Mozilla 0.9.6 Release Notes

System Requirements

Mac

• Mac OS 8.6 or later
• PowerPC 604e 266 MHz or faster processor, or G3/G4
• 64 MB RAM
• 36 MB of free hard disk space
• Quicktime (Bugs 59059, 89720)

Windows

• Windows 95, 98, or 98SE, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows XP
• Intel Pentium-class 233 MHz (or faster) processor
• 64 MB RAM
• 26 MB of free hard disk space

Linux

• The following library versions (or compatible) are required: glibc 2.1, XFree86 3.3.x, GTK 1.2.x, Glib 1.2.x, Libstdc++ 2.9.0. Red Hat Linux 6.0, Debian 2.1, and SuSE 6.2 (or later) installations should work.
• Red Hat 6.x users who want to install the Mozilla RPM must have at least version 4.0.2 of rpm installed. There is an official update to rpm from Red Hat.
• Intel Pentium-class 233 MHz (or faster) processor
• 64 MB of RAM
• 26 MB of free hard disk space

OpenVMS

• OpenVMS Alpha V7.1 or higher
• DECwindows MOTIF V1.2-4 or higher
• Compaq TCP/IP Services Version 5.0 for OpenVMS or higher, MultiNet V4.3A or higher, or TCPware V5.4-3 or higher.
• 65 MB of free hard disk space

  See the Mozilla for OpenVMS Installation Guide and Release Notes at www.openvms.compaq.com for more information.

Solaris 8

• Solaris 8 requires the installation at least patches 109147-09, 108434-02, and 108435-02 from sunsolve.sun.com for Mozilla to run. (Bug 88205)

Compatibility Information

Visiting SSL2 and SSL3 sites while in FIPS mode may lead to a crash or failure to connect. (Bugs 106587)

Windows

If you have the Crescendo 5.01 plug-in, you must update to the latest version of Crescendo. Otherwise, Mozilla may crash at startup. (Bug 48110)

Mac OS

If you have version 4.5 (or earlier) of StuffIt Expander, you may see an error message stating that the archive is corrupted. You can ignore the message and continue with the installation. To get a newer version of StuffIt Expander, go to http://www.aladdinsys.com/expander/expander_mac_login.html

If you attempt to run Mozilla on Mac OS using a language pack (such as the Japanese Language Pack) and a Language Kit, all menu bar items will be incorrectly displayed. To resolve this problem, register Mozilla using the Language Register. For instance, if you're using the Japanese Language Pack and the Japanese Language Kit, register Mozilla as a JA application.

If you use the SmoothType control panel instead of Apple's "Smooth all fonts on screen" option in the Appearance control panel, you need SmoothType version 2.1.1 for Mozilla . Mozilla is not compatible with earlier versions of SmoothType, and some pages may be improperly drawn. To get an update, go to http://www.kaleidoscope.net/greg/smoothtype.html.

Linux

Mozilla requires glibc 2.1 or later. (Bug 44787)

If you have Red Hat Linux 6.0, you can't launch Mozilla if Java 2 is installed. The problem doesn't occur with Red Hat 6.1 or higher. (Bug 58259)

For Red Hat Linux 7, you must install the Standard C++ libraries for Red Hat 6.x compatibility. Get the package from the Red Hat 7 installation CD or download it from Red Hat. (Bug 59012)

Redhat 7 users who have problems with Java hanging should try setting the environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to "2.2.5". (Bug 84093)

To run Mozilla on SuSe Linux 6.2, you must install the libjpeg.so.62 file available here.

Solaris

To install Mozilla on Solaris8 (64 bit), you must first install libstdc++. Download the Sun Netscape 6 install package and install libstdc++ from that package before installing or running Mozilla . In addition the following patches from http://sunsolve.sun.com need to be installed: 109147-09, 108434-02 108435-02. (Bug 68604)

IRIX

When using a window manager from the twm family without the DecorateTransients option, popup windows such as Find, Save and Preferences will not function. To work around, set the DecorateTransients option in the window manager's rc file. (Bug 78928)

Installation Notes

Install into a new empty directory. Installing on top of previously installed builds may cause problems.

Windows Users: If you get the message, "uninstall.exe file is linked to missing export shell32.dll", delete %TEMP%\ns_temp.

Multi-user installs: To install Mozilla for multiple users on Unix, install as normal, then create the following script in your Mozilla directory, make it executable (chmod u+x <scriptname>), and run it as root.

#!/bin/sh 
dist_bin=`dirname $0`
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=$dist_bin
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$dist_bin
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME LD_LIBRARY_PATH
$dist_bin/regxpcom
$dist_bin/regchrome
touch $dist_bin/chrome/user-skins.rdf $dist_bin/chrome/user-locales.rdf

When you install language packs and other .xpi files, downloading pauses until you click the browser's Stop button.

If you receive the message 'The program must close to allow a previous installation to complete' when launching, it means that file cleanup after an additional installation has not completed.

Suggested workarounds:

1. In most cases, waiting a few additional seconds after the program exits will allow the cleanup process to complete and allow you to launch.
   
2. Occasionally the installation process is waiting for another program to release a file the cleanup process needs. You may need to shut down other programs or reboot the computer to allow the installation process to complete.
   

Windows and Mac OS: It is strongly recommended that you exit all programs before running the setup program. Also, you should temporarily disable virus-detection software.

Mac OS: Mozilla will not run when the application is installed on a UFS partition. The workaround is to move the application folder to an HFS+ partition and it will
run correctly.

Mac OS: You should not restart your system with all extensions off before running Mozilla installation.

Java

Windows and Linux: To run Java applets, you must install the Java Run Time Environment (JRE) plug-in. When using installer builds, everything should Just Work without any help.

See the Java section for more details about Java version compatibility.

Windows: If you're using the Installer build and you already have JRE 1.3.0_01 on your system Mozilla should recognize it. If it doesn't recognize it then follow the copy instructions for the zip builds.

If you're using the win32.zip or talkback.zip builds After the JRE is installed on your machine, copy NPJava130_01.dll, NPJava130_01a.dll, NPJava130_01b.dll, NPJava130_01c.dll, and NPOJI600.dll from the install directory (something like C:\Program Files\JavaSoft\JRE\1.3.0_01\bin) to your Mozilla plugins directory (something like C:\Program Files\ Mozilla 0.9.6 \bin\plugins).

Linux With tar.gz builds on Linux, after the JRE has installed, put a symlink in your mozilla0.9.6 /plugins directory to the java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjava.oji.so directory.

With Linux RPM builds, you must install Java as the root user.

You may need to press the Stop button for the installation process to complete.

Mac OS: You must have Mac OS Runtime for Java (MRJ) version 2.2 to run Java applets with Mozilla . If you have Mac OS version 8.5 through 8.6, you may need to upgrade your version of MRJ. For an upgrade, go to the Apple MRJ update download page.

Security

Windows, Mac and Linux: Personal Security Manager (PSM) provides security (cryptographic) features for Mozilla .

Installing on Windows

Installing Java with low disk space may cause the Installer to hang. (Bug 45067) Before you begin installing Mozilla with Java, be sure to check your disk space (see System Requirements.)

To install Mozilla by downloading the Mozilla installer, follow these steps:

1. Click the mozilla-win32-installer.exe link to download the file to your machine.
2. Navigate to where you downloaded the file and double-click the Mozilla program icon on your machine to begin the Setup program.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions in the setup program. The program starts automatically the first time.

To install Mozilla by downloading the .zip file and installing manually, follow these steps:

1. Click the mozilla-win32-talkback.zip link or the mozilla-win32.zip link to download the .zip file to your machine.
2. Navigate to where you downloaded the file and double-click the compressed file. Note: This step assumes you already have a recent version of WinZip installed, and that you know how to use it. If not, you can get WinZip and information about the program at www.winzip.com.
3. Extract the .zip file to a directory such as C:/Program Files/ Mozilla 0.9.6 .
4. To start Mozilla , navigate to the directory you extracted Mozilla to and double-click the Mozilla.exe icon.

Installing on Mac OS

Note: If the downloaded file does not expand automatically you must expand the file using a program such as StuffIt Expander. Expander ships with all new Macs and comes with the default system install, so you may want to do a find in Sherlock for "StuffIt" to make sure that you don't already have it installed.

You can get StuffIt Expander from Aladdin Systems.

If you do already have Expander, you need to set it to start by default. See the immediately preceding URL for info on using Expander.

To install Mozilla by downloading the Mozilla installer, (recommended) follow these steps:

1. Click the MacMozillaInstaller.sea.bin link to download it to your machine. By default, the download file is downloaded to your desktop compressed in .bin format. A Mozilla Installer folder is created.
2. Double-click the Mozilla Installer folder in the Finder.
3. Double-click the Mozilla Installer icon.
4. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process.
5. To start Mozilla , open the folder where you installed Mozilla and double-click the Mozilla icon.

To install Mozilla by downloading the archive file and installing manually, follow these steps:

1. Click the mozilla-mac-*.sea.bin link to download the Mozilla binary to your machine. By default, the download file is downloaded to your desktop compressed in .sit.bin format.
2. Double-click the mozilla-mac-*.sea.sit.bin icon on your desktop.
3. Choose the directory where you want to install Mozilla .
4. To start Mozilla , open the folder where you installed Mozilla and double-click the Mozilla icon.

Installing on Linux

You must run Mozilla at least once to complete autoregistration and for the component.reg file to be written to the installation directory. If a different user (other than the person who installed the product) runs the program first, a core dump will occur. (Bug 49345)

Note: To run Java applets, you must install the Java Run Time Environment (JRE) v1.3 plug-in.

Note: These instructions use the bash shell. If you're not using bash, adjust the commands accordingly.

To install Mozilla by downloading the Mozilla installer, follow these steps:

1. Create a directory named mozilla (mkdir mozilla0.9.6 ) and change to that directory (cd mozilla0.9.6 ).
2. Click the link to download the installer file (called mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz).
3. Change to the mozilla directory (cd mozilla0.9.6 ) and decompress the archive with the following command:
   gunzip -dc moz*.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
(This places the installer in a subdirectory of Mozilla named mozilla-installer.)
   
4. Change to the mozilla-installer directory (cd mozilla-installer) and run the installer with the ./mozilla-installer command.
5. Follow the instructions in the install wizard for installing Mozilla .
   
   Note: If you have a slower machine, be aware that the installation may take some time. In this case, the installation progress may appear to hang indefinitely, even though the installation is still in process.
   
6. To start Mozilla , change to the directory where you installed it and run the ./mozilla command.

To install Mozilla by downloading the .tar.gz archive file:

1. Create a directory named " mozilla0.9.6 " (mkdir mozilla0.9.6 ) and change to that directory (cd mozilla0.9.6 ).
2. Click the link to download the non-installer mozilla*.tar.gz file into the mozilla0.9.6 directory.
3. Change to the mozilla directory (cd mozilla0.9.6 ) and decompress the file with the following command:
   gunzip -dc moz*.tar.gz | tar -xvf - (This creates a "mozilla" subdirectory under your mozilla0.9.6 directory.)
   
4. Change to the mozilla directory (cd mozilla).
5. Run Mozilla with the ./mozilla run script.

To hook up Mozilla complete with icon to the GNOME Panel, follow these steps:

1. Click the GNOME Main Menu button, open the Panel menu, and then open the Add to Panel submenu and choose Launcher.
2. Right-click the icon for Mozilla on the Panel and enter the following command:
   
   directory_name./mozilla
   
   where directory_name is the name of the directory you downloaded Mozilla to. For example, the default directory that Mozilla suggests is /usr/local/mozilla.
   
3. Type in a name for the icon, and type in a comment if you wish.
4. Click the icon button and type in the following as the icon's location:
   
   directory_name/icons/mozicon50.xpm
   
   where directory_name is the directory where you installed Mozilla . For example, the default directory is /usr/local/mozilla/icons/mozicon50.xpm.

Installing RPM builds: The Red Hat RPM builds are created to work with the default Red Hat 6.x and Red Hat 7.x installations. Using these RPMs on Suse requires installation of the gdk-pixbuf package. (Bug 85218)

Uninstalling Mozilla

Linux

• Remove the mozilla0.9.6 directory where you installed Mozilla


• Remove the ~/.mozilla directory, which contains profile information

Windows

• Go to Settings/Control Panel/Add Remove Programs and choose Mozilla 0.9.6

Mac OS

• Remove the folder Mozilla from the Documents folder
• Remove the file "Mozilla Registry" from the System Folder | Preferences folder
• Remove the file "Mozilla Versions" from the System Folder | Preferences folder
• Remove the folder where you installed Mozilla

Files Created or Used

*Note: "cookperm.txt" ("cookperm" on Unix) is a file used to selectively accept cookies from certain sites and not from others. It is used only if you set your preferences so that you see a warning before accepting cookies. To do that, set the following pref (instructions here):

• user_pref ("network.cookie.rememberAboutCookies", true);

Known Problems

General

Mac OS: There is a known incompatibility between Mozilla and WebFree, a Control Panel commonly used to block HTML-based ads. When using Mozilla , disable WebFree. (Bug 13982)

Keyboard and Mouse

Double right-clicking on a page can disable the keyboard. (Bug 70812)

Linux: Keyboard shortcuts on Linux now use Ctrl instead of Alt as the modifier key, while Alt is used for menu shortcuts. If you wish to modify these shortcut keys, add the following prefs (instructions here):

user_pref("ui.key.accelKey", 18);
(This changes the accelerator key from Ctrl (17) to Alt (18).)

user_pref("ui.key.menuAccessKey", 0);
(This changes the menu access key from Alt (18) to none.)

Linux: Middle-mouse clicking in areas without links may lead to alerts popping up. (Bug 96972)

Event Handling

Mouse wheel scrolling

Linux: You must have your X server properly configured to enable mousewheel scrolling. For XFree86, add a line to the Pointer section of your XF86Config files such as "ZAxisMapping 4 5". Also be sure that the Protocol line is set up correctly for your mouse.

Windows: Mousewheel scrolling does not work with all drivers. If you have problems, try updating your driver or disabling any "helper" programs that your mouse uses.

Mac OS: Mousewheel scrolling does not work with all drivers. If you have problems, try updating your driver or disabling any "helper" programs that your mouse uses.

(Mac OS 9.x ) Scroll wheel support for Kensington input devices requires Kensington MouseWorks 5.7 or higher. Version 5.7 is not yet shipping as of this writing; please check the Kensington website for updates.

Dialog Boxes and Windows

If Mozilla is locked up but doesn't seem to have crashed, make sure there are no dialog boxes still open. Close each window on your desktop one at a time and if you uncover a dialog window, dismiss it. If you have multiple desktops, repeat these steps for each desktop.

This problem may affect Linux users downloading plugins. Follow these steps to resolve the problem:

1. Minimize the plugin download window.
2. Click "Cancel" to dismiss the dialog box.
3. Re-open the download window and continue downloading the plugin.

Form Manager

Form Manager is not fully implemented in the Japanese version of Mozilla .

Fonts

Many Linux systems (in particular, Red Hat Linux systems) have bad Arial fonts. (Bug 46415) If many Web pages, especially those using the Arial font, look unclear, small, or hard to read, the following links explain two ways you can change your font server to get better Arial fonts:

http://home.c2i.net/dark/linux.html#ttf
http://home.c2i.net/dark/linux.html#fuzzy

If that doesn't work, you may be able to fix the problem by renaming or removing /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2. For instance, enter the following command:

and then log out of Linux and log back in again. You can always undo this, if necessary, by entering the following command:

Proxies

Mozilla needs to be configured to work properly with proxies such as Junkbuster that do not support the most recent HTTP specification. By default, Mozilla tries to use HTTP 1.1. To use Mozilla with a proxy that only supports HTTP 1.0, edit the HTTP Version from 1.1 to 1.0 in Edit | Preferences | Debug | Networking. (Bug 38488)

Mozilla only accepts hostnames for manual proxies. If you migrate a Communicator 4 profile, you will need to change the settings manually. (Bug 30387) \

Setting Profiles

If you have a single profile from Communicator version 4.5 or later, that profile is automatically copied and converted for use with Mozilla . Profiles from earlier Netscape versions cannot be converted.

If you have multiple profiles to copy and convert, the profile manager dialog box appears. Click the profile you want to use and then click Start.

If problems occur during installation and your Communicator profile was not copied and converted, you can still use your profile. Launch Mozilla from the command line, adding the "-installer" option (that is, type "mozilla.exe-installer" on the command line) , or re-install Mozilla to see the profile manager dialog again.

Navigator

Additional Internet Search Engines can be obtained at http://sherlock.mozdev.org

The "View Frame Source" feature is not available from the View menu; however, it is available in the context menu. To see the context menu, click the left mouse button to put the mouse pointer in the frame and then click the ri ght mouse button (Control-click on the Mac OS). (Bug 47139)

Several features of Page Information are not yet available, including: the File MIME Type, Source, Local cache file, Content length, Expires, Charset, and Security. Also, you cannot view information on frames, XML pages, or FTP pages. (Bug 52730)

Pages that appear to be rendered incorrectly may be due to standards compliance issues. See the Netscape Evangelism site for more details.

XSLT support still has bugs. (Bugs 53030, 53944, 59912, 88198, 94921 )

The scrollbar in the Preferences dialog sometimes doesn't appear after expanding categories. Workaround: collapse other categories --or, resize the dialog, if possible. (Bug 59108)

Printing web pages may not print out all pages due to table pagination problems. (Bugs 86921, 87374)

Mac and Linux: Transparent backgrounds are printed as black. (Bug 12037)

Printing newsgroup messages with images leads to a crash. (Bug 92659)

Accessing Pages

Mozilla may not be able to connect to some secure (https) IBM Web servers. This is a problem with the servers' software, not with Mozilla . (Bug 54031)

If you use "Last page visited" as your Home (starting) page, if the last page you viewed had frames, it may not be displayed correctly when you next restart Mozilla . (Bug 58613)

Accessing pages on a network requires 5 slashes (file://///). (Bug 66194)

FTP sites that use VMS may not be accessible. (Bug 84472)

Windows: Double browser window appears when opening an html or image document from the Windows environment. (Bug 59078)

Linux: You can't view hidden files or directories (such as .mozilla) using Mozilla. (Bug 39036)

Linux: Flash may crash with exported X display. (Bug 58937)

Linux: On Linux, there may be problems with ESD Audio and Flash. (Bugs 85772, 58339)

Downloading Files

Hourglass cursor, progress meter, and throbber do not stop spinning although downloading has been finished. Status bar says "Transferring data from ..." when page is done loading. (Bug 39310)

1. Open the Edit menu, and choose Preferences. Choose Helper Applications within the Navigator category.
2. Select the helper application/mimetype you wish to remove from the list, and click the Remove button.
3. Click OK to confirm.
4. Click OK to dismiss the Preferences dialog box.
5. Quit completely and restart Mozilla .

1. Open the Edit menu, and choose Preferences. Choose Helper Applications within the Navigator category.
2. Click the "Reset" button.
3. Click "OK" to dismiss the Preferences dialog box.

Bookmarks

Bookmarks cannot be rearranged if you have sorted them. To rearrange them, select Unsorted from the View menu, or click the Name column header until the arrow disappears. (Bug 64768)

View Source

To view frame source, point to the frame and click the right mouse button (Control-click on Mac OS) and then choose View Frame Source from the context menu. (Bug 47319)

Page content generated by an online form isn't correctly reflected in the view source window.

Mac OS: The horizontal scrollbar in the View Source window might be missing. Resize the window to see the scrollbar. (Bug 56488)

Mail and News

In the Mail/News Account Settings: Server Settings dialog box, any changes you make to local directory settings won't take effect until you exit and re-start Mozilla . (Bug 2654)

Undo/Redo and Stop may not always work as expected. (Bugs 27468, 28129, and others)

Delete Message doesn't always work when you're using Next Unread Message. (Bug 44572) Try clicking the message again to enable Delete.

Biff, a feature that automatically checks your server for new mail, works only on the first account and does not work for any other accounts in the same profile. Work around: select each account's inbox once and click on Get message. (Bug 85227)

'Get All New Messages' checks the default account only, with or without passwords saved. Workaround: Select each account's Inbox and click on Get Message the first time for that session. Get All New messages should work. (Bug 80296)

Mozilla does not warn the user of a low disk space condition. (Bugs 32443, 56565) Some symptoms you may see are:

• Copying a message to your Sent folder fails entirely or may place incomplete copy in Sent folder.
• POP: Status text indicates there are new messages to retrieve, but no new messages appear in the Inbox. Quit Mozilla , free some disk space, re-start Mozilla , and try again.
• IMAP: Status text indicates there are new messages to retrieve, but no new messages appear in the Inbox. Quit Mozilla , free some disk space, re-start Mozilla , and try again.

Mail account identity is not stored along with an unsent message. (Bug 59548)

Linux: You may encounter problems if you install Mozilla in a root user environment then run as another user. Problems include saving to Sent folder, Drafts, Templates or general authentication problems. (Bug 49397)

New Mail Notification Sound Doesn't Play with Non-Default Sound Chosen: When the user edit the pref.js file to inculde a non-default sound, Mozilla does not play that sound when the mail arrives. Also changing it back again to default breaks the initial default sound for that profile. Workaround: Not to change the pref.js file to edit to play any other sound and leave the default. (Bug 64462)

The Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings dialog box does not display correctly at lower monitor resolutions such as 800 by 600 or 640 by 480. If possible, increase your monitor's display resolution above 800 by 600. (Bug 82122)

AOL Mail and Netscape WebMail Accounts

Mozilla does not integrate with AOL Mail and Netscape WebMail, as Netscape 6 does. If you share your Netscape 6 profile with Mozilla, you may be able to see headers for messages in the account's Inbox if you have previously checked one of these accounts in Netscape 6, but you will be unable to interact with the messages. To access your AOL Mail, WebMail, or Netscape Instant Messenger, you need to use Netscape 6.

Receiving and Reading Messages

You may not see the message header (From, Subject, Date, To, Cc, and so forth) when you read messages. This problem often occurs when you switch mail folders or newsgroups. To see headers, resize the window or the message content pane. (Bug 39655)

Attachments

In some cases you can't view more than one HTML/Web page attachment to a message in the mail window. The attachments will not all be shown or you may experience a crash when attempting to display them. (Bug 38398)

A crash may occur if you try to open or save a message attachment of a content type unknown to Mozilla . (Bug 44762)

Composing Messages

You can't forward a message that has a signature file containing the HTML tag <div class="signature">. (Bug 49484)

Address Book

To import Outlook address books, you must have the default mail client set to "Microsoft Outlook" in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Do this:

1. Launch Internet Explorer.
2. Click Tools in menu bar, then click Internet Options. The Internet Options dialog box appears.
3. Click the Programs tab and select "Microsoft Outlook" as the default e-mail client.
4. Hit OK and exit Explorer. (Bug 90206)

(Windows) You may need to try more then once before Outlook Express address books are imported successfully. (Bug 90206)

In Address Book, using "Select All" and "Delete" more than 500 cards may crash application. (Bug 90378)

Copying a large number of addresses between address books may cause crash. (Bug 82991)

Filters

If you have multiple filters configured for a mail account, incoming messages will continue to be evaluated against each filter (in the order listed in the Message Filters dialog) until a filter action of Move to Folder or Delete is executed. This differs from Communicator 4.x where any filter action would stop further filtering on a message. (Bug 30081)

Pop and IMAP

You must exit and restart Mozilla to see the effect of a change to the option: "show All IMAP mail folders" or "show only subscribed IMAP mail folders." To access this option: click the Advanced button in the Server section of the Account Settings dialog box. (Bug 38943)

When sending email from Cyrus IMAP mail accounts, you will get "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Permission denied". Workaround: Redefine the special folder (sent, draft, template) under the Inbox folder. (Bug 27002)

Deleting in "Mark as deleted" mode may not work in the same way it did in Netscape Communicator 4.x. (Bug 59694)

News

The Subscribe dialog box may not work with news servers that require authentication. If you open a password-protected newsgroup you may be prompted more than once for the user name and password combination.

LDAP

LDAP directories with ldif extensions may appear after migration from Communicator 4.x. (Bug 94645)

Mozilla may temporarily hang during LDAP autocomplete if network connectivity is broken. Specifically, if the LDAP server in question is unreachable (network connectivity problems, including taking a laptop outside a firewall), the entire app will hang when attempting to contact that browser. If the user is patient, the app will begin responding again after the TCP timeout happens, probably between 30 seconds and several minutes later. (Bug 79509)

Offline Mail

Some mail items (offline and disk preferences, offline item selection, online/offline indicators in search/history/subscribe) do not display properly. (Bug 80970)

New newsgroups can not be downloaded unless you have previously open the newsgroups and retrieved headers first. (Bug 84061)

Moving/Copying a downloaded message (while offline) will result in not being able to read the message at the new folder while you are offline. Workaround: Go online to read it, then redownload the message to have it accessible when you are offline. (Bug 78809)

If the user starts Netscape in offline mode (clicking the work offline checkbox in the profile manager), then tries to reply to a message while in offline mode, or double clicks on a message (which brings it up in a separate window), in some instances the application might crash. (Bug 92368)

Using Download and Sync on numerous newsgroups might result in not getting all the messages downloaded the first time. Workaround: Use 'Download and Sync' on one or only a few newsgroups at a time, then uncheck them once synching is complete and select another couple of newsgroups and repeat the steps. Or go online and select the Newsgroup you want to download messages from and right click and do a "Get Messages for Account" or click "Get Msg" on the toolbar. (Bug 87018)

When starting Mozilla, if you only have one profile, both of the Offline preferences for startup mode ("Ask me if I want online or offline mode", or "Use my previous online/offline state") do not work. Mozilla will always start in online mode. To go offline, from the File menu, choose Work Offline. (Bug 82487)

If the user starts Mozilla in offline mode (clicking the work offline checkbox in the profile manager), then tries to reply to a message while in offline mode, or double clicks on a message (which brings it up in a separate window), in some instances the application might crash. (Bugs 92368)

You may experience issues (only when offline) when deleting mail in either trash mode: mark as deleted or remove immediately. (Bug 101069)

When starting Mozilla, if you only have one profile, both of the Offline preferences for startup mode ("Ask me if I want online or offline mode", or "Use my previous online/offline state") do not work. Mozilla will always start in online mode. To go offline, from the File menu, choose Work Offline. (Bug 82487)

ChatZilla

General

ChatZilla is not finished, but is usable if you're willing to accept a subset of the commands offered in more mature IRC clients. A large percentage of ChatZilla users experience crashes, odd behavior, rash, shortness of breath, and an urge to fix bugs. If you would like to contribute, please tell us in the netscape.public.mozilla.rt-messaging newsgroup, or send an e-mail to rginda@netscape.com.

If you are not familiar with IRC, please check out the FAQs available at www.irchelp.org.

Running ChatZilla

Start Mozilla with the -chat option to start ChatZilla, or select it from the Tasks menu.

More Info About ChatZilla

See the ChatZilla User's Guide for information on using ChatZilla. For info on building ChatZilla, click here. (Note that ChatZilla builds automatically on Windows and Mac OS).

Composer

You may not be able to simultaneously edit a document using both Composer and another editor. (Bug 37089)

You can't apply a font style across paragraphs and images. Font changes must be done within each paragraph.

Applying a font style across several words yields multiple font tags in the HTML code.

When the background color on a page is set, only the frames behind the lines of selected text are colored. Resizing the window triggers the proper repaint.

After applying a color to text, the text may appear partially highlighted.

Certain pages (such as ones that set frames) can't be edited. However, you are still able to choose the Edit Page option in the File menu for such pages. An editor window opens, but you are unable to edit the page.

Edit|PasteAs function is not functioning. (Bugs 73286, 41547)

File|Open Web Location, selecting to render in Composer does not open document in Composer. (Bug 71426)

When saving remote files, associated images are not saved. (Bugs 98550)

Switching between Normal and HTML Source mode inserts break (br) elements. (Bug 46227)

You can not print HTML Source. (Bug 82239)

Numerous shortcut keys do not function properly. (Bugs 26264, 43433, 48951, 57805, 61355, 70630, 58332, 58712, 26269, 53505, 76925, 80384, 57700, 67142, 4302, 93192, 48375)

Hourglass does not show when application is busy. (Bug 83300)

Broken image icon does not display in the application. (Bug 58646)

Some element icons do not render in Show All Tags mode. (Bug 88036)

List editing can cause nested lists to outdent to next level list. (Bug 98547)

Remove option from personal spell check dictionary does not work. (Bug 43348)

A blank window opens when clicking on the Browse button the 2nd time. Workaround: After editing the page more, if you want to view the new changes in Browser, first save the Composer file, go to the Browser window loaded before, and click the "Reload" button (or use "View | Reload" menu command). (Bug 59497)

If the cache preference is set to "Everyrg/shothe first account and does not work for any other accounts in the same profile. Work around: select each account's inbox once and click on Get message. (Bug 85227)

'Get All New Messages' checks the default account only, with or without passwords saved. Workaround: Select each account's Inbox and click on Get Message the first time for that session. Get All New messages should work. (Bug 80296)

Mozilla does not warn the user of a low disk space condition. (Bugs 32443, 56565) Some symptoms you may see are:

• Copying a message to your Sent folder fails entirely or may place incomplete copy in Sent folder.
• POP: Status text indicates there are new messages to retrieve, but no new messages appear in the Inbox. Quit Mozilla , free some disk space, re-start Mozilla , and try again.
• IMAP: Status text indicates there are new messages to retrieve, but no new messages appear in the Inbox. Quit Mozilla , free some disk space, re-start Mozilla , and try again.

Mail account identity is not stored along with an unsent message. (Bug 59548)

Linux: You may encounter problems if you install Mozilla in a root user environment then run as another user. Problems include saving to Sent folder, Drafts, Templates or general authentication problems. (Bug 49397)

New Mail Notification Sound Doesn't Play with Non-Default Sound Chosen: When the user edit the pref.js file to inculde a non-default sound, Mozilla does not play that sound when the mail arrives. Also changing it back again to default breaks the initial default sound for that profile. Workaround: Not to change the pref.js file to edit to play any other sound and leave the default. (Bug 64462)

The Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings dialog box does not display correctly at lower monitor resolutions such as 800 by 600 or 640 by 480. If possible, increase your monitor's display resolution above 800 by 600. (Bug 82122)

AOL Mail and Netscape WebMail Accounts

Mozilla does not integrate with AOL Mail and Netscape WebMail, as Netscape 6 does. If you share your Netscape 6 profile with Mozilla, you may be able to see headers for messages in the account's Inbox if you have previously checked one of these accounts in Netscape 6, but you will be unable to interact with the messages. To access your AOL Mail, WebMail, or Netscape Instant Messenger, you need to use Netscape 6.

Receiving and Reading Messages

You may not see the message header (From, Subject, Date, To, Cc, and so forth) when you read messages. This problem often occurs when you switch mail folders or newsgroups. To see headers, resize the window or the message content pane. (Bug 39655)

Attachments

In some cases you can't view more than one HTML/Web page attachment to a message in the mail window. The attachments will not all be shown or you may experience a crash when attempting to display them. (Bug 38398)

A crash may occur if you try to open or save a message attachment of a content type unknown to Mozilla . (Bug 44762)

Composing Messages

You can't forward a message that has a signature file containing the HTML tag <div class="signature">. (Bug 49484)

Address Book

To import Outlook address books, you must have the default mail client set to "Microsoft Outlook" in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Do this:

1. Launch Internet Explorer.
2. Click Tools in menu bar, then click Internet Options. The Internet Options dialog box appears.
3. Click the Programs tab and select "Microsoft Outlook" as the default e-mail client.
4. Hit OK and exit Explorer. (Bug 90206)

(Windows) You may need to try more then once before Outlook Express address books are imported successfully. (Bug 90206)

In Address Book, using "Select All" and "Delete" more than 500 cards may crash application. (Bug 90378)

Copying a large number of addresses between address books may cause crash. (Bug 82991)

Filters

If you have multiple filters configured for a mail account, incoming messages will continue to be evaluated against each filter (in the order listed in the Message Filters dialog) until a filter action of Move to Folder or Delete is executed. This differs from Communicator 4.x where any filter action would stop further filtering on a message. (Bug 30081)

Pop and IMAP

You must exit and restart Mozilla to see the effect of a change to the option: "show All IMAP mail folders" or "show only subscribed IMAP mail folders." To access this option: click the Advanced button in the Server section of the Account Settings dialog box. (Bug 38943)

When sending email from Cyrus IMAP mail accounts, you will get "The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Permission denied". Workaround: Redefine the special folder (sent, draft, template) under the Inbox folder. (Bug 27002)

Deleting in "Mark as deleted" mode may not work in the same way it did in Netscape Communicator 4.x. (Bug 59694)

News

The Subscribe dialog box may not work with news servers that require authentication. If you open a password-protected newsgroup you may be prompted more than once for the user name and password combination.

LDAP

LDAP directories with ldif extensions may appear after migration from Communicator 4.x. (Bug 94645)

Mozilla may temporarily hang during LDAP autocomplete if network connectivity is broken. Specifically, if the LDAP server in question is unreachable (network connectivity problems, including taking a laptop outside a firewall), the entire app will hang when attempting to contact that browser. If the user is patient, the app will begin responding again after the TCP timeout happens, probably between 30 seconds and several minutes later. (Bug 79509)

Offline Mail

Some mail items (offline and disk preferences, offline item selection, online/offline indicators in search/history/subscribe) do not display properly. (Bug 80970)

New newsgroups can not be downloaded unless you have previously open the newsgroups and retrieved headers first. (Bug 84061)

Moving/Copying a downloaded message (while offline) will result in not being able to read the message at the new folder while you are offline. Workaround: Go online to read it, then redownload the message to have it accessible when you are offline. (Bug 78809)

If the user starts Netscape in offline mode (clicking the work offline checkbox in the profile manager), then tries to reply to a message while in offline mode, or double clicks on a message (which brings it up in a separate window), in some instances the application might crash. (Bug 92368)

Using Download and Sync on numerous newsgroups might result in not getting all the messages downloaded the first time. Workaround: Use 'Download and Sync' on one or only a few newsgroups at a time, then uncheck them once synching is complete and select another couple of newsgroups and repeat the steps. Or go online and select the Newsgroup you want to download messages from and right click and do a "Get Messages for Account" or click "Get Msg" on the toolbar. (Bug 87018)

When starting Mozilla, if you only have one profile, both of the Offline preferences for startup mode ("Ask me if I want online or offline mode", or "Use my previous online/offline state") do not work. Mozilla will always start in online mode. To go offline, from the File menu, choose Work Offline. (Bug 82487)

If the user starts Mozilla in offline mode (clicking the work offline checkbox in the profile manager), then tries to reply to a message while in offline mode, or double clicks on a message (which brings it up in a separate window), in some instances the application might crash. (Bugs 92368)

You may experience issues (only when offline) when deleting mail in either trash mode: mark as deleted or remove immediately. (Bug 101069)

When starting Mozilla, if you only have one profile, both of the Offline preferences for startup mode ("Ask me if I want online or offline mode", or "Use my previous online/offline state") do not work. Mozilla will always start in online mode. To go offline, from the File menu, choose Work Offline. (Bug 82487)

ChatZilla

General

ChatZilla is not finished, but is usable if you're willing to accept a subset of the commands offered in more mature IRC clients. A large percentage of ChatZilla users experience crashes, odd behavior, rash, shortness of breath, and an urge to fix bugs. If you would like to contribute, please tell us in the netscape.public.mozilla.rt-messaging newsgroup, or send an e-mail to rginda@netscape.com.

If you are not familiar with IRC, please check out the FAQs available at www.irchelp.org.

Running ChatZilla

Start Mozilla with the -chat option to start ChatZilla, or select it from the Tasks menu.

More Info About ChatZilla

See the ChatZilla User's Guide for information on using ChatZilla. For info on building ChatZilla, click here. (Note that ChatZilla builds automatically on Windows and Mac OS).

Composer

You may not be able to simultaneously edit a document using both Composer and another editor. (Bug 37089)

You can't apply a font style across paragraphs and images. Font changes must be done within each paragraph.

Applying a font style across several words yields multiple font tags in the HTML code.

When the background color on a page is set, only the frames behind the lines of selected text are colored. Resizing the window triggers the proper repaint.

After applying a color to text, the text may appear partially highlighted.

Certain pages (such as ones that set frames) can't be edited. However, you are still able to choose the Edit Page option in the File menu for such pages. An editor window opens, but you are unable to edit the page.

Edit|PasteAs function is not functioning. (Bugs 73286, 41547)

File|Open Web Location, selecting to render in Composer does not open document in Composer. (Bug 71426)

When saving remote files, associated images are not saved. (Bugs 98550)

Switching between Normal and HTML Source mode inserts break (br) elements. (Bug 46227)

You can not print HTML Source. (Bug 82239)

Numerous shortcut keys do not function properly. (Bugs 26264, 43433, 48951, 57805, 61355, 70630, 58332, 58712, 26269, 53505, 76925, 80384, 57700, 67142, 4302, 93192, 48375)

Hourglass does not show when application is busy. (Bug 83300)

Broken image icon does not display in the application. (Bug 58646)

Some element icons do not render in Show All Tags mode. (Bug 88036)

List editing can cause nested lists to outdent to next level list. (Bug 98547)

Remove option from personal spell check dictionary does not work. (Bug 43348)

A blank window opens when clicking on the Browse button the 2nd time. Workaround: After editing the page more, if you want to view the new changes in Browser, first save the Composer file, go to the Browser window loaded before, and click the "Reload" button (or use "View | Reload" menu command). (Bug 59497)

If the cache preference is set to "Everyrg/shothe first account and does not work for any other accounts in the same profile. Work around: select each account's inbox once and click on Get message. (Bug 85227)

'Get All New Messages' checks the default account only, with or without passwords saved. Workaround: Select each account's Inbox and click on Get Message the first time for that session. Get All New messages should work. (Bug 80296)

Mozilla does not warn the user of a low disk space condition. (Bugs 32443, 56565) Some symptoms you may see are:

• Copying a message to your Sent folder fails entirely or may place incomplete copy in Sent folder.
• POP: Status text indicates there are new messages to retrieve, but no new messages appear in the Inbox. Quit Mozilla , free some disk space, re-start Mozilla , and try again.
• IMAP: Status text indicates there are new messages to retrieve, but no new messages appear in the Inbox. Quit Mozilla , free some disk space, re-start Mozilla , and try again.

Mail account identity is not stored along with an unsent message. (Bug 59548)

Linux: You may encounter problems if you install Mozilla in a root user environment then run as another user. Problems include saving to Sent folder, Drafts, Templates or general authentication problems. (Bug 49397)

New Mail Notification Sound Doesn't Play with Non-Default Sound Chosen: When the user edit the pref.js file to inculde a non-default sound, Mozilla does not play that sound when the mail arrives. Also changing it back again to default breaks the initial default sound for that profile. Workaround: Not to change the pref.js file to edit to play any other sound and leave the default. (Bug 64462)

The Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings dialog box does not display correctly at lower monitor resolutions such as 800 by 600 or 640 by 480. If possible, increase your monitor's display resolution above 800 by 600. (Bug 82122)

AOL Mail and Netscape WebMail Accounts

Mozilla does not integrate with AOL Mail and Netscape WebMail, as Netscape 6 does. If you share your Netscape 6 profile with Mozilla, you may be able to see headers for messages in the account's Inbox if you have previously checked one of these accounts in Netscape 6, but you will be unable to interact with the messages. To access your AOL Mail, WebMail, or Netscape Instant Messenger, you need to use Netscape 6.

Receiving and Reading Messages

You may not see the message header (From, Subject, Date, To, Cc, and so forth) when you read messages. This problem often occurs when you switch mail folders or newsgroups. To see headers, resize the window or the message content pane. (Bug 39655)

Attachments

In some cases you can't view more than one HTML/Web page attachment to a message in the mail window. The attachments will not all be shown or you may experience a crash when attempting to display them. (Bug 38398)

A crash may occur if you try to open or save a message attachment of a content type unknown to Mozilla . (Bug 44762)

Composing Messages

You can't forward a message that has a signature file containing the HTML tag <div class="signature">. (Bug 49484)

Address Book

To import Outlook address books, you must have the default mail client set to "Microsoft Outlook" in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Do this:

1. Launch Internet Explorer.
2. Click Tools in menu bar, then click Internet Options. The Internet Options dialog box appears.
3. Click the Programs tab and select "Microsoft Outlook" as the default e-mail client.
4. Hit OK and exit Explorer. (Bug 90206)

(Windows) You may need to try more then once before Outlook Express address books are imported successfully. (Bug 90206)

In Address Book, using "Select All" and "Delete" more than 500 cards may crash application. (Bug 90378)

Copying a large number of addresses between address books may cause crash. (Bug 82991)

Filters

If you have multiple f