7.50 Preview 5—Crash Test Dummy Edition—for Windows

Info

• This is no longer our latest release. Please see our preview release page for more information.
• Build: 3748
• Released: April 30, 2004

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Release Notes

• As the final release of 7.50 approaches, we're especially interested in stability issues. This release focuses on fixing several stability issues and we're interested in hearing if problems persist
• There is some instability with newsfeeds and IRC file transfers in this release
• All previously fetched RSS 2.0 newsfeed messages will be redownloaded the first time a newsfeed is queried

Detailed Changes

Chat

• Fixed crash when sending/receiving files
• Improved handling of # in /j command alias
• Fixed crash when using /j without a channel name
• Improved storage of commands to perform on connection
• Invalid DCC requests are now ignored
• Improved notification when sending a private message to a person who is away

Display & Rendering (Presto)

• Fixed problem displaying initial text on TEXTAREAs on XHTML pages
• Fixed crash related to hovering table cells
• Fixed crash related to invalid GIFs
• Fixed a scrolling problem with previously hidden elements
• Fixed a problem with vertical-align: top
• Fixed problem with font-style: inherit and font-style: italic

Keyboard & Mouse

• Readded Shift + F4 for toggling the panels and panel selector
• Added [Document Window] to the list of sections that can be edited in the Keyboard and Mouse shortcut editors
• Improved selection of ranges in panels when using Shift

Mail (M2)

• Fixed problem when forwarding text attachments
• Improved threading of parent messages when the child message has already been downloaded
• Added support for the X-Mailing-List header for mailing list detection
• Improved handling of malformed MBOX files
• Improved handling of invalid Content-Types in plain text messages

Newsfeeds

• Added notification tooltips and Mail panel status information for newsfeeds
• Added support for several ways newsfeeds include HTML markup (xhtml:body, xhtml:div, body with default namespace and div with default namespace)
• Added support for using guid elements for checking uniqueness of a feed item; this change will cause duplicate message downloads for RSS 2.0 newsfeeds
• Fixed problem with the New button in the Newsfeeds dialog opening the Edit dialog
• Improved parsing of different feed versions
• Fixed problem parsing new messages without description

Preferences

• Added new preference for controlling support of the autocomplete="off" attribute in FORMs (disabled by default):

  [User Prefs]
  AutocompleteOff=0
    

• Fixed problem using /nostartdialog option the second time
• Fixed crash if dialog.ini did not exist

Scripting

• Fixed crash seen at annevankesteren.nl relating to incorrect handling of SCRIPT in XML
• Fixed crash when dispatchEvent was called with invalid argument
• Fixed crash when executing SCRIPTs with empty src attributes
• Fixed crash related to a script replacing its own contents while executing
• Fixed problem seen in several forums where onclick on a TD overrode a link in a cell
• Fixed return value of the length property of FRAME arrays
• Changed return value of iframe.document from IFRAME's owner document to the document in the IFRAME
• Fixed problem related to links and forms where href took precedence over onclick
• Fixed problem with some return values for getComputedStyle

Skinning & Customization

• Improved default skin display
• Fixed crash when trying to download two skins at once
• Added support for Customize toolbars > Properties > Show only when needed for the Page bar
• Progress bar is now shown when Show hidden toolbars while customizing is enabled in Customize Toolbars > Properties
• Fixed problem displaying default Main bar contents in the Customize toolbars dialog
• Added the address field to the Status section in Customize toolbars > Buttons and fields
• Fixed problem saving panel toolbar customizations across sessions
• Fixed redraw issue when rejecting a previewed skin

User Interface

• Fixed problem where menu accelerators were always shown on Windows 9x/Me
• Fixed truncation issue in the Ctrl+Tab dialog
• Fixed problem with pages becoming inaccessible after moving page tabs in the Page bar
• Fixed crash when using Hotclick searches after starting a new page load
• Fixed crash that occurred in some cases when clicking Home or Newsfeeds on the Navigation bar
• Fixed problem where chat and mail pages didn't obey the Preferences > Windows > Window handling setting
• Fixed problem where only pages in the active window would be closed when using the Delete private data dialog
• Added better Title bar icons for Manage pages
• Fixed 100% CPU issue with contacts
• Fixed problem with transfer time remaining still showing in the Transfer panel selector after stopping a transfer

Other

• Fixed crash when browsing through a proxy using the digest authentication scheme
• Fixed problem where fragment identifiers caused problems on pages using must-revalidate caching