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What’s new in Mozilla 1.5

The new release of Mozilla is better and faster. The user interface has been polished for improved usability. Many new features have also been added to enhance your Internet experience. The following is a list of major feature updates to Mozilla since version 1.4.

  • 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. The old ':' notation is still supported only for pseudo-elements in CSS2 (:first-line, :first-letter, :before, :after) and the various :-moz-tree-* pseudo-elements.
  • Unstyled XML display has been improved.
  • Some Windows GDI problems in Mozilla have been resolved.
  • A common problem collapsing the URL bar popup on Windows has been fixed.
  • Mozilla has improved performance, stability, standards support and Web compatibility.