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New Features and Fixes
* Official Mozilla 1.7 builds for Windows, Linux, and Mac all contain the Talkback crash reporting utility. Help us make 1.7 the most stable release yet; please submit your crash reports.
* A new option to prevent sites from using JavaScript to block the browser's context menu.
* A new set of icons for files that are associated with Mozilla on Windows.
* Password Manager has a "show passwords" mode which will display saved passwords. You will need to enter your master password if you are using one.
* The "Set As Wallpaper" feature now has a confirmation dialog.
* Linux GTK2 builds have improved support for OS themes.
* Cookie dialogs have been reworked to make them more usable.
* Date handling, especially on OS X, has been improved.
* It is now possible to fine-tune Mozilla's pop-up blocking using two preferences (dom.popup_maximum and dom.popup_allowed_events) but there's no UI for that yet. Even without a UI, users should notice a greater variety of pop-ups blocked (primarily mouseover pop-ups) and a limit of 20 or so open at one time - regardless of whether pop-up blocking is active. This will provide some protection from sites that open hundreds of windows in a loop.
* Downloaded files are now moved to the target directory as soon as the user selects the desired location. This was the frequently reported bug 55690.
* There is now user interface to activate Smooth Scrolling (Preferences -> Appearance).
* Mozilla now supports basic FTP upload.
Mail
* Many improvements to Palm Sync.
* IMAP IDLE support has been added.
* Support for "MSN Authentication" and Secure Password Authentication using SSPI NTLM auth for SMTP and POP3.
* A new preference to "always use the default character encoding for replies" rather than using the encoding of the message being replied to.
* Improvements to performance of downloading, viewing, and saving mail messages.
* Support for multiple identities on the same mail account. See the Multiple Identity Support documentation for more details.
* Support for relative paths for mail folders in prefs.js. This makes it easier to copy profiles around without having to fix up prefs.js afterwards.
* You can now edit address lists containing "Last, First" style names.
* When composing mail, you can now use the up and down arrow keys to scroll through the To/Cc/Bcc list.
* On Mac OS X, attachment file names are no longer displayed in decomposed Unicode but are converted to composed Unicode.
* All Mozilla LDAP queries now default to using LDAPv3 (previously, they used LDAPv2). Mozilla should gracefully fall back to v2 if v3 isn't found.
Chatzilla
* Chatzilla now supports zooming of fonts with keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl + and Ctrl -), as well as with the View menu.
* Improved date handling; using the date/time format for the locale.
* Support for the /ignore command.
* The ability to change the font family and size.
* Working custom sounds on Windows and Linux.
* Improvements to the preferences panel and the user interface for half-op mode.
Under the Hood
* Size and performance have improved dramatically with this release. When compared to Mozilla 1.6, Mozilla 1.7 is 7% faster at startup, is 8% faster to open a window, has 9% faster page loading, and is 5% smaller in binary size.
* A long-standing bug with CSS backgrounds on table elements has been fixed (standards mode only).
* Support for Kerberos HTTP authentication using GSSAPI (benefits Unix-like platforms including Linux and OS X).
* Support for smb:// URLs using the gnome-vfs library (only enabled in GTK2+XFT Linux builds).
* Support for server push of XML documents using multipart/x-mixed-replace and XMLHttpRequest.
* Liveconnect now works when a Java applet's codebase is in a different domain.
* Very wide images (more than 4095px) will now display on Mac.
* Support for the CSS3 opacity property.
* Mozilla adds support for the onbeforeunload event. This lets web application developers add code that alerts the user about potential data-loss when closing a web application, or when leaving a HTML page with potentially sensitive information.
* This release has a new SVG backend. The feature is not yet enabled in the mozilla.org releases but developers may wish to compile with this feature enabled.
* Mozilla handles dynamic style changes much better (see bug 15608 for details.)
* Mozilla has upgraded the NSS libraries to version 3.9. NSS 3.9 passes all the NISCC SSL/TLS and S/MIME tests (1.6 million test cases of invalid input data) without crashes or memory leaks.
http://www.mozilla.org
* Official Mozilla 1.7 builds for Windows, Linux, and Mac all contain the Talkback crash reporting utility. Help us make 1.7 the most stable release yet; please submit your crash reports.
* A new option to prevent sites from using JavaScript to block the browser's context menu.
* A new set of icons for files that are associated with Mozilla on Windows.
* Password Manager has a "show passwords" mode which will display saved passwords. You will need to enter your master password if you are using one.
* The "Set As Wallpaper" feature now has a confirmation dialog.
* Linux GTK2 builds have improved support for OS themes.
* Cookie dialogs have been reworked to make them more usable.
* Date handling, especially on OS X, has been improved.
* It is now possible to fine-tune Mozilla's pop-up blocking using two preferences (dom.popup_maximum and dom.popup_allowed_events) but there's no UI for that yet. Even without a UI, users should notice a greater variety of pop-ups blocked (primarily mouseover pop-ups) and a limit of 20 or so open at one time - regardless of whether pop-up blocking is active. This will provide some protection from sites that open hundreds of windows in a loop.
* Downloaded files are now moved to the target directory as soon as the user selects the desired location. This was the frequently reported bug 55690.
* There is now user interface to activate Smooth Scrolling (Preferences -> Appearance).
* Mozilla now supports basic FTP upload.
* Many improvements to Palm Sync.
* IMAP IDLE support has been added.
* Support for "MSN Authentication" and Secure Password Authentication using SSPI NTLM auth for SMTP and POP3.
* A new preference to "always use the default character encoding for replies" rather than using the encoding of the message being replied to.
* Improvements to performance of downloading, viewing, and saving mail messages.
* Support for multiple identities on the same mail account. See the Multiple Identity Support documentation for more details.
* Support for relative paths for mail folders in prefs.js. This makes it easier to copy profiles around without having to fix up prefs.js afterwards.
* You can now edit address lists containing "Last, First" style names.
* When composing mail, you can now use the up and down arrow keys to scroll through the To/Cc/Bcc list.
* On Mac OS X, attachment file names are no longer displayed in decomposed Unicode but are converted to composed Unicode.
* All Mozilla LDAP queries now default to using LDAPv3 (previously, they used LDAPv2). Mozilla should gracefully fall back to v2 if v3 isn't found.
Chatzilla
* Chatzilla now supports zooming of fonts with keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl + and Ctrl -), as well as with the View menu.
* Improved date handling; using the date/time format for the locale.
* Support for the /ignore command.
* The ability to change the font family and size.
* Working custom sounds on Windows and Linux.
* Improvements to the preferences panel and the user interface for half-op mode.
Under the Hood
* Size and performance have improved dramatically with this release. When compared to Mozilla 1.6, Mozilla 1.7 is 7% faster at startup, is 8% faster to open a window, has 9% faster page loading, and is 5% smaller in binary size.
* A long-standing bug with CSS backgrounds on table elements has been fixed (standards mode only).
* Support for Kerberos HTTP authentication using GSSAPI (benefits Unix-like platforms including Linux and OS X).
* Support for smb:// URLs using the gnome-vfs library (only enabled in GTK2+XFT Linux builds).
* Support for server push of XML documents using multipart/x-mixed-replace and XMLHttpRequest.
* Liveconnect now works when a Java applet's codebase is in a different domain.
* Very wide images (more than 4095px) will now display on Mac.
* Support for the CSS3 opacity property.
* Mozilla adds support for the onbeforeunload event. This lets web application developers add code that alerts the user about potential data-loss when closing a web application, or when leaving a HTML page with potentially sensitive information.
* This release has a new SVG backend. The feature is not yet enabled in the mozilla.org releases but developers may wish to compile with this feature enabled.
* Mozilla handles dynamic style changes much better (see bug 15608 for details.)
* Mozilla has upgraded the NSS libraries to version 3.9. NSS 3.9 passes all the NISCC SSL/TLS and S/MIME tests (1.6 million test cases of invalid input data) without crashes or memory leaks.
http://www.mozilla.org
