New version Mozilla appeared
Mozilla 1.4 is appeared yet neat, or the software maker looks at already the future. Version 1.4 is the last Mozilla-execution based on the 'Sea Monkey' -core. For the next Mozilla-edition is changed to 'Firebird', a code base that a much more slender browser must yield.
At the same time the open source-developers hope to get behind Mozilla the new 'Thunderbird' -mailclint ready. But that is future music: first thus version 1.4 appeared, with in its keilzog the commercile net cape 7.1.
The change to a more slender core is a reaction on the increasing critical on Mozilla. The open browser, ever intended as a fast alternative for closed browers as Internet Explore, was reproached to become always unwieldier and more heavily. That the Mozilla-core anything but tendril is, led there among many closed that Apple self for its Safari-browser wanted to inspire through the KHTML-core of open source-competitor Konqueror.
Therefore becomes there now already a time work on Firebird. The emphasis lies near it on performances and compact code. According to the developers is the temporary version of Firebird approximately half as large as Mozilla 1.4 and start the browser 30 until 40 per cent more fast on. Firebird would have also 15 per cent less memory necessarily. A summary of the expected advantages of the new code is presented on this page.
Newly in Mozilla 1.4 (and consequently net cape 7.1) its NTLM-autorisatiemodi for proxyservers on which Microsoft-software turns, an expansion of the favorite management, an improved antipop-plain fizzy drink-module, more measures against spam, the possibility a resistant out to lead after the downloaded became, and “thousand additional bugfixes that compatibility, stability, performances and the support of standards improve”.
Mozilla 1.4 and net cape 7.1 are available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. You find the new Mozilla here and net cape on this page.