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

By Vygantas | November 5, 2007 | 0 Comments

Firefox 3 Pre Milestone 9 (Alpha 9) 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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Opera 9.5, One More Beta

By Vygantas | November 4, 2007 | 0 Comments

Opera 9.5 Beta One more Opera 9.5 “Beta” (not Beta 2) release from Opera’s Desktop team. I suggest that you should use this build only for testing; it still contains lots of bugs and known issues as well.

Changelog

Find in page now continues search from the location of the last mouse click

Fixed a freeze when syncronizing Opera

Fixed skandiabanken.no certificate installation

Fixed crash when reindexing mail

Removing mail from filters now works again

Removed support for www.w3.org /TR/REC-html40 namespace

Confirm exit while logged in to link now works

Fixed an issue with link synchronizing

Fixed nickname handling in addressbar

Setting cache to off really means nothing is written to disk. (PS: View source doesn’t work without disk cache… )

UNIX specific

Plugins sometimes don’t work properly

FreeBSD 7 builds

Added a lot of applications in the Suggests line in deb packages

The command line switch -notrayicon is now respected again

Mac specific

This build will use the same settings as 9.50 Beta

Known Issues

Gmail compose window is just 1px tall

*NIX builds crash when connecting to IRC

Download Opera 9.5 for Windows (Build 9624)
Download Opera 9.5 for Windows (Classic Installer) (Build 9624)
Download Opera 9.5 for Macintosh (Build 4517)
Download Opera 9.5 for UNIX (Build 1652)

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Firefox 2.0.0.9 Released

By Vygantas | November 4, 2007 | 1 Comment

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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Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.3 Released

By Vygantas | November 4, 2007 | 0 Comments

Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.3 Both, Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.2 and after bit more than a day, 9.0.0.3 came out. Version 9.0.0.2 changes:

Issued fix to point Netscape search to updated search engine.
Removed “Report Bug” button

Netscape Navigator 9.0.0.3 includes security fixes which were originally fixed in Firefox 2.0.0.9.

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IE7 Pro 1.2 Released

By Vygantas | October 31, 2007 | 0 Comments

IE7 Pro is a great add-on for IE7. And if you are using Internet Explorer 7, I have some news. IE7 Pro 1.2 was just released and here’s the changelog:

Ad Blocker:
Rules Counter added.
Table filter added.
Support for “Contains” match.
Table filter as a separate section in the Ad Blocker rules added.
Default Ad Blocker rules updated.

IE7Pro Menu and Preference Window:
Shortcut for “Clear Privacy” feature added.
Uninstall Plugins from the Preference Window now.
Check for updates Manually now.

Autoform ignore parameters now.
Support for “View Selected Source Code”.

Download IE7 Pro 1.2.

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Opera Renews Its Deal With Google

By Vygantas | October 31, 2007 | 0 Comments

Opera, Google Deal Google is default search engine integrated to the Opera desktop browser and will stay there for at least 2 years (that’s then this deal expires) or more.

That means profit for both, Google and Opera.

Google pays ~80% (77% in Q3) of each click value to its publishers. Not really sure about Opera, but that should be more than 80% I guess.

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

By Vygantas | October 26, 2007 | 0 Comments

Firefox 3 Alpha 9 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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Opera 9.5 Beta Released

By Vygantas | October 26, 2007 | 0 Comments

It’s here, first Opera 9.5 Beta release. It’s been a long way for it to reach this, beta stage, hundreds of bug fixes, various improvements and lots of testing. You can find all the changes here:

Changelog for Windows
Changelog for Mac
Changelog for UNIX

I kinda like this quote from their web page:

the Opera Web browser is over 30% faster than IE, and faster and more secure than Firefox. Recent benchmarks show that Opera even exceeds the speed of Firefox with multiple tabs opened. Opera delivers robust security and a far-richer feature set than any other Web browser and it’s free.

Similar to Safari’s “browsers comparison”, just bit more sophisticated.

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OmniWeb 5.6 Released

By Vygantas | October 26, 2007 | 2 Comments

Good news for Mac OS X users, OmniWeb 5.6 was just released (requires Mac OS X 10.4.8 and later) which now supports OS X 10.5 “Leopard” and ads some new features. By the way, in case you didn’t knew… OmniWeb is not a free web browser; you will have to buy a license if you really like it. “OmniWeb runs in demonstration mode when unlicensed. The demo period is 30 launch days.”

Changelog

WebKit

The version of WebKit that OmniWeb is based off of has been updated.

We now use the WebKit icon database. This means that favicons saved to the disk should no longer grow infinitely and decrease performance.

This includes the new Web Inspector as seen on Surfin’ Safari

Addresses many site compatibility issues, improves performance and addresses various other bugs found in 5.5.4.

The Drosera JavaScript debugger now works in OmniWeb. (It is packaged with WebKit nightlies)

Improved JavaScript and plug-in performance.

Flash and other plug-in performance has been improved.

Interface

By default, OmniWeb will now display PDFs inside the browser. Right clicking on a PDF will give you display options including a way to open in preview.

The zoomed text editor button has moved out of text areas’ scroll bars. To access the zoomed text editor for a text area…

Select “Show Zoomed Editor” from the Edit menu (keyboard shortcut Option-Command-E)

Select “Zoom…” from the context menu (Control-Click or Right-Click on the text area)

There is also now a status bar icon for the zoomed text editor that appears when you click in a text area.

The Favorites menu now consistently appears in the Bookmarks menu.

Added the iPhone to the list of browsers available for spoofing.

Added a new automatic Software Update interface. Next time OmniWeb is updated you will automatically be notified like normal along with release notes and the option to download and install.

Localization

Added a simplified Chinese localization.

Updated French, German and Japanese localizations.

Performance and Stability

Fixed a long-standing issue with bookmark synchronization where changes made on another computer would show up on the next launch, but then disappear again on the subsequent launch if you hadn’t made any further changes on the local machine.

When asked to Quit, OmniWeb will immediately stop optional tasks like checking RSS feeds and bookmark changes.

Fixed a long-standing bug which could cause OmniWeb to hang while updating its history index.

Other

Added a hidden preference to enable resizable text areas (like those found in Safari 3). To enable just open a terminal window and enter “defaults write com.omnigroup.OmniWeb5

ShowResizableTextAreas -bool true” at the prompt without the quotes. Restart OmniWeb for the change to take effect.

Download OmniWeb 5.6
Download OmniWeb 5.6 (English only)

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Mozilla Finances, Year 2006

By Vygantas | October 25, 2007 | 1 Comment

Year 2006 was great to Mozilla, not so long time ago they have released their financial statements for 2006 and results says everything.

They have reported a total of $66.8 million revenue for the year 2006 which is more than 25% increase from the year 2005. Most of its revenue is from Google Search of course.

Mozilla Finances, 2006