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Mozilla.org: Mozilla 1.6 Released

[ Thanks to Jim Dossey
for this link. ]

From the What’s New section of the Release Notes:

  • “One of the most requested Mozilla Mail features, an option to
    separate the Recipient and Sender columns in the thread pane, has
    been implemented.
  • “Another frequently requested MailNews feature, a preference
    for placing the user’s signature above the quoted text, has been
    added.
  • “‘Remove from server after x days’ has been implemented for
    POP3 mail accounts.
  • “vCard support has been added to Mozilla Mail.
  • “Mozilla 1.6 includes a new cross-platform NTLM authentication
    mechanism. This feature brings NTLM authentication to the
    non-Windows Mozilla users for the first time and also delivers more
    robust and featureful NTLM support to users of older Windows
    versions.
  • “Ask Jeeves searching has been added to Mozilla 1.6.
  • “‘Translate Page’ functionality has returned to this release of
    Mozilla.
  • “The View Source window now has reload functionality.
  • “Several security-related bugs were fixed in 1.6
  • “Chatzilla 0.9.48 has been merged, which adds RPL_ISUPPORT
    support, halfop mode support, and properly masks key and password
    dialogs.
  • “Many crash bugs have been fixed.
  • “One step closer to the kitchen sink, about:about has been
    implemented. Typing about:about in the address field will give the
    user a nice list of available about:s…”

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