Mozilla Firebird 0.6 released [LWN.net]

Mozilla Firebird 0.6 released

Posted May 18, 2003 1:10 UTC (Sun) by tjc (guest, #137)
In reply to: Mozilla Firebird 0.6 released by arunta
Parent article: Mozilla Firebird 0.6 released

I could not run it in my Linux box. So I tried the windows version - just to get the look and feel. I should say that I am impressed - with the sleek gui, performace and well with the well-selected feature set.

I got it up and running on Linux, but it's picking up that crappy default Debian theme, so I'll hold off calling the UI slick for the time being. Alas, no Bitstream Vera fonts either. Performance seems a lot better than Mozilla 1.3 though.

http://www.visi.com/~m16/firebird.png

NOTE: If you install this on a Debian system you're going to find that running /usr/bin/mozilla now starts Firebird, which probably isn't what you wanted.

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Mozilla Firebird 0.6 released

Posted May 18, 2003 9:39 UTC (Sun) by banshee_dk (guest, #10290) [Link] (2 responses)

Then I believe you are running KDE...

I do not know why this happens, but I have experienced the same thing (with Phoenix).

If you install Mozilla AFTER Mozilla Firebird, there should be no problems.

Be the way, right now I'm using GNOME 2.2 (the backport), and here there is no problems like the one, this thing is all about.

And to the looks...
Maybe you should pick another theme or something. ;-)

Mozilla Firebird 0.6 released

Posted May 18, 2003 9:52 UTC (Sun) by banshee_dk (guest, #10290) [Link] (1 responses)

Be the way...

Now I have tested it in KDE...

I have not the problem, you told about (anymore ?!!). It seems to work a lot better than Phoenix, and Mozilla is not affected by the new Mozilla Firebird ...

Have you updated your system lately?
I don't understand it anymore, I thought it was KDE ... but now there is nothing wrong. (Is this to any help at all?)

Ohh! I should ad that I'm using both GNOME 2.2 and KDE (on seperate partitions) for testing... I can't deside what to use...
And Ogle don't like GNOME 2.2 (I haven't found the problem, yet).

Mozilla Firebird 0.6 released

Posted May 19, 2003 2:52 UTC (Mon) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

Have you updated your system lately?

Yeah, it's Debian unstable, and I update it once a day.

I should ad that I'm using both GNOME 2.2 and KDE (on seperate partitions) for testing...

This is happening with Gnome 2.2 for me. At first I tought it was something in the environment, but this does not appear to be the case. I'll have to read through the mozilla scripts I guess..

Mozilla Firebird 0.6 released

Posted May 19, 2003 15:24 UTC (Mon) by proski (guest, #104) [Link]

If you install this on a Debian system you're going to find that running /usr/bin/mozilla now starts Firebird, which probably isn't what you wanted.

Worse yet, "mozilla -mail" opens another Firebird window if Firebird is running. That must be a bug, not a feature. The workaround is to specify the profile:

mozilla -P default -mail