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Mozilla 1.7 Alpha released

edited February 2004 in Science & Tech
Mozilla 1.7 Alpha has been made available for those of you who want to see how the next version of the popular web browser is coming along.

[blockquote]Mozilla is an open-source Web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability. Mozilla is a cousin to Netscape Communicator that is being developed by the Free Software Community with the cooperation and support of Netscape.[/blockquote]
Download: [link=http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7a/mozilla-win32-1.7a-installer.exe]Mozilla for Windows 1.7 Alpha[/link] (11.7MB)
Download: [link=http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7a/mozilla-mac-1.7a.dmg.gz]Mozilla for Mac OS X 1.7 Alpha[/link] (14.7MB)
Download: [link=http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7a/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.7a-installer.tar.gz]Mozilla for Linux 1.7 Alpha[/link] (12.4MB)
View: [link=http://www.mozilla.org/]Official site[/link]

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  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited February 2004
    Nice to see software not only becoming faster but losing bloat too!

    * Mozilla 1.7a adds support for the onbeforeunload event. This lets web application developers add code that alerts the user about potential data-loss when closing a web application, or when leaving a HTML page with potentially sensitive information.
    * This release has a new SVG backend. The feature is not yet enabled in the mozilla.org releases but developers may wish to compile with this feature enabled.
    * Mozilla's binary size has been decreased almost 2% since Mozilla 1.6.
    * 1.7 Alpha pageload times have been improved by 4% over 1.6.
    * Mozilla 1.7a handles dynamic style changes much better (see bug 15608 for details.)
    * Mozilla 1.7 Alpha has upgraded the NSS libraries to version 3.9. NSS 3.9 passes all the NISCC SSL/TLS and S/MIME tests (1.6 million test cases of invalid input data) without crashes or memory leaks.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    It seems like I just had Mozzilla 1.5 a month or so ago, and that 1.6 was just released. Now I have 1.7 to play with? Weird... but ohwell.
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