Mozilla 1.4 Alpha ReleasedTuesday April 1st, 2003Mozilla 1.4 Alpha is here! This release has around 1,000 bug fixes and several new features, including smooth scrolling (disabled by default) and real-time image and table resizing in Composer. There's also support for NTLM authentication on Windows and improvements have been made to Mozilla's Junk Mail Controls and popup blocking features. If that's not enough for you, P3P support is now in there and you should encounter far fewer bookmarking woes with the major changes that have been made to the bookmarks code. Check out the Release Notes for more information and grab a build from the mozilla.org releases page or FTP site, bearing in mind that this is an alpha-quality release. enough said. will now go download.. :) Smooth scrolling is a little... rough? Ctrl + L doesn't work And I don't want my new tabs to open my homepage, dammit! New tabs are meant for surfing, but opening the browser for the first time, I want to check my mail. Gah. Otherwise, looking good :) Bookmarks finally rock. Ctrl + L Works For Me. Ctrl+L is only broken right after you open a new tab. It sucks. #24 Re: New tabs opening home page...by Ascaris <ascaris1@att.net> Thursday April 3rd, 2003 7:08 AM I am glad they finally made the new tabs open the home page. My home page is a local HTML file that contains links to all of my favorite places... I use this instead of the bookmarks toolbar or the bookmarks in general. Opening blank pages was annoying... it is not that much of a bother to hit the home button each time, but now I don't have to. Home page is the way new browser windows (like when you first start Mozilla) are supposed to open, and opening a new tab is like opening a new browser window. They got this one right IMO. Glad I'm not the only one who hates the 'tabs opening home page' thing, and the fact that focus doesn't return to the address bar automatically. Ctrl+L does work for me though, as does F6 which does the same thing. But otherwise I'm generally impressed. And bar a few rendering bugs (such as on <http://www.w3.org/Style/> part of the previous window shows up on the far right), it seems to work fine. That's what I like about Mozilla - the alphas are more stable than the gold builds of IE ;). P3P and NTLM authentification are missing from the release notes... about:buildconfig is missing too Yep, I also believe the release notes must be rewritten, to gain more attention to the NTML, P3P (even I do not even know what is it for, since I never used it) etc... CTRL-Enter doesn't work anymore for me. Anyone else sees this? #16 Re: CTRL-Enter to said email broken?by peterlairo <Peter@Lairo.com> Wednesday April 2nd, 2003 8:28 AM Broken here too. :-( Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030329 #18 Re: Re: CTRL-Enter to said email broken?by ezh <ezh@menelon.ee> Wednesday April 2nd, 2003 9:03 AM It is already fixed on the 1.4b builds. i still can't install the pinstripe theme on the mac OS X release of 1.4a. bug 196959 is still blocking that. ( <http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196959> ) it says it's fixed, but did it get checked into 1.4a? Maybe you should explain what it is e.g. in the release notes. There are actually people out there who do not know IE or its smoot-scrolling feature. Also, is it supposed to work under linux? When I try to middle-click I get an alert window saying "the url is not valid and cannot be loaded" That's almost certainly because you've got UNIX middle click = paste behaviour on (the default with *nix builds, I believe). When I start the version from <http://ftp.mozilla.org/pu…t_8x_RPMS/gtk2/RPMS/i386/> I get: mozilla -debug /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4a/mozilla-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libnspr4.so: symbol pthread_cond_init, version GLIBC_2.3.2 not defined in file libpthread.so.0 with link time reference I've never seen that before. Any ideas? Solved the problem. It requires the errata glibc package <https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-089.html> This is a good one for the release notes. You can now drag and rearrange bookmarks straight from the Bookmarks menu, like IE. I salute the Mozilla developers! It's been in the nightlies for a while. Go nightlies :) Seems that Mozilla still doesn't automatically look for /favicon.ico, so it will only show up if the page has a link to the file. One good thing about IE is that it automatically looks for the file at the root and then uses it for all pages on that site that don't explicitly call for a different file. ...and creates lotsa extra(and in many cases, bogus) traffic on servers. Not to mention all of the extra entries in server log files.. Make that "one ***HORRIBLE*** thing about IE..." I've ran a few websites, and I hate that IE does that! If I want you to get a favicon.ico file, I'll tell you about it! Thanks guys for the good work! Especially on the bookmarks section. :) |
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