Mozilla 1.7b Released

[Michael Forsythe]

I'm posting with it now.

The Mozilla Foundation today released Mozilla 1.7 Beta, the latest test
version of the Mozilla Application Suite. 1.7b features hundreds of
improvements, including a new preference to stop sites blocking the
standard page context menu and a Password Manager option to show the
actual saved passwords. The cookie handling user interface has also been
redesigned and the 'Set As Wallpaper' feature now has a confirmation
dialogue, preventing accidental wallpaper changes. Standards compliance
continues to improve, with Mozilla now understanding the CSS3 opacity
property and a long-standing bug with CSS backgrounds in tables
resolved. In addition, using XMLHttpRequest and the
multipart/x-mixed-replace MIME type, servers can now push XML documents
to Mozilla.

Mail & Newsgroups sports several new features in 1.7b, including support
for the IMAP IDLE command, which allows the mail server to inform
Mozilla of changes such as new messages, and support for Secure Password
Authentication using SSPI NTLM for POP3 and SMTP. Performance when
downloading, viewing and saving messages has also been improved and the
Address Book Palm synchronisation feature has been improved.

The installer releases of Mozilla 1.7 Beta now include Quality Feedback
Agent again, allowing users to report crashes, and the Linux GTK2 builds
have improved support for OS themes. Compared to Mozilla 1.6, 1.7b is 7%
faster to start up, 8% faster to open new windows and 9% faster to load
pages. And it does all this while being 5% smaller.

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.7b

 

[Al Smith]

Mail & Newsgroups sports several new features in 1.7b, including support for the IMAP IDLE command, which allows the mail server to inform Mozilla of changes such as new messages, and support for Secure Password Authentication using SSPI NTLM for POP3 and SMTP.

I wonder if they ever fixed whatever bug was making Mozilla close
or crash randomly in Mail and News in Mozilla 1.6? I had to go
back to 1.5 because of it. Oh, well, guess I won't know until I
try the "stable" final release version, when it comes out.

 

[Anti_Freak_Machine]

I wonder if they ever fixed whatever bug was making Mozilla close or
crash randomly in Mail and News in Mozilla 1.6? I had to go back to 1.5
because of it. Oh, well, guess I won't know until I try the "stable"
final release version, when it comes out.

Thats odd, I used 1.6 for mail and newsgroups exclusively and I never
had a crash. I'm curious, did you report it? I had a problem with
forums on websites (it crashed when selecting text and images). Turns
out it was a faulty extension.

 

[Michael Forsythe]

Thats odd, I used 1.6 for mail and newsgroups exclusively and I never
had a crash. I'm curious, did you report it? I had a problem with
forums on websites (it crashed when selecting text and images). Turns
out it was a faulty extension.

I had no Mail & News crashes with 1.6 either, nor have I had any with 1.7b.

 

[Rob]

I had no Mail & News crashes with 1.6 either, nor have I had any with
1.7b.

I understand that one of the bugs related to IMAP use. If you are using
POP3 then you won't experience this one bug.

Rob

 

[Roy]

I'm posting with it now.

The Mozilla Foundation today released Mozilla 1.7 Beta, the latest test
version of the Mozilla Application Suite. 1.7b features hundreds of
improvements, including a new preference to stop sites blocking the
standard page context menu and a Password Manager option to show the
actual saved passwords.

[snipped for the sake of brevity]

http://www.mozilla.org/releases/#1.7b

I'd suggest a deal of caution with this one, based on my experience with
it.

Downloaded and installed OK, I thought at the time, so I decided to add
Newsmonster to it as with Mozilla 1.6. True there was a warning at some
stage of its installation that it might cause problems with 1.7 beta, but I
went ahead, and everything seemed to work OK, including Newsmonster.

When I restarted Mozilla this morning, there were immediate problems. It
proved impossible to see the right hand side of any page viewed with
Mozilla, and impossible to to resize the page, even by stretching and
dragging the sides. It made confirming the version number being used
extremely difficult as a result.

Newsmonster appeared to work, but did nothing. I uninstalled Newsmonster
and restarted Mozilla 1.7beta. No change, at least one third of each page
unviewable. Reinstalled 1.6 and ran that. No change.

I then made sure that both versions had been completely uninstalled, and
started again with a completely new installation of 1.6. That worked, as
did the reinstallation of Newsmonster. So all now back to normal.

I'm not sure that attempting to install Newsmonster with Mozilla 1.7beta
was the cause of all the problems experienced, as I'm pretty sure the page
width problem was there before I did so.

For the record, I'm using XP Home here.

Be careful with this one, but YMMV.

Cheers,

Roy

 

[Al Smith]

I'm not sure that attempting to install Newsmonster with Mozilla 1.7beta

was the cause of all the problems experienced, as I'm pretty sure the page
width problem was there before I did so.

For the record, I'm using XP Home here.

Be careful with this one, but YMMV.

That's why they put the "b" in beta.

 

[Roy]

That's why they put the "b" in beta.

Quite.

Cheers,

Roy