Mozilla 1.8a1 is Out for Trial

as the development of v1.7 winds down. Download 1.8a1 from this web page. Here are the major changes:

Browser

• 1.8 Alpha1 includes keyboard accessibility for the Mozilla Help window and improved keyboard accessibility for the Linux installer.
• Find in This Page now also searches inside textarea and text input boxes.
• Basic FTP upload UI has been added to Mozilla.
• Intellimouse Explorer Backwards and Forwards buttons are now supported on Linux.
  
• "Close Other Tabs" now has a confirmation dialog similar to closing a browser window with multiple tabs open.
  

Mail

• Mozilla 1.8 Alpha1 has UI for multiple identity support.
  
• Junk-mail filtering accuracy has been further improved.
  
• Users now have an option to mark incoming junk mail as read.
  
• Mail send format (text, HTML, or both) is remembered.
  
• The Mail window menus have been adjusted to improve usability and resizing the mail window no longer resizes the folderpane.
  
• News now supports displaying the size column in KB or in Lines (via a hidden pref).
  
• Server wide news filters have been implemented.
  
• LDAP v3 support has been added.
  
• Addressbook auto-completion has been improved.
  
• 1.8a1 fixes an issue with listboxes that caused mail to display multiple attachments incorrectly. Additionally, mail sorting scrolls to keep the currently selected message in view.

Under the Hood

• Mozilla now has support for CSS2 quotes.
  
• The XUL Tree widget has undergone significant changes. You read more about that here
  
• The number of cookies Mozilla will hold has been dramatically increased and a hidden pref added for the few users who need even more.

Here are the release notes. [Dana Baggett]