Mozilla 1.3 gets attachments extensions right!

MarkG · March 18, 2003, 16:19

no more filename.zip.php!

Martin Gühmann · March 18, 2003, 16:31

if I remember correctly also Mozilla 1.1 got it right. Let's see if Mozilla 1.3 has everthing that Netscape 4.78 has and is needed.

-Martin

MarkG · March 18, 2003, 16:40

at least 1.2.1 (that i had until 15 minutes ago) didnt

Martin Gühmann · March 18, 2003, 17:21

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Originally posted by MarkG
at least 1.2.1 (that i had until 15 minutes ago) didnt

That's also true for Mozilla 1.3 alpha, that I am using right now beside Netscape 4.78. Well with the next start of Mozilla I upgrade to Mozilla 1.3.

-Martin

Nikolai · March 18, 2003, 17:43

How's Mozilla?

I've never tried it, only read about the old one from the stone age of Internet(and a few notices here and there regarding the new one).

Martin Gühmann · March 18, 2003, 18:18

OK I restarted Mozilla now v. 1.3 without the alpha label and as I tried to display one of the images saved in an attachment, and Mozilla tried to download the file:

minimap16.jpg.jpeg

Well actual I expect to see the image like in Netscape 4.78, so waiting for Mozilla 1.4. And on the otherhand the extension of that file .jpg and not .jpeg.

It seems that Mozilla gets the other extensions right. But this behaviour in case of *.jpg files is still wrong. I am still shure that Mozilla 1.1 did it right. It is such an annoyance to find out everytime you can't viev an image, just because Mozilla wants to download it as a file.

By the way I disabled showing images in the forum.

-Martin

Caesar the Great · March 19, 2003, 20:56

conform to microsoft! internet explorer is god!

Martin Gühmann · March 19, 2003, 21:29

Well, just copied the address bar from Mozilla 1.3 to Micro$oft Intenet Eplorer. And it was slow in coparision to Mozilla 1.3. And even after filling the cache of M$ ¤I, it seems still to be a litle bit slower.

At least to run Mozilla I don't need to buy an overprized OS with it.

Quote:

Caesar the Great
conform to microsoft! internet explorer is god!

Don't belive in gods, believe in yourself.

-Martin

Skanky Burns · March 19, 2003, 21:30

/me detects sarcasm
(and a X-post)

Gangerolf · March 19, 2003, 23:31

mozilla is god.

yes, GOD

Verto · March 20, 2003, 00:32

What exactly is Mozilla? Just curious.

Nikolai · March 20, 2003, 02:36

It's some kind of beta version of a browser.

Urban Ranger · March 20, 2003, 09:41

No it's not. Evil Viking person

Urban Ranger · March 20, 2003, 09:46

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Originally posted by Martin Gühmann

if I remember correctly also Mozilla 1.1 got it right. Let's see if Mozilla 1.3 has everthing that Netscape 4.78 has and is needed.

-Martin

Isn't Netscape Communicator 4.78 a bit old? Besides, it has crappy support for CSS.

mrmitchell · March 20, 2003, 11:01

I've got Mozilla 1.3a...so it didn't get this right? Well, I haven't noticed...no, wait, I noticed the other day...

So I'll let the Apolyton Mozilla Testing Team

see if there's any other problems before I upgrade.

Nikolai · March 20, 2003, 11:22

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Originally posted by Urban Ranger
No it's not. Evil Viking person

Isn't it? Is it still in alpha stage?

Seriously, I didn't know it was beyond beta.

How good is it? I understand by the comments that it's not bug free...

Martin Gühmann · March 20, 2003, 14:18

Quote:

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
Isn't Netscape Communicator 4.78 a bit old? Besides, it has crappy support for CSS.

So do you have an alternative, that gets all the extensions right, does the size of some fields here in the forum right and has an uninstall option?

-Martin

St Leo · March 20, 2003, 18:36

http://www.opera.com/ 0wnZ j00 all.

Hueij · March 20, 2003, 18:53

Quote:

Originally posted by St Leo
http://www.opera.com/ 0wnZ j00 all.

St LeO rOxxOrz!!111!1!!!

Seriously, I really don't understand this thread. Just get Opera and be silent...

Martin Gühmann · March 20, 2003, 19:48

Quote:

Originally posted by St Leo
http://www.opera.com/ 0wnZ j00 all.

I knew it that someone would tell me that. OK my last post was done with Opera 6.something. So I had to download Opera 7.03 to check if the stuff that is right for Opera 6.XX is also right for Opera 7.03. Well and it looks like a pretty good browser without the problems of Opera 6.XX. Only the amount of page you can see is smaller then in Mozilla. Well let's try Opera at the next turn chat and see if it is crashy like the last version.

-Martin

Urban Ranger · March 21, 2003, 01:51

Quote:

Originally posted by Nikolai
Seriously, I didn't know it was beyond beta.

How good is it? I understand by the comments that it's not bug free...

I don't think it's bug-free (lets not get into all the theories and such), but it is very stable, even on Windows.

One reason I use it because I don't have to switch browsers across various platforms. <alt><t> always opens a new tab. It also has the best support for standards such as CSS, XML, and PNG.

Asher · March 21, 2003, 02:43

Maybe one day they'll also figure out how to properly deal with the selection of text in the address-field in the browser.

It's inconsistent with the rest of Windows, and it's a tiny annoying quirk which makes Mozilla annoying to use.

In Windows, you double click to select the entire string. In Mozilla, when you doubleclick, it selects a substring (the like if you doubleclick in the middle of www.mozilla.org, it selects Mozilla).

ixnay · March 21, 2003, 03:55

I spontaneously decided to get Opera yesterday and I love it.

After you get rid of all the crap that clutters up the screen, it's just great.

Verto · March 21, 2003, 12:56

Hm. I'd love to try it out, but I've sold my soul to Microsoft.

Nikolai · March 21, 2003, 19:20

I installed Opera 7.01, and it was great and actually a bit better than IE, but still I tend to go back to IE for some reason.

Don't know exactly why though... Must be something with what I'm used to use...

Mercator · March 21, 2003, 20:20

I feel the same, actually... I've liked Opera for a while, but almost exclusively used IE... Now I've got Opera7 and I' really liking it.
I also finally found out today that the UNIX systems at university finally have an alternative for the craptastic Netscape 4.7... Mozilla (and I saw someone using Opera too) which also looked much better than the last time I saw it.

XarXo · March 22, 2003, 01:51

Anyone tested Konqueror yet?

Martin Gühmann · March 22, 2003, 12:52

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Originally posted by XarXo
Anyone tested Konqueror yet?

Well Konqueror is as far as I know a Linux only browser and comes with KDE2/3. In comparision to Mozilla it lacks of some fetures, as far as I know, most improtant and I encountered is that if you use it on 'Poly and you want to reply, the line warp in the reply box is beyond the right edge of it. So if you write you don't see the beginning of the line if you reply is longer then the line that is displayed. Well there is also something else missing that you have in Opera and Mozilla, but I didn't need it and therefore don't know about it.

Quote:

Originally posted by Mercator
I also finally found out today that the UNIX systems at university finally have an alternative for the craptastic Netscape 4.7... Mozilla (and I saw someone using Opera too) which also looked much better than the last time I saw it.

Well, there are different UNIX systems at universities. At my unversity there are two many UNIX based OS. On the one hand Linux with KDE2 as user interface and on the other hand a Sun Solaris OS. So far on Sun Solaris I only found Netscape 4.78. On Linux there I found everything you need. So if Mozilla and Opera are available at your univerity, just open a shell (also known as terminal window) and enter mozilla or opera and if available Mozilla or Opera pop up.

-Martin

DrSpike · March 23, 2003, 09:40

Opera rulez. I haven't tried Mozilla for a long while, but I doubt anything could tempt me away from Opera's tender embrace now.

Urban Ranger · March 24, 2003, 09:55

Can it render Arabic properly without downloading/installing extra packages?