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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.
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 component 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, And the browser detects feeds offered by web pages. Since the
support for previewing feeds in the browser has not yet been included, the
feed icon at the right end of the URL bar currently is directly invoking
subscription to the feed in the MailNews component, if an account for feeds
has already been created there.
Password Manager was switched to an improved version, allowing easier
searching, and notification bars replacing modal dialogs for remembering
logins.
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.
Most of the icons in the default theme have been exchanged for newer
images that fit better with the look of modern desktop environments.
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)
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)
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)
Implement new security exception handling backend for MailNews (Bug 429843)
Introduce new certificate error page which better separates user
information from technical details (Bug 463504)
show expanded technical details on SSL error pages when expert mode is
active (Bug
471075)
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)
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)