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[Chachazz]

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[Chachazz]

SeaMonkey 2.18 Beta 1

April 5, 2013

 

SeaMonkey 2.18 Beta 1 is now available for free download on the SeaMonkey website. We encourage testers to get involved in discussing and reporting problems as well as further improving the product.

 

Features in Beta 1

• Click-to-play plugin areas have a close box now (bug 837399).

SeaMonkey-specific changes

• Basic Private Browsing support has been added (experimental for now).
• Added support for safe browsing which blocks potentially malicious websites reported as attack sites (malware) or web forgeries (phishing).
• Information like preview text, subject and sender can be shown in new mail notifications now.
• See the changes page for minor changes.

Mozilla platform changes

• CSS -moz-user-select:none selection has been changed to improve compatibility with -webkit-user-select:none (bug 816298).
• Applied graphics-related performance improvements (bug 809821).
• Removed E4X support from SpiderMonkey.
• Added support for the <main> element.
• Implemented scoped stylesheets.
• Fixed some function keys not working when pressed (bug 833719).
• Fixed several stability issues.

The changes page lists a more detailed overview of new features and fixes relative to our last stable release, SeaMonkey 2.17. Relevant security fixes are listed on Security Advisories for SeaMonkey.

 

Fixes in Beta 1

• WebRTC has been disabled on MacOS X for now (bug 842918).
• Fixed autosync not correctly detecting message offline status, resulting in poor Gmail IMAP performance (bug 854162).
• Special mail folder icons (Inbox, Trash etc.) were not shown for shared IMAP folders (bug 840003).
• Help has been updated for the redesigned Add-ons Manager (bug 652328).
• The MailNews filter editor can now show the actual execution order of actions (bug 747284).
• The Privacy & Security Preferences UI has been reworked (User Tracking and Safe Browsing preferences have been added and a Private Data sub-category has been introduced) (bug 835134).
• First time after choosing to "Never activate plugins for this site", videos were still playing (bug 807664).
• User-oriented labels for Strict Transport Security have been added to the Data Manager (bug 822535).
• The Google search bar favicon has been updated (bug 834692).
• Base64-encoded attachments are now detected irrespective of the case used (bug 805620).
• Saving messages to disk could fail silently (bug 723497).
• Some dangerous file system folders are now disallowed to be used as the Local Directory for mail storage (bug 750781).

[Chachazz]

  SeaMonkey 2.18 Beta 2

April 19, 2013

 

SeaMonkey 2.18 Beta 2 is now available for free download on the SeaMonkey website. We encourage testers to get involved in discussing and reporting problems as well as further improving the product.

 

Fixes in Beta 2

• Some parts of click-to-play did not work if doorhangers were disabled (Bug 860537).
• The Open Link in New Window context menu item had stopped working in MailNews (Bug 860905).
• The browser feed preview had been broken due to Private Browsing changes (Bug 856322).
• Per-site click-to-play permissions had stopped working (Bug 854867).
• An LDAP password was requested for each lookup even if it was saved (Bug 833971).
• Creating/amending mailing lists in the Address Book had been broken (Bug 859068).
• The tabbed browser uses the favicon service in a privacy-aware way now (bug 856406).
• The Open Location dialog does not save the state anymore when opened from a private window (bug 844497).
• Private downloads did not update (bug 849440).
• Save As from the context menu did not take the privacy status into account (bug 851304).
• Added icons for security notifications (bug 853268).
• Fixed the browser feed preview to work with XBL scopes (bug 846763).

[Chachazz]

SeaMonkey 2.18 Beta 3

April 27, 2013

 

SeaMonkey 2.18 Beta 3 is now available for free download on the SeaMonkey website. We encourage testers to get involved in discussing and reporting problems as well as further improving the product.

 

Fixes in Beta 3

• Undo Close Tab did not work in private windows (bug 858825).
• Video statistics have been fixed (bug 863008).

[Chachazz]

SeaMonkey 2.18 Beta 4

May 3, 2013

 

SeaMonkey 2.18 Beta 4 is now available for free download on the SeaMonkey website. We encourage testers to get involved in discussing and reporting problems as well as further improving the product.

 

Fixes in Beta 4

• Lightweight themes crunched the window title bar on Mac OS (bug 864034).
• The Print button was misaligned in the Composer and Message Composition toolbars with the Modern theme (bug 849359).