Mozilla 1.4 released

[Vegard Krog Petersen]

Mozilla 1.4 released today

Release Notes: http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.4/
Download:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.4/mozilla-win32-1.4-installer.exe
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.4/mozilla-mac-MachO-1.4.dmg.gz
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.4/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.4-sea.tar.gz

New Features and Fixes

* 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.
* Mail now has junk-mail context menu items, a "delete junk mail"
menu item and many other usability improvements for junk-mail
controls.
* Pop-up blocking has been streamlined to improve usability.
* 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 mail
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.

 

[fathom]

This is what I've been waiting for. Thanks, Vegard.

It's exactly the same as 1.4RC3, so If you have that already,
you have the 1.4 final.

--

 

[msd13]

Mozilla 1.4 released today

Release Notes: http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.4/
Download:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.4/mozilla-win32-1.4-installer.exe
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.4/mozilla-mac-MachO-1.4.dmg.gz
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.4/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.4-sea.tar.gz

New Features and Fixes

Is anyone using the mail client on it's own as a separate application
other than the people coding at Mozilla ? I'd download Mozilla but I'm
already using Firebird. Excuse my ignorance, just interested.

 

[George]

It's exactly the same as 1.4RC3, so If you have that already,
you have the 1.4 final.

D'oh, wish it had said that on the download page!

 

[rdt]

Mozilla 1.4 released today

Release Notes: http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.4/
Download:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.4/mozilla-win32-1.4-installer.exe
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.4/mozilla-mac-MachO-1.4.dmg.gz
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.4/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.4-sea.tar.gz

New Features and Fixes

* 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.
* Mail now has junk-mail context menu items, a "delete junk mail"
menu item and many other usability improvements for junk-mail
controls.
* Pop-up blocking has been streamlined to improve usability.
* 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 mail
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.

Do you have to uninstall the previous mozilla version before installing
this ??

 

[Peter Jetson]

It's exactly the same as 1.4RC3, so If you have that already,
you have the 1.4 final.

I guess that explains why it still has the same bug(s)

Peter

 

[Al Smith]

Do you have to uninstall the previous mozilla version before installing this ??

In theory, no. I seldom uninstall an old version before upgrading
to a newer version, and almost never have a problem due to the
upgrade. This is not the case should you decide to go back from
1.4 to 1.3, however. Then you must do a complete uninstall.

 

[msd13]

< snip >

Has anyone compared the browser part to Firebird ? If so then any
pluss' or minus's ?

Can't claim to have, but I know the html rendering engine is identical
in both so what's left to be different is mostly (if not all!) with
the interface. Hopefully someone will follow up with a better overview
than I can offer. If you already have Firebird then just ignore what
I'm about to put...

Theres a handfull of things which are obviously wrong with Firebirds
GUI but then again it even says as much within the dialogs themselves
texts like:"could do with another dialog here" written within an
actual dialog. What I've noticed are so plainly obvious I'm not going
to report back about them ;o/, they don't alter the core
functionality, which as far as I can tell is really good. In my
experience (and on my setup) IE crashes when there is a lot of windows
open, Firebird has on two *very rare* occasions produced some kind of
resource leak. Opera (which is ad supported, I know ) is the most
stable of the bunch...but it's the most standards strict and as such
doesn't display some pages as unintended. I use a few forums so things
like that although trivial have a regular impact.

I like Firebird, I think it has a lot going for it... Firebird is
(again AFAIK) extendable in a number of ways which Mozilla is not,
talking in terms of 'shell extensions' in windows - right click menus
and suchlike, I don't know if it's as flexible a system as say WinAmp3
(in which all the functional elements can be shifted about anywhere
and anywhere, and have any appearance), but with that said there are
already plug-ins for it. The plug-ins are not all user friendly, some
are not particulary well implemented yet in the way you might expect,
I imagine that the developers are going "look this function is a
possibility" to each other... and then they are leaving the fine
tuning until last. As an example a plugin which shows all your
downloads in a task bar simply fills up, and the windows get forever
smaller, if theres a way to clear the download history then it's not
at all obvious - so the thing ends up about as useful as a chocolate
teapot. Then again it's not as if the browsing experience is
compromised that much by small defects, it's pretty solid considering
it's developmental status.

 

[JanC]

1.4 has still got that yellow splash screen (yuck)

So, why not disable it if you don't like it?

(Search the web for "Mozilla commandline parameters" or something like
that)

 

[John Corliss]

So, why not disable it if you don't like it?

(Search the web for "Mozilla commandline parameters" or something like
that)

"C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\mozilla.exe" -quiet

 

[Ranrad]

"C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\mozilla.exe" -quiet

Thanks JanC & John,
It's not so much wanting to get rid of a splash screen as wanting a
decent one (like the one they used to have, that was cute)

 

[John Fitzsimons]

On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 11:15:13 +1000, John Fitzsimons

I hve Firebird as my default, and I have just installed Mozilla 1.4.
1.4 is no faster than 1.3 or any previous builds, and I find Firebird
really fast by comparison.
1.4 has still got that yellow splash screen (yuck), Firebird doesn.t
have a splash screen (at least I have never seen one)
Apart from that they both seem the same to me.

Thanks for your comments, and thanks too to msd.

I decided to check things out myself. I didn't check speed like you
did or notice the limitations msd did BUT I did think that there was a
difference in the bookmarks area. Menu items are in different places
for a start.

With Firebird I can have a L.H.S. search pane and a R.H.S. web page
viewing pane. I didn't notice that with 1.4. Maybe I missed a setting
somewhere ? I am so used now to the Firebird layout I rather like it
and prefer it to 1.4.


Regards, John.

 

[DC]

Thanks JanC & John,
It's not so much wanting to get rid of a splash screen as wanting a
decent one (like the one they used to have, that was cute)

Then change it. It doesn't get much eaier than this:

http://www.lotekk.net/index.php?page=moz

}:O)

 

[Tiger]

Spelling, OTOH, is still quite difficult. }%OS

Not for us entellagint peepal.

--
Tiger

"If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe; but
precisely because I cannot do this, I must believe."
- Soren Kierkegaard

 

[Dennis Roark]

On 1 Jul 2003 05:34:52 -0700, (e-mail address removed)
(Vegard Krog Petersen) wrote:

Mozilla 1.4 released today [snip]
Is anyone using the mail client on it's own as a separate
application other than the people coding at Mozilla ? I'd download
Mozilla but I'm already using Firebird. Excuse my ignorance, just
interested.

Is this what you're after?
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Fantastic, thanks. I couldn't find the page before..I look forward to
trying it out.

Thunderbird mail client is still too buggy for me. I use the Firebird
browser also, but have Mozilla 1.4 (1.5 nightly actually) for the mail
client which I love. The download of Thunderbird is not much smaller
than the download of the Mozilla suite if you only install the browser
and mail parts. Thunderbird will be good someday, but still problems
now. Firebird is nearly perfect; Thunderbird still feels like early
beta, which it is.

--
Dennis Roark

(e-mail address removed)
Starting Points:
www.home.earthlink.net/~denro

 

[Blinky the Shark]

Tiger Wrote in alt.comp.freeware, on 4 Jul 2003 02:50:58 GMT:

Or for those of us that have purchased the boxed version of Xnews

So how *is* LuuSpell? I assume it has the GSKSA...

 

[SINNER]

Blinky the Shark Wrote in alt.comp.freeware, on 4 Jul 2003 19:38:09 GMT:

SINNER wrote:

So how *is* LuuSpell? I assume it has the GSKSA...

using anything else would be just Luu-dicrous

 

[Blinky the Shark]

Blinky the Shark Wrote in alt.comp.freeware, on 4 Jul 2003 19:38:09 GMT:

using anything else would be just Luu-dicrous

Hey, we of the Xnews clan are, I just realized...

....Luusers! Keep the faith!

 

[Tiger]

Hey, we of the Xnews clan are, I just realized...

...Luusers! Keep the faith!

Linux Users = "lusers"
Xnews Users = "luusers"

Guess we're just luluusers

--
Tiger

"If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe; but
precisely because I cannot do this, I must believe."
- Soren Kierkegaard