Mozilla 1.6 final out

serjer

serjer

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it's finaly out
_http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.6/mozilla-win32-1.6-installer.exe

New Features and Fixes

* One of the most requested Mozilla Mail features, an option to separate the Recipient and Sender columns in the thread pane, has been implemented.
* Another frequently requested MailNews feature, a preference for placing the user's signature above the quoted text, has been added.
* "Remove from server after x days" has been implemented for POP3 mail accounts.
* vCard support has been added to Mozilla Mail.
* Mozilla 1.6 includes a new cross-platform NTLM authentication mechanism. This feature brings NTLM authentication to the non-Windows Mozilla users for the first time and also delivers more robust and featureful NTLM support to users of older Windows versions.
* Ask Jeeves searching has been added to Mozilla 1.6.
* "Translate Page" functionality has returned to this release of Mozilla.
* The View Source window now has reload functionality.
* Several security-related bugs were fixed in 1.6
* Chatzilla 0.9.48 has been merged, which adds RPL_ISUPPORT support, halfop mode support, and properly masks key and password dialogs.
* Many crash bugs have been fixed.
* One step closer to the kitchen sink, about:about has been implemented. Typing about:about in the address field will give the user a nice list of available about:s.

New Issues

These are items that have been added to the Known Issues page since the last milestone, although the bugs themselves may have existed previously.

* File | Compact Folders for imap accounts now compacts all imap folders in the account, and their offline stores, if any folders are configured for offline use. Previously, this command just compacted the selected folder. To compact just the selected folder, you should now use the folder context menu command Compact this Folder. (Bug 230672)
* On non-Windows systems, pasting in Composer and HTML message compose from the first character of the line can fail. (Bug 228688)
 
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banzibaby

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Cheers 4 the news serjer :)

Have tried a lot of the Mozilla builds, but i find them all a lot slower than Opera, but i do like the mail client, so might just use that :)

BaNzI :D
 
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LTR12101B

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Well, I went to www.mozillazine.org - as there are a couple of guys in the forums there who make optimized builds.

Mozillazine (not Mozilla) is DOWN (probably slashdotted!)

The popular "flavours" of build they usually do are:
1. Pentium 2 or better - also works on Athlon/Duron (non-SSE versions)
2. Pentium 3/4 and Athlon XP / Duron 1100 and up (SSE)
 
serjer

serjer

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i somehow sometime find FB slower than mozilla,despite using optimized versions when browsing :D:D
anyway i'm currently using some optimized FB0.7+ & FB0.4 versions from mozillazine forums ....when i have probs with them,then i revert back 2 mozilla suite only :D
if i got some time left i'm gonna try d/l it ;)
 
banzibaby

banzibaby

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Cheers LTR12101B :)

i had a look on there & did a search, but couldnt find any build optimised 4 P2, does anyone know a link that can help me ???

BaNzI :D
 
big_gie

big_gie

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banzibaby said:
Cheers LTR12101B :)

i had a look on there & did a search, but couldnt find any build optimised 4 P2, does anyone know a link that can help me ???

BaNzI :D
Click to expand...
Those are situated on mozillazine.org forum (@ http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php) witch was down for the last 2 days...

Look @ http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=29 witch is the "builds" forum. There you will found the thunderbird's optimized builds.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=24913 swalker seamed to have build a SS2 version (optimized for the newest cpu). didn't test it though.

I think scragz's SSE2 build should be ok (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=39504). I think he is building those since a long time.
 
big_gie

big_gie

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If your CPU support SSE2 (that means a recent intel/amd cpu) you should try it.

MozJF's build should be the best :)
 
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LTR12101B

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MozJF's build (the one I pointed to) does not need SSE at all - he was lamenting only having MSVC 6.... I'll go and rip the descriptions from MZ

Now one wothout Calendar as well....


Hello.

I've made a -O1 -G6 (PentiumPro/2/3/4, Celeron, AMD Athlon/AthlonXP/Duron) build with MSVC++ 6.0 (so no problem of compatibility with plugins) for Win32 -> 7zip self extracting file : around 7 Mb

Following Mezziah article ( http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=333638#333638 ), it is a version without Calendar, smaller.

Available here :

http://pryan.org/firebird/mozjf/

-> Mozilla 1.6 standard -O1 -G6.exe


And the + calendar build in G6 (P-Pro/P-II and up/Amd K7 family) and G5 (Pentium or better) flavours
A -O1 -G5 (pentium/MMX, AMD K5/K6/K6-2 and K6-3) build (using again MSVC++ 6.0) :


Go with the G6 build for a Pentium 2 - unless you do your own tuning (and if you compile with MingW, the plugins win't work), your really can't get much closer - the only difference that I can see, is that the Pentium Pro was NOT MMX (not entirely certain though), and the Pentium 2 is MMX, so unless it optimizes on a MMX-optional basis, MMX capability is discarded.
 
banzibaby

banzibaby

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Cheers yet again LTR12101B :)

I did get the G5 build with calander that U posted, but have now got the G6 build from the link U provided, using it 2 make this post, but i still find it a lot slower than Opera, the build im using isnt the slowest i have tried & it is a bit faster than the normal Mozilla 1.6 :)

PS love the skypilot theme, always had probs with some buttons when using it with Thunderbird (mainly on the Address book)but no probs with it on Mozilla :)

BaNzI :D
 
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LTR12101B

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The Celeron is also covered by the G6 build - essentially, anything beyond Socket 7 can use the G6, while Socket 7/Super7 processors do the G5 - and anything lower has to stay with the standard build - and that means 486, or 386 if you get Win9x to run on it - theoretically, you could run (walk) Win95 on a 386 with 8Mb.

The optimizes are only compile optimizes though, so there are limits to how much it can do - take the "holy grail" of SSE (or for AMD, 3DNow) optimization - while an optimizing compiler may be able to use the features for SOME of the code, it cannot actually write a SSE or 3Dnow version of an algorithm, and I'd doubt that much of the code would actually be SSE-tweakable even by an expert.
 
banzibaby

banzibaby

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Hi LTR12101B :)

im using the G6 build U gave me the link too, but it seems to have a prob with a java chat room on a music forum im on, all other versions worked ok, but this one just says plugin needed, tried gettin it (even though i have the latest sun java installed) & still no success, even tried running the java control panel applet & ticking Mozilla & even Netscape, but get a box up saying "Cant change browser settings"

I did see a fix for it on another forum, but sadly the forum has now gone, wonder if U or scarecrow have any ideas?

Cheers :)

BaNzI :D
 
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scarecrow

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My current FB build for Win32 is an unofficial 0.8 branch one by scragz: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040117 Firebird/0.8.0+ (scragz). Might soon try his latest nightly, he seems doing a good job. He also makes G6 builds.
http://scragz.com/files/mozilla/
Java works fine (Sun 1.42_03), my only problem is errors popped out by the wonderful but buggy Tabbrowser Extensions addon. This build does not have an installer, unlike the latest official 0.8 nightlies (making firebird easy for the masses). IMHO this installer should be banned- it's THAT buggy.
 
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Laz

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Oh no not an installer on the 0.8 versions! :(

Surely people know how to make a shortcut to their desktop? :D Too many damn progs in my start menu as it is without having to add another. Ah well, still can't wait until 0.8 goes final though.
 
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