Mozilla 1.2 Released

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Thanks uk for the mail on this release. Mozilla 1.2 final is out, here are some of the more significant changes:

Browser

Type Ahead Find is a new feature that allows quick navigation when you type a succession of characters in the browser, matching the text in one or more links on the page. To give it a spin just go to a web page, start typing, watch the typed characters highlight as they find a match in a link and hit enter to load the selected link. You can also use it to search for any text on the page by typing / before your search text. Read the full Type Ahead Find documentation to learn about all of its features, prefs and future plans.
Linux users should upgrade to the latest Flash 6 Beta. This new version fixes several problems including crashing with remote displays and hangs when the audio device is in use at the time Flash starts up. Mozilla 1.3 Alpha may not support Flash 5 or earlier so update now. (Bug 58339, 58937)
Building on Mozilla`s customizability, you can now show toolbars as text/icons/both (in the default Classic theme). We also have a few other usability improvements like image selection visualization (image highlights with system selection color when selected) and the removal of the confusing toolbar grippies.
Improvements to native look and feel in both the browser interface and the browser content area. We now support most native GTK themes in Mozilla which means that your Mozilla toolbars and other widgets will pick up the GTK theme look and feel. We also support native look and feel for web content like form controls under windowsXP.
Making tabbed browsing even more useful, you can launch the browser with a group of bookmarks as your start page. This loads several pages into tabs at startup.
Keyboard access is greatly improved including additional accesskeys for menus, other ui elements and page elements.
We have a new features that utilizes browser idle time to download or prefetch documents that the user might visit in the near future. A web page author provides a set of prefetching hints, using the w3c standard tag, and after the browser is finished loading that page, it begins silently prefetching specified documents and stores them in its cache. When the user visits one of the prefetched documents, it can be served up quickly out of the browser`s cache. (See the Link Prefetching FAQ).
Java compatability with Mac OS 10.2 (Jaguar) has been repaired.
XML prettyprinting, similar to IEs default-view for XML is now available in Mozilla.

Download: Mozilla 1.2 Full Win32 (11.2mb) or Net version (install chosen components from the net)

Download: MacOS 9 Full install (15.3mb) or Net Install | MacOSX Disk Image (18mb)

Download: x86 Linux Full installer (12.7mb) RPMS for Red Hat Linux 8.x. (12.7mb)

View: Mozilla Releases page | Release Notes

News source: WinFuture.de

Mail

Mozilla Mail has a new "filter after the fact" capability so users can create a filter and then run that filter on already downloaded mail. Filter logging has also been implemented which allows power users to see a log of all of the filter actions.
In mail you can now select and copy text from message headers and you can now drag and drop from the message search results window.
On Windows you can now add multiple attachments to a mail message via the Attach File dialog.
Palm sync for Mozilla addressbook on MS Windows has been implemented
Major improvements to Mac OS X IMAP mail header download performance. Preliminary tests show about 2000% improvement.

Other
For distributors of Mozilla-based products (but not enabled in Mozilla yet because many linux installations don`t yet support it) XFT support has been implemented, bringing the latest in Linux font anti-aliasing to Mozilla. Build with --enable-xft on a system with the xft libs to use this feature.
The Mozilla Technology and Standards Evangelism Team worked with many of ecommerce and other high-traffic sites to increase support for the standards and standards based browsers like Mozilla

#1 tmaxxtigger on 27 Nov 2002 - 13:51

Must say that the builds get better each time, runs nicely on my PIII 500Mhz. It's a most valuable tool for checking HTML correctness...

#2 Toxikk on 27 Nov 2002 - 14:09

indeed. and some webmasters bitch and moan cuz they dont wanna fix their code to work in gecko. this IS without a doubt the most w3c compliant browser that exists and they dont want their sites to look good in it.

#3 dayle on 27 Nov 2002 - 14:37

i love this browser im downloading it right now

#4 Kaneda on 27 Nov 2002 - 15:00

yay for mozilla

#5 Steno on 27 Nov 2002 - 15:16

Anyone else having problems with certain msstyles (not all) and Mozilla. Some msstyles makes all the text (those in lists, menus and under icons/buttons) in Mozilla to display in small Times New Roman. Not nice.

(1 reply) #6 Dark Vageta on 27 Nov 2002 - 17:20

ALL HAIL the Moz It owns

#6.1 [saint dark] on 27 Nov 2002 - 17:37

/me hails

#7 Yvo on 27 Nov 2002 - 20:32

i love mozilla.... IE6 is so damn whiney with its script errors everywhere (eBay, Apple Trailers)... mozilla I don't get the dramatic critical errors.

#8 BroChaos on 27 Nov 2002 - 20:53

mmm 1.2 final is nice. 1.3 alpha is on it's way now right?

#9 khalsa on 27 Nov 2002 - 20:56

i'll stick with phoenix

#10 mrdan1286 on 27 Nov 2002 - 21:03

-phoenix and opera

(3 replies) #11 AGW83 on 27 Nov 2002 - 22:55

I have tried Mozilla a couple times and it sucks. There is no way on Earth I am going back to it unless it becomes even half as compatible and fast as IE. It honestly is not much better than Netscape!

#11.1 [saint dark] on 28 Nov 2002 - 04:08

half as compatible? lol, let me laugh at your ignorance

#11.2 nonick on 28 Nov 2002 - 10:03

no! let me!

#11.3 ZeroSeven on 28 Nov 2002 - 12:19

Are you on crack? Mozilla is the most standards compliant browser available, and the large majority of web sites display *better* in Mozilla than they do in IE. Those that dont are the result of shoddy design by their webmasters refusing to use w3c standard code practices. Oh and for your information Mozilla's rendering engine is MUCH faster than IE's. Mozilla is King.

#12 zivan56 on 27 Nov 2002 - 23:56

nice, been waiting for a 1.2 final and here it is

#13 Disco_Stu on 28 Nov 2002 - 04:22

"I have tried Mozilla a couple times and it sucks. There is no way on Earth I am going back to it unless it becomes even half as compatible and fast as IE." Must be a different version than I used. Mozilla is very compatible except of course for some of the sites which don't follow proper standards. As far as speed goes, since the 1.1 series Mozilla renders pages faster than IE in most cases.

#14 pHuzi0n on 28 Nov 2002 - 06:00

It no longer displays the time to download/render a page. Does anybody know what the (advanced) preference is for this because I can't seem to find one?

#15 wog boy on 28 Nov 2002 - 23:37

yay!!! mozilla rocks!!! keeps getting better and better with every milestone

(1 reply) #16 kljs on 29 Nov 2002 - 01:00

sorry to break up the party, but this build slowed down my Celeron 1.3Ghz to a crawl. Had to uninstall it to go back to normal. Had the same problem when it was beta.

#16.1 quanta on 29 Nov 2002 - 18:49

People, remember to uninstall any old version of Mozilla before installing a new one. (You should be doing that for ANY Windows program) Profiles, bookmarks, sidebars, preferences, mail, news and web cache will remain intact. You will have to reinstall any XPI extensions (Qlookup, Tagzilla, Calendar, Spellchecker, etc.), however. Most are available here: http://www.mozdev.org/ Calendar is available at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/

#17 nic on 29 Nov 2002 - 04:06

#16, really? I have a P III 800 and it just flys. It is at least as fast as IE 6 if not faster at rendering.

#18 dkg_ctc on 30 Nov 2002 - 17:28

Too bad the developers--along with the thousands of eyes open source supposedly has--couldn't make sure that DHTML worked properly in 1.2. From www.mozilla.org: [quote]Stop The Presses We've discovered a bug in Mozilla 1.2 that can cause DHTML on some sites to fail. We plan to release Mozilla 1.2.1 with a fix shortly.[/quote]

#19 haloscan on 30 Nov 2002 - 22:50

All those having speed problems with Mozilla (and those who are looking for something smaller--without the mail, newsgroup, chat/IRC functions) should check out Phoenix 0.4 (download at the mozilla.org site). It's even faster than Mozilla and is based on the Gecko/Mozilla engine.

#20 DOCa Cola on 01 Dec 2002 - 04:35

i'll stick with Phoenix

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