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What's New in [% rnote.name %]
What's New in [% rnote.name %]
This document outlines a few of the new features implemented in
[% rnote.name %], important bugfixes and any new problems. See the
SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker for a more
comprehensive list of fixes. Please note that these changes are relative to
[% rnote.relativeto.stable.name %].
SeaMonkey switched to Toolkit, the same backend Firefox uses
internally. Due to this change SeaMonkey is now much closer to Firefox
as far as user profiles, add-ons and functionality of user interface
elements are concerned.
The default location of user profiles has changed. Legacy profiles, e.g.
from SeaMonkey 1.x, are migrated automatically, excluding third-party
add-ons (extensions and themes). The old profile will not be touched
(instead, copies are made).
The new Add-on Manager allows to install, update, disable and
remove extensions (add-ons), themes and plugins using the same
mechanisms Firefox uses. This should ease extension management and
development considerably.
Session restore (crash recovery) has been added. Now, when SeaMonkey
crashes, all your browser windows and tabs will be restored automatically
or on request (including data entered in web forms!). In addition, users
can select to always restore the browser windows and tabs from their last
open session when starting SeaMonkey.
Reopening closed browser windows (Undo Close Window) is now possible.
History is now stored in a better database solution, so that it can
easily keep more information, and the location bar determines which
addresses to autocomplete and/or show in the drop down menu with a smarter
algorithm based on what you type, searching in both URL and title of
visited pages by default.
Toolbars in the browser and the main MailNews window are now fully
customizable.
Additionally, the icon size and whether to display icons and/or text can
be chosen separately for every major toolbar in in both the browser and
MailNews components via their context menu.
The MailNews component now includes support for reading RSS and Atom
feeds. The browser detects feeds offered by web pages, can preview them and
offers different ways to subscribe to them. For subscribing to the feed in
the MailNews component, an account for feeds needs to already be created
there.
Tabbed Mail enables accounts, folders and even single messages to be
opened in tabs inside the Mail & Newsgroups window. This feature also
enables the Lightning extension to be installed into SeaMonkey for
calendering functionality.
Password Manager was switched to an improved version, allowing easier
searching, and notification bars replacing modal dialogs for remembering
logins.
Download manager has been completely reworked, including support for
cross-session resumable downloads,
Gecko, the rendering engine used in SeaMonkey, has seen many
improvements since the version used in the last stable release. Changes
range from a better graphics backend (Cairo/Thebes) to improved support
for fonts, CSS, DOM and JavaScript. [% rnote.name %] passes
the Acid2 test and most of Acid3 and includes all the new web-facing
features also included in Firefox 3.5, such as audio/video elements,
downloadable fonts and JIT-compiled JavaScript.
Most of the icons in the default theme have been exchanged for newer
images that fit better with the look of modern desktop environments.
The default theme on Mac OS X was completely renewed to better fit with
the look of Leopard and Snow Leopard.
For extension developers,
SMILE
is introduced, making interfaces known from
FUEL and
STEEL
also available in SeaMonkey.
Support for Windows 95, 98, Me and NT 4 was dropped. GTK 2.10 is now
required on Linux/UNIX. Support for Mac OS X 10.3 ("Panther")
was also dropped.
@font-face support: implement downloadable font support on Linux (Mac and
Windows have already been addressed in bug 441473) (Bug 458169),
implement @font-face { src:local() } on Linux (Bug 468218),
enable downloadable .otf fonts on Windows (Bug 458160),
improve handling of format hints for downloadable fonts (Bug 465452)
Toolbar customization: Navigator part 2 (real customizability for browser
toolbars on Linux+Windows) (Bug 471372),
use sheet popup instead of popup window on Mac OS X (Bug 406780),
make menubars customizable (without regression on Mac OS X) (Bug 475920)
Use Places backend for SeaMonkey history (including location bar) (Bug 382187)
Implement progress bar/scrubber for video controls (Bug 462113)
Decode non-ASCII characters in the urlbar (like in FF3) (Bug 425480)
Make SeaMonkey download manager use Toolkit backend (Bug 381157)
Implement tree-based UI for Toolkit download manager (Bug 472001),
fix key/doubleclick handing in new download manager window (Bug 474622)
Implement new download progress dialog (Bug 483241)
Use correct filename in "Save Link Target As..." (check
Content-Disposition header) (Bug 426742)
Update Download pref pane for use with new Download Manager (Bug 490464)
Make location bar autocomplete even faster (Bug 479739)
Indicate availability of download progress dialog context menus through
WAI-ARIA attribute (Bug 504163)
Add Ctrl+J as shortcut to invoke Download Manager (Bug 333855)
Reimplement "Properties" (opening Progress Dialog) in new Download Manager (Bug 474620)
Add start and end date columns to Download Manager (inactive by default) (Bug 180623)
Add ability to delete/cut bookmarks from search results window (Bug 81893)
Make "Delete History for (host|domain)" available in History context menus (Bug 512146)
MailNews
Rename TLS and SSL in SMTP preferences to what they really mean
(STARTTLS, SMTP-over-SSL) (Bug 185662)
Make
Reply, Reply All, Forward and Next buttons dual-mode (adding Reply to
Sender, Reply to All Recipients, Forward Inline/As Attachment, Next
Message/Flagged Message/Unread Thread) (Bug 17796)
Do not lose keystrokes while email composer is saving draft (Bug 352310)
Speed up deleting attachments containing UNIX line breaks (Bug 365751)
Move message to Inbox if user marks a message in Junk folder as Not Junk
(adds hidden pref mail.spam.markAsNotJunkMarksUnRead) (Bug 208197)
Disable JS for message content (mail and news, making javascript.allow.mailnews
pref stop working), enable it for non-message content by default (Bug 374577)
Add BCC to search all fields capability ("From, To, CC or BCC") of
available Message View criteria (Bug 483629)
Put signature editing in UI (as an alternative to selecting a file) (Bug 324495)
Add feed summary/web page choices to menus (View/Feed Message Body As,
Message/Open Feed Message) (Bug 438429)
Implement customizable toolbars in MailNews (Bug 413385)
Implement UI for Archive functionality (menu item, shortcut Shift+A and
context menu entry) (Bug 482458)
Add pref to choose whether to only check for new mail after opening
MailNews (default: check upon opening any new window, including browser) (Bug 450263)
Use Toolkit Type Ahead Find instead of the old one (Bug 345526)
Switch to Toolkit password manager: add SMTP protocol handlers (Bug 469807),
do not lose newsgroup username/password information when migrating from
signons.txt (Bug
470439), let promptPassword unescape user names before use (Bug 472824),
main part (use LoginManager, remove Wallet) (Bug 390025),
also fixes: If stored SMTP password is incorrect, no prompt is made for correct
one (Bug
155172)