Category: Firefox

Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (5 Sep 2007)

Yet another nightly build from Firefox developers with more bug fixes.

Fixed:

[Firefox:Password Manager]- replace modal pre-submit save password dialog with post-submit bar [All]

[Core:Keyboard: Navigation]- Should css scrollable areas without scrollbars be tabbable? [All]

[Core:XPCOM]-do_ Get FastLoad Service should use ns Get Service ByCID [All]

[Core:Widget: Cocoa]- occasionally lose caret in text fields and url bar (focus issues after cocoa widgets enabled) [Mac]

[Core:Printing]-Crash [@ ns PrintEngine: :Document Ready For Printing] with testcase that sets print preview, then reloads the page [All]

[Core:Disability Access APIs]-implement nsI Access Node: :scrollToPoint [All]

[Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]- remove unused globalItemList* strings from mozilla/ toolkit /locales /en-US /chrome /mozapps /extensions /extensions. properties [All]

[Core:Disability Access APIs]- GetChildAtPoint() fails for scrolled content [All]

[Toolkit:Breakpad Integration]- SetupExtraData should create “Crash Reports” dir if it doesn’t exist [All]

[Core:XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus]- Menubar menus flicker when they are opened/closed [All]

[Core:Disability Access APIs]- text-changed: delete event details no longer correct effective 26th July build [All]

[Core:Plug-ins]- Java plugin doesn’t stay disabled on restart when disabled via plugin manager [All]

[Core:Networking]- https add-on install from filepicker crashes [@ net_Get URL SpecFromFile] [Lin]

[Firefox:Download Manager]- Downloads no longer remember last download directory – always defaults to Downloads [All]

[Core:File Handling]- move RDF code from ns External Helper App Service to ns Handler Service [All]

[Firefox:File Handling]- auto-add preferred handler to possible handlers when retrieving them [All]

[Core:XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus]- Add cycle collection to XUL PopupListener [Mac]

[Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]- Extension incompatible message states Gecko Toolkit which users may find confusing [All]

Firefox:RSS Discovery and Preview]- Cannot successfully subscribe to RSS feed in Outlook 2007 from Firefox [Win]

[Firefox:Download Manager]- 0 byte downloads don’t appear in download manager [All]

[Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]- show notification using nsIAlertService when extension updates are available. [Mac]

[Core:DOM]-“ASSERTION: Item was successful, but node from collection was null!” involving DOMNodeRemoved event [Mac]

[Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]- NS_ ERROR_ ILLEGAL_ VALUE calling nsIExtensionManager.update when profile updates [Lin]

[Core:DOM: Events]- cache event listener manager when dispatching events [All]

[Core:DOM]-Inline May Dispatch Mutation Event [All]

[Firefox:Download Manager]- Info bubble for just-completed downloads says “Wednesday, December 31, 1969 6:00 PM” [All]

[Core:Event Handling]-Crash [@ nsGeneric HTML Element: :SetElementFocus] with kbd focus, onbeforecopy removing window [All]

[Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]- clean up extensions.css [All]

[Core:JavaScript Engine]- Too- much- native- recursion crash with getter, evalcx [Mac]

Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

[Core:Style System (CSS)]- consistently use NS_THEME_NONE [Mac]

[Core:Widget]-with gfx.color_management turned ON inconsistent behaviour for selection colours [All]

[Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]- Remove unused code from plugins landing [All]

[Firefox:RSS Discovery and Preview]- non well-formed feed breaks UI [Mac]

[Core:Layout]- Asserts on redoing totally empty line. [All]

[Core:Layout: HTML Frames]-[FIX]”ASSERTION: Already have an undisplayed context entry for aContent” with multiple body elements and position:absolute in iframe [All]

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:Location Bar and Auto-complete]- Location bar auto-complete 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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Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (4 Sep 2007)

Hello Everyone,
Every day (even on weekends) Firefox team is working hard to give us their latest web browser version, fixes lots of bugs and adding and/or polishing new features. We have another nightly release from them today as well.

Fixes:

[Core:XP Toolkit/Widgets: Trees]-Items in trees has a cropped right-margin [All]

[Core:Internationalization]-Line Breaking with Pango/Uniscribe [Lin]

[Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]-Disable insecure extension updates by default [All]

[Core:SVG]-Browser hangs mixing filters and text [Win]

[Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]-Remove overrides from extensions.xml [All]

[Core:Security: PSM]-Add scriptable interface to verify digital signatures [All]

[Core:Layout]-Remove unused trimmed-space counting [All]

[Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]-Add a get plugins link to the add-ons mgr. [All]

[Toolkit:XUL Widgets]-tree.xml: _reorderColumn should not fail in cases where the move and before columns are the same. [All]

[Core:Build Config]-Firefox confvars.sh includes xml-rpc as a default extension [All]

[Firefox:General]-Load app defaults and extension defaults separately [All]

[Core:X-remote]-Memory leak in XRemoteClient: :DoSend Command Line() [Lin]

[Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]- XPCOMUtilify Extension Manager [All]

[Core:Layout: Fonts and Text]-Inconsistent text-decoration positioning [All]

[Core:XP Toolkit/Widgets: XUL]-“ASSERTION: post-reflow queues not empty” with xul:listboxbody and xul:text [Mac]

[Core:Widget: Cocoa]-Aqua textfields – textarea, input type=”text” – do not accept padding. [Mac]

[Core:Layout]-Crash [@ nsIFrame: :Invalidate] with object, positioning and bidi character [Win]

[Core:GFX: Thebes]-“ASSERTION: Textrun was not completely removed from the cache” with non-breaking hyphen [Mac]

[Core:Widget: Cocoa]-Bookmarks menu opens wrong bookmark [Mac]

Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

[Firefox:RSS Discovery and Preview]-non well-formed feed breaks UI [Mac]

[Core:Layout]-Asserts on redoing totally empty line. [All]

[Core:Layout: HTML Frames]-[FIX]”ASSERTION: Already have an undisplayed context entry for aContent” with multiple elements and position: absolute in iframe [All]

[Core:XSLT]-numerous xslt leaks visiting http://www.metacafe.com [Lin]

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 Auto-complete]- Location bar auto-complete hangs after first character is typed; regardless of speed of character input [Win]

[Core:ImageLib]- Crash Viewing Image [ @ nsGIF Decoder2: :DoLzw] [Win]

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Firefox 3 Receives Remember Password Upgrade

Firefox 3 team keeps releasing new Firefox 3 nightly builds with new features and/or fixes. This time they’ve upgraded “remember password” feature, once you enter your details and trying to login, Firefox 3 will ask either if you want to remember those details or not. So no more accidently saved invalid passwords, now you’ve got a plenty of time to think before clicking “Remember” if entered details were correct or not.

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Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (2 Sep 2007)

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.

Download from here.

Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (1 Sep 2007)

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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5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Firefox

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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Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (31 Aug 2007)

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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Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (30 Aug 2007)

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]

Download now.

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