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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.name %] .
New Features and Fixes
Browser
Add Undo Close Tab (Bug 350416 ,
Bug
354953 )
Introduce Info Bars (e.g. used when popups or add-on
installations are blocked) (Bug 270443 )
Allow to reload individual images using the context menu to aid
dialup users canceling page loads (Bug 47475 )
Remove the font download dialog (Bug 352049 )
Add full zoom capability (zooming images and objects as well as
text) (Bug
4821 )
Port new Firefox page info to SeaMonkey (Bug 379183 )
Beautify FTP/File/Jar/Gopher directory listing (with new layout,
icons and sortable columns) (Bug 294800 )
Add "Send This Link" to link context menus (Bug 137007 )
Save form inputs' state with Save Page As (Bug 293834 )
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 )
Add "Stop Filter Execution" filter action (Bug 358684 )
Allow to set marking junk as read independently for automatic and
manual cases in preferences (Bug 377920 )
Do not fall back to insecure authentication after SMTP
authentication failure (Bug 311657 )
Support opening a message from the command line (Bug 386919 )
Remove "Copy Folder Location" context menu entry, moving
functionality to Location field in Properties dialog (Bug 369393 )
Add ability to select IMAP trash folder (Bug 182274 )
Allow user to reorder newsgroups using drag&drop (like in
NS4) (Bug
150274 )
Display clickable references for newsgroup messages (Bug 62033 )
Show new newsgroups in Subscribe dialog (Bug 40260 )
Spell check the subject line when composing mail (Bug 391964 )
Show folder address in Folder Properties dialog (Bug 180546 )
Implement mail "back" and "forward" (Bug 74959 )
Make local body search work when mail body is encoded as Base64 (Bug 132340 )
Show text in multipart messages with empty Content-Type (sent by
Outlook) (Bug
155537 )
Allow to filter news based on any headers (Bug 16913 )
Make delete message work if header of message preview pane has
focus (Bug
419379 )
Allow to do a complete import (settings, mail etc.) at any time (Bug 399312 )
Get rid of the Send in UTF-8 question dialog, just silently
switch to UTF-8 if necessary (Bug 410333 )
Allow to kill/ignore a news subthread (branch, not the whole
thread) (Bug
11054 )
Add "Recent Folder Target" to Move and Copy menus (Bug 416669 )
Allow renaming of already-attached attachments (Bug 190298 )
Make sure IMAP code does not deadlock when it cannot reach the
network (Bug
410747 )
Persist message priority across moves after changing it via
filter (Bug
181561 )
Add a pref to decide whether to quote text attachments in replies
(Bug
384599 )
Limit growth of junk token store (and thereby memory) (Bug 228675 )
Speed up displaying saved searches with lots of results (Bug 436960 )
Add a way to entirely disable marking a message as read when
viewed (Bug
297534 )
Add ability to show only IMAP mails that have not been deleted (Bug 190974 )
Load IMAP/news messages from memory (if present) when offline (Bug 213729 )
Use better chunk size calculation when mail.imap.fetch_by_chunks
is active (speed up sending of large emails) (Bug 425849 )
Quote just the selected portion of a message during Reply (Bug 23394 )
Allow signature to be placed above the quoted text when
forwarding messages (Bug 273114 )
Improve online IMAP experience by using pseudo-offline Delete and
Move (decouple IMAP operations from UI changes) (Bug 435153 )
Allow filter of "To or CC" to use "is in Address Book..." and "is
not in Address Book..." (Bug 187768 )
Make Get All New Messages work with Movemail accounts (Bug 278383 )
Enable filters to move mail after copying it (Bug 376235 )
Add confirmation dialog for Empty Trash action (Bug 179891 )
Rename 'Unsent' folder to 'Outbox' (Bug 387656 )
Allow to specify whether to run filters when checking mail, run
manually, or both (add a separate manual filter context) (Bug 440635 )
Add ability to filter only selected messages in a folder (Run
Filters on Selected Messages) (Bug 444209 )
Play back tags to IMAP server when switching from offline to
online (Bug
141606 )
Add ability to show just the name and not the email address in
the message pane (Bug 309057 )
Allow to change IMAP expunge threshold using a pref (Bug 399835 )
Implement auto-expunge for IMAP mailboxes (Bug 359284 )
Enable Mac OS X system address book per default and add UI (Bug 397811 )
Disable JavaScript in MailNews for now (Bug 453943 )
Make IMAP folders offline by default if they are newly created
and mail.server.default.offline_download pref is true (Bug 452615 )
Add ability to download IMAP messages preemptively/automatically
in the background (Bug 436615 )
Certificates
Allow to export certificate or full chain in Certificate Viewer (Bug 315871 )
Introduce error pages (and ability to create exceptions) for
invalid-certificate errors (Bug 327181 )
Allow configuring used certificate per mail identity (Bug 278549 )
ChatZilla
Change Switch Text Direction shortcut to Ctrl+Shift+X (was:
Ctrl+Shift+E) (Bug 333570 )
Do not open multiline input when dropping link in single line
input (Bug
332588 )
Add IRC-Hispano to default network list (Bug 227366 )
Add IRCnet to default network list (Bug 135926 )
Allow styling all parts of ChatZilla with motifs (Bug 235169 )
Allow disabling Bugzilla link detection on a per-channel basis (Bug 349137 )
Allow to reorder tabs using drag and drop (Bug 194913 )
Add auto-away feature (Bug 382085 )
Display WALLOPS messages (Bug 379087 )
Support multiple selected users with context menu commands (Bug 408527 )
Display IRCX ONJOIN messages (Bug 303631 )
Make double clicking user open query view (WHOIS) (Bug 432235 )
Display all-numeric channel names as links (Bug 433703 )
Do not discard changes when topic edit mode focus is lost, add
Cancel button (Bug 399450 )
DOM Inspector
Allow inserting/creating new nodes (Bug 112775 )
Add File / Save DOM As... (Bug 72494 )
Allow to hide processing instructions (Bug 360898 )
Show separate menu entries for Inspect Content/Chrome Document (Bug 337069 )
Add ability to pick open pages (as opposed to open windows) (Bug 109481 )
Offer DOM Inspector as an add-on on AMO (Bug 271812 )
Windows
Create a new Windows installer based on NSIS (Bug 351917 )
Support new shell service for setting SeaMonkey as default application
(better Vista integration) (Bug 380347 )
Remove "turbo mode" (quick launch) (Bug 361682 )
Make Debug QA and Palm Sync extensions optional in Windows
installer (Bug
385377 )
Make ChatZilla optional in NSIS installer (Bug 409490 )
Support "? queryterm" from the command line (launch the default
search engine and search for 'queryterm') (Bug 408248 )
Create UI for new shell service (setting as default application
and mail/news handler) (Bug 441050 )
Enable .wdseml (Windows Search indexer) file opening support for
Mail/News (better Vista integration) (Bug 433697 )
Let downloaded files inherit NTFS properties (like permissions,
compression, encryption) from parent directory (Bug 224692 )
Cleanly unload in case of exiting or restarting Windows (Bug 212316 )
Linux
Let Backspace default to nothing on Linux instead of going back
(in history) (Bug 358764 )
Support startup notification on Linux/UNIX desktops (Bug 223492 )
Enable native theme (form control etc.) in HTML content on Linux (Bug 329846 )
Add support for the X Session Management Protocol (XSMP) (Bug 93789 )
Make Copy Image work on Linux (Bug 21747 )
Show preview of files in GTK file picker (Bug 396876 )
Let $http_proxy influence proxy settings (Bug 66057 )
Respect the user's settings of icons in menus (Bug 415810 )
Support Internet keys (Bug 66519 )
Map mouse buttons 8-9 to back/forward (Bug 355477 )
Use Gnome's native print dialog on Linux (Bug 193001 )
Remove XPrint (Bug 326716 )
Enable DBUS by default on Linux (Bug 388743 )
Bump minimal required GTK2 version to 2.10 (Bug 420040 )
Allow dragging bookmarks from a folder in the Personal Toolbar (Bug 151336 )
Map mouse buttons 6-7 to horizontal scrolling on Linux (Bug 423563 )
Make drag and drop of graphics insert the image instead of the
URL (Bug
229327 )
Make Mark All Read keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+C on Linux (like
on Windows; was: Ctrl+Shift+M) (Bug 422757 )
Allow dragging multiple image files onto editor (Composer;
MailNews and stand-alone) window (Bug 428876 )
Mac OS X
Do not try to import IE favorites on Mac (Bug 433117 )
Make Cmd+T open a new window when no browser windows are open (Bug 429926 )
Move caret to beginning/end of url bar or text box when pressing
up/down arrow key (Bug 231754 )
Improve Mac installer (.dmg) (Bug 406448 )
Implement Mail.app importer in MailNews core (Bug 420472 )
Implement Mail.app / 4.x Mac Communicator like versions of the
"move/copy" menus (Bug 178091 )
Enable Mac OS X system address book per default and add UI (Bug 397811 )
Compiling
Introduce MozillaBuild for Windows (Bug 363079 )
Make Mozilla compile with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 (VC8) (Bug 249782 )
Remove non-Cairo GTK2 gfx code (GTK 1 support and Xprint) (Bug 383889 )
Build Chatzilla as an extension (Bug 351715 )
General
Add "Ignore Word" to inline spellchecker used for editable
elements (Bug
354580 )
Use bullets instead of asterisks to block out password characters
(Bug 97811 )
Make dictionaries part of the locale pack in the installer (Bug 350688 )
Make a backup copy of prefs.js before overwriting it if there
were errors reading it (Bug 361102 )
Make downloading using "Save Link As..." successful on a link to
a page/file that uses HTTP/FTP authentication (Bug 315227 )
Allow multiple selection of text with Ctrl (Bug 73373 )
Switch backend from XPFE to Toolkit (Bug 328887 )
Add command line handlers for Toolkit (makes -remote work on all
platforms) (Bug 335550 )
Update Software Installation preferences pane including options
for automatic updates of the application and add-ons (Bug 363700 )
Remove Appearance / Themes preferences pane (moved to Tools /
Add-on Manager) (Bug 372856 )
Make Debug/QA UI an extension (that can be disabled or removed) (Bug 381343 )
Offer to migrate Thunderbird profiles (Bug 306175 )
Use FF/TB's extension mechanism (Add-on Manager and backend) (Bug 272429 )
Add migrator for old profiles (Mozilla Application Suite and SM
1.0/1.1) (Bug
329744 )
Replace Quality Feedback Agent by Breakpad crash reporter (Bug 383125 )
Use FF's form manager (satchel, was: wallet), including form
field autocompletion (Bug 304309 )
Replace MySpell with HunSpell spelling checker (Bug 319778 )
Provide mechanism to allow users to list, enable and disable
plugins in Add-on Manager (Bug 339056 )
Make text and images translucent while dragging (Bug 178513 )
Use new English spell checking dictionary (Bug 397150 )
Enable automatic updates for SeaMonkey (using AUS) (Bug 408190 )
Make Plugin Finder Service work with SeaMonkey (replacing Null
Plugin) (Bug
278831 )
Disable direct input of filename into file upload controls (Bug 258875 )
New icon set for "SeaMonkey Default Theme" (Bug 348720 )
Add sanitize (clear private data) option (Bug 416233 )
Add new Helper Applications preferences pane (Bug 417590 )
Integrate addons.mozilla.org (AMO) into Add-ons Manager (Bug 414918 )
Add birthday fields to address book (Bug 13595 )