I just installed the Mozilla 1.0 browser and tested some of the applications I am working with as well as some sites I visit. It seems to work OK. Handled all the javascript and DHTML I commonly work with. This weblog looks like a sack of crap in Mozilla, however (and I don't know why it has to, the calendar is the worst offender and it is just a simple table). The installation was very easy. The Mozilla web site says that Mozilla is for developers and general users may use it as long as they don't expect support. There are two reasons reasons to use Mozilla as my browser. One is to increase the percentage of visitors to sites using browsers other than IE, and the other is to get better javascript debugging information that IE.
An attempt to visit a site with a Java Applet caused Mozilla to explode and refuse to start again until I rebooted. I may need to clean up my system since I seem to have 5 different JVMs of various ages whirring away in here. Still, after all the fuss about IE dropping Java support, I was surprised that Mozilla wouldn't have it by default. Adobe PDF plug in is installed by default.
The Composer is disappointing but only when compared to products that cost money. I thought maybe there would be PHP support, but you can't even save a file as .php when editing with Composer. Also, it does not have WEB DAV support. Can't complain too much. Homesite doesn't even have WEB DAV in version 5.0 and Dreamweaver is only just now providing PHP support. Composer just does not try to be an IDE.
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