Mozilla 1.4a is great!

[igowerf]

I started using it yesterday afternoon and I immediately set it as my default browser. It loads websites a lot faster than MSIE does and there's tons of little things that help websurfing go a little smoother and faster. I like that the auto complete url feature sorts by the most commonly visited urls.
I really like the mail program because it'll automatically create new folders for each email account. I don't have to mess with message rules anymore! The WYSIWYG editor is pretty good considering that it's free.

EDIT: The 'a' in 1.4a means ALPHA for those of you who aren't sure.
EDIT2: EY2K pointed out that 1.4 beta has been out for a week now. I tried it a few days ago but I had problems downloading and saving files so I went back to 1.4a. I'm actually using 1.3 now, waiting for 1.4 final.

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[VBboy]

I will try it out, but if it sucks, I will spank you.

 

[VBboy]

Wait, it's the ALPHA version of Mozilla. I am not using an Alpha of anything! Let me know when the beta or the final version comes out

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: VBboy
Wait, it's the ALPHA version of Mozilla. I am not using an Alpha of anything! Let me know when the beta or the final version comes out

It's just called alpha. It may indeed be unstable and buggy - or it may be perfectly useable. Tons of people run mozilla nightly builds as their daily browser, and that's a hell of a lot more bleeding edge than this.

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: VBboy
Wait, it's the ALPHA version of Mozilla. I am not using an Alpha of anything! Let me know when the beta or the final version comes out

It's just called alpha. It may indeed be unstable and buggy - or it may be perfectly useable. Tons of people run mozilla nightly builds as their daily browser, and that's a hell of a lot more bleeding edge than this.

OK, you talked me into it. I'll try it out

 

[VBboy]

I am disgusted! It doesn't scroll smoothly like IE does. Well, at least it uninstalls quickly.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: VBboy
I am disgusted! It doesn't scroll smoothly like IE does. Well, at least it uninstalls quickly.

I remember hearing something about smooth scrolling being a new addition, maybe you just needed to enable it. Personally it just makes things feel unresponsive, I don't like it much.

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: VBboy
I am disgusted! It doesn't scroll smoothly like IE does. Well, at least it uninstalls quickly.

I remember hearing something about smooth scrolling being a new addition, maybe you just needed to enable it. Personally it just makes things feel unresponsive, I don't like it much.

I looked at Preferences (for some user-unfriendly reason located under "Edit" instead of "Tools"), and didn't find it. I don't like it when the page is jerking while scrolling, which is why I like smooth scrolling...

I think I actually remember seeing it in another version of Netscape/Mozilla... Hmm.. Oh well.

 

[stndn]

since many people do not like smooth scrolling, it is disabled by default...
however, you can always enable it from about:config

personally i think it slows down many things, but then again it's just me.
plus i think i heard that it uses slightly more resources to make it smooth scrolling (just like "show contents while dragging windows" thing) -- could be very wrong on this one, though

 

[sandorski]

Smooth scrolling sucks! Sorry, but I hate it!

 

[onelin]

Originally posted by: sandorski
Smooth scrolling sucks! Sorry, but I hate it!

^^ same.

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: stndn
since many people do not like smooth scrolling, it is disabled by default...
however, you can always enable it from about:config

personally i think it slows down many things, but then again it's just me.
plus i think i heard that it uses slightly more resources to make it smooth scrolling (just like "show contents while dragging windows" thing) -- could be very wrong on this one, though

Ah, thanks. I didn't bother looking for it.
Also, as of lately I don't give a rat's ass about slighly increased resources. Smooth scrolling is more CPU intensive, that's true. But I didn't build a fast computer to worry about every wasted CPU cycle

 

[skriefal]

Smooth scrolling sucks! Sorry, but I hate it!

Ditto. What a waste of time. Incredibly annoying, too.

Regarding Mozilla 1.4a, is it as much of a memory hog as the 1.3 alpha/beta releases were? I was using the beta prior to the release of 1.3, and quickly went back to 1.2.1 when I noticed how much RAM the thing was eating. With my normal set of tabs, 1.2.1 used about 40MB after a while -- but 1.3 beta was exceeding 200MB after just a short time, and the memory usage continued to climb. Seemed to be a memory leak of some sort. Thankfully, 1.3 final is back to about the same memory footprint as consumed by 1.2.1.

 

[glugglug]

My Mozilla has smooth scrolling on and I never explicitly enabled it.
Was it a default back in 1.0a or something?

 

[igowerf]

I have three tabs open right now and they're using about 28 to 29 mb according to the task manager.

I actually prefer smooth scrolling because I get lost when I'm reading long articles and the scroll jumps down 3 lines.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: VBboy
I am disgusted! It doesn't scroll smoothly like IE does. Well, at least it uninstalls quickly.

Holy crap really? I hate smooth scrolling. It just makes things seem laggy to me.

 

[VBboy]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: VBboy
I am disgusted! It doesn't scroll smoothly like IE does. Well, at least it uninstalls quickly.

Holy crap really? I hate smooth scrolling. It just makes things seem laggy to me.

Get a faster CPU and/or videocard

We do automatic smooth scrolling when reading a book. Try jumping 3 lines at a time and see how that feels . I hate jerkiness of regular scrolling.

 

[CTho9305]

I think it isn't enabled by default because smoothscrolling horizontally crashes the browser. I think the best version of Moz so far is 1.3 alpha... 1.3 final has a couple more annoyances. This is a must if you like to use the wheel-click method of scrolling (what I usually do).

 

[bsr]

opera 7.10b2 is SO much better !!! get here and check opera forum for beta updates ...

 

[abovewood]

Can 1.4a reload a webpage every 30 seconds for me like Opera?

I like "auto reload" in Opera and "open link in new tab by clicking wheel in Mozilla"

wish I can have both functions in one program. Let me know if there is already one version that has both.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: abovewood
Can 1.4a reload a webpage every 30 seconds for me like Opera?

I like "auto reload" in Opera and "click on wheel to open new tab in Mozilla"

wish I can have both functions in one program. Let me know if there is already one version that has both.

I don't know any legitimate reason to reload every 30 seconds... but if you poke around www.mozdev.org someone has probably written such an extension.

 

[Sid59]

bit anal to load a page every 30 seconds

 

[glugglug]

Originally posted by: CTho9305
I think it isn't enabled by default because smoothscrolling horizontally crashes the browser.

Heh, I can't remember the last time I scrolled horizontally in a web browser. It's called decent screen resolution.
Scroll bars in general are annoying, horizontal scroll bars especially. If the GUI designers had intended horizontal scroll bars to be used more than once in a blue moon they would be at the top of each scrollable area rather than at the bottom.

 

[abovewood]

Originally posted by: CTho9305

Originally posted by: abovewood
Can 1.4a reload a webpage every 30 seconds for me like Opera?

I like "auto reload" in Opera and "click on wheel to open new tab in Mozilla"

wish I can have both functions in one program. Let me know if there is already one version that has both.

I don't know any legitimate reason to reload every 30 seconds... but if you poke around www.mozdev.org someone has probably written such an extension.

It does't have to reload once every 30 seconds. User has option to set the time.

 

[igowerf]

There is a Mozilla plugin called Multizilla that lets you set auto refresh times.