March 13, 2004

• New Mozilla

  I had been running Mozilla 1.5. I just upgraded to Mozilla 1.6. Mozilla 1.7 is in Alpha testing, a stage at which I am not the least bit tempted to touch it.

  There wasn't much wrong with M1.5. I would sometimes get a blank screen when the browser was showing me a link on a new page, but I could work around that. There weren't that many new features, either. But it took less than ten minutes to make the upgrade and it was free, so why not?

  Mozilla is constantly being improved. The improvements may be so small as to be invisible, but they are there. I try to keep up with the current production release ... but I avoid beta and alpha releases of anything. I once had a bad experience with some beta software I was testing for a different company (it completely wiped out my operating system three times, causing complete data loss each time).

  I haven't had a chance to test anything (except the blank screen problem, which got fixed) on the new release. I'll be using it daily, though, so it should be well tested by the time either the next version comes out or Thunderbird comes of age.

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