Download Mozilla 1.5 beta

Mozilla 1.5 beta hit the web a few days earlier than expected. In this version a number of small, but sometimes very annoying, bugs have been squashed. There are also some minor changes to Mozilla’s render engine, called Gecko. The incomplete changelog, according to the authors, can be read below. A link to the original changelog should not be missing in a mess, so you can here find:

New Features and Fixes

• Mozilla now includes a spell checker for MailNews and Composer.
• Mozilla MailNews now supports the printing of the attachments list.
• ChatZilla, Mozilla’s internet relay chat client, has had a major overhaul bringing many improvements.
• MailNews users can add header lines to *every* msg sent out via a certain identity.
• A common application hang with SSL-encrypted SMTP connections in MailNews was fixed.
• Unstyled XML display has been improved.
• Users can now mark message as read by date in MailNews.
• Gecko now supports setting color for

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• A common problem collapsing the URLbar popup on Windows has been fixed.
• Mozilla’s view source now displays line and column numbers in the status bar.
• Mozilla has improved performance, stability, standards support and web compatibility.
• Mozilla should no longer cause GDI problems on Windows.

New Issues

• Macintosh users with older versions of Flash may experience crashing on sites that use Flash. (bug 200511
• The Linux binaries distributed by mozilla.org are now compiled with GCC 3.2. If you’re using these binaries then popular plug-ins like RealPlayer, compiled with previous versions of GCC, will not work. see bug 213234 and 158385

[break]Mozilla is available in the following flavors:

• Windows (12MB)
• Linux (15MB)
• Mac OS X (15MB)
• OpenVMS (26.4MB)
• OS/2 (14.4MB)