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Run For Cover; It's Mozilla 1.4 Alpha
asa writes "Mozilla 1.4 Alpha is out.
This release features dynamic image and table resizing in Composer, smooth scrolling (see release notes for enabling this feature,) and usability improvements to spam filtering. In addition to these feature improvements, 1.4a also contains fixes for performance, stability, standards support and website compatibility. This is an alpha release so expect bugs, and don't use it unless you are willing to live with the risks inherent in such a release (ie. crashes, data loss, etc.). More information is available in the release notes."
smooth scrolling is in experimental stages.
there's already atleast 1 crash bug filed against it (sometimes, horizontal scrolling causes a crash).
Been running a nightly 1.4a build since a few days because 1.3 doesn't like my google adress bar search function thingamajig. It's pretty much as lovely as Mozilla 1.3 except it hasn't killed my google adress bar search thingamjiggy... yet.
Otherwise, I still agree that Mozilla is lovely!
Hate me!
An excellent new feature has been added. The ability to drag and drop bookmarks using the menu only. No longer do I have to go into Bookmark Manager!
:-)
Still can't right-click the items in the bookmarks menu, but hey maybe in a future release.
Very good work IMHO.
This can be done but it is a but fiddly. You have to highlight the image (click and drag the mouse across an image), then press Ctrl-C (or Edit > Copy)... the image is now in the clipboard... It works for me anyway ;-)
I have just installed the RH 8.0 RPMS and Ctr-T to open a new tab is broken (but right click on a link and open in new tab works).
Also lots of preferences things are also broken, like everything under Navigator -- the error looks like the one you get with an invalid XML file.
However it's still my fave browser and hopefully it's going to be more stable than 1.4 was... :-)
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This would be great, why isnt this in the release notes?
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more about this is found in
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1
(copy and past,bugzilla does not accept
This very close to the i.e. implementation. Microsoft documented their security mechanism:
howitworks/security/sspi2000.asp>
msdn
For the non windows users (or older mozilla users) ther is still an ntlm proxy that works very good.
I'm finishing our Win2K -> OS X migration... WOW is networking more pleasant... at least for a small network.
/Network/Applications. They can run the .App file, and everything works fine...
You mount the home directory off a server, instead of copying it up and down (takes forever) on Windows.
Mozilla isn't on any machines, it's in the Applications share, mounted at
Really nice, I have 3 alternative browsers and 1 alternative IM client, for people that want them. There is no installation, and they are available anywhere.
Alex
The updated roadmap shows a 0.6 release for sometime in April.
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Yeah, the bookmarks aren't quite fixed because they have brought in some newer bugs, but that's because the bookmark code has been overhauled.
They also added a cookie manager that has an option for IE-like security zones (it is better than IE's of course). The jury is still out if I like it or not. I just block all 3rd party cookies.
Get Firefox!
The Calendar is not part of the default build, but can be installed from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/ It should work fine in 1.4 alpha.
The project has recently implemented a multi week view, and now has the ability to print calendars as well. There's lots of great work being done on it, by students at the University of Charleston (improved week views, date pickers and more) and at Penn State (integration with calendar server).
Mike
Roaming Profiles *is* being worked on...It's the pet project of Ben Bucksch over at Beonex. He's already made great progress - you can see for yourself, check out bug 124029.
If all the world's a stage, anyone who says they want better lighting spends far too much time in a dark theatre.
Thats kind of strange, since autoscroll works great on 1.3, and it scrolls smoothly horizontally and vertically.
My server
I just installed 1.4a (coming from 1.3) and there is one thing that is really annoying me. Now whenever I open a new tab, the new tab already opens in my Home Page.
:-(
With 1.3 it opened a blank page and the cursor was placed at the url bar so I could just do a Ctrl-T and start typing the address.
Can this be disabled? I solved it by selecting a empty Home Page
user_pref("browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll", true);
user_pref("browser.urlbar.clickAtEndSelects", true);
This will also restore the behavior partially in 1.3, but only if you click on top of the currently displayed URL (i.e. it won't work if you click in the blank area because the 2nd user_pref was implemented after 1.3).
Easy fix. Go into the display properties->settings->advanced->troubleshooting and turn down hardware acceleration down one notch.
Problem solved. At least for me on my win2k dell workstation at the office.
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I just upgraded to the final release version of 1.3 and I love it. The advanced pop-up manager and cookie managers are great. The message filters do wonders for newsgroups and email. And they've already got 1.4alpha ready. cool.
1.3 was in beta/alpha for a while, but updates every 1-3 months is pretty good. And these aren't updates to keep unauthorized scripts from erasing my hard drive, they're actually new features and enhancements in addition to bug fixes.
- keith
-- Does anybody know where the 'any' key is on the keyboard?
go to deskmod.com for lots of alternative splash screens for mozilla. just save any one of them to the directory where mozilla.exe resides. 1 cool feature would be if you could save them all in a directory and select one from the preferences or have it load a random one everytime you launch it. http://www.deskmod.com/?show=showcat&cat_name=mozs plash
- keith
-- Does anybody know where the 'any' key is on the keyboard?
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It's strange that there are ports to OSes so obscure that I've never heard of them, but not the OS that the majority of people in my building use.
Maybe it's strange, but that's the reality. There are people that care enough about AIX or BeOS and have the skill to keep them building on those platforms. There aren't people that care enoughand have the skill to keep Mozilla building on Mac classic.
Is there any way which someone not tech-savvy enough to help with a port to OS9 could help to persuade the Mozilla people to give us the extra features and stability that we are missing out on?
Sure. Convince someone that is tech-savvy enough to do the hard work necessary to maintain an OS 9 build (estimated by some as a couple of full days a week). We made several attempts to find such a person before retiring the build and none stepped up. It's sad, but if no one wants to work on it then it doesn't get worked on.
--Asa
This was annoying me too, just as much as I find using javascript for configuration files quite stupid. Anyway, the idea is to keep informations about your e-mail accounts inside your user.js file. Now I still create a new profile everytime a new release is out, but at least I don't have to reconfigure everything. Here is a sample user.js with e-mail accounts settings.
So mark all that email as non-junk again to correct the behaviour. The filters will learn very quickly if you do.
The bayesian filters working correctly depends on having knowledge of both email that is considered junk and email that isn't junk.
If you really have to, you can delete training.dat to remove all training information (found in your profile, see the release notes for the location if you don't know).
Before you do this, I suggest you move all of the actual spam to a spam folder if you haven't already. This will make this process easier.
Completely exit Mozilla. Go to your profile directory, and look for a file called training.dat. Delete it (or rename it to something else). Start Mozilla Mail again. Re-flag all of the real spam as spam (select all the spam messages, and hit the junk button). Then, go through and find some good messages (not all of them), and flag them as not spam. The less aggressive you want it to be, the more of your legit messages you should mark as not spam. You can test it by using the "Run Junk Mail Controls of Folder" on good message and seeing how many false positives are marked. Flag these as not spam.
This process has worked pretty well for rebuilding an effective spam filter for me. If you mess up, it's not hard to do again.
Google doesn't index user sigs, so stop trying to "Google Bomb" with them.