Mozilla 1.2 has been released! I've been checking Mozilla.org for 1.2's official release pretty much daily for the last couple of weeks. (I could have just installed the beta, but I like products with official "stable" status. :) 1.2 includes some features I've been wanting, including pretty-printing XML, and little things like being able to select and copy text from message headers in Mail. Type Ahead Find is especially cool, and with use may become as necessary as tabs in my daily use of the web.

Anti-aliased font support is now included, but disabled by default for Linux because it requires the xft library. It is enableable with a compile-time option. RPMs are available for RedHat 8.x users, including special easy-to-install RPMs of binaries built with anti-aliased font support enabled. I'm not sure I can recommend it; other anti-aliased fonts on my RH8 system look quite good, but "Bitstream Charter" or whatever it's using is getting anti-aliased even at very small sizes, which is difficult to use. I had to re-tweak my Fonts settings to get something more sensible, and Mozilla no longer seems to be using (or making available) all those TrueType fonts I copied over from Windows just for web browsing (like the ubiquitous Verdana).

Also, if you install via RPMs, make sure you get the nss, nspr, and psm RPMs and install them simultaneously with mozilla-1.2-0 so the dependencies work out-- which I couldn't figure out how to do with RedHat's Package Manager or whatever handles package installation when double-clicking on an RPM. I had to use rpm from the command line ("rpm -Uvh mozilla-*.rpm"). The mail and web development features are also in separate RPMs.