Has anyone tried Mozilla 1.1 beta yet?

io333 · n00b Joined: 20 Jul 2002 Posts: 49

I'm very very afraid to try this puppy while masked. But I'd love to have the F11 full screen option back.

Are there any reports from out there in the field?

Of note, I've tried the windows version of the puppy (under XP) and it is a FREEZEMONSTER!

In contrast moz 1.0 is quite nice on both platforms and I wouldn't even bother caring if 1.0 under linux hadn't had the fullscreen option removed.

CYwolf · Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2002 4:01 pm Post subject:

Check the Desktop forum.

rizzo · Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2002 3:59 pm Post subject:

I have it and it r00ls. I didn't even know about the F11 thing, but I just hit it and it works sweet.

Unmask and go, brother.

xorbe · Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2002 5:03 pm Post subject:

rizzo · Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2002 5:07 pm Post subject:

Anti-aliasing isn't a bad thing once you get it working. With 1.1a and 1.1b, anti-aliasing started working right out of the emerge and I've been pleased as punch.

The hour-long compile makes for some boring downtime though.

syadnom · Guru Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 531

will mozilla 1.1b coexist with my existing mozilla?, of coarse it will overwrite the link to /bin , but it will install in /usr/lib/mozilla1.1b or something right?

nitro322 · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 594 Location: USA

probably not by default if you emerge it. For installing in a separate directory, your best best would probably be to download the source yourself and compile it using --prefix=/usr/local/mozilla11b (whatever else you want). That'll allow you to play with it while still easily going back to 1.0.

rommel · Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2002 8:49 pm Post subject:

go ahead and unmask it and emerge unmerge your old mozilla and emerge 1.1b...you'll like it...it hasnt been any problem and its seems way faster then 1.0r-3

mellofone · Apprentice Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 287

It's working pretty well for me, except for one change that REALLY pi$$es me off....

When you right click on a link, it opens a menu where I usually use "Open Link in a new Tab". Well they switched the positions of "open in new tab" and "open in a new window".

Damnit!

rizzo · Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2002 9:39 pm Post subject:

nitro322 · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 594 Location: USA

Open Link in New Window had always been, up until version 1.0, at the top of the menu, with Open Link in New Tab scond in the list (since that feature was added, of course). At version 1.0 they were switched, and with version 1.1a they were switched back to having New Window on top. I, for one, welcome the return. Almost every browser in existance has Open in New Window at the top (except for IE, but we already know it's got issues), and I hated having to actually think about where I needed to click to open links in a new window.

syadnom · Guru Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 531

im currently trying mozilla1.1b from the precompiles version, i just dl and tar -zxvf it to /usr/lib/mozilla1.1b/

and then linked my plugins folder to my 1.0 pluggins directory...works good, but i may just get the source and compile it here soon, any big performance differences between the precompiled and a selfcompiled version? i dont really want to compile the whole damned thing for a beta, id prefer to wait until 1.1 final and just emerge it in..

Erukian · Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2002 11:49 pm Post subject:

I first used the moz1.1b on windows. Worked great. So when I built my gentoo1.3b system with gcc3.2-pre I tried it out. No problems whatsoever. It seems gnome2 is more buggy than the browser. And that says a lot for its stability as a beta.

Great stuff! Try it out!

Cr0t · l33t Joined: 27 Apr 2002 Posts: 944 Location: USA

Yes, I tried it but I do not like the stupid d/l Manager.
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mellofone · Apprentice Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 287

rizzo · Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2002 1:58 am Post subject:

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Dimitri · Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2002 6:19 pm Post subject:

Does anyone know, if galeno and plugins already work with gcc3.1??
Mozilla 1.0 can not use java when compiled with 3.1

rommel · Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2002 9:09 pm Post subject:

i kinda like the download manager feature

Cr0t · l33t Joined: 27 Apr 2002 Posts: 944 Location: USA

dioxmat · Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2002 9:34 am Post subject:

tactless · Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2002 11:53 am Post subject:

Antialiasing sure looks good, but it's just too slow on my PC... I have a PIII 450mhz, and when browsing sites with lots of dense text, rendering can take whole seconds...
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mellofone · Apprentice Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 287

dioxmat · Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2002 12:03 pm Post subject:

I have some screenshots of mozilla AA @ http://mpillard.free.fr/mozilla (some are quite old... you can see AA before tweaking the prefs and after :) ...
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mellofone · Apprentice Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 287

Dunno. Maybe I am just too used to the way it USED to look pre-AA. It just doesn't look right. Oh well