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Run For Cover; It's Mozilla 1.4 Alpha

Posted by timothy on from the you-could-be-the-lucky-winner dept.

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."

4 of 364 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Smooth scrolling not on by default? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    smooth scrolling is in experimental stages.

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

  2. Bookmarks, new feature by metz2000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:One feature i would like to see is... by metz2000 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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 ;-)

  4. Location bar autocomplete tip by ortholattice · · Score: 4, Informative
    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).