On February 4, 2002 mozilla.org made available for download binaries of
the Mozilla 0.9.8 Milestone. The builds and release notes are
availbable at http://www.mozilla.org/releases/. New to this milestone
are fixes for about 1,500 bugs including:
* 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
http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/performance/abookperf.html)
* 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
* Mozilla supports MNG and JNG.
* 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.
* 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 the Release Notes for more info.
--Asa
