Mozilla Developments [LWN.net]

It has been a fairly busy week for Mozilla browser development news.

Mozilla 1.2 came out with a number of new features, here are some of the main additions:

Type Ahead Find for speedy navigation within a page.
The ability to show toolbars as text, icons, or both.
Improvements to the native look and feel of the browser.
The ability to launch the Browser with preloaded tabs.
The addition of new accesskeys.
Support for page prefetching.
XML prettyprinting support.
Mail "filter after the fact" capabilities.
Mail support for copying text from message headers.
Much More.

The Mozilla 1.2 release notes list the changes in more detail.

Some compatibility issues with dynamic HTML coding on some sites showed up under version 1.2. The Mozilla team quickly fixed the problem and released version 1.2.1.

The mozilla.org site said: "This is our latest stable release and users of all previous versions are encouraged to upgrade to this release for features, as well as performance, stability, and security fixes. It contains the fix for the DHTML bug that prompted us to pull Mozilla 1.2."

The Mozilla 1.2.1 release notes have the details for this release, most of it is a recap of the version 1.2 release notes, with the addition of the DHTML bug fix.

In addition to the new Mozilla releases, new versions of Galeon and Phoenix minimalist browsers are also out, both browsers are based on the Mozilla code. see below for more information.

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