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Firefox 3 Pre-Milestone 9 (Alpha 9?) 2007 10 05 Released

By Vygantas | October 5, 2007 | 0 Comments

Firefox 3 Pre-Milestone 9 Alpha 9 Yet another day and yet another Firefox 3 build from its developers team. While it’s still really long time to go, it’s good to see that with every day they Firefox 3 becomes more and more “polished”. Latest build changelog:

Fixed:

#384304 [Firefox:Startup and Profile System]- /usr/bin/firefox is not able to handle symlinks due to error in script [Lin]

#395138 [Firefox:File Handling]- show types set to “always ask” in Applications prefpane [All]

#395689 [Core:XSLT]- XML pretty print leaks [Mac]

#397749 [Core:SVG]- New style nsSVGAngle [All]

#398360 [Firefox:General]- speed up onSecurityChange [All]

#398394 [Firefox:Places]-[places] add “match” label to places search builder [All]

#398471 [Core:Widget: Cocoa]- Widgets translated incorrectly when there is a complex transform. [Mac]

Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

#380901 [Core:JavaScript Engine]- Release SpiderMonkey 1.7 [All]

#387480 [Core:Security: UI]- Support network-fetched cert import in Web Sites tab of Cert Mgr [Mac]

#393757 [Core:Style System (CSS)]- Don’t report CSS style errors for identifiers designated as vendor-specific [All]

#394483 [Core:File Handling]- web-based protocol handlers don’t work in certain situations [All]

#397690 [Firefox:Preferences]- Handler apps display as executables rather than full application name [All]

#387996 [Firefox:Places]- add a “Places” folder to the bookmarks menu, populated with smart folders [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.l astDir is ignored when right-clicking and “Save Link As …” when browser. download. useDownloadDir is true. [Win]

#397012 [Firefox:Menus]-menus won’t close on second click [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]

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Opera 9.5, Is This A Bug (Part 2)?

By Vygantas | October 5, 2007 | 5 Comments

Not so long time ago I’ve posted an article called “Opera 9.5, Is This A Bug Or A Feature?“.

Today I’ve found one more “possible bug”. When Opera 9.23 and Opera 9.5 Alpha is running and you are trying to launch “Opera 9.5 Alpha\opera.exe” it opens you a blank page (opera:blank) in Opera 9.23 and not Opera 9.5. Why?

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Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Update

By Vygantas | October 5, 2007 | 4 Comments

Internet Explorer 7 IE7 That should be some exciting news but there isn’t. I was actually expecting something more from Internet Explorer 7 update as it’s been ~1 year since IE7 was released. So when you get some news after 1 year “quiet” development you expect something new. Maybe that’s just me, you decide. Here’s Internet Explorer 7 Update changelog:

The menu bar is now visible by default.

The Internet Explorer 7 online tour has updated how-to’s. Also, the “first-run” experience includes a new overview.

We’ve included a new MSI installer that simplifies deployment for IT administrators in enterprises.

That’s all! Ok, now serious, what are the changes?

Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) check removed.

(Windows XP users). Will this change increase IE market share?

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Extend Firefox 2 Add-Ons Contest

By Vygantas | October 4, 2007 | 0 Comments

Firefox Contest Are you ready to win some great prizes? What you will need to do? What are those great prizes? Everything is really simple; you will have to develop an add-on for Firefox 2 web browser. Anything else? No, that’s all! Just an add-on and you might get one of the great prizes.

Three Grand Prize winners will each receive an Ultimate Firefox Developer Kit, including:

Travel and accomodation to a Mozilla Developer Day of the winner’s choice, anywhere in the world

Development gear, including a brand new 15″ Macbook Pro with VMware Fusion and ActiveState Komodo

1 Year Unlimited Access subscription to O’Reilly’s Safari Library

Firefox Ogio Messenger Bag stuffed with t-shirts, books, stickers, mugs and more

Twelve Runner-Up Prize winners will each receive a Firefox Pack, including:

Firefox Ogio Messenger Bag stuffed with t-shirts, books, stickers, and more

ActiveState Komodo, mug, and t-shirt

A $200 Gift Certificate for O’Reilly Books

All qualified entrants will receive, while supplies last, a Limited Edition Extend Firefox T-Shirt.

This edition of the Extend Firefox contest will run until 11:59pm pacific time on December 31st, 2007. Winners will be announcement on about January 15th, 2007.

See more details here. Are you ready to win?

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Netscape Navigator 9 Release Candidate (RC) 1 Released

By Vygantas | October 2, 2007 | 0 Comments

Netscape Navigator 9 Release Candidate (RC) 1 Not so long time ago Netscape Navigator team released Netscape Navigator 9 Beta 3, today they are even closer to the Netscape Navigator 9 Final as Release Candidate (RC) 1 was just released. What are the changes since Beta 3 was released?

Added splash screen

Fixed formatting bug in Mac license

Fixed a bug that was preventing custom background colors

Mini-browser enhancements

Removed social news integration

Exposed more preferences in the Preference Dialog for tabs and the mini-browser

Fixed reversed preference for opening searches in new tab

Fixed Mac bundle signature

Fixed default icon and file assocations

Moved custom FTP style out of userContent.css

Added URL correction preferences to Advanced Preferences page

Added drop-down menu to print button

Added drop-down menu to home button

Added Firefox profile importing

Added support for importing Netscape 8 bookmarks after the initial install

Fixed theme issues on Linux

Fixed truncation of Reload button label

Fixed bugs with URL correction and country codes

Added “Save to Linkpad” option to History context menu

Why did they removed social news integration? They’ve decided to be “a traditional news site” instead of being a social new site. However, as Netscape Navigator team explained, those features will be available as a Propeller (new Netscape site) extension soon.

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Adobe Launches Flash Lite 3

By Vygantas | October 2, 2007 | 0 Comments

From their press release.

Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced the availability of Adobe Flash Lite 3 software, which now supports Adobe Flash Player compatible video and enables the delivery of dynamic Web content on mobile devices. Flash Lite 3 allows mobile device manufacturers, operators and content providers to differentiate their offerings by giving users the ability to watch Flash Player compatible video, the world’s most popular video format, and browse Flash enabled Web sites when integrated with a mobile Web browser.

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Opera 9.5, Is This A Bug Or A Feature?

By Vygantas | September 29, 2007 | 8 Comments

I was playing with Opera 9.5 Alpha a bit and noticed one annoyance. Let’s say that you are using Opera 9.23 and Opera 9.5 Alpha (Opera 9.5 Alpha is NOT set as a default browser) at the same time, got a message in any instant messenger with a link, basically if you click link, it should open with Opera 9.23 (as Opera 9.5 is NOT set as a default browser). However, somehow it opens links with Opera 9.5. So is this a bug or a feature (so we would “use” Opera 9.5″ more)?

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Firefox 3 Pre-Milestone 9 (Alpha 9?) 2007 09 28 Released

By Vygantas | September 29, 2007 | 0 Comments

Firefox 3 Milestone 9 Alpha 9 Yet another great Firefox 3 build from Firefox team. This is not a final version; use it on your own risk. They’ve fixed lots of bugs in the past week and recently released one more Firefox 3 Pre-Milestone 9 (Alpha 9?) 2007 09 28 nightly build. And here’s the changelog for the last nightly build.

Fixed:

#284225 [Core:XSLT]- XSLT uses wrong security context for security checks [Win]

#292607 [Core:Drag and Drop]- Dragging (pre)-formatted text collapses whitespace [All]

#345428 [Core:Spelling checker]- No spellcheck on focus out [Win]

#368445 [Core:Layout]- Focus Outline of Select missing left, top, and bottom [Win]

#386229 [Core:Image: GFX]- Setting cursor with GIF, PNG or XBM doesn’t work [Win]

#391643 [Core:ImageLib]- Remove Get Alpha BytesPer Row from imgContainer.cpp [All]

#391777 [Core:DOM]- Empty Trash Button not functional on yahoo mail [All]

#392629 [Core:GFX: Thebes]- Comboboxes basically unusable with keyboard since border rewrite [All]

#393357 [Core:DOM]- nsDocument: :mRadioGroups leaks its members [All]

#393609 [Core:Widget: Cocoa]- Cocoa drag-drop fails to put link text (urld) on pasteboard [Mac]

#393906 [Core:GFX: Thebes]- “ASSERTION: Invalid offset” with rtl, wrapping [Mac]

#393979 [Core:Layout]- Remove orphaned comment in nsFrame: :BoxReflow [All]

#394085 [Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]- The star button is touching the right border of the location bar drop down button [Win]

#394466 [Toolkit:XRE Startup]- Call XClose Display before exit and exec [Lin]

#396649 [Core:History: Session]- Content viewers not evicted when going back [All]

#397022 [Core:Style System (CSS)]- ns CSS Value: :Array leak involving overriding declarations of CSS ‘content’ property [Mac]

#397149 [Core:Style System (CSS)]-ns CSSValue List leak with invalid value for “content” property [All]

#397386 [Core:General]- Large leak on grono.net front page [All]

#397492 [Firefox:General]- Consider filtering redundant calls to on Security Change [All]

#397527 [Firefox:Places]- append folder and all ancestors to the include / exclude folder array in ns NavHistory: :FilterResultSet(), to save repeated queries [All]

#397614 [Firefox:General]- BrowserGlue’s QI doesn’t need to declare nsI Supports [All]

#397644 [Core:Disability Access APIs]- input type=”file” not exposed correctly [Lin]

#397768 [Firefox:Migration]- Opera bookmark import loses last bookmark [Lin]

#397804 [Firefox:RSS Discovery and Preview]- pages loading feeds as content can trigger a leak [Mac]

Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

#362682 [Core:GFX: Thebes]- Some Unicode characters are no longer displayed with certain fonts (e.g. Arial) [Lin]

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

#397536 [Firefox:General]- performance improvements for JSON.jsm [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]

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

#386844 [Core:Plug-ins]- Crash when running Java Applets [@ XSync – JavaPlugin Instance5: :SetWindow] [Lin]

#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. useDownloadDir is false [Win]

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

#396477 [Firefox: Download Manager]- DM renames executable files with double extension, i.e. filename.exe.exe [Win]

#397012 [Firefox: Menus]- menus won’t close on second click [Win]

#397225 [Firefox: RSS Discovery and Preview]- RSS feed subscription is broken [Win]

#397876 [mozilla.org: Build & Release]- Nightly updates are not available for builds later than 20070927 [All]

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Opera 9.5 Alpha, One More Build Released

By Vygantas | September 29, 2007 | 0 Comments

Opera Desktop Team released one more Opera 9.5 Alpha version. While this build fixes many bugs it still contains lots of “known issues”. However, they are working on those bugs, as for now, I will stay with Opera 9.23. So let’s check the changelog.

New Features!

Added menu item to never reload a page (Right click > Reload every – Never)

(UNIX) When running Gnome, Opera will now use the native GTK file chooser when opening and saving files

Bugs Fixed

[BUG 255515] Chat should now work in Yahoo! Beta

[BUG 281879] Show only cached images should now work properly

[BUG 255304] Closing Speed Dial window fast after “delete private data” shouldn’t crash Opera anymore

[BUG 282598] Passwords set to “never for this server” can now be deleted again

[BUG 286084] Content blocker works again

[BUG 276354] Fixed bug where it was not possible to reconnect to mail server after disconnecting

[BUG 262786] Onload handler in script no longer fired before onload attribute of body element

[BUG 267384] JavaScript errors no longer reported as being in “Unknown thread”

[BUG 233022] data: URIs are no longer considered off-site images

Use ‘Today’ when a mail was sent today, even if it’s in the future

Windows Only

Set default network from 128 back to 32. This might help with some stalling while loading pages on some systems

Fixed appearance of fonts in Speed Dial configuration dialog and Widgets when using Cleartype

Mac Only

Fixed clipping of dialogs in Leopard

Fixed font display in Leopard

Smaller UI fonts

Fixed issue selecting Opera.app icon

Unix Only

Made flash animations work again

[BUG 276704] [qt4] Focusing documents in other tabs now switches to that tab as expected

[BUG 276959] [qt4] Tiling windows now works properly

Other Fixed Issues

[BUG 286186] There are no buttons in the customization dialog.

[BUG 274352] Upgrading with no mail/RSS accounts causes a mail upgrade that never finishes.

Known Issues

[BUG 284849] Yahoo! Mail beta may crash Opera.

[BUG 286911] Flickr maps may crash Opera.

Google reader crashes Opera (same as ymail crash)

Won’t run correctly on Windows 95 or 98.

Won’t work correctly on Mac OS X 10.3.

OS X version may cause persistent freezes on start-up.

POP server cleaning has been disabled: When disabling the “Leave messages on server” option, existing messages on the server are not removed.

[BUG 287170] On OS X, UI thumbnails have black backgrounds when using native skins.

[BUG 184894] Native OS X UI elements cannot be used in skins.

[BUG 280536] Opera on OS X will sometimes freeze when exiting Preferences.

[BUG 286384] Yahoo mail is broken.

[BUG 285741] Opera might freeze for a while when opening the feeds menu.

[BUG 271585] The last directory used is not remembered in the Save As and Open dialogs.

[BUG 264975] Graphical smiles do not work.

[BUG 280261] Removing messages from filters does not work.

[BUG 213115] Queued mail is sent at the next check, instead of waiting for manual action.

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Windows (Build 9562)
Windows Classic (Build 9562)
Macintosh (Build 4460)
Unix (Build 1600)

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Firefox 3 Pre-Milestone 9 (Alpha 9?) 2007 10 05 Released

Opera 9.5, Is This A Bug (Part 2)?

Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) Update

Extend Firefox 2 Add-Ons Contest

Netscape Navigator 9 Release Candidate (RC) 1 Released

Adobe Launches Flash Lite 3

Opera 9.5, Is This A Bug Or A Feature?

Firefox 3 Pre-Milestone 9 (Alpha 9?) 2007 09 28 Released

Opera 9.5 Alpha, One More Build Released

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