Designest: Mozilla, Reloaded

February 10, 2004

Mozilla, Reloaded

Good news for Babak, Mozilla Firefox 0.8 is out. Mozilla guys say that this build is just a technology preview, but it runs very fast under Mac OS X, even if you scroll or drag windows.

Best features are: new preferences panel & new icons, faster and smooth looking TABs with icons, description for URL history, new download manager which supports pause and resume, better application icon & about panel, and finally the best full screen support without any scroll bars or extra visual elements.

FireFox's Persian support is not as good as Safari and seeks more attention, contextual menus are still like Internet Explorer and navigation toolbar is just a Safari clone. But anyways, I believe that the GUI is perfect. Grab the latest copy here.

Posted by Shaahin at February 10, 2004 02:59 AM

Comments

azziizzane man, good review, nice snapshot. I have some problems when downloading files; sometimes the download pane does not show up at all.

The Persian support is quite good actually, but text display is not as smooth as in Safari. I guess the reason is they don't yet fully use the features of OS X.

Posted by: Ali at February 10, 2004 05:12 AM

Thanks man! I don't have a problem with the download manager, probably because you have a very fast broadband system ;)

Posted by: Shaahin at February 10, 2004 02:05 PM

Some related news from i-gizmo:
http://i-gizmo.com/news.php?newsNumber=22

Mozilla (in this case fireFox) is the best thing happened to internet browsing. I am vigorously looking forward to see the next improvments in personal management sections. I love to have a single package that handles all personal tasks for me. The add-in Calendar still has major bugs and Palm and PocketPC support is not considered yet! But the borwser handles javascripts and css exactly the way they are written!!! Please let me know if anybody syncs mozilla with pocketPC...

Posted by: Nariman at February 20, 2004 05:23 PM