Go download Mozilla 1.3
I’ve
just updated my [Debian][] system for the first time in a long while, and
part of the update was Mozilla 1.3. Mozilla was already the best browser
out there, but it’s just got even better :-)
What really cought my eye with this release is how smooth everything is. The whole interface looks absolutely fantastic thanks to antialised fonts everywhere. Antialised fonts really make a huge difference in the visual appearance making Mozilla look much more professional and it’s also much easier on the eyes.
I also installed livehttpheaders which makes it possible to see the
HTTP headers that Mozilla sends to webservers and the responces it get in
return. I’ve already found this very useful for testing the latest CVS
version of [PhpWiki][] which caches the output from parsing the WikiMarkup.
This should lighten the load on the webserver, for now it’s possible for
it to return a 304 Not Modified header instead of the actual data. I’m
not sure how much the processing this skips on the PhpWiki side, but it
does reduce the bandwidth. I’ll put that version here on GimpsterDotCom
when I’ve moved my patches to the old version. Since I’m using PhpWiki as
the backend of GimpsterDotCom, I’m also changing it in small ways all the
time. I try to get these changes back into the CVS repository when I can,
but there’s always a difference between the “stock” CVS version and the
code I have.
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