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Mozilla 1.5 Beta Release Includes Minor Changes, Bugfixes

by , 11:00 AM EDT, August 28th, 2003

Mozilla.org has released version 1.5 Beta of its browser suite. The release inclues refinements made in anticipation of the final 1.5 version. Changes in the 1.5 series include the addition of a spellchecker and improved mail features. From the release notes:

  • Mozilla now includes a spellchecker 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
    and
    .
  • 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.

Originally, Mozilla 1.5 was to be based on Firebird but the standard browser suite remained instead. Firebird is now expected to become the main browser around version 1.6.

The Mac Observer Spin:

As always, we'd like to thank the Mozilla developers for being so conscientious by providing several pre-releases to allow for greater testing before the final version is completed. This further refinement of the Mozilla application suite will provide a solid application for users while the Firebird transition is made.

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