Notes de la Versión Mozilla 1.0

Estes notes de la versión describen los requisitos del sistema, instrucciones d'instalación, y coses conocíes de Mozilla 1.0 Estes notes actualícense cuando recibimos comentarios, asina que pues consultar la versión inglesa pa más información. Pues lleer más de cómo personalizar personalizar Mozilla y configurar preferencies escondíes que nun tan afayadices nel menú de preferencies.

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Requisitos del Sistema

Información de Compatibilidá

Notes d'Instalación

Desinstalar

Problemes Conocíos

Xeneral

Establecer Perfiles

Navegador

Corréu y Noticies

Veceru d'IRC ChatZilla

Iguador

Seguridá

Preferencies

Plugins

Java

Notes de Versiones Internacionales

Axente d'Información de Calidá

Una Nota pa Desendolcadores de Fueyes Web

Cómo Implicase con Mozilla

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Qué hai Nuevo n'esta Versión

• Les aplicaciones d'Historia y Corréu y Noticies permiten-y reordenar les columnes con mover y soltar. Por exemplu, si-y presta tener primero la fecha na pantalla del corréu, mueva'l titular de la Fecha al titular de Asuntu, asina la columna de la Fecha tará na primera posición.
• Los avisos na consola JavaScript yá amuesen el testu de la llinia ofensiva.
• Venkman, the JavaScript Debugger is now available in complete installer builds. Remember to choose 'complete' install, instead of 'typical'. Start the debugger under the Tasks/Tools menu or from the command line with mozilla -venkman.
• Mozilla has a new experimental Tabbed Browsing feature. Press Ctrl+T to open a new tab. (Bug 101973.)
• People who like tabbed browsing may also like the mozilla gestures add-on, Optimoz now available at mozdev.org.
• SOCKS proxies (both v4 and v5) can now be used with all protocols (Bug 89500) except MailNews. Using socks with MailNews is covered by bug 44995.
• Mozilla has a new Site Navigation Bar for navigating sites that use the <LINK> element (like Bugzilla buglists.) Choose the menu item View | Show/Hide | Site Navigation bar | Show As Only Needed to make the toolbar show up automatically when you visit pages that use the <LINK> element.
• The View Source window now has a context menu with items for Find, Copy, and Select.

Requisitos del Sistema

Mac

• Mac OS 8.5 o posterior
• Procesador PowerPC 604e a 266 MHz o más, o G3/G4
• 64 MB RAM
• 36 MB d'espaciu llibre nel discu duru
• Quicktime (Bugs 59059, 89720)

Windows

• Windows 95, 98, o 98SE, Windows Me, Windows NT 4.0, 2000 o XP
• Procesador tipu Intel Pentium a 233 MHz (o más)
• 64 MB RAM
• 26 MB d'espaciu llibre nel discu duru

Linux

• Requiérense les versiones de biblioteques que vienen darréu: glibc 2.1, XFree86 3.3.x, GTK 1.2.x, Glib 1.2.x, Libstdc++ 2.9.0. Red Hat Linux 6.0, Debian 2.1, and SuSE 6.2 (o posterior). Éstes o otres compatibles deberíen furrular.
• Los usuarios de Red Hat 6.x que quieran instalar Mozilla RPM tienen de tener instalada al menos la versión 4.0.2 de rpm. Hai una actualización oficial pa rpm de Red Hat.
• Procesador de tipu Intel Pentium 233 MHz (o más)
• 64 MB de RAM
• 26 MB d'espaciu llibre nel discu duru

OpenVMS

• OpenVMS Alpha V7.1 o superior
• DECwindows MOTIF V1.2-4 o superior
• Compaq TCP/IP Services Versión 5.0 pa OpenVMS o superior, MultiNet V4.3A o superior, o TCPware V5.4-3 o superior.
• 65 MB d'espaciu llibre nel discu duru

  Pa tener más información, eche un vistazu a la Guía d'Instalación y Notes de Mozilla pa OpenVMS en http://www.openvms.compaq.com/openvms/products/ips/mozilla_relnotes.html.

Solaris 8

• Solaris 8 necesita la instalación de los parches 109147-09, 108434-02, y 108435-02 de sunsolve.sun.com pa que Mozilla furrule. (Bug 88205)

Información de Compatibilidá

Windows

Si usté tien el plug-in Crescendo 5.01, tien d'actualizáse a la versión más moderna de Crescendo. D'otra miente, Mozilla pue frayar al arrancar. (Bug 48110)

Mac OS

Si tien la versión 4.5 (o anterior) de StuffIt Expander, pue que vea un mensaxe d'error diciendo que l'archivu ta frayáu. Pue pasar del mensaxe y siguir cola instalación. Pa garrar otra versión de StuffIt Expander, dir a http://www.aladdinsys.com/expander/expander_mac_login.html

Si intenta executar Mozilla en Mac OS usando un paquete de llingua (como'l paquete de llingua Xaponés) y un kit de Llingua, tolos conteníos de la barra del menú van amosáse incorreutamente. P'arreglar esti problema, rexistre Mozilla emplegando'l Rexistrador de Llingüa. Por exemplu, si ta usando'l Paquete de Llingua Xaponés y el Kit de Llingua Xaponés, rexistre Mozilla como una aplicación JA.

Si usa'l panel de control SmoothType magar de la opción "Suavizar toles fontes na pantalla" de Apple nel panel de control, necesita SmoothType versión 2.1.1 pa Mozilla . Mozilla nun ye compatible con versiones anteriores de SmoothType, y pue que delles fueyes nun se debuxen bien. P'actualizalu, dir a http://www.kaleidoscope.net/greg/smoothtype.html

Si tien un procesador-dual G4 usando Mac OSX, Mozilla va colgase. Nun hai problemes con procesadores-duales usando MacOS 9. (Bug 44787)

Linux

Mozilla necesita glibc 2.1 o posterior. (Bug 44787)

Si tien Red Hat Linux 6.0, nun pue arrancase Mozilla si ta instaláu Java 2. El roblema nun pasa con Red Hat 6.1 o superior. (Bug 58259)

Pa Red Hat Linux 7, tien d'instalar les biblioteques Standard C++ pa compatibilidá con Red Hat 6.x. Garre'l paquete del CD d'instalación de Red Hat 7 o descárguelu de Red Hat. (Bug 59012)

Pa executar Mozilla en SuSe Linux 6.2, tien d'instalar el ficheru libjpeg.so.62 que ye afayadizu equí.

Solaris

Pa instalar Mozilla en Solaris8 (64 bit), tien d'instalar primero libstdc++. Descargue'l paquete d'instalación de Sun Netscape 6 ya instale libstdc++ d'esi paquete enantes d'instalar o executar Mozilla . Tamién tienen d'instaláse los siguientes parches de http://sunsolve.sun.com/ : 109147-09, 108434-02 108435-02. (Bug 68604)

IRIX

Al usar un alministrador de ventanes de la familia twm ensin la opción DecorateTransients, les ventanes desplegantes como Atopar, Guardar y Preferencies nun van furrular. Pa facelo furrular, ponga la opción DecorateTransients nel ficheru rc del alministrador de ventanese. (Bug 78928)

Notes d'Instalación

Instalar n'una carpeta vacía. Si lu instala encima d'otros bloques anteriores pue que cause problemes.

Usuarios de Windows: Si-y sal el mensaxe, "uninstall.exe file is linked to missing export shell32.dll", esborre %TEMP%\ns_temp.

Instalación en sistemes de Multi-usuariu: Pa instalar Mozilla pa múltiples usuarios en Unix, instalar como siempre, y lluéu iguar esti script na carpeta de Mozilla, facelu executable (chmod u+x <scriptname>), y executalu como root.

#!/bin/sh 
dist_bin=`dirname $0`
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=$dist_bin
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$dist_bin
export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME LD_LIBRARY_PATH
$dist_bin/regxpcom
$dist_bin/regchrome
touch $dist_bin/chrome/user-skins.rdf $dist_bin/chrome/user-locales.rdf

N'instalando paquetes de llingua y otros ficheros .xpi, la descarga párase fasta qu'usté nun calca nel botón Parar del navegador.

Si al arrancar-y apaez el mensaxe 'El programa tien de pesllar pa permitir que termine una instalación anterior', quier dicir que la llimpieza de ficheros dempués d'una instalación adicional nun finalizare.

Soxerencies pa que furrule:

1. Na mayoría de los casos, esperar unos segundinos dempués de que'l programa pieslle va permitir que'l procesu de llimpieza se complete, permitiendo-y que lu arranque.
   
2. De xemes en cuandu el procesu d'instalación ta esperando qu'otru programa dexe un ficheru que se necesita pal procesu de llimpieza. Pue que necesite colar d'otros programes o reaniciar l'ordenador pa permitir que se termine'l procesu d'instalación.
   

Windows y Mac OS: Per-recomiéndase que pieslle tolos programes enantes d'entamar el programa d'instalación. Tamién, debería deshabilitar temporalmente los programes anti-virus.

Mac OS: Mozilla nun va furrular cuando s'instale n'una partición UFS. La solución ye mover la carpeta de l'aplicación a una partición HFS+ y va furrular bien.

Mac OS: Nun debería reaniciar el so sistema con toles estensiones deshabilitaes enantes d'executar la instalación de Mozilla.

Java

Windows and Linux: To run Java applets, you must install the Java Run Time Environment (JRE) plug-in. When using installer builds, everything should Just Work without any help.

See the Java section for more details about Java version compatibility.

Windows: If you're using the Installer build and you already have JRE 1.3.0_01 on your system Mozilla should recognize it. If it doesn't recognize it then follow the copy instructions for the zip builds.

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 NPOJI600.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 \bin\plugins).

Linux With tar.gz builds on Linux, after the JRE has installed, put a symlink in your mozilla1.0 /plugins directory to the java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjava.oji.so directory.

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.

Redhat users who have problems with Java hanging should try setting the environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL to "2.2.5". (Bug 84093)

Mac OS: You must have Mac OS Runtime for Java (MRJ) version 2.2 to run Java applets with Mozilla . If you have Mac OS version 8.5 through 8.6, you may need to upgrade your version of MRJ. For an upgrade, go to the Apple MRJ update download page.

Security

Windows, Mac y Linux: L'Alministrador de Seguridá Personal (PSM) apúrre-y a Mozilla carauterístiques de seguridá (criptográfiques) .

Instalación en Windows

Instalar Java con pocu espaciu en discu pue facer que l'instalador se cuelgue. (Bug 45067) N'antes d'entamar la instalación de Mozilla con Java, compruebe l'espaciu llibre nel discu duru (vea Requisitos del Sistema)

Pa instalar Mozilla descargando l'instalador de Mozilla, siga estos pasos:

1. Calque nel enllaz mozilla-win32-1.0-astES-installer.exe pa descargar el ficheru al so ordenador.
2. Vaiga'l sitiu onde lu descargó y calque dos vegaes nel iconu del programa de Mozilla pa qu'entame'l programa d'instalación de Mozilla.
3. Siga les instrucciones na pantalla del programa d'instalación. El programa arrancará automáticamente la primer vegada.

Pa instalar Mozilla descargando'l ficheru .zip (nun hai n'asturianu) ya instalalu manualmente, siga estos pasos:

1. Calque nel enllaz mozilla-win32-talkback.zip o mozilla-win32.zip pa descargar el ficheru .zip al so ordenador.
2. Vaiga a onde lu descargó y faiga dos clicks nel ficheru comprimíu. Nota: Dáse por supuestu qu'usté yá tien instalada una versión reciente de WinZip y que sabe usalu. Si nun la tien, pue garrar información del programa en http://www.winzip.com/
3. Estraiga'l ficheru .zip a una carpeta como C:/Archivos de Programa/mozilla.
4. Pa entamar Mozilla , vaiga a la carpeta a la que desempaquetó Mozilla y faiga dos clicks nel iconu de Mozilla.exe.

Instalación en Mac OS

Nota: Si el ficheru que descargó nun s'espande automáticamente, usté tien d'espandilu emplegando un programa como StuffIt Expander. L'Expander se soministra con tolos Macs nuevos y vien instaláu nel sistema, asina que pue facer una gueta en Sherlock pa "StuffIt" pa tar seguru que nun lu tien instaláu.

Usté pue garrar StuffIt Expander en 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:

1. 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.
2. Double-click the Mozilla Installer folder in the Finder.
3. Double-click the Mozilla Installer icon.
4. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process.
5. 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:

1. 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.
2. Double-click the mozilla-mac-*.sea.sit.bin icon on your desktop.
3. Choose the directory where you want to install Mozilla .
4. To start Mozilla , open the folder where you installed Mozilla and double-click the Mozilla icon.

Installing on Linux

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:

1. Create a directory named mozilla (mkdir mozilla1.0 ) and change to that directory (cd mozilla1.0 ).
2. Click the link to download the installer file (called mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz).
3. Change to the mozilla directory (cd mozilla1.0 ) 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.)
   
4. Change to the mozilla-installer directory (cd mozilla-installer) and run the installer with the ./mozilla-installer command.
5. 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.
   
6. 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:

1. Create a directory named " mozilla1.0 " (mkdir mozilla1.0 ) and change to that directory (cd mozilla1.0 ).
2. Click the link to download the non-installer mozilla*.tar.gz file into the mozilla1.0 directory.
3. Change to the mozilla directory (cd mozilla1.0 ) and decompress the file with the following command:
   gunzip -dc moz*.tar.gz | tar -xvf - (This creates a "mozilla" subdirectory under your mozilla1.0 directory.)
   
4. Change to the mozilla directory (cd mozilla).
5. Run Mozilla with the ./mozilla run script.

To hook up Mozilla complete with icon to the GNOME Panel, follow these steps:

1. Click the GNOME Main Menu button, open the Panel menu, and then open the Add to Panel submenu and choose Launcher.
2. 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.
   
3. Type in a name for the icon, and type in a comment if you wish.
4. 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)

Uninstalling Mozilla

Linux

• Remove the mozilla1.0 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

Mac OS

• 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

Files Created or Used

*Note: "cookperm.txt" ("cookperm" on Unix) is a file used to selectively accept cookies from certain sites and not from others. It is used only if you set your preferences so that you see a warning before accepting cookies. To do that, set the following pref (instructions here):

• user.pref ("network.cookie.rememberAboutCookies", true);

Known Problems

General

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: Printing crashes with RedHat Linux if you don't have a printer name lp configured. Workarounds: 1) Configure the printer named lp (which is by default the printer name assigned on Redhat Linux). 2) Use a printer that is configured, e.g., lp0, by changing the print command in the print dialog so that it reads lpr -P lp0 (replace lp0 with the name of your printer). To see the list of configured printers, you can log in as root and use the following command: 'lpc status'. Alternately, you can use the RedHat 'printtool' application to graphically view and configure the printers on your system. (Bug 92344)

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.)

Event Handling

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 not yet shipping as of this writing; please check the Kensington website for updates.

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:

1. Minimize the plugin download window.
2. Click "Cancel" to dismiss the dialog box.
3. Re-open 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:

and then log out of Linux and log back in again. You can always undo this, if necessary, by entering the following command:

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. (Bug 30387) \

Setting Profiles

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 re-install Mozilla to see the profile manager dialog again.

Navigator

Additional Internet Search Engines can be obtained at http://sherlock.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)

Several features of Page Information are not yet available, including: the File MIME Type, Source, Local cache file, Content length, Expires, Charset, and Security. Also, you cannot view information on frames, XML pages, or FTP pages. (Bug 52730)

Pages that appear to be rendered incorrectly may be due to standards compliance issues. See the Netscape Evangelism site for more details.

XSLT support still has bugs. (Bugs 53030, 53944, 59912, 88198, 94921 )

The scrollbar in the Preferences dialog sometimes doesn't appear after expanding categories. Workaround: collapse other categories --or, resize the dialog, if possible. (Bug 59108)

Printing web pages may not printout all pages due to table pagination problems. (Bugs 66804, 86921, 87374)

Transparent backgrounds are printed as black. (Bug 12037)

Printing newsgroup messages with images leads to a crash. (Bug 92659)

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)

Windows: Double browser window appears when opening an html or image document from the Windows environment. (Bug 59078)

Linux: You can't view hidden files or directories (such as .mozilla) using Mozilla. (Bug 39036)

Linux: Flash may crash with exported X display. (Bug 58937)

Linux: On Linux, there may be problems with ESD Audio and Flash. (Bugs 85772, 58339)

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)

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)

Page content generated by an online form isn't correctly reflected in the view source window.

Mac OS: The horizontal scrollbar in the View Source window might be missing. Resize the window to see the scrollbar. (Bug 56488)

Mail and News

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 re-start Mozilla . (Bug 2654)

Undo/Redo and Stop may not always work as expected. (Bugs 27468, 28129, and others)

Delete Message doesn't always work when you're using Next Unread Message. (Bug 44572) Try clicking the message again to enable Delete.

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)

'Get All New Messages' checks the default account only, with or without passwords saved. Workaround: Select each account's Inbox and click on Get Message the first time for that session. Get All New messages should work. (Bug 80296)

Mozilla does not warn the user of a low disk space condition. (Bugs 32443, 56565) Some symptoms you may see are:

• Send Page fails to send the intended page attachment.
• New messages sent may be incomplete (blank body or subject).
• Copying a message to your Sent folder fails.
• POP: Status text indicates there are new messages to retrieve, but no new messages appear in the Inbox. Quit Mozilla , free some disk space, re-start 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, re-start 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)

AOL Mail and Netscape WebMail Accounts

Mozilla does not support 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)

A crash may occur if you try to open or save a message attachment of a content type unknown to Mozilla . (Bug 44762)

Composing Messages

You can't forward a message that has a signature file containing the HTML tag <div class="signature">. (Bug 49484)

Address Book

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)

In Address Book, using "Select All" and "Delete" more than 500 cards may crash application. (Bug 90378)

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

Adding this pref (instructions here) to your prefs.js file will allow you to enter a username when you login to use mail.

  user_pref ("mail.allow_at_sign_in_user_name", true); 
  

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)

Deleting in "Mark as deleted" mode may not work in the same way it did in Netscape Communicator 4.x. (Bug 59694)

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

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)

New newsgroups can not be downloaded unless you have previously open the newsgroups and retrieved headers first. (Bug 84061)

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 redownload the message to have it accessible when you are offline. (Bug 78809)

Can't 'Save a draft' or 'Save a Unsent Message' to a online folder. Workaround: To 'Save a Draft' or store an 'Unsent Message' use the default folders [Drafts or Unsent Messages] which are located under "Local Folders" as this works. (Bug 83540)

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)

Using Download and Sync on numerous newsgroups might result in not getting all the messages downloaded the first time. Workaround: Use 'Download and Sync' on one or only a few newsgroups at a time, then uncheck them once synching is complete and select another couple of newsgroups and repeat the steps. Or go online and select the Newsgroup you want to download messages from and right click and do a "Get Messages for Account" or click "Get Msg" on the toolbar. (Bug 87018)

ChatZilla

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 netscape.public.mozilla.rt-messaging newsgroup, or send an e-mail to rginda@netscape.com.

If you are not familiar with IRC, please check out the FAQs available at http://www.irchelp.org/.

Running ChatZilla

Start Mozilla with the -chat option to start ChatZilla, or select it from the Tasks 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).

Composer

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)

When saving remote files, associated images are not saved. (Bugs 98550)

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, 43433, 48951, 57805, 61355, 70630, 58332, 58712, 26269, 53505, 76925, 80384, 57700, 67142, 4302, 69740, 48375)

Hourglass does not show when application is busy. (Bug 83300)

Broken image icon does not display in the application. (Bug 58646)

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)

A blank window opens when clicking on the Browse button the 2nd time. Workaround: After editing the page more, if you want to view the new changes in Browser, first save the Composer file, go to the Browser window loaded before, and click the "Reload" button (or use "View | Reload" menu command). (Bug 59497)

Security

PSM (the Personal Security Manager) is part of the default installation. Although you may deselect this item it is not recommended. If PSM is not installed, Mozilla will be unable to access secure sites (online banking, shopping, secure webmail, etc.). No alert appears. An indication PSM is not installed can be if you are prompted to log in multiple times at HTTPS sites. (Bug 47617, 86486)

TLS support: The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol defines rules governing authentication between a web site and browser software and the encryption of information that flows between them. The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol is an IETF standard based on SSL. TLS 1.0 can be thought of as SSL 3.1. Mozilla 0.9.5 supports both SSL and TLS.

Some servers that do not implement SSL correctly cannot negotiate the SSL handshake with client software that supports TLS. Such servers are known as "TLS intolerant."

Certificate Manager sometimes slow to open. If you have many personal certificates listed in the Certificate Manager, it can take thirty seconds or more to open. This problem is exacerbated if you have selected the option "Use OCSP to validate all certificates using this URL and signer" in the Validation preferences panel. Turning off this option improves opening time. (Bug 82212)

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)

pref("network.security.ports.banned.override", "1,3,7");

Preferences

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

Plugins installed for Communicator 4.x may not be available for Mozilla . Workaround: install these plugins in the Mozilla Plugins folder.

Microsoft Media Player file embedded in web pages may not work. (Bug 66015)

Macintosh: Mozilla now scans for plugins in the system's "Internet Plugins Folder" first.

Macintosh: Users will see the browser context menu pop up after dismissing a plugins context menu on Mac. Workaround: To remove the unwanted browser context menu, click inside the plugin area with the mouse once. (Bug 75456)

Java

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 .

LiveConnect does work with Mozilla 0.9.5 . There remain some LiveConnect problems with the combination of Mozilla 0.9.5 . and JDK/JRE 1.3.X. Fixes for a number of remaining LiveConnect problems are being incorporated into JDK 1.4 and will be available when that release of JDK/JRE is available later this year.

Running J2SE in 256-color mode may cause a flicking problem.

Linux: LiveConnect support now works if you use Mozilla 0.9.5 with JRE 1.3.1. Additional LiveConnect problems are being addressed in JDK 1.4 as mentioned above.

If Java doesn't work, make sure the following is true:
On Windows:
Copy the NPOJI600.DLL from C:\JDK*\jre\bin to "\plugins" directory of your installation.
On Unix:
Make a soft link from /plugins/libjavaplugin_oji.so to /usr/java/j*/jre/plugins/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so

OS X

On OS X, there is no "Default Downloader Plugin" (aka. the Default Plugin) and Java is not working yet. (Bug 88870)

International Release Notes

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.

Sidebar tabs and bookmarks will not change when you choose another region. (Bug 87939)

Language/Region Packs downloaded in 6.0x appear in View menu after upgrade but do not function. A user that wants to continue to use locale packs that were downloaded in 6.0x should keep 6.0x by installing 6.1 in a new folder. The old content packs will not appear in the 6.1 View menu, but will still be available for use in 6.0x. Any profile set to a non-default locale in 6.0x will revert to the default locale in 6.1. To use locale packs in 6.1, it is necessary to download new locale packs via the View menu (View>Set Language/Region>Download More) or via Preferences (Edit > Preferences, expand Appearance category, select Content Packs panel, then click Download More on lower-right). (Bug 91721)

If you are using Chinese, Korean or Japanese language Windows 9x/ME and are having a non-start or crash problem when trying to start up Mozilla , read the Java section of the Known issues section below.

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)

General and Profile Manager

Windows NT/2000: If you create a non-ASCII user name (e.g. Japanese) and if it does not have the Power user or Administrator status, a new profile creation may fail. In such a case, instead of accepting the default location for profiles, choose an alternate location whose path name does not contain non-ASCII characters.

A path name that contains non-Latin 1 characters is not saved correctly. Initially they look OK but when saved, they turn into unreadable characters. A file that is defined using such characters may not be found, e.g. a mail signature file. A workaround is to use only ASCII characters for file and path names.

Profile migration does not work correctly if Communicator 4.x profile names contain 2-byte characters (e.g. Japanese) with 0x5C byte Shift_JIS character.

Shift_JIS Full-width tilde character (0x8160) and a few other Japanese symbol characters have differing correspondences to Unicode mapping tables depending on platforms. This causes characters like these to display incorrectly in some situations on Macintosh.

Linux: Under a Japanese locale, the window title in Japanese (reflecting the title of a Web page) may not show correctly if the Web page does not match the charset of the Japanese locale, e.g. Shift_JIS title on an EUC locale.

Linux: On Red Hat Linux 6.0 Japanese, the license agreement for the Japanese installer may display empty. Workaround: Click OK and move on to the next step. This problem does not occur on RH 6.1 and later.

Navigator and Composer

Mozilla does not support Dynamic Fonts. (Note: It was supported in Communicator 4.x.)

Files and directories on a local disk bearing non-Latin 1 names may not be accessed by inputting the names into the Navigator location field.

The charset attribute within a SCRIPT tag, i.e. for JavaScript, does not work. Instead JavaScript uses the charset of the document.

With the Windows 2000 IME, most of the new IME features (e.g. reconversion) are supported but some features may not work correctly.

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.

Mac OS: The Japanese language pack or Japanese release can be used on an English Mac OS if the Japanese Language Kit has been installed on the Mac OS. (The Japanese Language support comes free with Mac OS 8.5 or later as an optional install item.) The menu and dialogs, however, will not show as Japanese unless the " Mozilla " program is registered as a Japanese language program. To do this, use the (Japanese) Language register program found in the "Apple Extras" directory.

Mac OS: The Character Coding menu check mark does not get updated promptly and shows incorrect indication of the current page encoding.

Mail

POP and Local message body search does not work with non-Latin 1 key words.

Filtering by body key has not been implemented.

The "Edit as New" menu does not correctly quote the original non-ASCII text body if the original message does not contain MIME charset information.

When you quote the original message in reply, sometimes you see the quoted text as corrupted and unreadable. If this problem occurs, check that you don't have multiple Mail folder windows open. When multiple mail folders/windows are open, the reply charset reflects the charset of the selected message in the last window opened rather than the current message from which the reply message is created. Workaround: The user can either close all Mail folder windows except the current one, or select a message in the last window opened which bears the same charset as the one that is being quoted in reply.

Character Coding menu is not effective in a standalone message view window. The standalone window also does not inherit the encoding of the Mail view window if the original message contains no MIME charset or incorrect charset information. The latter two can be overridden but its effect is not inherited into the standalone window.

Japanese Auto-detection may fail sometimes with EUC-xx and UTF-8 attachments, which lack MIME charset information.

The Character Coding menu cannot correct the thread pane display of non-MIME encoded headers. If the message displayed lacks MIME charset information, the thread pane display obeys the default message display charset set in the Preferences dialog box under "Mail & Newsgroups | Message Display | Languages". Correctly setting this option to the charset most often used in the user's mail viewing helps avoid display problem of this type.

Mac OS and Linux: View Page Source does not work for viewing a message source when the Auto-Detect (All) is on. To use this function in Mail, turn off the Auto-Detect (All) from the Character Coding submenu of the View menu.

IMAP

You may see an extraneous vertical bar or a question mark in the window title display of a header subject line. This is a misinterpreted Tab character sent from an IMAP server as part of a line folding sequence. This problem does not occur under a POP mail account.

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_01 that ships with Mozilla 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 Windows, you may experience this non-start problem.

To determine if the non-starting problem is due to Java installation, follow these steps:

1. Locate the Plugins directory (which is found in the same directory as the Mozilla executable).
2. Remove all the Java plugin files from the Plugins directory, i.e. the files whose names begin with "npjava...". Remove also the NPOJI600.dll file if you find one. Back them up in another directory so that you can restore them later.
3. 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_01 shipped with Mozilla , 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):

1. Click the Start button, open the Settings menu, and choose Control Panel.
2. Double-click the Add/Remove Programs icon and select the Install/Uninstall tab.
3. Locate the old JRE installation (Java Runtime Environment) and delete it.
4. Run the Mozilla installer and choose either "Complete" or "Custom" installation making sure that Java is installed in the latter option. (Note that the "Typical" install does not install the JRE package but if there is an existing JDK or JRE on the operating system, the installer copies Java plugin files and place them into Mozilla 's Plugins directory.) This will install the latest version of JRE 130_01, which works with Mozilla .

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 file.

Using the Quality Feedback Agent with Automatic Proxy Configuration

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:

1. 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.

2. 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

Setting User Preferences using prefs.js

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");

user_pref("foo.bar.baz", true);

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 MacOS.

A Note For Web Developers

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 document, which will soon be updated to reflect the latest changes in Mozilla: http://developer.netscape.com/docs/technote/gecko/n6release.html

How To Get Involved With Mozilla

• Join us on Bug Day. If you want to help test Mozilla, but don't know where to start, join us on Wednesdays at 3:00PM PST on the #mozillazineIRC channel on irc.mozilla.org. If you are running a recent Mozilla and have installed ChatZilla, hit this. There you can meet friendly Mozillans who can help you learn the process and get you started.
• Join the BugAThon. If you can script, you can help simplify test cases.
• To become even more involved, check out these suggested starting points.

Where To Find Other Builds

• 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.