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."

Comments

Re:Smooth scrolling not on by default?

[Anonymous Coward]

smooth scrolling is in experimental stages.

there's already atleast 1 crash bug filed against it (sometimes, horizontal scrolling causes a crash).

Bookmarks, new feature

[metz2000]

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.

Re:One feature i would like to see is...

[metz2000]

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 ;-)

Lots of probs with RH8 RPMS

[Chris Croome]

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... :-)

Re:bookmark improvements

[mu_wtfo]

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.

Location bar autocomplete tip

[ortholattice]

I liked the 1.2.1 behavior of "first click on location bar selects all", so that "click" then "s" immediately autocompletes the most frequently visited "s" site (e.g. slashdot). This went away in 1.3 with a kind of 3rd-click-selects-all behavior. To restore it in recent nightlies, and I assume 1.4alpha, put in your user.js:

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).

Re:I miss the lizard

[keith73]

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

Re:SPELLCHECKER ... ADD IT DAMN-IT!!!

[Crispin Cowan]

I have been using this Mozdev spell checker for about a week, and I love it.

Crispin
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Re:Reading Spam-filtering rules?

[Aanallein]

The spam filtering is a little too aggressive. Seems to mark everybody that isn't in my address book as junk.

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.

Is there a way to re-train the filters?

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).