What’s new in Mozilla Firebird 0.8
Firebird 0.8 should be out soon on Monday, Feb 9.
Update: Firefox 0.8 (note the new name) was released on Feb 9.
Here's some of what's new:
New features
- Windows installer
- New download manager
- Work Offline
- Add Bookmark dialog: recent-folders dropdown and folder-selection tree (replacing a single dropdown listing all folders)
- DOM Inspector is now included in zip builds
- IDN support
- IPv6 support on Windows 2000/XP/2003
Major improvements
- 220807 - prompt user about invalid text/plain content. (Solves most problems like "Firebird tries to display some .rar files instead of downloading them.")
- 214266 - Find should wrap by default
- 217286 - Cookie whitelist should override session cookie option.
- 142459(?) - Shift+click and middle-click on scroll bar should jump to that location
- 214260 - XPInstall UI improvements
- 33282 - enable external scheme handlers (like aim: and telnet:) in Linux
- 6% faster page loading (comparing December to September on a Tp (pageloader time) graph)
Important bug fixes
- 210910 - Right-clicking a file within a bookmarks folder in the bookmarks menu or toolbar makes that folder inaccessible.
- 203102 - URL typed into address bar lost after switching tabs; "Open in new tab" should prefill URI in address bar.
- 222157 - View Source: Find and Save don't work.
- 213250 - Autoscroll prevents middle clicking on links in XML (XHTML) documents.
- 224416 - Tabs don't remember focused element.
- 216170 - Send Page (as Link) omits query string
- 98564 - caret overlaps the last character in textfield (if positioned after the last char).
- 212366 - Make -moz-opacity apply to descendants as a group, as required by CSS3 opacity
- 219705 - Linux: Blackdown Java crashes, saying "Internal error on browser end".
- 102578 - Linux: Clicking wrongfully fires onmouseout (breaks some dhtml menus, css/edge menus)
- 201209 - GTK2: -moz-opacity makes things invisible.
January 29th, 2004 at 6:17 am
You forgot “spiffy new Mac skin” :)
January 29th, 2004 at 2:40 pm
I don’t think “Select folder in Add Bookmark dialog” is new to 0.8. I have 0.7, and I can select a folder in the Add Bookmark dialog.
January 29th, 2004 at 7:29 pm
Keith: thanks, “New feature: Select folder in Add Bookmark dialog” was incorrect. The UI for choosing a folder changed, but it was possible to choose a folder in 0.7. I changed the text to make it correct.
February 6th, 2004 at 8:46 pm
More stuff that’s new in Firebird 0.8, from http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/004853.html :
* cross-platform NTLM authentication (was Windows-only in Firebird 0.7?)
* stability improvements (?)
March 15th, 2004 at 10:40 am
how to view Web pages you’ve previously visited without being connected to the Internet in Mozilla Firebird 0.8.
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