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What's New in Mozilla 1.5
This document outlines some of the new features implemented in Mozilla 1.5, important bugfixes and any new problems. It is by no means a comprehensive list of new features, fixes or bugs. See the "rough changelog" for a more comprehensive list of fixes.
New Features and Fixes
These are items that have been added to the known issues page since the last milestone although the bugs themselves may have existed previously.
What's New in Mozilla 1.5
This document outlines some of the new features implemented in Mozilla 1.5, important bugfixes and any new problems. It is by no means a comprehensive list of new features, fixes or bugs. See the "rough changelog" for a more comprehensive list of fixes.
New Features and Fixes
- Mozilla now includes a spellchecker for MailNews and Composer.
- Additional MailNews improvements include:
- Users can add header lines to *every* msg sent out via a certain identity.
- A common application hang with SSL-encrypted SMTP connections was fixed.
- Printing of the attachments list is now supported.
- Users can now mark message as read by date.
- Many great improvements to Mozilla Composer including:
- better resizing for images, tables and absolutely positioned objects
- support for absolutely positioned objects, movable on the canvas using the mouse
- support for z-index management
- "snap to grid" when moving an absolutely positioned object
- Source View now uses an editor instead of a simple textarea (allows find and replace)
- numerous fixes in caret management, inline styles handling and CSS styles handling
- Improvements to tabbed browsing including:
- Tabs are now replaced when a bookmark group is loaded. This can be changed to the old "append" behavior in the Tabbed browsing preferences.
- Back and Forward navigation for tabbed browsing and bookmark groups has been improved. Users can now use the back button after loading a bookmark group to restore the previous set of tabs.
- Closing a window with multiple tabs now prompts the user with a confirmation dialog (which can be disabled for future close operations.)
- ChatZilla, Mozilla's internet relay chat client, has had a major overhaul bringing logging and many additional improvements.
- Dom Inspector can now display the #document node (the document root.)
- It is now possible to jump from the JavaScript console to the relevant line in the View Source Window
- Mozilla's view source now displays line and column numbers in the status bar.
- A quicksearch filter has been implemented for about_:config.
- Gecko now supports setting color for .
- The '::' notation for CSS pseudo-elements is now supported. The old ':' notation is still supported for the various -moz-* pseudo-elements, but will NOT be supported in Mozilla 1.5. Themes should be updated to use the '::' notation for pseudo-elements.
- Unstyled XML display has been improved.
- Mozilla should no longer cause GDI problems on Windows.
- A common problem collapsing the URLbar popup on Windows has been fixed.
- Mozilla has improved performance, stability, standards support and web compatibility.
These are items that have been added to the known issues page since the last milestone although the bugs themselves may have existed previously.
- Mozilla 1.5 is not compatible with older versions of Macromedia Flash for Macintosh (anything before version 6.0 r67.) Macintosh users should upgrade to the latest version of Flash to avoid the possibility of crashes at some Flash sites. A free upgrade is available at Macromedia Flash Player Download Center for OS X.
- The Linux binaries distributed by mozilla.org are now compiled with GCC 3.2. If you're using these binaries then popular plug-ins like RealPlayer, compiled with previous versions of GCC, will not work. See bug 213234 and 158385
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