“Mozilla Improves Again, Unofficially”

I'm running one of the nightly builds of Mozilla (in other words, not an official release), and it's so much improved over the old versions that I've virtually stopped using Explorer altogether.

The improvements are most obvious in three areas: forms and javascript. Large, complex forms display and submit much faster than they did in the past (it could actually be very annoying before, now it's quite snappy). JavaScript has had a few bug fixes... actually, they're DOM improvements, but they work out to JavaScript fixes anyway, regardless of what the Mozilla guys call it.

The textarea widget has also improved by leaps and bounds in the last couple of weeks. Every once in a while -- say, one or two times every couple of days -- I still run into something a little wacky like invisible text or a text insertion cursor with a mind of its own, but it's so much improved that these moments have become surprises (rather than the norm).

The version number I'm running is 0.9.4+, Build ID 2001092813, which seems to indicate that it was built on September 28th.