Mozilla 1.5 is released!

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New Features and Fixes

  • Mozilla now includes a spellchecker for MailNews and Composer.  
  • Additional MailNews improvements include:  
  • Users can add header lines to *every* message sent out via a certain identity.  
  • A common application hang with SSL-encrypted SMTP connections has been fixed.  
  • Printing of the attachments list is now supported.  
  • Users can now mark message as read by date.  
  • Many great improvements to Mozilla Composer including:  
  • Better resizing for images, tables, and absolutely positioned objects.  
  • Support for absolutely positioned objects, movable on the canvas using the mouse.  
  • Support for z-index management.
  • “Snap to grid” when moving an absolutely positioned object.  
  • Source View now uses an editor instead of a simple textarea (allows find and replace).  
  • Numerous fixes in caret management, inline styles handling, and CSS styles handling.
  • Improvements to tabbed browsing, including:  
  • Tabs are now replaced when a bookmark group is loaded. This can be changed to the old “append” behavior in the Tabbed browsing preferences.  
  • Back and Forward navigation for tabbed browsing and bookmark groups has been improved. Users can now use the back button after loading a bookmark group to restore the previous set of tabs.  
  • Closing a window with multiple tabs now prompts the user with a confirmation dialog (which can be disabled for future close operations).  
  • ChatZilla, Mozilla’s internet relay chat (IRC) client, has had a major overhaul bringing logging and many additional improvements.  
  • DOM Inspector can now display the #document node (the document root).  
  • It is now possible to jump from the JavaScript console to the relevant line in the View Source Window.  
  • Mozilla’s view source now displays line and column numbers in the status bar.  
  • A quicksearch filter has been implemented for about:config.
  • Gecko now supports setting color for <HR>.  
  • The ‘::’ notation for CSS pseudo-elements is now supported. Note: The old ‘:’ notation is still supported for the various -moz-* pseudo-elements, but will NOT be supported in Mozilla 1.5. Themes should be updated to use the ‘::’ notation for pseudo-elements.  
  • Unstyled XML display has been improved.
  • Mozilla should no longer cause GDI problems on Windows.  
  • A common problem collapsing the URL bar popup on Windows has been fixed.  
  • Mozilla has improved performance, stability, standards support and Web compatibility.