The 1.8a5 release date needs a fix :-)

the rough changelog is a mess:
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.8a5/changelog.html

Not only the rough changelog, but there's nothing in the "What's new" section. Or maybe Asa is telling us we should download it and find out what's new for ourselves.

Useful enhancement bugs being fixed in time for 1.8:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239977

Thank god!

This release is a bit broken, I visit many websites with CSS layouts and on many on them the content appears on the bottom of the page. On other the whole content moves down when pressing a link. Otherwise than that I really like that the flickering on some websites is gone. And that scrollbars looked dimmed when there is no way to scroll, very nice.

This is really a bad place to put this. And, I apologise for that but, I wanted to express this.

I think one thing lacking greatly in update.mozilla.org is a search feature. This is a very basic functionality to have the ability to lookup the thing you want instead of having to browse through page after page.

I hope that this is in pipeline and I just spoke too early.

Praveen

I saw this article early this morning, downloaded 1.8a5 and I've been using it with enjoyment all day - for me at least, it is fast and solid. I do find it a bit odd that this release has not been announced elsewhere - like Mozillazine. Makes it feel like the suite if pretty far down on everyone's priority list.

Praveen: Check out update-beta.mozilla.org. Even if it's not very nicely integrated (it's a google site search), it looks as if they're finally giving us the search.

"This release is a bit broken, I visit many websites with CSS layouts and on many on them the content appears on the bottom of the page."

No, the pages are broken ! Moz 1.8 (and ff 1.0) have an old css bug with the clearing of floating elements fixed, fixing this bug caused several sites to have their floating content cleared under the menu, which is the correct behaviour. They'll ahve to update their css.

Pascal: That is very interesting to hear. Is there any bug number I can read more about this?

Pascal: How come then that the websites I visited only sometimes are broken, sometimes not? I get different result when reloading the page.

José: What you're seeing is a bug in Mozilla. Read more about it in bugs 261153 (Click a link, move a link) and 260938 (mozdev's pages' middle-column drops below left column). I wrote about this a few of weeks ago: Mozilla, clearers, and dropped floats.

Ahh nice, the bugs mentioned above are now fixed :-)