Posted on 06/30/2003 9:22:49 PM PDT by zeugma
For those of you who are interested in such things, the Mozilla Group has announced the release of Mozilla Version 1.4. This is a major stable release and should have all the latest bells and whistles included.
The following is a brief feature list:
Mozilla on Windows now has support for NTLM authentication. This enables Mozilla to talk to MS web and proxy servers that are configured to use "windows integrated security".
Mozilla's bookmarks have been overhauled. Bookmarks now include a root level folder, the ability to have two differently named bookmarks pointing at the same location, site icons in the Bookmark Manager and Bookmarks Sidebar, and separators now have support for labels.
Composer now supports click and drag dynamic image and table resizing. If an image is selected or if the caret is placed inside a table, eight resizing handles appear and allow to resize the image/table with a simple click/drag/release. In the case of an image, the resizing is done real-time and a semi-opaque shadow of the image at its target size is shown during resizing. A tooltip shows in real-time the target size in pixels, and the relative change in pixels too.
Mozilla now has smooth scrolling. It is disabled by default. To enable it, use about:config to add the boolean preference general.smoothScroll with a value of true. To disable smooth scrolling, set the value of the pref to false.
Mail now has junk-mail context menu items, a "delete junk mail" menu item and many other usability improvements for junk-mail controls.
Users can now specify "blank page," "home page," or "Last page visited" for each of first window, new window and new tab.
Users can now specify default font, size and color for HTML compose.
Image blocking/disabling is now more flexible and users can "view image" to see blocked or not loaded images.
"Launch file" after downloading has been enabled for .exe files
It is possible to build Mozilla for Win32 using GCC. See the win32 build instructions for details.
Proxy auto-config (PAC) failover has been implemented
Mozilla 1.4 contains thousands of additional bugfixes, including changes to improve performance, stability, web site compatability, standards support, and usability.
Those of you still dealing with popups, banners, and other annoyances (i.e., you are still using MS-IE), should give this a try, as it's MILES ahead of anything currently available from Redmond. Tabbed Browsing is reason enough all by itself.
I LOVE tabbed browsing. FR has its own browser and all threads are tabbed within. Really, really cleans up the task line. I'm surprised M$ hasn't stolen it and put out a press release saying his highness Bill invented it - yet.
Silly goose, that's what Word is for! Get with the program, err.. office suit(at $$$).
i should probably run nightlies myself, but I'm a chicken!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.