WaMCom (Web and Mail Communicator) has created a stable browser based on Mozilla 1.3.1 plus 480 additional trunk bug fixes. This Mozilla-based app suite is intended to give users all the power of Mozilla 1.3.1 with hundreds of additional stability, correctness and security fixes ported from the Mozilla trunk.
This is a pretty amazing effort, evaluating and incorporating all of those fixes into Mozilla 1.3.1 and getting it out before Mozilla reached the next Milestone. If you're happy with the Mozilla 1.3 feature set but want better stability, site compatibility, polish, security, etc. then grab this WaMCom release and give it a try.
Posted by asa at June 25, 2003 05:14 PM I think its important to note somewhere that "end-users" in this instance means "members of the mozilla testing community who can read code or others who can read code or are testers" (...and who can see what "changes" were made.)
(In other words, not me.)
Unless, of course, there is some kind of cool "Mozilla Seal of Authenticity" that you guys can dole out to make me feel all warm and fuzzy and that would indicate that at least one other person read every line of code in each build, not to see that it works, of course, (not intrusive) but just to see that it is /not malicious/ code.
I am sure that particular one-man projects like WaMCom and Beonex are quite fine as of this post, but the other day I accidentally downloaded an UNofficial UNreleased beta build (read: newbie--end-user--mistake) of another non-gecko browser from FileAvenue that turned out to be a backdoor...
ON THE OTHER HAND, maybe the fine upstanding WaMCom fellow did a lot of great work at mozilla.org in the past, and i am sounding ungrateful (?) I only want what is best. (Fear can be destructive, sorry) :D ... (Please don't make me use "Netscape"... :\ )
Rebel, all of the changes that were made to the WaMCom release were changes that had first landed on the Mozilla development trunk. That means that those changes went through the Mozilla code review process. While mozilla.org hasn't put any official blessing on the WaMCom release (or any other release for that matter), I can personally vouch for the developer that did this work. He is a longtime Mozilla developer with a solid reputation and there is nothing malicious about his product.
--Asa
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on June 27, 2003 12:09 AMMy thanks to Kai Engert for contributing to this.
Posted by: Vlad Dascalu on June 27, 2003 02:26 PMWaMCom is the perfect browser for Mac OS X, 'cuz MozillaFirebird is still new to OS X yet, Microsoft's IE is abysmal and discontinued, and Apple's own Safari 1.0 still makes little headache-inducing screeching noises on my PowerBook with every page that it lays out. So long live WaMCom-- thanks to (him/them) for making the 'one that works.' (delete my other post, maybe) :|
Posted by: rebelwithoutapc on June 27, 2003 09:36 PM