Download Mozilla 1.5 RC1

On the site of the Mozilla organization we read that a new release candidate of the browser of the same name is available. This brings us to version 1.5 RC1 of this program. The programmers have been quite busy and about a thousand problems have been solved in this release. A complete overview of all errors that have been removed can be found in the extensive changelog†

New Features and Fixes

• 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
  • “get it
  • grid” when moving an absolutely positioned object
  • Source View now use an editor instead of a simple textarea (allows find and replace)
  • numerous fixes in caret management, inline styles handling and CSS styles handling
• Chatzilla now has support for logging and lots of ugfixes.
• Dom Inspecor can now display the #document node (the document root.)
• A quicksearch filter has been implemented for about:config.
• Improvements to tabbed browsing including:
  • Back and Forward navigation for tabbed browsing and bookmak groups has been improved. Users can now use the back button after loading a bookmark group t
  • restore the previous tabs.
  • Closing a window wth multiple tabs now prompts the user with a confirmation dialog (which can be disabled for future close operations.
• It is now possible to jump from the JavaScript console to the relevant line in the View Source Window
• The ‘::’ notation for CSS pseudo-elements is now supported. 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
• Mozilla now includes a spell checker for MailNews and Composer.
• Mozilla MailNews now supports the printing of the attachments list
• ChatZilla, Mozilla’s interet 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 spport and web compatibility.
• Mozilla should no longer cause GDI problems on Windows.

[break]As usual, there are again a number of different versions available:
In front of Windows
In front of Linux
In front of MacOS X