Op de site van de Mozilla organisatie lezen we dat er een nieuwe release candidate van de gelijknamige browser beschikbaar is. Daarmee zijn we aangekomen bij versie 1.5 RC1 van dit programma. De programmeurs zijn behoorlijk druk geweest en in deze release zijn dan ook ongeveer duizend problemen opgelost. Een volledig overzicht van alle fouten die zijn verwijderd kun je vinden in het uitgebreide changelog:
New Features and Fixes[break]Zoals gewoonlijk zijn er weer een aantal verschillende versies beschikbaar:
- 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 t
- grid" when moving an absolutely positioned objec
- Source View now use an editor instead of a simple textarea (allows find and replace)
- numerous fixes in caret management, inline styles handling and CSS styles handling
- Chatzilla now has support for logging and lots of ugfixes.
- Dom Inspecor can now display the #document node (the document root.)
- A quicksearch filter has been implemented for about:config.
- Improvements to tabbed browsing including:
- Back and Forward navigation for tabbed browsing and bookmak groups has been improved. Users can now use the back button after loading a bookmark group t
- restore the previous tabs.
- Closing a window wth multiple tabs now prompts the user with a confirmation dialog (which can be disabled for future close operations.
- It is now possible to jump from the JavaScript console to the relevant line in the View Source Window
- 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
- Mozilla now includes a spellchecker for MailNews and Composer.
- Mozilla MailNews now supports the printing of the attachments list
- ChatZilla, Mozilla's interet relay chat client, has had a major overhaul bringing many improvements.
- MailNews users can add header lines to *every
- msg sent out via a certain identity.
- A common application hang with SSL-encrypted SMTP connections in MailNews was fixed.
- Unstyled XML display has been improved
- Users can now mark message as read by date in MailNews.
- Gecko now supports setting color for <HR>.
- A common problem collapsing the URLbar popup on Windows has been fixed.
- Mozilla's view source now displays line and column numbers in the status bar.
- Mozilla has improved performance, stability, standards spport and web compatibility.
- Mozilla should no longer cause GDI problems on Windows.
Voor Windows
Voor Linux
Voor MacOS X