Description
of significant Firefox 1.1 changes (from 1.0)
A significant amount
of info was taken from Jesse Ruderman's excellent Firefox 1.1 changes listing.
Updated with improvements between Alpha1 and Alpha2:
Here is a list of key changes since the release of Deer Park Alpha1
- Allow drag and drop reordering of tabs
- Default to showing XUL error dialogs (which have been improved)
- Popup blocking improvements
- Fastback is on by default and most significant bugs fixed (very usable)
- A significant remaining bug is 293235
- Most all significant regressions in Alpha1 have been fixed
- Incremental/automated software update is available
- off by default but can be used to update to nightly build
- "Report broken website tool" is installed by default (in help menu)
- Many Mac improvements, highlights are:
- Safari profile migrator and ability to set Firefox as default browser
A more detailed listing of improvements made between alpha1 and alpha2, as well as Bugzilla reference numbers is available here
Core Browser
Improvements
The most significant
changes between Firefox 1.0 and Firefox 1.1 are "under the hood".
There has been more than a year of solid development and core
enhancements to the core browser "engine" upon which Firefox is built.
Many improvements to the html, css and Javascript core components
have been made. This gives many more tools to those building
websites to work with Firefox.
FF1.1 Preferences Dialog
The biggest difference the browser user will
notice between the 1.0 and 1.1 releases is the re-written Options
Dialog (Tools>Options). I have attached a screen shot of the
differences. Biggest changes are moving the icons to the top of
the dialog, and the addition of tabs for additional options.
The Firefox 1.0 Preferences Dialog:
The Firefox 1.1 Preferences Dialog:
Several new features came with the options dialog
re-write, including:
- A
"Sanitize Settings" option (and menu item)
- Highly requested feature: allows you to
easily and quickly remove browsing history, cookies, cache, saved form
information, and other personal data
- Searchable cookies which are sorted by site
- A searchable download actions manager
Significant other fixes (with bug tracking numbers)
- 274784 "Blazing fast" backward/forward buttons - still a few bugs
- 231062 - Provide Firefox MSI package.
- 291033 - Enable support for profile temp dir on
local file system
- Big improvement for networked environments.
- 253950 - When the default profile is locked on
startup, UI is less confusing.
- 124561 - Anonymous ftp login failure should prompt
for username/password.
- 125998 - thumbnail of standalone image is used as
icon for the tab.
- 171349
- Mozilla Firefox Icon is Windowing System's Standard Icon (Win98/ME)
- 69144 - Opening Internet Shortcuts (.url files)
doesn't work
Improved Error page support - probably good enough
to be enabled:
Update -- this has been enabled by default for Alpha2
- 157004 - Error pages should be stored in history
and show the original URL in the address bar.
- 237244 - "Try Again" on XUL error pages does not
repost form data. (Now that this bug and the previous bug are fixed, I
recommend enabling error pages. To enable error pages, go to
about:config and set browser.xul.error_pages.enabled to true.)
Re-write of the Extension
Manager code
Little visible to the end user, but
cleans up several issues with the extension manager and makes it MUCH
easier for 3rd parties to integrate their extensions in Firefox.
New Graphics Technologies:
SVG and Canvas
SVG (which stands for Scalable Vector
Graphics) is a powerful new graphics display technology. Some
sample sites are here:
Canvas is a bitmap drawing surface, suitable for many uses
as well. For more information see: Drawing
Graphics with Canvas
More to come.................
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