Mozilla 1.2
November 29th, 2002
Mozilla 1.2 has been out for a couple of days now. The most notable new feature is Type Ahead Find. The idea is that you bring up a web page and type the text you want to find, and as you type Mozilla highlights the matching text on the page. There are prefixes you can type to tell Mozilla to search only links or to search all text, and once Mozilla has highlighted the link you want it’s a simple matter to open the link from the keyboard.
In short, a lot less mousing around is required: this can only be a good thing.
I looked at the first public beta of Opera 7 the other day, but nothing I saw suggests that it’s significantly better than Mozilla, in terms of features and usability, and the difference in performance when it comes to rendering pages is too small to matter. Bear in mind that I’m running Mozilla on a PC significantly below the minimum recommended specification. When I finally replace this PC I expect Mozilla to fly.