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Anyone who visits mozilla.org can’t ignore it: Mozilla 1.5 is out. After a number of Release Candidates, the new version of the popular web browser has been declared stable. The main changes in the program look like this:

  • Mozilla now includes a spell checker for MailNews and Composer.
  • Additional MailNews improvements include:
    • Users can add header lines to *every* message sent out via a certain identity.
    • A common application hang with SSL-encrypted SMTP connections has been fixed.
    • Printing of the attachments list is now supported.
    • Users can now mark message as read by date.
  • Many great improvements to Mozilla Composer including:
    • Better resizing for images, tables, and absolutely positioned objects.
    • Support for absolutely positioned objects, movable on the canvas using the mouse.
    • Support for z-index management.
    • “Snap to grid” when moving an absolutely positioned object.
    • Source View now uses an editor instead of a simple textarea (allows find and replace).
    • Numerous fixes in caret management, inline styles handling, and CSS styles handling.
  • Improvements to tabbed browsing, including:
    • Tabs are now replaced when a bookmark group is loaded. This can be changed to the old “append” behavior in the Tabbed browsing preferences.
    • Back and Forward navigation for tabbed browsing and bookmark groups has been improved. Users can now use the back button after loading a bookmark group to restore the previous set of tabs.
    • Closing a window with multiple tabs now prompts the user with a confirmation dialog (which can be disabled for future close operations).
  • ChatZilla, Mozilla’s internet relay chat (IRC) client, has had a major overhaul bringing logging and many additional improvements.
  • DOM Inspector can now display the #document node (the document root).
  • It is now possible to jump from the JavaScript console to the relevant line in the View Source Window.
  • Mozilla’s view source now displays line and column numbers in the status bar.
  • A quicksearch filter has been implemented for about:config.
  • Gecko now supports setting color for < HR >.
  • The ‘::’ notation for CSS pseudo-elements is now supported. Note: The old ‘:’ notation is still supported for the various -moz-* pseudo-elements, but will NOT be supported in Mozilla 1.5. Themes should be updated to use the ‘::’ notation for pseudo-elements.
  • Unstyled XML display has been improved.
  • Mozilla should no longer cause GDI problems on Windows.
  • A common problem collapsing the URL bar popup on Windows has been fixed.
  • Mozilla has improved performance, stability, standards support and Web compatibility.[break]Mozilla 1.5 is available for WindowsLinux and MacOS X
  • Version number 1.5 final
    Operating systems Windows 9x, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Linux, Windows XP, macOS, Windows Mobile 2003
    Website Mozilla
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    License type GPL
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