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Vygantas is a former web designer whose projects are used by companies such as AMD, NVIDIA and departed Westood Studios. Being passionate about software, Vygantas began his journalism career back in 2007 when he founded FavBrowser.com. Having said that, he is also an adrenaline junkie who enjoys good books, fitness activities and Forex trading.
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Yet another new nightly build from Firefox team, they are working on weekends too. This build fixes a total of 3 bugs:
[Firefox:Places]-Implement “Save this Search” [All]
[Toolkit:XUL Widgets]-general.xml cleanup [Mac]
[Core:DOM]-nsNSElementTearoff should participate in cycle collection [All]
Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:
[Core:XSLT]-numerous xslt leaks visiting metacafe.com [Lin]
[Firefox:General]-Load app defaults and extension defaults separately [All]
And contains same regressions/annoying/common bugs as in the previous build.
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Firefox team just can’t stop working. Recently they have released a very first September nightly build. Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8, 1 Sep 2007. Let’s check the changelog.
Fixed:
[Firefox:Password Manager]- replace modal pre-submit save password dialog with post-submit bar [All]
[Core:Installer: XPInstall Engine]- Blocked XPI install should have allow once feature [All]
[Firefox:Places]-live bookmarks should only refresh when browser is active [All]
[Core:History: Session]-[FIX] Restore events may not be revoked when a new load happens [All]
[Firefox:Menus]-Tools menu leaks Clear Private Data label [Mac]
[Firefox:Phishing Protection]- let malware checking block page loads [All]
[Firefox:Places]-the location bar dropdown should show a star next to bookmarked results [All]
[Firefox:Places]-Add favicons on recently closed tabs list [All]
[Core:Networking: HTTP]- prefetch- related leak loading firefox google start page [All]
[Core:SVG]-Improve filter architecture [All]
[Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]- Restart button in Installation tab remains grayed out after an update of multiple extensions [Win]
[Core:DOM: Events]-Crash [@ PresShell: :ResizeReflow] with onbeforecut removing element, iframe and position: fixed [Win]
[Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]- double clicking the url in the location bar looks like it places the text in the X selection but doesn’t [Lin]
[Firefox:Places]-Star icon shouldn’t be set for items in RSS / Live Bookmarks. [All]
[Firefox:Preferences]-Security pref pane’s last groupbox is partially cutoff [All]
[Core:SVG]-Enum mapping for marker incorrect [Lin]
[Firefox:Places]-Star icon in url autocomplete results shouldn’t be set for items in RSS / Live Bookmarks. [All
Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:
[Firefox:General]-Load app defaults and extension defaults separately [All]
[Toolkit:Breakpad Integration]-Ensure a11y support in breakpad [Lin]
[Core:DOM]-Dangling pointer in nsXULPD Global Object leads to mem corruption/crashes [Win]
Regressions/Annoying/Common bugs:
[Core:XPCOM]-Folder does not open anymore for dragged link [All]
[Firefox:General]-Multiple login requests for authentification proxies if sessionstore is enabled [Win]
[Firefox:General]-Breakpad doesn’t work [Win]
[Firefox:Places]-bookmarks menu dnd indicator not visible if I want to drop an item before a separator [Win]
[Other Applications:Reporter]- Reporter should move away from SOAP (Reporter fails to send reports on trunk) [All]
[Firefox:Download Manager]- Downloads no longer remember last download directory – always defaults to Downloads [Win]
[Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]- Location bar autocomplete hangs after first character is typed; regardless of speed of character input [Win]
[Core:ImageLib]-Crash Viewing Image [ @ nsGIFDecoder2: :DoLzw] [Win]
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And it has nothing to do with web browsers. So how was your summer? Was it good?
This summer is over but we will have another one, and another one, and… ;-) Hello autumn.
It’s time for my final “5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like” post. Firstly it was Internet Explorer, then Opera and now… Firefox. For obvious reasons I won’t post “5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Safari” as Safari 3 is still a beta. I hope that you enjoyed those posts, sooner or later I will come back to this “5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like” posts again. Till then I hope that most of those reasons and/or problems/annoyances will be fixed soon. And here it comes…
1. Firefox needs to be restarted after each add-on and/or theme installation.
2. It has very less features so you have to install dozens of add-ons. Why I don’t like to install add-ons? See 1’st reason.
3. Poor download manager.
4. Sometimes happens when I click back (why can’t it just BACK?).
5. I don’t know why but Firefox team ignores some of the security issues. Do you like that?
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I bet that you really don’t like them, don’t you? Good news, no more text ads with tiny pop-ups in the posts.
Yet another weekly build from Firefox team. Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8. As you can see from the changelog there are still so many bugs, but that’s why this is an alpha version. Changelog:
Fixed:
[Core:Layout]-BandRect.mFrames should be created as an nsAutoVoidArray [All]
[Firefox:Bookmarks]-Bookmarks menus should be sticky (should remain open in some cases) [All]
[Core:SVG]-SVG image has no horizontal scrollbar [Win]
[Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]-Extension Manager. prototype._shutdown shouldn’t call gOS.removeObserver(this, “profile-after-change”) unless ExtensionManager.prototype. observe(subject, “app-startup”, data) has been called [Win]
[Core:GFX: Thebes]-Deadlock when _win32_scaled_font_create fails and calls cairo_scaled_font_destroy [Win]
[Core:SVG]-Simplify SVG frame initialization [Lin]
[Firefox:Download Manager]-DM should restore the database state gracefully after a crash [All]
[Core:XPCOM]-ASSERTION: should not have buffer of zero size [@nsTArray base: :EnsureCapacity] [Mac]
[Core:SVG]-Incorrect gradient transform inside filter [Lin]
[Core:Networking: Cache]-“ASSERTION: AtomImpl not thread-safe” within nsCacheMetaData::MetaElement: :~MetaElement [Mac]
[Core:Disability Access APIs]-Form to file a bug is missing from MSAA tree [Win]
[Core:SVG]-Some values of pointer-events not working [Lin]
[Firefox:Places]-Bookmarks “star” panel should capture keyboard shortcuts [Mac]
[Core:GFX: Thebes]-native system colors on windows are in monitor color space [Win]
[Core:Editor]-[FIX]typing text on last line and pressing enter moves cursor below bottom of text box [All]
[Core:GFX: Thebes]-Assertion: What’s this case?: ‘result == 0 || result == 1’ in gfxFont configUtils when different fonts have a common family name [Lin]
[Core:Disability Access APIs]-Warnings when accessible relations queried [All]
[Toolkit:Storage]-Add a closeDatabase() method to mozStorage [All]
[Core:Widget: Cocoa]-remove unnecessary docshell usage from cocoa menu impl [Mac]
[Firefox:Session Restore]-“quit” should be capitalized in “Save and quit” option of session restore dialog [Mac]
[Firefox:Preferences]-UI to provide access to extension options from app options cut off [Win]
[Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]-Check for updates is offering incompatible updates [All]
Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:
[Toolkit:Breakpad Integration]-Ensure a11y support in breakpad [Lin]
[Core:DOM]-Dangling pointer in nsXULPD GlobalObject leads to mem corruption/crashes [Win]
Regressions/Annoying/Common bugs:
[Core:XPCOM]-Folder does not open anymore for dragged link [All]
[Firefox:General]-Multiple login requests for authentification proxies if sessionstore is enabled [Win]
[Firefox:General]-Breakpad doesn’t work [Win]
[Firefox:Places]-bookmarks menu dnd indicator not visible if I want to drop an item before a separator [Win]
[Other Applications:Reporter]-Reporter should move away from SOAP (Reporter fails to send reports on trunk) [All]
[Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]-Restart button in Installation tab remains grayed out after an update of multiple extensions [Win]
[Firefox:Download Manager]-Downloads no longer remember last download directory – always defaults to Downloads [Win]
[Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]-Location bar autocomplete hangs after first character is typed; regardless of speed of character input [Win]
[Core:ImageLib]-Crash Viewing Image [ @ nsGIFDecoder2::DoLzw] [Win]
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It’s coming… “Opera Desktop Team” provided us even more details about upcoming Opera 9.5 (Kestrel) release, post includes information about: Performance, Site Compatibility, Accessibility, Operating Systems (OS) Integration, Opera Mail and more. You can read their post here. That’s not all of course, I think that you will be able to see most exciting features only after Opera 9.5 alpha release. Enjoy.
Time for some more critics and as I promised, it’s “5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Opera”. You can check my “5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Internet Explorer” here. And here we go…
1. No intergrated spell check. So you accidentally can type with some erors (?).
2. No “smart” auto update.
3. Where’s auto-complete when filling various forms? Few fields is not enough. I wish to have this, even Internet Explorer has that.
4. Can’t remove “Widgets” from menu as well as delete multiple wands. I like clean browser.
5. RSS news placed in the “mail” folder. I was making a backup of all my files but haven’t made that “mail” folder backup as I wasn’t using mail. Seems RSS news items were placed exactly there so I lost all of them.
Tomorrow you will see “5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Firefox” post.
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Tried Opera Mini Beta 2 already? It’s time to move on then as there is another nightly build from Firefox team. It’s Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8, 30 Aug 2007. There are still many bugs in this version but it’s not a final release, Firefox team is working and trying to fix all of them. Now straight to the point, changelog:
Fixed:
[Core:DOM]-support document.element FromPoint(x,y) [All]]
[Firefox:Migration]-Importing bookmarks from Opera does not work [Win]
[Toolkit:Breakpad Integration]-send time-since-last-crash with crash report [All]
[Firefox:Preferences]-Provide access to extension options from app options. [All]
[Firefox:Places]-New starring, bookmarking and tagging UI [All]
[Firefox:Places]-append the default bookmarks when first run migration from IE, Opera, Safari, etc. [All]
[Core:Layout: Fonts and Text]-“layout.word_select. stop_at_ punctuation” preference no longer works [Lin]
[Core:Disability Access APIs]-Pass aExtraState as nsnull to GetFinalState() if not needed [All]
[Core:ImageLib]-Can’t “View image” moz-icon: images [Lin]
[Core:Widget: Cocoa]-Don’t do ARGB->RGBA translation in nsClipboard.mm [Mac]
[Toolkit:XRE Startup]-Trunk builds on Mac do not quit from menu after first window is closed [Mac]
[Core:Disability Access APIs]-Console warning in nsAccessible: :GetFinalState() appears to be a real bug [All]
[Core:Disability Access APIs]-GetARIAState() called twice when we get a state [All]
[Other Applications:DOM Inspector]-panel toolbar issues [All]
[Firefox:Download Manager]-Downloading files can randomly fail. [Win]
[Other Applications:DOM Inspector]-Opening DOM inspector enables accessibility globally [Lin]
Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:
[Core:Editor]-[FIX]typing text on last line and pressing enter moves cursor below bottom of text box [All]
[Core:Widget: Cocoa]- select listboxes have erroneous internal padding [Mac]
[Core:DOM]-Dangling pointer in nsXULPDGlobalObject leads to mem corruption/crashes [Win]
Regressions/Annoying/Common bugs:
[Core:XPCOM]-Folder does not open anymore for dragged link [All]
[Firefox:General]-Multiple login requests for authentification proxies if sessionstore is enabled [Win]
[Firefox:General]-Breakpad doesn’t work [Win]
[Firefox:Places]-bookmarks menu dnd indicator not visible if I want to drop an item before a separator [Win]
[Other Applications:Reporter]-Reporter should move away from SOAP (Reporter fails to send reports on trunk) [All]
[Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]-Restart button in Installation tab remains grayed out after an update of multiple extensions [Win]
[Firefox:Download Manager]-Downloads no longer remember last download directory – always defaults to Downloads [Win]
[Firefox:Location Bar and Auto-complete]-Location bar auto-complete hangs after first character is typed; regardless of speed of character input [Win]
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Good news everyone. Opera Mini team are happy to announce that Opera Mini 4 Beta 2 was just released. You may download it now from Opera Mini home page. This build introduces various bug fixes as well as new features. So let’s start from the beginning and see this, Beta 2 release changelog from Opera Mini Blog.
Added encryption
Added multi search, with shortcut: ‘#’+’9’
Added Create search from form field
Added Landscape mode, shortcut: ‘*’+’#’
Added support for small anti-aliased bitmap fonts
Added content folding
Simplified setup process
Improved image quality
Improved fit to width mode rendering
Simplified settings page
Added native blackberry menu
Allow Blackberries to accept the EULA via the menu
Fixed decoding of images that were skipped when partially above the window
Added clock adjustment setting
Changing the font size via settings now clears the document cache
Now saves full screen mode between sessions
Dialogs are now displayed with round corners and alpha channel overlay windows
Secure connections
Delayed randomess gathering for secure connections until first real page request
If you want more detailed changelog, be sure to check Daniel’s changelog post.
I will get back to Oper Mini 4 Beta 2 review as soon as I will test it.
Opera Mini 4 Features List.
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