These release notes describe system requirements, installation instructions,
and known issues for Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 2.
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.
If you are running McAfee's WebScanX, you may experience crashes at startup.
Please disable the product and see if it prevents the problem. If so, please
contact McAfee for a solution.
(Bug 107882)
McAfee virus scanner has an advanced option, not enabled by default, to
turn on a Web-scanning feature. This feature intersects all winsock2
system calls and may cause Mozilla to
crash. It is recommended that disable this feature before using
Mozilla.
(Bug 111316)
Visiting SSL2 and SSL3 sites while in FIPS mode may lead to a crash or failure to connect.
(Bugs 106587)
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 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.
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)
Red Hat 7 users who have problems with Java hanging should try setting the
environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
to "2.2.5".
(Bug 84093)
To install
Mozilla
on Solaris 8 (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)
When using a window manager from the twm family without the DecorateTransients
option, pop-up 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.
When you install language packs and other .xpi files, downloading pauses until
you click the browser's Stop button.
If you receive the message 'The program must close to allow a previous installation
to complete' when launching, it means that file cleanup after an additional
installation has not completed.
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 NPOJI610.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 1.0.RC2
\bin\plugins).
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.
If you enable TLS in your SSL preferences and a web site server is "TLS
intolerant," the client will fall back to using SSL3. However, if you have
selected to use a proxy for secure connections, the browser will not be able
to reach a "TLS intolerant" web site.
(Bug 87902)
If you are using more than one profile, and sending signed and/or
encrypted email, or visit a web site requiring your personal certificate,
it is recommended that you disable Quick Launch to prevent errors.
In Mozilla, Quick Launch is turned off by default so you won't see this
problem unless you turned on Quick Launch during installation or in
your preferences.
(Bug 125561)
Certificates deleted from the Certificate Manager will still appear until
you restart
Mozilla.
(Bug 129067)
Revoked certifcates using OCSP may still appear in the Certificate Manager verified as "True".
(Bug 91530)
If you set the memory cache to 0, you should set the disk cache to
0 also. Otherwise, you will not be able to view https:// (secure) web sites.
Windows, Mac OS 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 1.0.RC2
.
- 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.
If the Mozilla installer dies immediately with the error message
"getcwd: Function not implemented", then download a Mozilla tarball build
instead.
(Bug 101016)
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
mozilla1.0.RC2
) and change to that directory (cd
mozilla1.0.RC2
).
- Click the link to download the installer file (called mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz).
- Change to the mozilla directory (
cd
mozilla1.0.RC2
) 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 "
mozilla1.0.RC2
" (
mkdir
mozilla1.0.RC2
) and change to that directory (cd
mozilla1.0.RC2
).
- Click the link to download the non-installer mozilla*.tar.gz file into the
mozilla1.0.RC2
directory.
- Change to the mozilla directory (
cd
mozilla1.0.RC2
) and decompress the file with the following command:
gunzip -dc moz*.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
(This creates a "mozilla"
subdirectory under your
mozilla1.0.RC2
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 sub-menu 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
mozilla1.0.RC2
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 1.0.RC2
Mac OS 9
- 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
Mac OS X
-
Remove the folder
Mozilla
from your Documents folder inside your home Users directory
-
Remove the file "Mozilla Registry" from
/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences
-
Remove the file "Mozilla Versions" from
/Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences
-
Remove the folder where you installed
Mozilla
Mozilla stores data associated with you in a place called a
profile. Profiles contain your preferences,
mail folders, history, cookies, address books and other important
data. Here is a list of these files.
| Directories
|
Cache |
Cache files (temporary internet files).
Enter about:cache in the URL bar for more information.
|
chrome |
User defined styles and installed themes and applications
|
ImapMail | IMAP mail
|
Mail | Local Folders and POP3 mail
|
News | Usenet Newsgroups
|
| Files
|
somenumber.s |
Password data
|
somenumber.w |
Fill Form data
|
appreg
registry.dat
registry
|
Application Registry.
Files where Mozilla keeps track of your profiles.
|
abook.mab |
Personal addressbook
|
bookmarks.html |
Bookmarks
|
cert7.db |
Client Certificate database
|
Component Registry
component.reg
|
Mozilla XPCOM registry.
Files where Mozilla keeps track of its components.
|
cookies.txt |
Cookies
|
cookperm.txt |
Cookie
and
Image permissions
|
history.dat |
URL history
|
history.mab |
Collected Address book
|
key3.db |
Key database
|
localstore.rdf |
Defines default windows settings.
Saved persistent values.
Info about toolbars, size, positions, etc
|
mimeTypes.rdf |
Defines recognized file mime types for the
Helper App
|
panacea.dat |
Mail folder cache.
Summary of certain fields in all the mail/news databases,
mostly used to display the folder pane
|
panels.rdf |
Information about which panels that will be displayed in the sidebar
|
prefs.js |
All your settings.
Enter about:config in the URL bar for more information.
|
search.rdf |
Information about your search plugins in the sidebar
|
secmod.db |
Security module database
|
URL.tbl |
Excluded Fill Form data sites
|
user.js |
User setting which will be written into prefs.js after
Mozilla
is started
|
xpti.dat |
XPCOM typelib information catalog
|
XUL.mfl
XUL FastLoad File
XUL.mfasl
|
XUL fast load file.
Contains precompiled chrome and JavaScript.
|
Invalid.mfasl
Aborted.mfasl
|
At some time Mozilla invalidated your XUL fast load file.
These are the files.
You can just delete them if you don't want to debug them.
|
mozver.dat
|
(Windows) Stores component version
|
MozillaUninstall.exe
|
(Windows) Uninstaller executable file
|
| Other Files
|
*.msf |
Mail Summary Files.
Contains summary of the mail folder.
Located in the ImapMail and Mail directories.
|
rules.dat |
Contains the Mail Filters for the current server.
Located in the ImapMail and Mail directories.
|
*.rc |
Contains subscribe newsgroups for the current server.
Located in the News directory.
|
hostinfo.dat |
Contains all the newsgroups available for the current server.
Located in the News directory.
|
Windows
|
%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\[Profile Name]\[random string].slt\
|
Windows 2000
|
C:\Documents and Settings\[Windows Login Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\[Profile Name]\[random string].slt\
|
Windows 95 & Windows 98
|
C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\[Profile Name]\[random string].slt\
|
Mac OS 9
|
Documents:Mozilla:[User Profile]:[random string].slt:
|
Mac OS X
|
~/Library/Application\ Support/org.mozilla.Mozilla/Profiles/[Profile Name]/[random string].slt/
|
Linux
|
~/.mozilla/[Profile Name]/[random string].slt/
|
Mac OS: There is a known incompatibility between
Mozilla
and WebFree, a
Control Panel commonly used to block HTML based ads. When using
Mozilla
, disable WebFree.
(Bug 13982)
Linux:
Mozilla does not recognize changes in DNS servers while running. PPP and VPN
users should restart the browser (or try telling the browser to go offline and then online)
after connecting to a different network.
(Bug 64857)
Keyboard and Mouse
Double right clicking on a page can disable the keyboard.
(Bug 70812)
Linux: Keyboard shortcuts on Linux now use Ctrl instead of
Alt as the modifier key, while Alt is used for menu shortcuts. If you wish to
modify these shortcut keys, add the following prefs
(instructions here):
user_pref("ui.key.accelKey", 18);
(This changes the accelerator key from Ctrl (17) to Alt (18).)
user_pref("ui.key.menuAccessKey", 0);
(This changes the menu access key from Alt (18) to none.)
Linux: Clicking the middle mouse buttonin areas without links may lead to alerts popping up.
(Bug 96972)
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.
(Mac OS 9.x ) Scroll wheel support for Kensington input devices requires Kensington
MouseWorks 5.7 or higher. Version 5.7 is now shipping; see the
Kensington website.
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.
- Reopen 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 that
do not support the most recent HTTP specification. By default,
Mozilla
tries to use HTTP 1.1. To use
Mozilla
with a proxy that only supports HTTP 1.0,
edit the HTTP Version from 1.1 to
1.0 in Edit | Preferences | Debug | Networking.
(Bug 38488)
Mozilla
only accepts hostnames for manual proxies. If you migrate a Communicator
4 profile, you will need to change the settings manually. Communicator 4 allowed
URL's in manual configuration, but Mozilla
does not. If you migrate a profile configured this way, you will need
to change the URL to a hostname and port number.
(Bug 30387)
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 reinstall
Mozilla
to see the profile manager dialog again.
While using tabbed browser, visiting a page which calls the
window.close()
method of JavaScript, the entire window will close,
as opposed to the tab which contained the code.
(Bug 103452)
As a workaround, you may wish to disable window.close()
for all
websites by setting the following preference:
user_pref("capability.policy.default.Window.close", "noAccess");
Additional Internet Search Engines can be obtained at
http://mycroft.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)
Pages that appear to be rendered incorrectly may be due to standards compliance
issues. See the
Netscape Evangelism and
Mozilla Evangelism
sites for more details.
Accessing Pages
Mozilla
may not be able to connect to some secure (HTTPS) IBM Web servers. This is a
problem with the servers' software, not with
Mozilla
.
(Bug 54031)
If you use "Last page visited" as your Home (starting) page, if the last page
you viewed had frames, it may not be displayed correctly when you next restart
Mozilla
.
(Bug 58613)
Accessing pages with a Uniform Naming Convention (UNC) requires 5 slashes (file://///).
(Bug 66194)
Linux: Flash may crash with exported X display.
(Bug 58937)
Linux: On Linux, there may be problems with ESD Audio and Flash.
(Bugs 85772)
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)
If you're unable to remove user-defined helper applications try the
following:
-
Open the Edit menu, and choose Preferences. Choose Helper Applications within the Navigator category.
- Select the helper application/mimetype you wish to remove from the list, and click
the Remove button.
- Click OK to confirm.
- Click OK to dismiss the Preferences dialog box.
- Quit completely and restart
Mozilla
.
Helper application decisions may not be remembered when opening
files which aren't defined by the OS. A workaround for this is:
-
Open the Edit menu, and choose Preferences. Choose Helper Applications within the Navigator category.
- Click the "Reset" button.
- Click "OK" to dismiss the Preferences dialog box.
(Bug 93173)
Bookmarks
Bookmarks cannot be rearranged if you have sorted them. To rearrange them,
select Unsorted from the View menu, or click the Name column header until the
arrow disappears.
(Bug 64768)
View Source
To view frame source, point to the frame and click the right mouse button (Control click
on Mac OS) and then choose View Frame Source from the context menu.
(Bug 47319)
Mac OS: The horizontal scrollbar in the View Source window
might be missing. Resize the window to see the scrollbar.
(Bug 56488)
Moving or copying a labeled message will not retain label in destination
when filing across accounts:
- IMAP to any other account (including Local Folders): Message labels are lost.
- POP to POP (including Local Folders) is OKAY.
- POP to IMAP: Message labels are lost.
- Copy Newsgroup messages to any account: Message labels are lost.
(Bug 133795)
In plain text 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.
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 restart
Mozilla
.
(Bug 2654)
Biff, a feature that automatically checks your server for new mail, works only on the first account and does not work for any other accounts in the same profile. Work around: select each account's Inbox once and click on Get message.
(Bug 85227)
Mozilla
does not warn the user of a low disk space condition.
(Bugs
32443, 56565)
Some symptoms you may see are:
- Copying a message to your Sent folder fails entirely or may place
incomplete copy in Sent folder.
- POP: Status text indicates there are new messages to retrieve,
but no new messages appear in the Inbox. Quit
Mozilla
, free some disk space, restart
Mozilla
, and try again.
- IMAP: Status text indicates there are new messages to retrieve,
but no new messages appear in the Inbox. Quit
Mozilla
, free some disk space, restart
Mozilla
, and try again.
Mail account identity is not stored along with an unsent message.
(Bug 59548)
Linux: You may encounter problems if you install
Mozilla
in a root user environment then run as another user. Problems include saving
to Sent folder, Drafts, Templates or general authentication problems.
(Bug 49397)
Mail notification sound doesn't play if an alternative sound is chosen:
When the user edits pref.js to specify an alternative sound, then
Mozilla will not
play any sound when new mail arrives. Also changing it
back to the default breaks the initial default sound for that profile.
Workaround: Leave the pref.js setting for sound alone.
(Bug 64462)
The Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings dialog box does
not display correctly at lower monitor resolutions such as 800 by 600 or 640 by
480. If possible, increase your monitor's display resolution above 800 by 600.
(Bug 82122)
AOL Mail and Netscape WebMail Accounts
Mozilla does not integrate with AOL Mail and Netscape WebMail, as Netscape 6 does.
If you share your Netscape 6 profile with Mozilla, you may be able to see headers
for messages in the account's Inbox if you have previously checked one of these
accounts in Netscape 6, but you will be unable to interact with the messages.
To access your AOL Mail, WebMail, or Netscape Instant Messenger, you need to
use Netscape 6.
Receiving and Reading Messages
You may not see the message header (From, Subject, Date, To, Cc, and so forth)
when you read messages. This problem often occurs when you switch mail folders
or newsgroups. To see headers, resize the window or the message content pane.
(Bug 39655)
Attachments
In some cases you can't view more than one HTML/Web page attachment to a message
in the mail window. The attachments will not all be shown or you may experience
a crash when attempting to display them.
(Bug 38398)
Composing Messages
You can't forward a message that has a signature file containing the HTML tag
<div class="signature">.
(Bug 49484)
Address Book
Imported Netscape Communicator address books appear in
Mozilla as a separate address books.
(Bug 41590)
To import Outlook address books, you must have the
default mail client set to "Microsoft Outlook" in Microsoft Internet
Explorer. Do this:
1. Launch Internet Explorer.
2. Click Tools in menu bar, then click Internet Options. The Internet Options
dialog box appears.
3. Click the Programs tab and select "Microsoft Outlook" as the default
e-mail client.
4. Hit OK and exit Explorer.
(Bug 90206)
(Windows) You may need to try more then once before Outlook Express address
books are imported successfully.
(Bug 90206)
Copying a large number of addresses between address books may cause crash.
(Bug 82991)
Filters
If you have multiple filters configured for a mail account, incoming messages
will continue to be evaluated against each filter (in the order listed in the
Message Filters dialog) until a filter action of Move to Folder or Delete is
executed. This differs from Communicator 4.x where any filter action would stop
further filtering on a message.
(Bug 30081)
Pop and IMAP
You must exit and restart
Mozilla
to see the effect of a change to the option: "show All IMAP mail folders" or
"show only subscribed IMAP mail folders." To access this option: click the Advanced
button in the Server section of the Account Settings dialog box.
(Bug 38943)
When sending email from Cyrus IMAP mail accounts, you will get "The current
command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Permission denied".
Workaround: Redefine the special folder (sent, draft, template) under the Inbox
folder.
(Bug 27002)
News
The Subscribe dialog box may not work with news servers that require authentication.
If you open a password-protected newsgroup you may be prompted more than once
for the user name and password combination.
LDAP
LDAP directories with ldif
extensions may appear after migration from Communicator 4.x.
(Bug 94645)
Mozilla
may temporarily hang during LDAP autocomplete if network
connectivity is broken. Specifically, if the LDAP server in question is
unreachable (network connectivity problems, including taking a laptop
outside a firewall), the entire app will hang when attempting to contact
that browser. If the user is patient, the app will begin responding
again after the TCP timeout happens, probably between 30 seconds and
several minutes later.
(Bug 79509)
Offline Mail
Some mail items (offline and disk preferences, offline item selection, online/offline
indicators in search/history/subscribe) do not display properly.
(Bug 80970)
Moving/Copying a downloaded message (while offline) will result in not being able to
read the message at the new folder while you are offline.
Workaround: Go online to read it,
then re-download the message to have it accessible when you are offline.
(Bug 78809)
When starting Mozilla, if you only have one
profile, both of the Offline preferences for startup mode ("Ask me if I want
online or offline mode", or "Use my previous online/offline state") do not work.
Mozilla will always start in online mode. To go offline, from the File
menu, choose Work Offline.
(Bug 82487)
If the user starts
Mozilla
in offline mode (clicking the work offline checkbox in the profile manager),
then tries to reply to a message while in offline mode, or double clicks
on a message (which brings it up in a separate window), in some instances
the application might crash.
(Bugs 92368)
When starting Mozilla, if you only have one
profile, both of the Offline preferences for startup mode ("Ask me if I want
online or offline mode", or "Use my previous online/offline state") do not work.
Mozilla will always start in online mode. To go offline, from the File
menu, choose Work Offline.
(Bug 82487)
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
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 Window 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).
Profile data cannot be saved as HTML on Mac OS. If you see the error
message "Cant match <!--@range-start-->", you're running into this
problem. As a workaround, save as a CSV file and import into a
spreadsheet, or save as plain text.
(Bug 130050)
Trying to save profile data when there is none to be saved results in
the cryptic error message "summary has no properties". See
(Bug 129692)
When Publishing in Composer, if the Publishing URL, file name, user
name, or password contain any special characters (such as "@") that need to be
escaped, then Composer creates a duplicate site entry each time you publish the
document. To work around this bug, choose the original site name from the Site
Name list in the Publish dialog box before publishing the document again. For example,
some ISP users have usernames that are also their
email addresses, e.g., "janedoe@ispname.net". After publishing to this site, the
next time you use the Publish dialog, the username from the document URL will
appear as "janedoe%40ispname.net" (the "@" was escaped during publishing). Since
Composer can't find this entry, it creates a duplicate site name.
(Bug 141819)
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)
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,
48951,
57805,
70630,
58332,
58712,
26269,
53505,
76925,
57700,
67142,
4302,
48375)
Hourglass does not show when application is busy.
(Bug 83300)
Some element icons do not render in Show All Tags mode.
(Bug 88036)
List editing can cause nested lists to outdent to next level list.
(Bug 98547)
Remove option from personal spell check dictionary does not work.
(Bug 43348)
If the cache preference is set to "Every time I view the page" and a new
document is created, toolbar icons may be disabled on the toolbar and the
caret may be missing. Workaround: Do not set the cache preference to
"Every time I view the page."
(Bug 97633)
Restoring a certificate to a smart card can take a long time. No
feedback is provided while restoring a certificate to a smart card,
which can take a long time since smart cards are relatively slow
devices. As a result, it may appear that the restoration is not happening.
(Bug 52321)
For security reasons,
Mozilla
does not allow connections to certain ports. To override this on a per-port
basis, add a comma separated list of ports to default/all.js (in your
Mozilla
installation directory).
Note that this pref only works in the all.js
file in the
Mozilla installation directory and it
affects all users of the installation.
It does not work if you add it to the prefs.js
file in your personal profile directory.
For example, to unblock ports 1, 3, and 7, use the following line:
pref("network.security.ports.banned.override", "1,3,7");
Do not share a profile between Netscape and Mozilla builds. Doing this
can lead to unpredictable results, some of which may include loss of
Search settings and preferences and unchecked growth of the Bookmarks
file (large enough to freeze your system). It is best to create a new
profile for each or manually copy (and change the name) an existing profile.
(Bug 137164)
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 are not refreshed if the browser is restarted with
QuickLanuch on. Workaround is to make sure Quicklaunch is not 'ON' by removing
it from the system tray and then restarting the browser.
(Bug 119056)
Mozilla
might crash while playing random Quicktime content.
(Bug 136761)
Windows: The Adobe SVG plugin crashes. Workaround: Don't copy it
(NPSVG3.dll NPSVG3.zip) into your plugins folder. If you want to view SVGs,
there are
Mozilla
builds with native SVG support.
(Bug 133567)
Linux: The Flash plugin context menu does not disappear when you
clicks outside the plugin area to dismiss it. Workaround: Click
inside the plugin to dismiss the plugin context menu.
(Bug 63182)
Linux: Mozilla will hang if a
Flash plugin tries to play audio and the audio device is already in use.
Workaround: Stop the audio device and return to that page.
(Bug 58339)
Linux: Mozilla crashes while
playing Flash content on a remote X display. No workaround present other
than not using remote X display.
(Bug 58397)
Linux: Loading a page that contains a Flash plugin may cause
Mozilla to lock up if you are using an audio application.
(Bug 58339)
Plugins installed for Communicator 4.x may not be available for
Mozilla
. Workaround: install these plugins in the
Mozilla
Plugins folder.
Linux: The flash plugin crashes when viewing a flash document on a
remote X display.
(Bug 58937)
Windows: Microsoft Media Player file embedded in web pages may not work.
(Bug 66015)
Mac OS:
Mozilla
now scans for plugins in the system's "Internet Plugins Folder" first.
Some users might not be able to print on Windows 98 or Windows ME with
the default spool setting. The workaround is to go into printer
properties, choose details tab, choose spool settings, and then choose print
directly to printer.
(Bug 130083)
In Print Preview, plugins are not shown.
(Bug 134002)
Printing web pages may not print out all pages due to table pagination problems.
(Bugs
87374)
Mac OS and Linux:
Transparent backgrounds are printed as black.
(Bug 137114,
137115)
Printing newsgroup messages with images leads to a crash.
(Bug 92659)
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
.
Running J2SE in 256 color mode may cause a flicking problem.
Linux: LiveConnect support now works if you use
Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 2
with JRE 1.3.1. Additional LiveConnect problems are being addressed in JDK 1.4
as mentioned above.
Sun's JRE will crash at startup if your useragent does not begin with Mozilla/5. It might print
Expected a version > 5! Version = 4
The workaround is to not forge a useragent whose version is less than 5
if you have the Sun JRE plugin in your plugin directory.
this preference would appear in pref.js as something like:
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98;)");
(Bug 83376)
If Java doesn't work, make sure the following is true:
On Windows:
Copy the NPOJI610.DLL from C:\JDK*\jre\bin to "\plugins" directory of your installation.
On Unix:
Make a soft link
to /usr/java/j*/jre/plugins/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so
in your
mozilla1.0.RC2
plugins/ directory.
OS X
On OS X, there is no "Default Downloader Plugin" (aka. the Default Plugin) and Java is not working yet.
(Bug 88870)
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.
Contents of Sidebar tab and Bookmark will not change when you choose
another region -- they are bound to a specific profile.
(Bug 87939)
If you are using Chinese, Korean or Japanese language Windows 9x/ME
and launching fails or crashes, read the Java section of the Known issues
section below for possible causes.
You may be unable to print out Japanese characters from Win98-J with HP
Laser Jet driver (Japanese version). Workaround: Install the driver that comes
with the Japanese Windows 98 installation CD.
(Bug 86989 )
If you have WinME-Ja, you may not be able to print to a HP LaserJet 5Si/5Si
MX using the HP LaserJet 5Si/5Si MX PS printer driver In this case, you should
change the driver to HP LaserJet 5Si/MX.
(Bug 86989)
New: On platforms which support file names in Unicode, it is possible to
create files and folders bearing names in scripts which fall outside of the
system locale. Browser operations which involve such folder or file names
may not succeed, e.g. saving into such a folder, or opening a file whose
path contains such characters. Using only characters supported by the default
system language avoids this type of problems.
(Bugs 58866,
100243,
100344,
100364,
100396,
101573,
128380,
104305)
General and Profile Manager
On Japanese Windows XP, the desktop icon and Mozilla Program Folder
cannot be removed after Mozilla program is removed through a program
uninstallation via the Control Panel. You can manually remove them.
(Bug 125104)
Navigator and Composer
Mozilla does not support Dynamic Fonts. (Note: It was supported in
Communicator 4.x.)
A window title (reflecting the title of a web page) may not show correctly
if the web page (e.g. Japanese) does not match the language of the OS (e.g.
English Windows).
(Bug 9449)
On Macintosh and OS/2 (i.e. non-Windows platform) Shift_JIS Full-width
tilde character (0x8160) and a few other Japanese symbol characters have
differing correspondences to Unicode mapping tables depending on platforms.
These differences causes several difficulties on these platforms, e.g. form
submisson, bookmarks, and sending mail.
(Bug 108136.)
The Character Coding menu doesn't work in a View Page Source
window. You can change encoding in browser window and then view source.
(Bug 136322)
Auto-detect All/Universal may not be able to detect encodings on pages which
don't supply document encoding information. You can increase the accuracy if
you choose other auto-detection modules with a smaller scope for detection ,
e.g. Chinese, Simplified Chinese, East Asian.
With the Windows 2000 IME,
most of the new Japanese IME features (e.g. reconversion)
are supported but some features may not work correctly.
(Bugs 18680,
36975.)
Support for the Unicode surrogate range is not currently available for Mac
nor Linux.
(Bugs 128263
and
127713.)
A Composer page cannot be saved into ISO-2022-KR using the Save As ...
menu because there is no converter available from Unicode to ISO-2022-KR.
ISO-2022-KR will be eventually hidden in the Save as .. menu.
(Bugs 132070
and
133615.)
When opening a file under a folder with multi-byte folder name, the path
name in multi-byte characters is escaped in the title bar of Composer window.
(Bug 136221.)
Linux only: Bold and Italics styles may not work on ASCII characters
when editing a CJK page. This is most likely to happen on CJK locales without
good ASCII fonts. For example, you may be using language open-source CJK
locale support files. On commercial Linux distribution, particularly recent
ones, the support files contain better CJK fonts and this problem is less
likely to occur.
(Bug 91145)
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.
(Bug 5721
Mac OS: The Character Coding menu check mark does not get
updated promptly and shows incorrect indication of the current page encoding.
(Bug 98625)
Mail
Filtering by body key is not implemented.
The Character Coding menu cannot correct the thread pane display of non-MIME
encoded headers. This is by design. If the message displayed lacks MIME
charset information, the thread pane display obeys the default message
display charset set via the folder properties dialog (set via the menu Edit
| Folder Properties ...). Correctly setting this option to the charset
most often used in the user's mail viewing helps avoid display problem
of this type
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_02 (or later) that
Mozilla users can download from a Netscape ftp site 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/Chinese/Korean 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 NPOJI610.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_02 (or later) that you can download from a Netscape ftp
site, 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.
- After the old JRE has been deleted, run Mozilla again. And
go to any site that requires the use of Java. You will see a plugin-in
icon on such pages telling you to click on the icon to download a Java
Plugin.
-
When you click on the "get Java Plugin" icon, you will be taken to a
Netscape site to download a Mozilla plugin.
-
Download the "International" version if you would like display of
international characters. (recommended)
-
Follow the instruction for the installer and complete Java 2 installation.
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 files. Windows
releases ship with modified font.properties files.
This document
may be helpful to Mac and Linux users.
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
Mozilla is very configurable, and so there is not
room in the UI for controls to change all the preferences. If you need to change
a preference for which there is no UI, you will need to edit your preferences file,
prefs.js. These instructions detail how to do this.
This file is read in by Mozilla on startup, and rewritten on exit, so if you modify
the file while Mozilla is running, your changes will get overwritten. So, first you
must quit Mozilla completely (including quitting Quick Launch if you are on Windows).
Once you have backed it up, open the prefs.js file in your profile directory
and add the correct line or lines, which should have the form:
user_pref("foo.bar.baz", "somevalue");
or
user_pref("foo.bar.baz", true);
for on/off preferences.
When you have finished
editing, restart Mozilla.
Your profile directory is located at:
- ~/.mozilla/<profilename>/xxxxxxxx.slt/ on Unix
- %WINDOWS%\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\<profilename>\xxxxxxxx.slt\ on Windows
- Documents:Mozilla:Profiles:<profilename>:xxxxxxxx.slt: on Mac OS.
xxxxxxxx.slt is a randomly generated directory name. It's an important security feature.
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
documents:
When a page using a strict document type declaration
(e.g. HTML 4.01 Strict) links to
an external style sheet (using <link>, @import, etc.)
Mozilla
will load the style sheet only if it is served with a MIME type of
"text/css". Style sheets served with other MIME types, like text/plain,
application/x-pointplus, etc. will not be loaded.
To add the proper CSS MIME type to an Apache web servers, add
"text/css css" to the system mime.types file. Or if you can't do
that, add "AddType text/css .css
" to your .htaccess file.
- Join us on
Bug Day. If you want to help test Mozilla, but don't know where to start,
join us on thursdays and fridays on the
#mozillazine
(Java IRC Client)
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 Bug-A-Thon. If you can
script, you can help simplify test cases.
- Join mozilla evangelism
(#evangelism), the project of
the Mozilla organization dedicated to ensuring websites are compliant with
web standards.
- To become even more involved, check out these suggested
starting points.
- Download the latest major release of Mozilla from mozilla.org.
- Download today's build of Mozilla from the mozilla.org FTP
site.
- Learn how to build Mozilla yourself.