Friday May 16, 2003 (Status Update #199)
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Mozilla Firebird 0.6 has been released. Changes include a new default theme based on Qute by Arvid Axelsson, a new Options dialogue, context menus for Bookmarks menu items, automatic image resizing and smooth scrolling. This release also includes Quality Feedback Agent (Talkback), which allows crash data to be sent back to the developers for analysis.
Camino now has a blocked popup indicator similar to those found in many other Mozilla-based browsers.
Daniel Glazman has released some special builds of Mozilla Composer with extra functionality. These new features will land on the trunk soon.
Alec Flett has started working on some XPCOM documentation.
nsHashtable Officially DeprecatedThe old nsHashtable has been
officially deprecated in favor of the more heap-friendly nsTHashtable.
Roland Mainz writes in with news about the release of Xprint version 008: "Just update/install your Xprint server and get TrueType font and CUPS/LPRng support for free — works for all Mozilla versions (incl. Netscape 7.x, Phoenix/Firebird, Thunderbird and DocZilla) since 0.9.5 without the need for an update on the Zilla-side."
The latest Venkman version, 0.9.75, has landed on the trunk (bug 204572).
Several miscellaneous improvements have been made to Mozilla's junk mail controls (bug 180153, bug 191042, bug 194273, bug 204679 and bug 205054).
Several focus problems have been fixed (bug 201996, bug 200735, bug 203117 and bug 194104).
Digest authentication now works with SSL proxies (bug 203813).
UNC-based profiles should now work better on Windows (bug 162025). Note that there are still several problems with UNC file access on some versions of Windows (bug 101953).
The trunk is still frozen for Mozilla 1.4. Check tinderbox for the latest status.
Minutes from the mozilla.org staff meeting of Monday 12th May are now available.
Third party updates from Thursday 15th May are now available.