Software-update: Mozilla 1.1 Alpha

Verwijderd bracht ons op de hoogte van het nieuws dat Mozilla.org de eerste alpha van de Mozilla 1.1 branch heeft gereleased. Mozilla 1.1 Alpha heeft diverse verbeteringen waaronder een hogere DHTML performance en een kortere opstarttijd. De verbeterde DHTML performance is zeer goed merkbaar op sites die veelvuldig gebruik maken van Dynamic HTML, zoals Tweakers.net. De release notes van 1.1 Alpha kun je hier nalezen en de Win32, MacOS en i686 Linux binaries kunnen via deze URL van de Mozilla.org FTP site neergetankt worden:

What's New In This Release

• Download Manager has been enabled (with many improvements) for the 1.1 Alph arelease.
• Mozilla now takes advantage of Quartz rendering for users of Mac OS X 10.1.5
• Viewing HTML mail messages as plain text is new.
• Quote original message has been implemented for 1.1a
• We have new layout performance enhancements targeted at DHTML.
• There have also been performance enhancements for the application startup speed.
• Viewsource for MathML and view source for selections have been implemented.
• Mozilla now has support for the display of XBM images.
• Autocomplete in the addressbar has an improved sort order.
• Browser tabs now close left to right (they used to close right to left).
• The cross-plaform File Picker now has a button for creating a new directory.
• Redundant backup of preferences files has been implemented in 1.1 Alpha.
• Mozilla's drag and drop support has been greatly improved.
• Image blocking for Mail & News has been implemented.