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Mozilla.org: Mozilla 1.4 Beta Released

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 8, 2003

From the Release Notes:

What’s New in Mozilla 1.4b

  • “Mozilla on Windows now has support for NTLM authentication.
    This enables Mozilla to talk to MS web and proxy servers that are
    configured to use ‘windows integrated security.’
  • “Users can now specify ‘blank page,’ ‘home page,’ or ‘last page
    visited’ for each of first window, new window and new tab.
  • “Users can now specify default font, size and color for HTML
    mail compose.
  • “Image blocking/disabling is now more flexible and users can
    ‘view image’ to see blocked or not loaded images.
  • “Mozilla Mail now has CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5 AUTH
    support.
  • “‘Launch file’ after downloading has been enabled for .exe
    files.
  • “As of Mozilla 1.4b, it is possible to build Mozilla for Win32
    using GCC. See the win32 build instructions for details.
  • “Proxy auto-config (PAC) failover has been implemented…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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