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Mozilla 1.5 has been released



New Features and Fixes

* Mozilla now includes a spellchecker for MailNews and Composer.
* Additional MailNews improvements include:
o Users can add header lines to *every* msg sent out via a certain identity.
o A common application hang with SSL-encrypted SMTP connections was fixed.
o Printing of the attachments list is now supported.
o Users can now mark message as read by date.
* Many great improvements to Mozilla Composer including:
o better resizing for images, tables and absolutely positioned objects
o support for absolutely positioned objects, movable on the canvas using the mouse
o support for z-index management
o "snap to grid" when moving an absolutely positioned object
o Source View now uses an editor instead of a simple textarea (allows find and replace)
o numerous fixes in caret management, inline styles handling and CSS styles handling
* Improvements to tabbed browsing including:
o Tabs are now replaced when a bookmark group is loaded. This can be changed to the old "append" behavior in the Tabbed browsing preferences.
o 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.
o 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 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. 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 URLbar popup on Windows has been fixed.
* Mozilla has improved performance, stability, standards support and web compatibility.
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