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Mozilla 1.4 RC3 Is Out

Posted by timothy on from the tension-builds dept.

zzxc writes "Mozillazine reports that the third release candidate for Mozilla 1.4 has been released. It is available for download from mozilla.org. Testing is encouraged to fix any bugs before the final release. No new features have been added to this release, though many bugs have been fixed. For more information, see the release notes."

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  1. Re:The big question is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Mozilla 1.4 RC3 is expected to be the final release candidate. It incorporates the fix for one final GDI leak bug, and some minor stuff, but unless something completely unexpected will crop up, this very same release candidate will be rebranded as 1.4 final by the end of the week.

  2. Re:Firebird by Max+Romantschuk · · Score: 5, Informative

    Firebird a subproject of Mozilla is a light weight version of Mozilla seems a lot better bet to me.

    Actually, the current Mozilla Roadmap clearly states this goal: Deliver a Mozilla 1.4 milestone that can replace the 1.0 branch as the stable development path, then move on to make riskier changes during 1.5 and 1.6. The major changes after 1.4 involve switching to Mozilla Firebird and Thunderbird, and working aggressively on the next two items.

    So actually, that's where we're heading :)

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  3. Firebird by khalido · · Score: 5, Informative

    When Moz 1.4 final is released, will Firebird then be based on 1.4, or will it remain based on the Moz 1.3 codebase? Also Moz needs better default fonts still. I had to install the vera fonts to make it look decent. In IE the fonts looks so much better. I know, thats becasue its using the fonts in windows and what not, and moz just can't include anti aliased fonts that won't work on systems x,y and z, but there needs to a system with prebuilt decent fonts. Moz is now so much better than IE, but default Moz on linux looks like a POS. Yes yes I installed truetype fonts now its fine but a lot of people don't know how to do all that. All this is becasue I had installed linux for a non computer person, who updated mozilla and then was stuck with the default fonts.

  4. Re:Release Notes way too bloated by cerberusss · · Score: 5, Informative
    Must I really begin to diff them?
    No, just scroll down. After the release notes, there's a section "New additions to the Release Notes".
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  5. why i won't switch to lightweight firebird by heymjo · · Score: 5, Informative

    in mozilla, type something in the adress bar , press down key and you get "search google for" , press enter and boom results are there.
    I don't want to switch to a different search field or even set up parameterized keywords to do this.. Google search with 2 keys (down + enter) is for me the killer feature as i do this well over a hundred times per day

    1. Re:why i won't switch to lightweight firebird by Gleng · · Score: 5, Informative

      There's an extension for Firebird which adds a google search box to your toolbar.

      Just go to Tools->Options->Extensions->Get New Extensions.

      Have a scroll through the page, there's quite a few handy extensions that you can download, and not many of them are over a few KB.

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    2. Re:why i won't switch to lightweight firebird by riflemann · · Score: 5, Informative

      Keywords are a problem for this?? I find it a heck of a lot faster than scrolling down lists...

      Create a bookmark with the follwing URL:

      http://www.google.com/search?&q=%s

      In the bookmarks manager, go to the properties of this bookmark, and set the keyword to 'g'.

      All you have to do now for a google search is to type "g [search term]" in the address bar and hit enter. (without quotes)

      Plus the keyboard travel for typing "g " is much smaller than for the arrow keys.

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  6. Re:Release Notes way too bloated by mlefevre · · Score: 5, Informative

    That's just a clarification of the stuff about Java, it's not indicative of a change between releases.

    As you might expect, the only changes between RC2 and RC3 were a bunch of bug fixes, and those don't get mentioned in the release notes - they're release notes, not a changelog.

    For the sake of the database, I won't post bugzilla links, but the list of fixes since RC2 is as follows:

    88393 (Mac) Check in a high-resolution application and document icon ...
    140357 (All) Backspace deletes text formatting,TypeInState should be s...
    189429 (All) strict javascript warning in mail3PaneWindowCommands.js
    197379 (Mac) file:// URLs from CFM mozilla don't work with Mach-O mozilla
    199443 (PC) leaking GDIs when table cell contains an image, and text...
    205360 (Sun) libxpcom.so depends on non-existent libiconv.so
    206271 (PC) News Messages being marked as read automatically
    206668 (Mac) [Mac OS X classic theme] context menu only work on frontm...
    208560 (PC) P3P summary only works once
    209033 (Mac) FIXE (Shockwave, Flash, ?) all typed letters (from kbd) appear...
    209354 (All) typeaheadfind causes major memory leaks