eWeek: Mozilla 1.5 Boosts Usability | Linux Today

eWeek: Mozilla 1.5 Boosts Usability

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 17, 2003

“Probably the biggest surprise about Mozilla 1.5 is that it
exists at all. When the Mozilla Foundation laid out its road map
earlier this year, the plan was for Mozilla 1.4 (see review) to be
the last version of the big integrated Mozilla suite.

“But with the stand-alone Firebird browser and the stand-alone
Thunderbird mail client still in pre-release versions, the Mozilla
Foundation this week released Version 1.5 of the classic
multifunction Internet application suite, and eWEEK Labs found it
to be a welcome upgrade.

“Although Mozilla 1.5 isn’t a massive overhaul, it does add some
long-missing features and addresses several usability problems
found in the previous versions…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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