Classilla 9.3.0 is released after a long gestation and period of refocusing.
As is widely known and reported, 9.3.0 alters the user agent to preferentially

get and use mobile content, and I will be directing optimizations and fixes

to optimize the browser for such mobile sites since that is a better fit for

our older code and older computers. After a period of experimentation, we're

using a user agent based on the Nokia N90, which is similar to Classilla's

rendering engine. You can still change this from the User-Agent pref panel.

It was originally my intention to also fix the network stack in this release

but I was not able to get it working in any meaningful state (I'm going to

try again later).

However, the other big new change in 9.3.0 is the Byblos rewrite engine.

The Byblos syllabary is one of the great mysteries of ancient scripts, but

the hope is that a stele like the Rosetta Stone might come to light to

decipher it. In a like manner, Byblos lets you write "stelae" in JavaScript

to translate sites from the HTML up -- adding, changing or even removing

sections of content to get the browser to render. This is all dynamic and

happens on the fly, and all you need is knowledge of JavaScript, HTML and

a text editor. Complete docs are on Google Code:

http://code.google.com/p/classilla/wiki/ByblosSteleDocs

Stelae for developer.mozilla.org and yfrog.com are included with the base

release, and I am soliciting for stelae from the user community to include

in future versions.

Finally, there are multiple security and stability improvements ahead of the

full security audit which will finally bring Classilla to security parity

in Classilla 9.3.1.

In 9.3.1 and 9.3.2, more features will be progressively exposed to user

control. In 9.3.0, there is an internal hard whitelist that uses desktop

user agents for certain sites. In 9.3.1, once this is better understood,

advanced users will be able to place about:config entries in, and in 9.3.2,

there will be an entire UI for this when locale strings are unfrozen along

with other UI changes.

Thanks for tolerating the long period between updates.

http://www.classilla.org/

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