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Mozilla Firebird 0.6 released at last . . . !

Postby DJGM » Sat 17 May, 2003 12:29 am

After an almost six month gap since the release of Phoenix 0.5, the Mozilla developers have finally
released Mozilla Firebird 0.6. The over-long delay has been mainly due to the powers that be over
at Mozilla.org choosing the new name, and getting the green light from the legal department, to
actually re-brand Phoenix as Firebird. More recently, as you may or may not already know, the
folks behind the Firebird branded OSS relational database project, kicked up a right old fuss
recently, about the new name for the browser formerly known as Phoenix. Anyway, the
milestone number 0.6 of the Mozilla Firebird Browser is now available to download.

So . . . what are you waiting for? Read the release notes . . . then go get it . . . !

Builds are available for Windows, Linux, and even Mac OS X!

More info in this article @ MozillaZine . . .
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Postby Edward » Sat 17 May, 2003 7:46 am

Noticed the new theme is based on Qute.

There is now a Qute skin available for Opera 7, and it looks quite good.
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Postby DJGM » Sat 17 May, 2003 8:58 am

"Qute" became the default theme for Mozilla Firebird, about 4 months ago.
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Postby jksteinhauer » Sat 17 May, 2003 10:10 am

Have got it installed (5 minutes ago), seems to be a keeper thusfar. My feathers are still a bit ruffled about the decision to break the browser/composer/email-newsreader suite down though ... have reluctantly began re-familiarizing myself with Opera 7.xx; have relied on the convenience of the suite since about the Netscape 3.xx days. Guess you could say I'm in silent protest?
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Postby Fulvio » Sat 17 May, 2003 10:40 am

jksteinhauer wrote:Have got it installed (5 minutes ago), seems to be a keeper thusfar. My feathers are still a bit ruffled about the decision to break the browser/composer/email-newsreader suite down though ... have reluctantly began re-familiarizing myself with Opera 7.xx; have relied on the convenience of the suite since about the Netscape 3.xx days. Guess you could say I'm in silent protest?


I have not installed it, yet but I have some reservations about splitting the browser and the mailt. There is no problem if mail can be linked as it is possible to do in kmeleon (view as an external application). I can see some interesting possibilities like linking Mozilla Firebird with AOL Communicator, for AOL users.
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Postby Hendikins » Sat 17 May, 2003 1:18 pm

So 0.6 is out the door. Not that important, since most people were using nightly builds anyway. At least I no longer have an excuse to call it Phirebird...
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Postby Fulvio » Sat 17 May, 2003 1:52 pm

Hendikins wrote:So 0.6 is out the door. Not that important, since most people were using nightly builds anyway. At least I no longer have an excuse to call it Phirebird...


It will be Phoenix on my desktop. They are all birds on fire, anyhow!
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Postby Lorraine » Sat 17 May, 2003 8:52 pm

Hi:
I have been reading all the Faqs about Mozilla.
Is it ready for me? :wink: <griin>

It looks quite impressive, all those companies.. you've all been working so hard. Good work.

Isn't "FIREBIRD" the trademark name of a car? I always thought the names they picked were trademarks...oh, I'm sure you have a very good Legal Department, so I'm sure that you can use it, but not "Chrysler." (I really don't know who makes them)Just curious.
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Postby Wellander » Sat 17 May, 2003 11:28 pm

Hi,
Oh Yes I love it.
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Postby orizng » Sun 18 May, 2003 1:43 am

Hendikins wrote:So 0.6 is out the door. Not that important, since most people were using nightly builds anyway. At least I no longer have an excuse to call it Phirebird...


It does have some importance, since I can only find Chinese Sim. version when it released 0.6, they only localizE official version, and my father know little English. :roll:
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Postby Mandrake » Sun 18 May, 2003 2:42 am

Firebird is a make of car, by Pontiac? Then there are the rediculous firebird database people claiming they OWN the trademark firebird . . . !

If this is a 0.6 release, then by the time 1.0 comes, it should be REALLY good :-)
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Postby Josh » Sun 18 May, 2003 8:20 am

DJGM, do you have a screencap of MFB 0.6 on OS X? I'm interested to see what it and the dock icon looks like.
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Postby DJGM » Sun 18 May, 2003 10:08 am

Both the dock icon and the application icon for Mozilla Firebird is the exact
same one as for the Mozilla application suite. I'm currently downloading a
very large ISO file (670MB) on my PC at the moment, so I'll be swapping
the internet connection from the PC to my iMac later on today . . .
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Postby Josh » Sun 18 May, 2003 8:08 pm

So, I take it's the purple M, like seen here?

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Postby DJGM » Sun 18 May, 2003 8:34 pm

Yup, that's the one!

I'm hoping they'll give MozFB it's own application icon before it gets to v1.0 . . .
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