Firefox PR1 & Mozilla 1.7.3 introduced

[george at library.caltech.edu]

The age of the standards-compliant browser continues to see advances in
the state of the art.  Mozilla Firefox 0.10 (1.0 Preview Release)
<http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/>, somewhat surprisingly from a
numerical perspective, the follow-on of version 0.9.3, rolled out
earlier this week.  My initial experience has been a qualified positive.
I dearly love the type-ahead find functionality introduced in the many
of the Mozilla/Gecko browsers a couple of years ago.  [Camino 0.8.1
<http://www.mozilla.org/products/camino/>, an exclusively OS-X browser,
also lacks this superb function.] Whether through some fault in my
installation or a bug in PR1.0, I find myself somewhat adrift without it
functioning for me at the moment.  Final version of Firefox 1.0 is
expected in the fourth quarter of this year
<http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=5271>.

Mozilla 1.7.3 <http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/> patches some
'minor' security holes, but does not include any major new features
<http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=5269>.

George S. Porter
Sherman Fairchild Library of Engineering & Applied Science
California Institute of Technology
Mail Code 1-43, Pasadena, CA 91125-4300
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