De eerste alphaversie van de 1.8-branche van de open source-browser Mozilla is uitgebracht. Deze suite bevat een browser, e-mailclient en een IRC-client. Zoals gewoonlijk wordt aangeraden om een eventuele vorige installatie van Mozilla, inclusief extensions, te verwijderen voordat je deze release installeert. Het changelog met alle gefixte bugs is hier te vinden, hieronder staan de belangrijkste wijzigingen van deze alpha:
Browser- 1.8 Alpha1 includes keyboard accessibility for the Mozilla Help window and improved keyboard accessibility for the Linux installer.
- Find in This Page now also searches inside textarea and text input boxes.
- Basic FTP upload UI has been added to Mozilla.
- Intellimouse Explorer Backwards and Forwards buttons are now supported on Linux.
- "Close Other Tabs" now has a confirmation dialog similar to closing a browser window with multiple tabs open.
Under the Hood
- Mozilla 1.8 Alpha1 has UI for multiple identity support.
- Junk-mail filtering accuracy has been further improved.
- Users now have an option to mark incoming junk mail as read.
- Preferred mail format (plain text or HTML) is collected and remembered in the Personal Address Book.
- The Mail window menus have been adjusted to improve usability and resizing the mail window no longer resizes the folderpane.
- News now supports displaying the size column in KB or in Lines (via a hidden pref).
- Server wide news filters have been implemented.
- LDAP v3 support has been added.
- Addressbook auto-completion has been improved.
- 1.8a1 fixes an issue with listboxes that caused mail to display multiple attachments incorrectly. Additionally, mail sorting scrolls to keep the currently selected message in view.
[break]Mozilla 1.8 alpha 1 is in de volgende smaken te krijgen:
- Mozilla now has support for CSS2 quotes.
- The XUL Tree widget has undergone significant changes. You read more about that here
- The number of cookies Mozilla will hold has been dramatically increased and a hidden pref added for the few users who need even more.