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Mozilla 0.7 Released

Posted by michael on from the 10,000-guinea-pigs dept.

mpt writes: "Mozilla 0.7 has been released. This is the first release with PSM (the Personal Security Manager) included on Win32, Mac OS, and Linux, so secure sites should work without extra fiddling. Other noticable changes since 0.6 include better mousewheel behavior, Microsoft Proxy Server support, treating maximized windows properly on Win32, and numerous performance improvements (especially for NNTP). So try it out, and report dem bugs." Since Mozilla.org and Mozillazine are now reporting this, we figure the mirrors have had time to update. :)

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  1. Don't bother bashing Mozilla. by evil_one · · Score: 5

    Apart from Konquorer - who the gnome zealots won't use - Mozilla is the only mainstream browser out there for Gnu/Linux users. How many times have you gone to a page only to be turned away because your browser "isn't supported by this website"? Mozilla - being a semi-offical netscape project, will actually have people and companies making scripted sites that will work properly with mozilla. One way that redmond has been trying to keep people away from linux is by not releasing IE for linux - it ensures that some web sites simply won't display on linux.
    The point is this: Mozilla stands to be a real mainstream browser. Don't knock it before it gets a decent chance.
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  2. Daily RPM builds by daemonc · · Score: 5

    right here.

    Chris Blizzard rocks. He builds (almost) daily Mozilla rpms for Redhat 6 and 7. At the above link you will find:

    • bare-bones mozilla rpms: no commercial netscape crap, no debugging crap, no mail/news, only 6.3 MB
    • mozilla-mail rpms, if you want it
    • mozilla-psm rpms, so you can go to secure sites.
    • mozilla-devel rpms, if you need it
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  3. What's New by alexburke · · Score: 5
    The main story only touched on some of the changes such as the Personal Security Manager, which are only part of what's new for 0.7 (albeit a sorely-needed part, especially for Mac users!)

    Here's the rest of what's new:
    • Personal Security Manager is now included in the win32, mac, and linux binaries. This marks the first Mac Mozilla Milestone with SSL support. The PSM 1.4 XPInstall from iPlanet will no longer work with the win32, linux or mac Mozilla 0.7 builds. This should on other platforms as well but isn't working everywhere yet.
    • Mousewheel support has greatly improved and is available for Mac for the first time with this release.
    • Mozilla now has upport for drag and drop attach files in mail.
    • Tooltips have been cleaned up significantly and now do the right thing most of the time.
    • The Mozilla news subscribe dialog has been cleaned up and and most people are now able to use news for some of the really large groups (the alt. hierarchy, for example) which used to cause all sorts of unpleasantness.
    • The problems with Microsoft Proxy Server have been resolved.
    • Context menus for the sidebar have been implemented.
    • Forced reload, not from cache (shift + reload) is new in this release.
    • Mozilla windows now remember their maximized state across sessions and child windows respect parent size.
    • Deleting of History items has been implemented.
    • commandline -version arguement was implemented.
    • Navigation back and forward in framed sites is much improved.
    • Frames can now be promoted in current window with a context menu item (show only this frame).


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