November 2004 Archives

Meet Netscape Browser...

Now that you've been scared by the initial look... I'll give you a minute to recover and visit the bathroom if needed.........

Supposedly this is based on Firefox 0.9.3, which IMO was the worst Firefox milestone, pre-release or not. Though you can't tell that Firefox is burried in there, behind the UI clutter. Absolutely everything has a option. Including closing a tab. (The tab bar context menu is 13 options.) What's worse, you can select an "Display Like Internet Explorer" mode, which embeds IE in the browser. In place of Gecko. So you get the standards non-compliance *plus* all the security issues you might've been wanting to get away from.

BetaNews has more information about the Netscape Browser Prototype.
Henrik Gemal has posted some more screenshots of the horror on his blog.

Update: MozillaZine has an in-depth review of the new prototype.

So, those of you who watch bugzilla closely have definitely noticed alot of changes lately. The new Core, Toolkit and Mozilla App Suite products for example, and alot of moving bugs.

Update has also moved, from a pairing of two components in Webtools and Mozilla.org it is now its own Product "Update".
For those filing bugs, this might be a bit confusing, as Update's now broken up into 4 components, "Administration", "Listings", "Developers", and "Web Site"

Administration deals with user account troubles and just general site admin issues that don't seem to fit elsewhere.

"Listings" is the most obvious, it's for Extension/Theme bugs for changes to their listings, problems with them or new ones/updated ones. This is the component where we need the most help from the community, getting the bugs filed here QA'd, the items tested, so the editors can upload them, hopefully, pretty quickly.

"Developers" is for the Developer Control Panel, I've seen speculation of if it exists at all. It does. :-) but it's a core part of update-beta, and can't be used with the existing site. Most bugs here will be filed by the current editors, until update-beta goes live, then authors will be also filing.

Everything else about the visitor facing website, "Web Site" covers. but this isn't for listing bugs, even if there's an SQL error. :-)

Hopefully this new product will help us orginize better and grow easier.

and for those of you hoping I'll mention update-beta again in this entry, it's coming...

"Of course the people don't want war ...but, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship ... voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders.

That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger."

-- Hermann Goering at his Nuremberg trial, 1946

[Historical Reference]

It's amazing how little fear you have to spread in order to snow 51% of this country into thinking that George W. Bush is worth re-electing.

Bush/Cheney 2004 -- Discrimintory Politices to make you *feel* safe.

"A false sense of security is worse than being insecure."

Stolen from the #bs topic: "On behalf of 49% of America, I apologize to the world. We tried."