1.7b
By glazou on Friday 19 March 2004, 13:55 - Mozilla - Permalink
This nice page will tell you much better than I could do what's new, what's neat, what's hidden and what's broken in Mozilla 1.7b. I really love the "Show passwords" thing. Some passwords are stored there since ages (like my NYT passwd) and I forgot what it was. On a side note, there is one thing I really dislike: the linux builds are still made without Xft. It's ugly. Show the result to a journalist and the first comment will be "berk.... ugly fonts". Linux builds should enable Xft by default. As a consequence, I have thrown the 12megs download to the trash and I am building it by myself with Xft enabled. What a waste of time.
Comments
I agree, agree, agree with your ugly, ugly, ugly (what a song!). Xft, now!
> Linux GTK2 builds have improved support for OS themes.
Mmm, would that mean that mozilla finally decided to import gtk colors correctly ?
Anyway, totally agree about xft, default build for linux should be gtk2+xft imho (and not just xft, mozilla has both...)
Also, default theme should always be "modern". The "classic" theme sucks. And Mozilla installs itself with "classic" as default. It's ugly. It's "dusty". It makes Mozilla look "baaaaaad". No one wants to use a ugly application.
Well the gtk2 builds look much better but are still
seriously buggy. They hard hang on me a couple of
times a day and have to be xkill'ed.
I think this is why they are not yet the default linux
build.
I use only Mozilla without Xft, and i don't think it's ugly. I think Xft is too slow te be usuable.
J'utilise Mozilla sans Xft, et je trouve pas que ça soit si laid. Je trouve que Xft ralentit Mozilla.
Comment ça mon anglais est pourri ! Bon, je vais essaier de le compiler avec gtk2 et Xft, pour voir.
Last I checked (and blizzard confirmed this in n.p.m.unix), a big hurdle to migrating to XFT is that most people have a buggy and crashy version of XFT installed. As soon as XFT stabilizes in distros... (which is happening, slowly)...
You can turn on antialiased fonts in a non-xft build be enabling FreeType2 in prefs.js and entering the paths to font directories.
It looks nearly as good as Xft, but it's a lot faster.
www.mozilla.org/projects/...
I fear xft+gtk2 is not working in debian stable, just to name a case. Yeah I know it's a bit particular one (read older packages than everyone else) but it's quite used among developers and activists.
Oh well, then just make a gtk2+xft build and publish it as "alternative". French localization team publish regular, xft, and gtk2+xft builds
I would be interested in exact references for the
xft problems. It would enable me to a least know
which versions of xft to run. I didn't find any posting
by blizzard on the subject...
I typed "xft" in Google and found this
www.scottbolander.com/moz...
Here you can find a nice "Mozilla 1.7 beta Xft & Gtk2"
It works very well with Mandrake Linux 10.0, and probably with many other distributions.
PE