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  1. Review - Vuze for Windows

    2.3.0.5 Beta 23 (Sep 10, 2005)

    Im always impressed about those people whining about Az taking too much resources. Az is running on my little Celeron1200 and 256 MB RAM happily for more than 2 years without any problems.

  2. Review - Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v2)

    1.5 Beta 1 (Sep 8, 2005)

    Extension developers are told to wait for the RC1 to test and update their extensions version information. Which basilcy means that currently your extensions _are_not_supposed_to_ work. 1.5 has some realy nice features under the hood plus some very usefull UI revisions. I especialy like the autoupdater which even allows unexperienced users to keep their browser up-to-date.

    NOTE: Even though it already has the name "Beta 1", nightly builds are NOT supposed to be used by anyone but people who actually know what they are doing and can cope with the lost of their profiles and/or extensions. DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS NIGHLY BUILD. DO NOT SEND NIGHTLY BUILDS TO BETANEWS. DO NOT JUDGE ANY SOFTWARE BY ITS NIGHTLYS.

  3. Comment - Bill Gates Still the Richest Man

    1.5 Beta 1 (Sep 23, 2005 - 2:25 PM)

    phew...I really worried about him. Good to know that he is still the richest man.

    ... why exactly do we want to know this?

  4. Comment - New Security Flaw Discovered in IE

    1.5 Beta 1 (Sep 18, 2005 - 12:37 PM)

    Is two greater than five?

    http://yahoolian.dyndns..../firefox-vs-ie-security

  5. Comment - Mozilla Patches New Firefox Flaw

    1.5 Beta 1 (Sep 17, 2005 - 12:53 AM)

    disabling a functionality simply because there will be a major update to the product that will fix the issue anyways IS a valid way to get around that bug and is STILL faster than MS who sometimes took 6 months and still ended up with simply removing a functionality.

    To all you MS fanboys: FF is, compared to MSIE, a brand new product that already posesses more than twice the functionality of IE. Ofcurse there will be quite a few bugs/flaws found at first but thats just because we are all humans. The real difference is the fact that those bugs are discussed and fixed imidiately (48h-1week compared to ~2months)

  6. Comment - New Security Flaw Discovered in IE

    1.5 Beta 1 (Sep 17, 2005 - 12:43 AM)

    With the only difference that there is usually a fix for crititcal flaws available within 48Hours while MS sometimes takes up to 6 months to poorely avoid a flaw by simply removing a functionality (D&D exploit anyone?!) With the upcoming autoupdating capabilities of FF1.5 hotfixes _can_ be done in background without any user action. Oh and by the way, do you realy think that one could compare the numbers of NEWLY discoverd flaws of a AGED product to the ones of a totaly NEW one. Try adding all IE bugs since 6.0 (actually since 5.0 since there are some minor flaws that are still not fixed) and all FF bugs since 1.0, imho those numbers would be way more conclusive.

  7. Comment - Firefox 1.5 Beta Set for September 8

    1.5 Beta 1 (Sep 4, 2005 - 11:34 AM)

    @asellus

    do you realize that do probably dont talk about the popup blocker (which is disabled by default) but the javascript blocks/exceptions?
    If you enable the popup blocker you will _NERVER_ see a popup. Including those which you actually WANT to see. In contrast the javascript options block scripts that automaticly open popus without any user activity, but allow the ones that are result of an users action (clicking a image/button/link)