
Re:LOL (Score:3, Interesting)
I agree that Firefox is a heading in new avenues of user friendliness, but there is nothing wrong with the Mozilla Suite for its target audience.
Furthermore, there are some serious issues with Firefox (not the browser itself, but the whole movement/its existence itself):
Re:Qute (Score:4, Informative)
Its actually a lot better looking if you right-click>customize>use small icons. I thought I'd be busy downloading themes, but the ugly default theme is actually pretty handsome and useable when using "small icons."