Category: Firefox

Firefox 3 Pre-Milestone 9 (Beta?) 2007 11 11 Released

Firefox 3 Beta will be released very soon and they are working on it, as for now, one more nightly build from Firefox team (2007 11 11) which is just one more step towards Firefox 3 Beta.

Fixed:

None

Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

#400774 BACKOUT [Core: Event Handling]- Crash: typing accesskey for xul:label when control element isn’t a xul element [All]

#312010 [Firefox:Software Update]- possible to start firefox when the “Software Update” dialog is running [Win]

#392873 [Core:General]- crash in nsExpirationTracker nsSHEntry: :RemoveObject [Win]

#400057 [Core:MathML]- “ASSERTION: Frame is not in the block” with xul and mathml [Mac]

#401741 [mozilla.org:Build & Release]- Version/config bump up for Gecko 1.9b1 [All]

#401949 [Firefox:General]- Bug 395248 caused a Txul regression on Linux [Lin]

#402198 [Core:Layout: Form Controls]- Crash [@ nsHTML Select Element: :PreHandle Event] with shift-tabbing bunch of selects and stuff and setting display: none [All]

#403040 [Firefox:Places]-Places killed all my history >2 days ago [All]

Regressions/Annoying/Common bugs:

#337761 [Core:XPCOM]- Folder does not open anymore for dragged link [All]

#339804 [Firefox:General]- Multiple login requests for authentification proxies if sessionstore is enabled [Win]

#385245 [Firefox:Places]- history sidebar very slow (way slower than fx2) [All]

#386343 [Firefox:General]- Breakpad doesn’t work [Win]

#388209 [Firefox:Places]- bookmarks menu dnd indicator not visible if I want to drop an item before a separator [Win]

#400075 [Core:ImageLib]- long delays painting the app when it’s brought to the foreground. [Win]

#401075 [Firefox:Places]- livebookmark folder favicon is replaced by default folder favicon [Win]

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Firefox 3 Pre-Milestone 9 (Alpha 9?) 2007 11 05 Released

One more Firefox 3 Alpha nightly build for you from Firefox team. Firefox 3 Pre Milestone 9, 2007 11 05.

Fixed:

#332748 [Firefox:Places]- Figure out how much history we can show by default (browser. history_ expire_days now set to 180 days) [All]

#402379 [Core:XPConnect]- Crash with Venkman profiling [@ JS_IsSystemObject] [All]

#402404 [Core:DOM]- Cycle collector crash on shutdown with setUserData [All]

Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

#402422 [Core:XSLT]- XPathResult crashes when holding nodeset and accessing stringValue/ numberValue/ booleanValue [@ nsXPathResult: :GetStringValue] [All]

#381795 [Firefox:Places]- places indexes need review [All]

#401949 [Firefox:General]- Bug 395248 caused a Txul regression on Linux [Lin]

Regressions/Annoying/Common bugs:

#333965 [Firefox:Places]- Places’ search feature hangs [Win]

#337761 [Core:XPCOM]- Folder does not open anymore for dragged link [All]

#339804 [Firefox:General]- Multiple login requests for authentification proxies if sessionstore is enabled [Win]

#385245 [Firefox:Places]- history sidebar very slow (way slower than fx2) [All]

#386343 [Firefox:General]- Breakpad doesn’t work [Win]

#388209 [Firefox:Places]- bookmarks menu dnd indicator not visible if I want to drop an item before a separator [Win]

#394079 [Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]- Location bar autocomplete hangs after first character is typed; regardless of speed of character input [Win]

#394910 [Firefox:Download Manager]- The download always goes to browser.download.lastDir when browser. download.use DownloadDir is false [Win]

#398085 [Core:JavaScript Engine]-Crash on Load [@ js_Interpret] [All]

#400075 [Core:ImageLib]- long delays painting the app when it’s brought to the foreground. [Win]

#401075 [Firefox:Places]- livebookmark folder favicon is replaced by default folder favicon [Win]

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Firefox 2.0.0.9 Released

Not so long time ago Firefox 2.0.0.8 was released with lots of fixes, however, after 2.0.0.8 there were few new issues which had to be fixed, and Firefox 2.0.0.9 did that. Here’s the changelog for it.

Bug 400406 – Firefox will ignore the “clear” CSS property when used beneath a box that is using the “float” property. There is a temporary workaround JS/CSS code available for web developers with affected layouts.

Bug 400467 – Windows Vista users will get “Java not found” or “Java not working” errors when trying to load Java applets after updating. To fix this, users can right-click the Firefox icon and “Run as administrator”, then browse to a page with a Java applet — doing this once will fix the problem and permanently restore Java functionality.

Bug 396695 – Add-ons are disabled after updating. Users can fix this problem by opening their profile folder and removing three files (extensions.rdf, extensions.ini and extensions.cache)

Bug 400421 – Removing a single area element from an image map will cause the entire map to disappear. There is no workaround available at this time.

Bug 400735 – Some Windows users may experience crashes at startup. There is no workaround available at this time.

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Firefox 3 Pre-Milestone 9 (Alpha 9?) 2007 10 26 Released

Everyone is polishing their web browser and Firefox team is not an exception. They have just finished new Firefox 3 nightly build. Please not that this is not a final version, use it on your own risk. Changelog? Here it is.

Fixed:

#362549 [Core:GFX: Thebes]-[Mac][Cairo] Tab content bleeds into loading tabs [Mac]

#382358 [Firefox:Places]-move places properties back into localizable location before betas [All]

#384112 [Core:Widget: Gtk]–moz-appearance: menulist-button broken in GTK [Lin]

#389628 [Firefox:General]-Implement UI for full page zoom [All]

#399128 [Core:Disability Access APIs]-Events (still) missing for collapsed XUL combo boxes. [Lin]

#395144 [Firefox:Download Manager]-Figure out what to do when we are supposed to open an application with download resume [All]

#397266 [Core:Disability Access APIs]-Crash on multitab dialog pages when JAWS is running. [Win]

#397293 [Core:XP Toolkit/Widgets: XUL]-Crash [@ CGBitmapContextCreateImage] with xul, opacity [Mac]

#398886 [Firefox:Password Manager]-resetting a master password does not clear existing password manager logins [Win]

#399815 [Firefox:Download Manager]-Store autoResume in moz_downloads table to indicate if a download should auto-resume [All]

#399858 [Core:Disability Access APIs]-Crash [@ no stack] with label, input type=image [All]

#400025 [Core:SVG]-SVG stroke on text is rendered on… something else [Win]

#400619 [Core:Plug-ins]-NPRuntime-based plugins can’t query DOM immediately after NPP_SetWindow [Win]

#400751 [Firefox:Password Manager]-Migrating from an existing SeaMonkey installation causes errors in password manager due to old style encyption [Lin]

#400809 [Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]-remove unneeded/unused parts from the urlbar binding [All]

#400892 [Firefox:Password Manager]-Saving form passwords broken when info bars are not available. [Lin]

#400759 [Core:Security: PSM]-PSM should build with NSS size optimization [All]

Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

#321402 [Core:Layout: Block and Inline]-bug 320502 caused text/inlines inside XUL boxes (often -moz-inline-box) to disappear (Folder view does not display header info in Domino Web Mail (inotes)) [All]

#389366 [Core:Layout: Canvas]-Canvas’s .getImageData is returning premultiplied alpha pixels [All]

#396695 [Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]-add-ons go into “needs to restart” loop commonly after a firefox update [Win]

#399476 [Firefox:Places]-bug #387996 caused Txul and Ts regressions [All]

#399706 [Core:Security: PSM]-glibc detected: free(): invalid pointer attempting to select cert [Lin]

#399838 [Firefox:Download Manager]-Automatically init (not open) the download manager when starting the app [All]

Regressions/Annoying/Common bugs:

#333965 [Firefox:Places]-Places’ search feature hangs [Win]

#337761 [Core:XPCOM]-Folder does not open anymore for dragged link [All]

#339804 [Firefox:General]-Multiple login requests for authentification proxies if sessionstore is enabled [Win]

#385245 [Firefox:Places]-history sidebar very slow (way slower than fx2) [All]

#386343 [Firefox:General]-Breakpad doesn’t work [Win]

#388209 [Firefox:Places]-bookmarks menu dnd indicator not visible if I want to drop an item before a separator [Win]

#394079 [Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]-Location bar autocomplete hangs after first character is typed; regardless of speed of character input [Win]

#394910 [Firefox:Download Manager]-The download always goes to browser.download.lastDir when browser. download. use DownloadDir is false [Win]

#398085 [Core:JavaScript Engine]-Crash on Load [@ js_Interpret] [All]

#400075 [Core:ImageLib]-long delays painting the app when it’s brought to the foreground. [Win]

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Firefox 2.0.0.8 Released

New Firefox version is now available to download. Firefox 2.0.0.8 supports a few more languages and includes security as well as other fixes. Here’s the changelog.

MFSA 2007-36 URIs with invalid %-encoding mishandled by Windows

MFSA 2007-35 XPCNativeWrapper pollution using Script object

MFSA 2007-34 Possible file stealing through sftp protocol

MFSA 2007-33 XUL pages can hide the window titlebar

MFSA 2007-32 File input focus stealing vulnerability

MFSA 2007-31 Browser digest authentication request splitting

MFSA 2007-30 onUnload Tailgating

MFSA 2007-29 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (rv:1.8.1.8)

Added Georgian (ka) language

Added Romanian (ro) language

Added Kurdish (ku) language (beta)

Firefox 2.0.0.8 is almost compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), see known issues for more information.

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Meebo For Firefox

What is Meebo?

It’s basically a website for instant messaging on AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ and Jabber networks.

And here’s why you need this add-on (if you are using Meebo and Firefox or any other Firefox based browser).

Get a sidebar with all of your buddies visible while you’re browsing. Get visual notifications when your friends IM you. Drag and drop links and images from web pages right onto your friends.

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Firefox 3 Pre-Milestone 9 (Alpha 9?) 2007 10 12 Released

Yet another nightly from Firefox team. Please don’t forget that this is not a final version, it’s an alpha. Build contains many issues known and unknown ones. Use it on your own risk. This build fixes a total of 25 bugs which is a big amount, Firefox team managed to fix all of them just in a single day. For more details check this changelog.

Fixed Bugs:

#251910 [Firefox:Places]- No hover highlighting (i.e. mouse-tracking) in Bookmarks/History sidebar [All]

#339754 [Core:Installer: XPInstall Engine]- Threadsafety asserts from chrome registry when installing extensions [Lin]

#368811 [Firefox:General]- Firefox crashes on exit after plugin install activated by InstallTrigger. install(xpi, installCompleteFunction) [Win]

#386065 [Core:Layout: Form Controls]-legend {font-size:0;} still shows the text (yahoo.com mainpage) [Win]

#386551 [Core:Disability Access APIs]- expose ARIA description on document [All]

#386585 [Core:ImageLib]- Update libpng to version 1.2.21 [All]

#391740 [Toolkit:XUL Widgets]- listheader in richlistbox appears to right/at bottom of richlistitems [All]

#391868 [Core:Layout]- Page Source very small with meta charset=windows-1258 [All]

#394805 [Core:Layout: BiDi Hebrew & Arabic]- “ASSERTION: ResolveBidi called on non-first continuation” [All]

#396745 [Directory:LDAP XPCOM SDK]- nsILDAPConnection: :Init should take an nsILDAPURL as a parameter instead of three others. [All]

#397135 [Toolkit:XUL Widgets]- tree._ensureColumnOrder dies if no columns are defined [All]

#397288 [Core:GFX: Thebes]- Missing text without fallback from U+0000-00FF fast path when first font-family doesn’t have necessary glyphs [Lin]

#397296 [Firefox:Build Config]- Firefox builds need to use the current NSS CVS tag [All]

#397434 [Firefox:Phishing Protection]- Phishing update request is malformed [All]

#397518 [Core:MathML]-” ASSERTION: The block in an {ib} split shouldn’t be living inside an inline” with mathml [Mac]

#397796 [Toolkit:XULRunner]- Allow XULRunner apps to specify the name of xulrunner-stub via configure [All]

#398056 [Toolkit:Breakpad Integration]- symbolstore.py does not recognize srcdirs with SVN when using svn-ssh [Lin]

#398363 [Core:Widget]- Removing Cairo Checks in nsBaseDragService [All]

#398512 [Core:Widget: Gtk]- crash on shutdown and before restart (gdk_display_close) with gtk xim module [Lin]

#399048 [Core:Security: UI]- Add accesskeys to all buttons, make Get Certificate the default button (Add Exception dialog) [All]

#399050 [Firefox:Download Manager]- directories created with wrong permissions [Lin]

#399136 [Directory:LDAP XPCOM SDK]- 396745 broke nsLDAPChannel.cpp [Lin]

#399259 [Firefox:Form Manager]- Form manager shouldn’t cache Login Manager service at startup. [All]

#399354 [Core:SVG]- Some SVG filters not checking in2 requirement [Lin]

#399440 [Firefox:Menus]- Work offline menu has incorrect state after cancelled request to go offline in sub windows [Mac]

Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

#398156 [Core:Disability Access APIs]- Several wairole to ATK object attributes missing [Lin]

#398807 [Firefox:Session Restore]- session restore accounts for 2-3% of talos pageload (make it faster) [All]

#399542 [Core:ImageLib]- libpng 1.2.21 update broke a unit test [All]

#388564 [Core:JavaScript Engine]- [RFE] JavaScript Tracing Framework [Sol]

#391584 [Core:Selection]- double-clicking a word followed by link selects the first word of the link text [Win]

#393928 [Core:Plug-ins]- Let Java applets be scriptable through NPRuntime as well. (make OJI obsolete) [All]

#397783 [Core:Layout]- Remove lots of redundant nsISupportsArray include/forward definitions from content [All]

#399376 [Core:XP Toolkit/Widgets: Trees]- Trees don’t crop cells properly if the header is hidden [All]

Regressions/Annoying/Common bugs:

#333965 [Firefox:Places]- Places’ search feature hangs [Win]

#337761 [Core:XPCOM]- Folder does not open anymore for dragged link [All]

#339804 [Firefox:General]- Multiple login requests for authentification proxies if sessionstore is enabled [Win]

#385245 [Firefox:Places]- history sidebar very slow (way slower than fx2) [All]

#386343 [Firefox:General]- Breakpad doesn’t work [Win]

#388209 [Firefox:Places]- bookmarks menu dnd indicator not visible if I want to drop an item before a separator [Win]

#389131 [Other Applications:Reporter]- Reporter should move away from SOAP (Reporter fails to send reports on trunk) [All]

#394079 [Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]- Location bar autocomplete hangs after first character is typed; regardless of speed of character input [Win]

#394910 [Firefox:Download Manager]- The download always goes to browser. download. lastDir when browser. download.use DownloadDir is false [Win]

#395534 [Firefox:Download Manager]-browser. download.lastDir is ignored when right-clicking and “Save Link As …” when browser. download. useDownloadDir is true. [Win]

#398085 [Core:JavaScript Engine]- Crash on Load [@ js_Interpret] [All]

#398346 [Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]- Opening/closing toolbar customize breaks the location bar [All]

#398551 [Firefox:Download Manager]- Since checkin for bug 396477 it is impossible to download tar.gz or tar.bz2 files. [Lin]

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