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Mozilla 0.9.8 Release Notes
These release notes describe system requirements, installation instructions,
and known issues for Mozilla 0.9.8.
These release notes are updated
when we receive feedback, so please check back for new information.
Consult our releases page to download the source and the
latest version of Mozilla for your platform.
See our
end-user documentation section
for more information on using and configuring Mozilla.
Use the
Bugzilla Helper
to report bugs. Avoid submitting a duplicate bug report by
checking to see if your problem is already a
known problem
or one of our
most frequently reported bugs. The
bug reporting guidelines explain how to write a useful bug
report that results in your problem being fixed.
Contents
- What's New
- New Issues
- System Requirements
- Compatibility Information
- Installation Notes
- Uninstalling
- Known Problems
- General
- Setting Profiles
- Navigator
- Mail and News
- ChatZilla IRC Client
- Composer
- Security
- Preferences
- Plugins
- Java
- International Release Notes
- Quality Feedback Agent
- A Note For Web Developers
- How To Get Involved With Mozilla
- Where To Find Other Builds
-
Hebrew is now supported on Solaris.
Hebrew and Arabic now supported on Mac OS systems
that have the proper language pack installed.
Pasting is busted
(Bug 119877)
and there are still some open issues related to keyboard input and
UI fonts. (Bugs
119860,
119882,
120048,
120334,
121126)
-
Thanks to the new nsITheme API, the classic theme now has native looking
widgets on Mac OS X and Windows XP.
-
There are several address book improvements.
-
You can now print individual cards (this has been broken for
several milestones), print cards from any address book, or print
the contents of an entire address book.
-
Much improved performance. (For details see the
test results.)
-
You can now export to txt, tab and csv and LDIF.
-
The address book now has quick search.
-
Cards with addresses in the USA have a new Get Map button in the
card preview pane which creates a map for that address at mapquest.com
For details on how to customize the address book's quick search and
Get Map features, see
Hidden Addressbook Prefs.
-
Mozilla supports MNG again.
-
Dynamic theme switching works again. You can (usually) switch themes without
restarting the browser although there are still some bugs.
-
Mozilla no longer reads /favicon.ico images by default although Mozilla still
reads page icons defined with the <link> tag. Set the following
pref to turn the feature back on.
user_pref("browser.chrome.favicons",true);
-
Files automatically downloaded by clicking on a link are now renamed
to the correct name when the download finishes.
-
DOM Inspector is now included on Mac OS builds.
-
The new Page Setup dialog allows setting margins, page orientation and
page scaling. Use the following codes to customize page headers :
&T - Title,
&U - Document URL,
&D - Date/Time,
&P - Page Number,
&PT - Page Number "of" Page total.
-
On Mac OS, downloaded files that are passed off to a helper
application are no longer deleted when Mozilla exits.
-
Composer is now able to generate CSS inline styles instead of
deprecated HTML elements and/or attributes (see Composer preferences).
These are items that have been added to the release notes since the
last milestone although the bugs themselves may have existed
previously.
-
Plugins that post data without http content length headers will fail.
(Bug 115308
is fixed on the trunk.)
-
DHTML performance has regressed since Mozilla 0.9.7.
(Bug 117061)
-
The mail compose addressing autocomplete dropdown listbox
doesn't pop out full sized when there are multiple matches.
(Bug 119816)
-
When using the tabbed browser if you visit a secure page in any tab other
than the first tab, then the "lock" icon in the lower right corner of the
browser won't work properly. It will always display the security information
about the first tab. This bug also affects the View > Page Info menu item.
There are two workarounds for this problem: Don't use tabbed browser when
browsing to sites where you are concerned about security, or only visit secure
sites in the first tab.
(Bug 101723)
-
In plaintext mail and mail subject headers, the
Euro character (€) may be
represented by its official transliteration, "EUR". This happens
when the message is encoded with a charset such as
ISO-8859-1 which does not support the Euro character.
To ensure the proper transmission of the Euro character,
set the character encoding of your message to Western (ISO-8859-15),
Unicode (UTF-8) or another encoding which supports the Euro character.
For a more detailed explanation, read this
news article for more.
See bug
109342
for the discussion on which encoding should be the default encoding
for users of the Western script.
-
Mozilla's Classic theme has problems minimizing windows on some
Microsoft Windows systems. The workaround is to 'minimize all windows' in a
context click on the Windows taskbar. After this the minimize behavior
should be normal. Another workaround is to use the Modern theme.
(Bug 120155)
-
Linux: Loading a page that contains a Flash plugin may cause
Mozilla to lock up if you are using an audio application.
(Bug 58339)
-
Windows: Printing in WordPerfect 2002
while Mozilla is running opens many browser windows. Workaround: close Mozilla
before printing from WordPerfect 2002. A WordPerfect user has created macros to automate this.
(Bug 87788)
Mac
- Mac OS 8.5 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
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)
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)
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 l"> Bugzilla |
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Mozilla 0.9.8 Release Notes
These release notes describe system requirements, installation instructions,
and known issues for Mozilla 0.9.8.
These release notes are updated
when we receive feedback, so please check back for new information.
Consult our releases page to download the source and the
latest version of Mozilla for your platform.
See our
end-user documentation section
for more information on using and configuring Mozilla.
Use the
Bugzilla Helper
to report bugs. Avoid submitting a duplicate bug report by
checking to see if your problem is already a
known problem
or one of our
most frequently reported bugs. The
bug reporting guidelines explain how to write a useful bug
report that results in your problem being fixed.
Contents
- What's New
- New Issues
- System Requirements
- Compatibility Information
- Installation Notes
- Uninstalling
- Known Problems
- General
- Setting Profiles
- Navigator
- Mail and News
- ChatZilla IRC Client
- Composer
- Security
- Preferences
- Plugins
- Java
- International Release Notes
- Quality Feedback Agent
- A Note For Web Developers
- How To Get Involved With Mozilla
- Where To Find Other Builds
-
Hebrew is now supported on Solaris.
Hebrew and Arabic now supported on Mac OS systems
that have the proper language pack installed.
Pasting is busted
(Bug 119877)
and there are still some open issues related to keyboard input and
UI fonts. (Bugs
119860,
119882,
120048,
120334,
121126)
-
Thanks to the new nsITheme API, the classic theme now has native looking
widgets on Mac OS X and Windows XP.
-
There are several address book improvements.
-
You can now print individual cards (this has been broken for
several milestones), print cards from any address book, or print
the contents of an entire address book.
-
Much improved performance. (For details see the
test results.)
-
You can now export to txt, tab and csv and LDIF.
-
The address book now has quick search.
-
Cards with addresses in the USA have a new Get Map button in the
card preview pane which creates a map for that address at mapquest.com
For details on how to customize the address book's quick search and
Get Map features, see
Hidden Addressbook Prefs.
-
Mozilla supports MNG again.
-
Dynamic theme switching works again. You can (usually) switch themes without
restarting the browser although there are still some bugs.
-
Mozilla no longer reads /favicon.ico images by default although Mozilla still
reads page icons defined with the <link> tag. Set the following
pref to turn the feature back on.
user_pref("browser.chrome.favicons",true);
-
Files automatically downloaded by clicking on a link are now renamed
to the correct name when the download finishes.
-
DOM Inspector is now included on Mac OS builds.
-
The new Page Setup dialog allows setting margins, page orientation and
page scaling. Use the following codes to customize page headers :
&T - Title,
&U - Document URL,
&D - Date/Time,
&P - Page Number,
&PT - Page Number "of" Page total.
-
On Mac OS, downloaded files that are passed off to a helper
application are no longer deleted when Mozilla exits.
-
Composer is now able to generate CSS inline styles instead of
deprecated HTML elements and/or attributes (see Composer preferences).
These are items that have been added to the release notes since the
last milestone although the bugs themselves may have existed
previously.
-
Plugins that post data without http content length headers will fail.
(Bug 115308
is fixed on the trunk.)
-
DHTML performance has regressed since Mozilla 0.9.7.
(Bug 117061)
-
The mail compose addressing autocomplete dropdown listbox
doesn't pop out full sized when there are multiple matches.
(Bug 119816)
-
When using the tabbed browser if you visit a secure page in any tab other
than the first tab, then the "lock" icon in the lower right corner of the
browser won't work properly. It will always display the security information
about the first tab. This bug also affects the View > Page Info menu item.
There are two workarounds for this problem: Don't use tabbed browser when
browsing to sites where you are concerned about security, or only visit secure
sites in the first tab.
(Bug 101723)
-
In plaintext mail and mail subject headers, the
Euro character (€) may be
represented by its official transliteration, "EUR". This happens
when the message is encoded with a charset such as
ISO-8859-1 which does not support the Euro character.
To ensure the proper transmission of the Euro character,
set the character encoding of your message to Western (ISO-8859-15),
Unicode (UTF-8) or another encoding which supports the Euro character.
For a more detailed explanation, read this
news article for more.
See bug
109342
for the discussion on which encoding should be the default encoding
for users of the Western script.
-
Mozilla's Classic theme has problems minimizing windows on some
Microsoft Windows systems. The workaround is to 'minimize all windows' in a
context click on the Windows taskbar. After this the minimize behavior
should be normal. Another workaround is to use the Modern theme.
(Bug 120155)
-
Linux: Loading a page that contains a Flash plugin may cause
Mozilla to lock up if you are using an audio application.
(Bug 58339)
-
Windows: Printing in WordPerfect 2002
while Mozilla is running opens many browser windows. Workaround: close Mozilla
before printing from WordPerfect 2002. A WordPerfect user has created macros to automate this.
(Bug 87788)
Mac
- Mac OS 8.5 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
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)
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)
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 l"> Bugzilla |
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|
| Tools |
| View Source |
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Mozilla 0.9.8 Release Notes
These release notes describe system requirements, installation instructions,
and known issues for Mozilla 0.9.8.
These release notes are updated
when we receive feedback, so please check back for new information.
Consult our releases page to download the source and the
latest version of Mozilla for your platform.
See our
end-user documentation section
for more information on using and configuring Mozilla.
Use the
Bugzilla Helper
to report bugs. Avoid submitting a duplicate bug report by
checking to see if your problem is already a
known problem
or one of our
most frequently reported bugs. The
bug reporting guidelines explain how to write a useful bug
report that results in your problem being fixed.
Contents
- What's New
- New Issues
- System Requirements
- Compatibility Information
- Installation Notes
- Uninstalling
- Known Problems
- General
- Setting Profiles
- Navigator
- Mail and News
- ChatZilla IRC Client
- Composer
- Security
- Preferences
- Plugins
- Java
- International Release Notes
- Quality Feedback Agent
- A Note For Web Developers
- How To Get Involved With Mozilla
- Where To Find Other Builds
-
Hebrew is now supported on Solaris.
Hebrew and Arabic now supported on Mac OS systems
that have the proper language pack installed.
Pasting is busted
(Bug 119877)
and there are still some open issues related to keyboard input and
UI fonts. (Bugs
119860,
119882,
120048,
120334,
121126)
-
Thanks to the new nsITheme API, the classic theme now has native looking
widgets on Mac OS X and Windows XP.
-
There are several address book improvements.
-
You can now print individual cards (this has been broken for
several milestones), print cards from any address book, or print
the contents of an entire address book.
-
Much improved performance. (For details see the
test results.)
-
You can now export to txt, tab and csv and LDIF.
-
The address book now has quick search.
-
Cards with addresses in the USA have a new Get Map button in the
card preview pane which creates a map for that address at mapquest.com
For details on how to customize the address book's quick search and
Get Map features, see
Hidden Addressbook Prefs.
-
Mozilla supports MNG again.
-
Dynamic theme switching works again. You can (usually) switch themes without
restarting the browser although there are still some bugs.
-
Mozilla no longer reads /favicon.ico images by default although Mozilla still
reads page icons defined with the <link> tag. Set the following
pref to turn the feature back on.
user_pref("browser.chrome.favicons",true);
-
Files automatically downloaded by clicking on a link are now renamed
to the correct name when the download finishes.
-
DOM Inspector is now included on Mac OS builds.
-
The new Page Setup dialog allows setting margins, page orientation and
page scaling. Use the following codes to customize page headers :
&T - Title,
&U - Document URL,
&D - Date/Time,
&P - Page Number,
&PT - Page Number "of" Page total.
-
On Mac OS, downloaded files that are passed off to a helper
application are no longer deleted when Mozilla exits.
-
Composer is now able to generate CSS inline styles instead of
deprecated HTML elements and/or attributes (see Composer preferences).
These are items that have been added to the release notes since the
last milestone although the bugs themselves may have existed
previously.
-
Plugins that post data without http content length headers will fail.
(Bug 115308
is fixed on the trunk.)
-
DHTML performance has regressed since Mozilla 0.9.7.
(Bug 117061)
-
The mail compose addressing autocomplete dropdown listbox
doesn't pop out full sized when there are multiple matches.
(Bug 119816)
-
When using the tabbed browser if you visit a secure page in any tab other
than the first tab, then the "lock" icon in the lower right corner of the
browser won't work properly. It will always display the security information
about the first tab. This bug also affects the View > Page Info menu item.
There are two workarounds for this problem: Don't use tabbed browser when
browsing to sites where you are concerned about security, or only visit secure
sites in the first tab.
(Bug 101723)
-
In plaintext mail and mail subject headers, the
Euro character (€) may be
represented by its official transliteration, "EUR". This happens
when the message is encoded with a charset such as
ISO-8859-1 which does not support the Euro character.
To ensure the proper transmission of the Euro character,
set the character encoding of your message to Western (ISO-8859-15),
Unicode (UTF-8) or another encoding which supports the Euro character.
For a more detailed explanation, read this
news article for more.
See bug
109342
for the discussion on which encoding should be the default encoding
for users of the Western script.
-
Mozilla's Classic theme has problems minimizing windows on some
Microsoft Windows systems. The workaround is to 'minimize all windows' in a
context click on the Windows taskbar. After this the minimize behavior
should be normal. Another workaround is to use the Modern theme.
(Bug 120155)
-
Linux: Loading a page that contains a Flash plugin may cause
Mozilla to lock up if you are using an audio application.
(Bug 58339)
-
Windows: Printing in WordPerfect 2002
while Mozilla is running opens many browser windows. Workaround: close Mozilla
before printing from WordPerfect 2002. A WordPerfect user has created macros to automate this.
(Bug 87788)
Mac
- Mac OS 8.5 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
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)
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)
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 l"> Bugzilla |
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Mozilla 0.9.8 Release Notes
These release notes describe system requirements, installation instructions,
and known issues for Mozilla 0.9.8.
These release notes are updated
when we receive feedback, so please check back for new information.
Consult our releases page to download the source and the
latest version of Mozilla for your platform.
See our
end-user documentation section
for more information on using and configuring Mozilla.
Use the
Bugzilla Helper
to report bugs. Avoid submitting a duplicate bug report by
checking to see if your problem is already a
known problem
or one of our
most frequently reported bugs. The
bug reporting guidelines explain how to write a useful bug
report that results in your problem being fixed.
Contents
- What's New
- New Issues
- System Requirements
- Compatibility Information
- Installation Notes
- Uninstalling
- Known Problems
- General
- Setting Profiles
- Navigator
- Mail and News
- ChatZilla IRC Client
- Composer
- Security
- Preferences
- Plugins
- Java
- International Release Notes
- Quality Feedback Agent
- A Note For Web Developers
- How To Get Involved With Mozilla
- Where To Find Other Builds
-
Hebrew is now supported on Solaris.
Hebrew and Arabic now supported on Mac OS systems
that have the proper language pack installed.
Pasting is busted
(Bug 119877)
and there are still some open issues related to keyboard input and
UI fonts. (Bugs
119860,
119882,
120048,
120334,
121126)
-
Thanks to the new nsITheme API, the classic theme now has native looking
widgets on Mac OS X and Windows XP.
-
There are several address book improvements.
-
You can now print individual cards (this has been broken for
several milestones), print cards from any address book, or print
the contents of an entire address book.
-
Much improved performance. (For details see the
test results.)
-
You can now export to txt, tab and csv and LDIF.
-
The address book now has quick search.
-
Cards with addresses in the USA have a new Get Map button in the
card preview pane which creates a map for that address at mapquest.com
For details on how to customize the address book's quick search and
Get Map features, see
Hidden Addressbook Prefs.
-
Mozilla supports MNG again.
-
Dynamic theme switching works again. You can (usually) switch themes without
restarting the browser although there are still some bugs.
-
Mozilla no longer reads /favicon.ico images by default although Mozilla still
reads page icons defined with the <link> tag. Set the following
pref to turn the feature back on.
user_pref("browser.chrome.favicons",true);
-
Files automatically downloaded by clicking on a link are now renamed
to the correct name when the download finishes.
-
DOM Inspector is now included on Mac OS builds.
-
The new Page Setup dialog allows setting margins, page orientation and
page scaling. Use the following codes to customize page headers :
&T - Title,
&U - Document URL,
&D - Date/Time,
&P - Page Number,
&PT - Page Number "of" Page total.
-
On Mac OS, downloaded files that are passed off to a helper
application are no longer deleted when Mozilla exits.
-
Composer is now able to generate CSS inline styles instead of
deprecated HTML elements and/or attributes (see Composer preferences).
These are items that have been added to the release notes since the
last milestone although the bugs themselves may have existed
previously.
-
Plugins that post data without http content length headers will fail.
(Bug 115308
is fixed on the trunk.)
-
DHTML performance has regressed since Mozilla 0.9.7.
(Bug 117061)
-
The mail compose addressing autocomplete dropdown listbox
doesn't pop out full sized when there are multiple matches.
(Bug 119816)
-
When using the tabbed browser if you visit a secure page in any tab other
than the first tab, then the "lock" icon in the lower right corner of the
browser won't work properly. It will always display the security information
about the first tab. This bug also affects the View > Page Info menu item.
There are two workarounds for this problem: Don't use tabbed browser when
browsing to sites where you are concerned about security, or only visit secure
sites in the first tab.
(Bug 101723)
-
In plaintext mail and mail subject headers, the
Euro character (€) may be
represented by its official transliteration, "EUR". This happens
when the message is encoded with a charset such as
ISO-8859-1 which does not support the Euro character.
To ensure the proper transmission of the Euro character,
set the character encoding of your message to Western (ISO-8859-15),
Unicode (UTF-8) or another encoding which supports the Euro character.
For a more detailed explanation, read this
news article for more.
See bug
109342
for the discussion on which encoding should be the default encoding
for users of the Western script.
-
Mozilla's Classic theme has problems minimizing windows on some
Microsoft Windows systems. The workaround is to 'minimize all windows' in a
context click on the Windows taskbar. After this the minimize behavior
should be normal. Another workaround is to use the Modern theme.
(Bug 120155)
-
Linux: Loading a page that contains a Flash plugin may cause
Mozilla to lock up if you are using an audio application.
(Bug 58339)
-
Windows: Printing in WordPerfect 2002
while Mozilla is running opens many browser windows. Workaround: close Mozilla
before printing from WordPerfect 2002. A WordPerfect user has created macros to automate this.
(Bug 87788)
Mac
- Mac OS 8.5 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
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)
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)
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 l"> Bugzilla |
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Mozilla 0.9.8 Release Notes
These release notes describe system requirements, installation instructions,
and known issues for Mozilla 0.9.8.
These release notes are updated
when we receive feedback, so please check back for new information.
Consult our releases page to download the source and the
latest version of Mozilla for your platform.
See our
end-user documentation section
for more information on using and configuring Mozilla.
Use the
Bugzilla Helper
to report bugs. Avoid submitting a duplicate bug report by
checking to see if your problem is already a
known problem
or one of our
most frequently reported bugs. The
bug reporting guidelines explain how to write a useful bug
report that results in your problem being fixed.
Contents
- What's New
- New Issues
- System Requirements
- Compatibility Information
- Installation Notes
- Uninstalling
- Known Problems
- General
- Setting Profiles
- Navigator
- Mail and News
- ChatZilla IRC Client
- Composer
- Security
- Preferences
- Plugins
- Java
- International Release Notes
- Quality Feedback Agent
- A Note For Web Developers
- How To Get Involved With Mozilla
- Where To Find Other Builds
-
Hebrew is now supported on Solaris.
Hebrew and Arabic now supported on Mac OS systems
that have the proper language pack installed.
Pasting is busted
(Bug 119877)
and there are still some open issues related to keyboard input and
UI fonts. (Bugs
119860,
119882,
120048,
120334,
121126)
-
Thanks to the new nsITheme API, the classic theme now has native looking
widgets on Mac OS X and Windows XP.
-
There are several address book improvements.
-
You can now print individual cards (this has been broken for
several milestones), print cards from any address book, or print
the contents of an entire address book.
-
Much improved performance. (For details see the
test results.)
-
You can now export to txt, tab and csv and LDIF.
-
The address book now has quick search.
-
Cards with addresses in the USA have a new Get Map button in the
card preview pane which creates a map for that address at mapquest.com
For details on how to customize the address book's quick search and
Get Map features, see
Hidden Addressbook Prefs.
-
Mozilla supports MNG again.
-
Dynamic theme switching works again. You can (usually) switch themes without
restarting the browser although there are still some bugs.
-
Mozilla no longer reads /favicon.ico images by default although Mozilla still
reads page icons defined with the <link> tag. Set the following
pref to turn the feature back on.
user_pref("browser.chrome.favicons",true);
-
Files automatically downloaded by clicking on a link are now renamed
to the correct name when the download finishes.
-
DOM Inspector is now included on Mac OS builds.
-
The new Page Setup dialog allows setting margins, page orientation and
page scaling. Use the following codes to customize page headers :
&T - Title,
&U - Document URL,
&D - Date/Time,
&P - Page Number,
&PT - Page Number "of" Page total.
-
On Mac OS, downloaded files that are passed off to a helper
application are no longer deleted when Mozilla exits.
-
Composer is now able to generate CSS inline styles instead of
deprecated HTML elements and/or attributes (see Composer preferences).
These are items that have been added to the release notes since the
last milestone although the bugs themselves may have existed
previously.
-
Plugins that post data without http content length headers will fail.
(Bug 115308
is fixed on the trunk.)
-
DHTML performance has regressed since Mozilla 0.9.7.
(Bug 117061)
-
The mail compose addressing autocomplete dropdown listbox
doesn't pop out full sized when there are multiple matches.
(Bug 119816)
-
When using the tabbed browser if you visit a secure page in any tab other
than the first tab, then the "lock" icon in the lower right corner of the
browser won't work properly. It will always display the security information
about the first tab. This bug also affects the View > Page Info menu item.
There are two workarounds for this problem: Don't use tabbed browser when
browsing to sites where you are concerned about security, or only visit secure
sites in the first tab.
(Bug 101723)
-
In plaintext mail and mail subject headers, the
Euro character (€) may be
represented by its official transliteration, "EUR". This happens
when the message is encoded with a charset such as
ISO-8859-1 which does not support the Euro character.
To ensure the proper transmission of the Euro character,
set the character encoding of your message to Western (ISO-8859-15),
Unicode (UTF-8) or another encoding which supports the Euro character.
For a more detailed explanation, read this
news article for more.
See bug
109342
for the discussion on which encoding should be the default encoding
for users of the Western script.
-
Mozilla's Classic theme has problems minimizing windows on some
Microsoft Windows systems. The workaround is to 'minimize all windows' in a
context click on the Windows taskbar. After this the minimize behavior
should be normal. Another workaround is to use the Modern theme.
(Bug 120155)
-
Linux: Loading a page that contains a Flash plugin may cause
Mozilla to lock up if you are using an audio application.
(Bug 58339)
-
Windows: Printing in WordPerfect 2002
while Mozilla is running opens many browser windows. Workaround: close Mozilla
before printing from WordPerfect 2002. A WordPerfect user has created macros to automate this.
(Bug 87788)
Mac
- Mac OS 8.5 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
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)
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 ma |