Most Stable Mozilla Version: ATTN: Gervase Markham
John
on CD.
I realise Mozilla is in perpetual beta test. Can someone recommend the most
stable version out right now, comparable to Netscape 6.2? I've been using
Mozilla 5.0 build gecko/20011120.
Thanks in advance for your help. If anyone can suggest a better newsgroup
to which I can post this question, that would also be appreciated.
Fulvio Perini
You have the milestones,such 0.9.6,0.9.7 and the nightlies,and you may
have an old nightly.I have had problems with 0.9.7 and some previous and
later nightlies,due to bugs in Print Preview.PP has caused my Mozilla
to crash,and it is barely usable. If you really want to give a Mozilla
on CD,I would recommend 0.9.6,which has been stable for me,and is
showing next changes for future NS6.x.
Albert
Most builds after 0.9.4 deviated to a less stable state because of the
new features added and various patches and fixes to meet a 1.0
guideline, instead of making every build super-duper. Netscape 6.2 is
based on 0.9.4 so choosing to distribute 0.9.4 would probably be the
most stable solution. Your mileage may vary. 0.95, 9.6, and 9.7 are
more "beta" than 0.9.4 is, IMO. The nightlies have started to get real
nice, but I wouldn't want to distribute a nightly =]
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Gervase Markham
John wrote:
> I work for an ISP and am considering distributing Mozilla to our customers
> on CD.
>
> I realise Mozilla is in perpetual beta test. Can someone recommend the most
> stable version out right now, comparable to Netscape 6.2? I've been using
> Mozilla 5.0 build gecko/20011120.
I would suggest Mozilla 0.9.4.1, or perhaps even a Mozilla pulled from
the continuation of that branch, which Netscape has continued to do
stabilisation work on. This is almost certainly the most stable recent
version of Mozilla, and will almost certainly be more stable than
Netscape 6.2.
If you are distributing Mozilla on CD, that's great - but there are a
few things st...@mozilla.org might want to request you do to your
version. If you could drop us a mail about that, that would be great.
Gerv
David Gerard
Albert <garfie...@DIEMSFTDIEMailandNews.com> wrote:
:Most builds after 0.9.4 deviated to a less stable state because of the
:new features added and various patches and fixes to meet a 1.0
:guideline, instead of making every build super-duper. Netscape 6.2 is
:based on 0.9.4 so choosing to distribute 0.9.4 would probably be the
:most stable solution.
In fact, Netscape 6.2.1 is 0.9.4 with three months' more stability fixes in
place. Current builds have more features and are noticeably faster, but for
stability 6.2.1 (or a build of the matching version of 0.9.4) would be just
the thing.
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Sören Kuklau
The current Milestone is 0.9.7.
More recent milestones have newer features, but thus also newer bugs. Then
again, older features have been polished, optimised and older bugs have been
ironed out.
0.9.6 is a good release to distribute, I'd say. Stable, fast, solid. 0.9.7
received some nice new features, but overall - from what I heard (I myself
as a "latest-feature-junkey" use nightlies, not releases), 0.9.7 wasn't that
stable.
Do not distribute nightlies. They are recent (they sometimes get released
_multiple_ times a day), but they obviously get little to no Quality
Assurance checking.
0.9.8 (due out end of January) was mentioned. I'm not positive it'll be a
release as stable as 0.9.6 though.
Regards,
Sören Kuklau
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Fulvio Perini
I have noticed that then number milestone were always better than the
odd number ones,so I am optimistic about 0.9.8. So far the nightlies
since 0.9.7 are more retrogrades than upgrades,so it may be a while
before we get anything.
Holger Metzger
> I have noticed that then number milestone were always better than the
> odd number ones,so I am optimistic about 0.9.8. So far the nightlies
> since 0.9.7 are more retrogrades than upgrades,so it may be a while
> before we get anything.
The latest nightlies crashed a lot on my system, for eample the one I am
using now crashed when I access preferences. However, the recent
additions make the use of the nightlies worthwile I think, for example I
was surprised to see that Mozilla now has XP theme support under classic
skin - that should make the Classic skin default on XP systems... it
looks great (while Modern never fitted into the XP environment). Also
the other enhancements (http://www.mozillazine.org/build_comments/)
sound promising.
Holger
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Sören Kuklau
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> Am 06.01.2002 10:02 schrieb Fulvio Perini:
> > I have noticed that then number milestone were always better than the
> > odd number ones,so I am optimistic about 0.9.8. So far the nightlies
> > since 0.9.7 are more retrogrades than upgrades,so it may be a while
> > before we get anything.
> The latest nightlies crashed a lot on my system, for eample the one I am
> using now crashed when I access preferences.
I experienced the same on the 01-05 nightly. 01-04 seems fine though.
> However, the recent
> additions make the use of the nightlies worthwile I think, for example I
> was surprised to see that Mozilla now has XP theme support under classic
> skin - that should make the Classic skin default on XP systems... it
> looks great (while Modern never fitted into the XP environment). Also
> the other enhancements (http://www.mozillazine.org/build_comments/)
> sound promising.
Yes, lots of great enhancements. Speed is decent too.
Jonas Jørgensen
> Am 06.01.2002 10:02 schrieb Fulvio Perini:
>
>> I have noticed that then number milestone were always better than the
>> odd number ones,so I am optimistic about 0.9.8. So far the nightlies
>> since 0.9.7 are more retrogrades than upgrades,so it may be a while
>> before we get anything.
>
> The latest nightlies crashed a lot on my system, for eample the one I am
> using now crashed when I access preferences. However, the recent
> additions make the use of the nightlies worthwile I think, for example I
> was surprised to see that Mozilla now has XP theme support under classic
> skin - that should make the Classic skin default on XP systems... it
> looks great (while Modern never fitted into the XP environment). Also
> the other enhancements (http://www.mozillazine.org/build_comments/)
> sound promising.
When you're talking about Windows XP, could you please say so instead of
just saying "XP"? If I just saw the words "XP theme" out of context, I
would think cross-platform Mozilla themes, such as Modern.
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/Jonas