mirp
2004-04-22, 08:28:10
Mozilla 1.7 RC 1 - Released April 21, 2004
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/
Die Release Notes (http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.7rc1/) enthalten auch die anderen 1.7-Neuerungen. Daher habe ich hier mal das markiert, was mit RC1 dazugekommen ist.
New Features and Fixes (http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.7rc1/README.html#new)
Browser
* Official Mozilla 1.7 RC 1 installer builds for Windows and Linux
contain the Talkback crash reporting utility. To help us make 1.7
the most stable release yet, please submit your crash reports.
* A new option to prevent sites using Javascript to block the browser's
context menu.
* A new set of icons for files that are associated with Mozilla.
* 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.
* Mozilla includes several improvements to Mozilla's pop-up blocking
features.
o First, it is now possible to fine-tune it 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 which provides some protection from sites that open hundreds
of windows in a loop.
o also allows the user to review and retroactively open blocked windows
via context (right-click) menu on the statusbar "blocked pop-up" icon.
* 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).
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.
* This is the first Mozilla 1.x release with support for multiple identities on
the same mail account. See the Multiple Identity Support documentation for
more details.
* is also the first Mozilla 1.x release with 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.
* With Mozilla , 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). There is a hidden .protocolVersion preference which can force LDAP v2
to be used on a per-server basis. LDAP autoconfig authors can force v2 also by
adding a setProtocolVersion call to their JS. Details can be found by grovelling
through bug 198168.
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.
* Chatzilla has moved forward to version 0.9.59 which includes such improvements as:
o Support for the /ignore command.
o Font family and size can now be changed.
o Custom sounds are now working on Windows and Linux.
o Improvements to the user interface for half-op mode.
Under the Hood
* Mozilla 1.7 size and performance have improved dramatically with this release.
When compared to Mozilla 1.6, Mozilla 1.7 RC 1 is 7% faster at startup, is 8%
faster at window open time, has 9% faster pageloading times, 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/releases/
Die Release Notes (http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.7rc1/) enthalten auch die anderen 1.7-Neuerungen. Daher habe ich hier mal das markiert, was mit RC1 dazugekommen ist.
New Features and Fixes (http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.7rc1/README.html#new)
Browser
* Official Mozilla 1.7 RC 1 installer builds for Windows and Linux
contain the Talkback crash reporting utility. To help us make 1.7
the most stable release yet, please submit your crash reports.
* A new option to prevent sites using Javascript to block the browser's
context menu.
* A new set of icons for files that are associated with Mozilla.
* 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.
* Mozilla includes several improvements to Mozilla's pop-up blocking
features.
o First, it is now possible to fine-tune it 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 which provides some protection from sites that open hundreds
of windows in a loop.
o also allows the user to review and retroactively open blocked windows
via context (right-click) menu on the statusbar "blocked pop-up" icon.
* 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).
* 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.
* This is the first Mozilla 1.x release with support for multiple identities on
the same mail account. See the Multiple Identity Support documentation for
more details.
* is also the first Mozilla 1.x release with 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.
* With Mozilla , 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). There is a hidden .protocolVersion preference which can force LDAP v2
to be used on a per-server basis. LDAP autoconfig authors can force v2 also by
adding a setProtocolVersion call to their JS. Details can be found by grovelling
through bug 198168.
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.
* Chatzilla has moved forward to version 0.9.59 which includes such improvements as:
o Support for the /ignore command.
o Font family and size can now be changed.
o Custom sounds are now working on Windows and Linux.
o Improvements to the user interface for half-op mode.
Under the Hood
* Mozilla 1.7 size and performance have improved dramatically with this release.
When compared to Mozilla 1.6, Mozilla 1.7 RC 1 is 7% faster at startup, is 8%
faster at window open time, has 9% faster pageloading times, 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.