Mozilla 0.9.2 Release Notes
These release notes describe system requirements, installation instructions,
and known issues for Mozilla 0.9.2.
These release notes are updated
when we receive feedback, so please check back for new information.
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Contents
- What's New
- 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
-
Continued stability improvements with 25 top
crash bugs
fixed since 0.9.1. These bugs were fixed thanks to data generated by users
running talkback builds.
-
New context sensitive help in preference dialogs and new help viewer
content donated from the Netscape 6.1 PR1 release (which still needs
to be Mozillafied).
(Bug 46917)
-
On Windows, you can now permanently delete your Imported IE Favorites
folder.
(Bug 22642)
-
The preferences dialog now allows you to turn off animated gif images or
set them to only animate once.
(Bug 64831)
-
The View Source window has a new toolbar for common tasks like File, Edit
and View
(Bug 63026)
-
There is a new turbo mode pref on Windows which allows you to "pre-load"
Mozilla when you boot in order to reduce browser startup time.
(Bug 84882)
-
You can click the lock icon to see security information about the current page.
-
Security UI and help is now fully integrated with the rest of the browser interface. If you are a developer, you can find more technical information about
Mozilla 0.9.2
security features on the
Personal Security Manager Project Page .
-
To get Mozilla to spew debugging messages to the console, enable verbose
mode by adding the following line to prefs.js file in your profile.
user_pref("browser.dom.window.dump.enabled", true);
(Bug 74816)
-
The syntax for blocking pop-up windows has changed since Mozilla 0.9.
To block pop-up windows, add this line to the prefs.js file in your
Mozilla profile directory while Mozilla is not running:
user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.open", "noAccess");
If you want to allow specific sites to open new windows, add the line
above and also these lines:
user_pref("capability.policy.allowpopups.sites",
"http://www.mozilla.org http://bugzilla.mozilla.org");
user_pref("capability.policy.allowpopups.Window.open", "sameOrigin");
See the
Configurable Security Policy documentation for more information.
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
Windows
- Windows 95, 98, or 98SE, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 2000
- Intel Pentium-class 233 MHz (or faster) processor
- 64 MB RAM
- 26 MB of free hard disk space
Linux
- Red Hat Linux 6.x and 7 with X11 R6 [Note:
Mozilla is certified
and fully supported on Red Hat Linux, but will run on other Linux
distributions, such as Debian 2.1 (or later) or SuSE 6.2 (or later).
The glibc 2.1 (or higher) library is
required.]
- Intel Pentium-class 233 MHz (or faster) processor
- 64 MB of RAM
- 26 MB of free hard disk space
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)
If you are using an ATI Rage video card, images are correctly
displayed initially, but may not be properly re-drawn when you minimize
and maximize or resize the window.
If you use True Type fonts with Mozilla,
some characters are displayed as squares.
(Bug 51920)
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.
In Mozilla Mail, the import utility
only supports Eudora and text files.
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)
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.
(Bug 68604)
IRIX
When using VTMW 5.4.5, transient windows must be decorated (not the default)
for popup windows such as Find, Save and Preferences to function.
(Bug 71920)
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.
If you are installing Mozilla on a
multi-user operating system
such as Linux, Unix, or Windows 2000, you should install it separately
in the user directory of each user who plans to use
Mozilla.
(Bug 42184)
If you install Mozilla
in a shared write-protected directory, it may not
run properly.
(Bugs 42184)
When you install language packs and other .xpi files, downloading
pauses until you click the browser's Stop button.
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
installation requires some system extensions including QuickTime.
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 0.9.2\bin\plugins).
Linux
With tar.gz builds on Linux, after the JRE has installed, put a symlink
in your mozilla0.9.2 /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:
- Click the mozilla-win32-installer.exe link to download the
file to your machine.
- Navigate to where you downloaded the file and double-click the
Mozilla
program icon on your machine to begin the Setup program.
- 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:
- Click the mozilla-win32-talkback.zip link or the mozilla-win32.zip
link to download the .zip file to your machine.
- 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.
- Extract the .zip file to a directory such as C:/Program Files/
Mozilla 0.9.2.
- To start Mozilla, navigate to the
directory you extracted Mozilla to
and double-click the Mozilla.exe icon.
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:
- 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.
- Double-click the Mozilla
Installer folder in the Finder.
- Double-click the Mozilla
Installer icon.
- Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process.
- 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:
- 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.
- Double-click the mozilla-mac-*.sea.sit.bin icon on your
desktop.
- Choose the directory where you want to install
Mozilla.
- To start Mozilla, open the folder
where you installed Mozilla and
double-click the Mozilla icon.
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:
- Create a directory named mozilla (mkdir
mozilla0.9.2) and change to
that directory (cd mozilla0.9.2).
- Click the link to download the installer file (called
mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz).
- Change to the mozilla directory
(cd mozilla0.9.2) 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.)
- Change to the mozilla-installer directory (cd mozilla-installer) and
run the installer with the ./mozilla-installer command.
- 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.
- 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:
- Create a directory named "mozilla0.9.2"
(mkdir mozilla0.9.2) and
change to that directory (cd mozilla0.9.2
).
- Click the link to download the non-installer mozilla*.tar.gz file into
the mozilla0.9.2 directory.
- Change to the mozilla directory (cd
mozilla0.9.2 ) and decompress
the file with the following command:
gunzip -dc moz*.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
(This creates a "mozilla" subdirectory under your
mozilla0.9.2 directory.)
- Change to the mozilla directory (cd mozilla).
- Run Mozilla with the
./mozilla run script.
To hook up Mozilla complete with icon
to the GNOME Panel, follow these steps:
- Click the GNOME Main Menu button, open the Panel menu, and then
open the Add to Panel submenu and choose Launcher.
- 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.
- Type in a name for the icon, and type in a comment if you wish.
- 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)
Linux
- Remove the mozilla0.9.2
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 0.9.2
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
Windows |
user/
prefs.js (Preferences file)
cache/ (cache directory)
newcache/ (Additional cache files)
cookies.txt (cookies file)
*cookperm.txt (used to selectively accept/reject
cookies)
FieldSchema.tbl (files for auto form filling)
SchemaConcat.tbl (files for auto form filling)
SchemaValue.tbl (files for auto form filling)
URLFieldSchema.tbl (files for auto form filling)
signons.tbl and signonsx.tbl (logins and passwords file
store)
$windir/
mozregistry.dat
(Mozilla registry)
mozver.dat (stores version of
Mozilla components)
MozillaUninstall.exe
(Mozilla Uninstaller)
Application Data\Mozilla
(Mozilla data directory on Win98)
Mozilla
Mozilla data directory on Win95
|
Unix |
user/
prefs.js in ~/.mozilla/[profile] (preferences
file)
Cache in ~/.mozilla/[profile](cache
directory)
newcache in ~/.mozilla/[profile](additional cache
directory)
cookies (cookies file)
*cookperm (used to selectively accept/reject
cookies)
FieldSchema.tbl (files for auto form filling)
SchemaConcat.tbl (files for auto form
filling)
SchemaValue.tbl (files for auto form
filling)
URLFieldSchema.tbl (files for auto form
filling)
signons and signonsx (logins and passwords
file store)
~/.mozilla/
registry
(Mozilla Registry)
|
Mac |
Documents:Mozilla:Users50:mozProfile:
prefs.js (preferences file (use))
Cache (cache directory)
newcache (additional cache directory)
cookies.txt (cookies file)
*cookperm (used to selectively accept/reject
cookies)
res:
FieldSchema.tbl (files for auto form
filling)
SchemaConcat.tbl (files for auto form
filling)
SchemaValue.tbl (files for auto form
filling)
URLFieldSchema.tbl (files for auto form
filling)
System:Preferences:
Mozilla Registry
|
*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: hand
edit the prefs.js file to include:
-
user.pref ("network.cookie.rememberAboutCookies", true);
If you collapse the Navigation toolbar and close the browser window, the
next time you start the browser the toolbar will not be visible. To
restore the toolbar you will have to open a new window. Make sure that
new window is the last window you close and the toolbar will be fine on
the next start.
(Bug 73064)
Keyboard and Mouse
Double right-clicking on a page can disable the keyboard.
(Bugs 30841
and 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, edit your prefs.js file as follows:
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.)
Event Handling
Wrong events are fired on FILE element.
(Bug 4033)
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.
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:
- Minimize the plugin download window.
- Click "Cancel" to dismiss the dialog box.
- 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:
mv /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2 /usr/share/fonts.ISO8859-2
and then log out of Linux and log back in again. You can always undo
this, if necessary, by entering the following command:
mv /usr/share/fonts.ISO8859-2 /usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-2
Proxies
Mozilla needs to be configured to work
properly with proxies such as
Junkbuster and Webfree 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)
(Bug 13982)
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.
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 right 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 some major bugs.
(Bugs 73936,
53030)
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)
You can't use arrow keys or edit commands in the URL bar if the URL bar received
focus when the browser window was created.
(Bug 83919)
Clicking on the Search button the first time reverts your preferences to the
preset
Mozilla
search engine. This does not happen after you set the Default Search Engine
preference again.
(Bug 82401)
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.
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)
Bookmarks
If the bookmark item in the sidebar doesn't work, remove the bookmarks
tab from the sidebar and then re-add it.
Click on the "Tabs" button in the Sidebar and select
the Customize My Sidebar menu item. In the resulting dialog, remove the
bookmarks tab, hit OK and restart Mozilla.
Go back to the Customize window and add the bookmarks tab.
(Bug 71685)
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)
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 32178,
22095,
27468,
28129,
32035,
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.
Mozilla does not warn the user of a
low disk space condition.
(Bugs 57902,
32443,
56565)
Some symptoms you may see are:
- Send Page fails to send the intended page attachment.
- Copying a message to your Sent folder fails
- 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.
- POP: You see an "unknown error" when trying to select messages that could
not be downloaded. Quit
Mozilla
, free some disk space, re-start
Mozilla
, and try again. This workaround succeeds only if "Leave messages on Server"
is enabled in the Mail/News Account Settings: Server Settings dialog box.
(It must be enabled prior to the failed download.) If that option was not
enabled, those messages are lost.
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)
AOL Mail and Netscape WebMail Accounts
Mozilla does not support 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.
Message Filters
Some filter criteria choices are not actually available.
(Bug 40380)
If you select an unimplemented filter criterion
when creating a new filter or editing an existing one, you may
see odd dialog behavior and the filter will not work as expected.
If you migrate a Netscape Communicator message filter specifying
an unimplemented criterion, you will experience similar problems.
No warning is given if you rename
or delete a folder specified as a message filter destination.
(Bug 41720)
You must edit the filter to select a new destination
folder; otherwise the filter will not work as expected.
Receiving and Reading Messages
Not all of the choices offered in the Search Messages window are
implemented or valid for certain mail folder or newsgroup selections.
(Bug 40380)
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
Don't try to download multiple attachments simultaneously. Download them
one at a time.
(Bug 49180)
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
An imported Netscape Communicator address book will appear in
Mozilla as a separate address book.
(Bug 41590)
It will not be merged with or appear as your Personal
Address Book. If you wish the imported address book to be your
Personal Address Book, follow these steps:
- Open the Tasks menu and choose Address Book.
- In the Address Book window, click the imported address book and select
all of its entries; then drag them to the Personal Address Book.
(This doesn't work for mailing lists.)
Pop and IMAP
user_pref ("mail.allow_at_sign_in_user_name", true); will allow you to
enter a username when you login to use mail. Add this string to your prefs.js
file in your profile.
Note: Your prefs.js file is located in the Users50 directory
on Windows and Mac OS, and in the .mozilla directory on Linux.
Note: Your prefs.js
file is located in the Users50 directory on Windows and Mac OS,
and in the .mozilla directory on Linux.
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)
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.
Offline Mail
Offline mail is not fully implemented for
Mozilla 0.9.2. Functionality is currently limited and will be improved in a future release.
These are some of the issues:
Offline, disk space, download, and sync preferences are not saved for future
use.
(Bugs 81690,
79555,
82751,
79554)
Saving a downloaded file (text, html, eml, template) while in offline mode
does not work.
(Bug 81690)
Saving a message while composing (Copies and Folder preferences) does not work
properly.
(Bug 64417)
Some mail items (offline and disk preferences, offline item selection, online/offline
indicators in search/history/subscribe) do not display properly.
(Bug 79801,
80970, 83555)
Downloaded messages headers are displayed in italics.
(Bug 73808)
New newsgroups can not be downloaded unless you have previously open the newsgroups
and retrieved headers first.
(Bug 84061)
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).
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 36419,
51746)
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,
57967,
58332,
58712,
26269,
53505,
76925,
80384,
60459,
57700,
67142,
4302,
69740,
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.
(Bugs 82465,
82459)
List editing can cause nested lists to outdent to next level list.
(Bug 52675)
Remove option from personal spell check dictionary does not work.
(Bug 43348)
TLS support: The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol defines
rules governing authentication between a web site and browser software
and the encryption of information that flows between them. The Transport
Layer Security (TLS) protocol is an IETF standard based on SSL. TLS 1.0
can be thought of as SSL 3.1. [Mozilla/Netscape 6.1] supports both SSL and
TLS.
Some servers that do not implement SSL correctly cannot negotiate the
SSL handshake with client software that supports TLS. Such servers are known
as "TLS intolerant."
When you select the "Enable TLS" option in the SSL preferences panel, the
browser will attempt to use the TLS protocol when making secure connections
with a server. If that connection fails because the server is TLS intolerant,
the browser will fall back to using SSL 3.0--with one important exception:
If you are using a proxy for SSL connections, the browser will not attempt
to use TLS at all. Instead, it will attempt to use SSL 3.0.
(Bug 88244)
Smart Cards: You cannot delete a certificate from a smart card.
(Bug 83695)
If you are using the Classic theme,
some preference panels may be displayed incorrectly or may have
missing elements. If you view a different preference panel and
then return to the one you're working in, the display is corrected.
(Bug 51241)
Preferences window initial size doesn't always give hints on all options
available. Resize the window from its lower right corner to see
them all.
(Bug 53375)
Plugins installed for Communicator 4.x may not be available for
Mozilla.
Workaround: install these plugins in the
Mozilla Plugins folder.
Mozilla
has been tested with all 1.3.0_* versions of the JRE, and JRE
1.3.1, and beta versions of JDK 1.4. J2SE releases previous to 1.3.0_01 will
not work with
Mozilla.
LiveConnect does work with
Mozilla 0.9.2.
There remain some LiveConnect problems with the combination of
Mozilla 0.9.2.
and JDK/JRE 1.3.X. Fixes for a number of remaining LiveConnect problems
are being incorporated into JDK 1.4 and will be available when that
release of JDK/JRE is available later this year.
Running J2SE in 256-color mode
may cause a flicking problem.
Linux:
LiveConnect support now works if you use
Mozilla 0.9.2
with JRE 1.3.1. Additional LiveConnect problems are being addressed
in JDK 1.4 as mentioned above.
General
Mozilla has been designed to
display many different languages without extra steps. The user should
be able to browse and use e-mail without complicated setups or
efforts when necessary fonts are available on the system.
Mozilla can be used with more
than one language pack, which lets the user change the menu language
and relevant URLs.
Bi-directional text support enabled for
Hebrew
and
Arabic
thanks to the
contribution by IBM. Arabic shaping currently works only on Windows platforms
which have full Arabic support installed. Arabic support is available for Win
2000 by installing an Arabic locale from the install CD. Other Windows platforms
may not provide full Arabic support except under Middle Eastern enabled or
localized versions. Arabic shaping is not currently available on Macintosh,
Linux or other platforms.
(Bug 82383)
If you are using Chinese, Korean
or Japanese language Windows 9x/ME and are having a non-start
or crash problem when trying to start up
Mozilla, read the Java
section of the Known issues section below.
General and Profile Manager
Windows NT/2000: If you create
a non-ASCII user name (e.g. Japanese) and if it does not have the
Power user or Administrator status, a new profile creation may
fail. In such a case, instead of accepting the default location
for profiles, choose an alternate location whose path name does
not contain non-ASCII characters.
A path name that contains non-Latin
1 characters is not saved correctly. Initially they look OK but
when saved, they turn into unreadable characters. A file that
is defined using such characters may not be found, e.g. a mail
signature file. A workaround is to use only ASCII characters for
file and path names.
Profile migration does not work
correctly if Communicator 4.x profile names contain 2-byte characters
(e.g. Japanese) with 0x5C byte Shift_JIS character.
Shift_JIS Full-width tilde character
(0x8160) and a few other Japanese symbol characters have
differing correspondences to Unicode mapping tables depending on
platforms. This causes characters like these to display incorrectly
in some situations on Macintosh.
Linux: When migrating
profiles created by Communicator 4.x under Japanese EUC locale,
Address Book entries may not transfer correctly. Workaround:
You can edit preferences.js file and change the charset name
"euc-jp" (lowercase) to "EUC-JP" (uppercase) for lines containing
an entry like the following: "user_pref("ldap_2.servers.pab.csid", "euc-jp");"
Linux: Under
a Japanese locale, the window title in Japanese (reflecting the title
of a Web page) may not show correctly if the Web page does not
match the charset of the Japanese locale, e.g. Shift_JIS title
on an EUC locale.
Linux: On Red
Hat Linux 6.0 Japanese, the license agreement for the Japanese
installer may display empty. Workaround: Click OK and move on
to the next step. This problem does not occur on RH 6.1 and later.
Navigator and Composer
Mozilla does not support Dynamic
Fonts. (Note: It was supported in Communicator 4.x.)
Files and directories on a local
disk bearing non-Latin 1 names may not be accessed by inputting
the names into the Navigator location field.
The charset attribute within a
SCRIPT tag, i.e. for JavaScript, does not work. Instead JavaScript
uses the charset of the document.
With the Windows 2000 IME, most
of the new IME features (e.g. reconversion) are supported but
some features may not work correctly.
Mac OS: Non-ASCII
non-Latin 1 info stored in Internet Config will not show correctly
in auto-fill fields such as "Your name" field in the Mail account
setup dialog. If this happens, you can manually correct auto-filled
entries.
Mac OS: The Japanese
language pack or Japanese release can be used on an English Mac
OS if the Japanese Language Kit has been installed on the Mac OS.
(The Japanese Language support comes free with Mac OS 8.5 or later
as an optional install item.) The menu and dialogs, however, will
not show as Japanese unless the "Mozilla"
program is registered as a Japanese language program. To do this,
use the (Japanese) Language register program found in the "Apple Extras"
directory.
Mac OS: The Character
Coding menu check mark does not get updated promptly and shows
incorrect indication of the current page encoding.
Mail
POP and Local message body search
does not work with non-Latin 1 key words.
Filtering by body key has not
been implemented.
The "Edit as New" menu does
not correctly quote the original non-ASCII text body if the
original message does not contain MIME charset information.
When you quote the original message
in reply, sometimes you see the quoted text as corrupted and unreadable.
If this problem occurs, check that you don't have multiple Mail
folder windows open. When multiple mail folders/windows are open,
the reply charset reflects the charset of the selected message
in the last window opened rather than the current message from
which the reply message is created. Workaround: The user can either
close all Mail folder windows except the current one, or select
a message in the last window opened which bears the same charset
as the one that is being quoted in reply.
Character Coding menu is not effective
in a standalone message view window. The standalone window also
does not inherit the encoding of the Mail view window if the original
message contains no MIME charset or incorrect charset information.
The latter two can be overridden but its effect is not inherited
into the standalone window.
Japanese Auto-detection may fail
sometimes with EUC-xx and UTF-8 attachments, which lack MIME charset
information.
The Character Coding menu cannot
correct the thread pane display of non-MIME encoded headers. If
the message displayed lacks MIME charset information, the thread
pane display obeys the default message display charset set in
the Preferences dialog box under "Mail & Newsgroups | Message
Display | Languages". Correctly setting this option to the charset
most often used in the user's mail viewing helps avoid display problem
of this type.
Mac OS and Linux:
View Page Source does not work for viewing a message
source when the Auto-Detect (All)
is on. To use this function in Mail, turn off the Auto-Detect (All)
from the Character Coding submenu of the View menu.
You may see an extraneous vertical
bar or a question mark in the window title display of a header
subject line. This is a misinterpreted Tab character sent from
an IMAP server as part of a line folding sequence. This problem
does not occur under a POP mail account.
You may get an error message saying
that a mailbox does not exist when you attempt to "Empty Trash".
This problem is caused when the Trash folder contains folders
bearing non-ASCII names. You may not see them with
Mozilla but
you can delete them using Communicator 4.x. This will
eliminate the warning dialog.
Java
Some cases have been reported
in which Windows 9x/ME Japanese users have a problem starting
Mozilla
when there is a prior installation of older JDK or JRE under the
operating system in use. The JRE 130_01 that ships with
Mozilla
contains many fixes since the official release of JRE 1.3. If
you are using an older version of JRE 1.3 or the US version of
JRE 1.3 under Japanese Windows, you may experience this non-start
problem.
To determine if the non-starting
problem is due to Java installation, follow these steps:
- Locate the Plugins directory
(which is found in the same directory as the
Mozilla
executable).
- Remove all the Java plugin
files from the Plugins directory, i.e. the files whose names
begin with "npjava...". Remove also the NPOJI600.dll file if you
find one. Back them up in another directory so that you can
restore them later.
- Restart Mozilla.
If Mozilla
starts, then you have a Java related non-start problem.
If you have the Java problem as
described above or want to install updated JRE 130_01 shipped with
Mozilla, follow these steps
(Note: This type of problem has not
been reported for Windows NT4/2000, but if you experience this
problem on the latter two platforms, follow these steps for those
platforms also):
- Click the Start button, open
the Settings menu, and choose Control Panel.
- Double-click the Add/Remove
Programs icon and select the Install/Uninstall tab.
- Locate the old JRE installation
(Java Runtime Environment) and delete it.
- Run the Mozilla installer
and choose either "Complete" or "Custom" installation making
sure that Java is installed in the latter option. (Note that
the "Typical" install does not install the JRE package
but if there is an existing JDK or JRE on the operating
system, the installer copies Java plugin files and place them
into Mozilla's Plugins directory.)
This will install the latest version of JRE 130_01, which works
with Mozilla.
Mac OS and Linux:
Display of non-ASCII characters (particularly
Chinese/Korean/Japanese) in applets may not work
without correct font settings in font.properties file.
Windows: If you are using automatic
proxy configuration, and you want to use the Full Circle Talkback
Quality Feedback Agent to send incident reports to
mozilla.org
,
you need to replace the talkback.ini file with one that contains
the appropriate proxy configuration information. Follow these
steps to do so:
- If you are using an HTTP proxy,
or both an HTTP and SOCKS proxy, create a file named talkback.ini,
containing the following three lines, using your proxy host name,
domain, and port:
UseUserHTTPProxyInfo=1
UserHTTPProxyHost="yourproxy.yourdomain.com"
UserHTTPProxyPort=xxxx
where xxxx is your proxy port number.
If you are using a SOCKS Proxy, create a file with these three lines:
UseUserSOCKSInfo=1
UserSOCKSHost="yourproxy.yourdomain.com"
UserSOCKSPort=xxxx
where xxxx is your SOCKS port number.
- Replace the existing talkback.ini file with the version you created.
On Windows 95 and Windows NT systems, copy the talkback.ini file to the following
directory location within the directory that contains the
Mozilla.exe
file: \Fullsoft\data\talkback.ini
For a list of known issues with
support for Web standards (HTML 4.01,
CSS1/2,
DOM1/
2,
XML,
RDF),
JavaScript, Java, and Plug-ins
in Mozilla, see the following document,
which may be updated from time to time:
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/technote/gecko/n6release.html
- Join us on
Bug Day. If you want to help test Mozilla, but don't
know where to start, join us on Tuesdays at 3:00PM PST on
the #mozillazine
IRC channel on irc.mozilla.org.
There you can meet friendly Mozillans who can help you learn the process and
get you started.
- Join the
BugAThon. If you can script, you can help simplify
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