mozilla 1.7.5 released

oops, forgot to flip the switch from draft to publish on this last night

Mozilla 1.7.5 is now available. This is the first non-security release from the 1.7 branch since the June release of Mozilla 1.7. It brings the Gecko capabilities up to speed with Firefox 1.0 including the new plugin API enhancements called NPRuntime and the undetectable document.all support.

NPRuntime is an extension to the Netscape Plugin API that was developed in cooperation with Apple, Opera, and a group of plugin vendors. You can read more about it here.

The new undetectable document.all support, and support for exposing elements by their ID in the global scope for greater IE compatibility when viewing pages that don't request standards compliant behaviour is documented in bugs 248549 and 256932.

The "long-lived" stable 1.7 branch will continue to receive stability and security updates, but will probably not see major changes that would break Gecko compatibility with the Firefox 1.0 release. Developers should be able to write web pages and web applications, test them in Firefox 1.0, and have confidence that they'll work in 1.7.5 and we'd like to maintain that level of Gecko equivalence for as long as possible.

If you're a Mozilla Suite user, you really should move to this release. It's a significant improvement from 1.7.

Posted by asa at December 17, 2004 11:33 PM