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Mozilla Launches Internet Mail and Communications Initiative

By Vygantas | September 18, 2007 | 0 Comments

Mozilla Not exactly “Web Browsers” related post. Some exciting news today. See Mozilla’s Press Release.

Mozilla today announced a new initiative to stimulate innovation in Internet mail and communications. Mozilla plans to develop Internet communications software based on the Thunderbird product, code and brand. The new initiative also aims to nurture a robust developer ecosystem in order to drive improvements through open source and community innovation, in the tradition of the Firefox web browser…

Mozilla will provide US$3 million seed funding to establish this new company.

From SpreadFirefox

The goals for the new company are:

Take care of Thunderbird users

Move Thunderbird forward to provide better, deeper email solutions

Create a better user experience for a range of Internet communications — how does / should email work with IM, RSS, VoIP, SMS, site-specific email, etc?

Spark the types of community involvement and innovation that we’ve seen around web “browsing” and Firefox.

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Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Soon To Come

By Vygantas | September 17, 2007 | 0 Comments

We can expect Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) very first public builds later this year after Windows Vista Service Pack release. There are not many details revealed so far but there should be 2 Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) versions. One for Windows XP and another one for Windows Vista with some special security features which won’t be available in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) for XP.

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Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (15 Sep 2007)

By Vygantas | September 16, 2007 | 1 Comment

Firefox Yet another great Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 nightly build from Firefox team. Changelog:

Fixed:

#278357 [Core:Embedding: APIs]- [FIX]Add flag to nsI Web Navigation: :LoadURI for the popup behaviour [Lin]

#375011 [Core:Widget: Cocoa]- menu separators cannot be unhidden if they are created hidden [Mac]

#387646 [Firefox:General]- Endcap cleanup [All]

#392511 [Core:DOM]-[FIX] innerHTML getter fails to escape entities in attributes properly (so “innerHTML = innerHTML” has an unexpected side effect) [All]

#393503 [Core:DOM]-[FIX] Disabling images doesn’t work for

#393935 [Core:XPCOM]- Crash [@ nsProxyObject: :LockedFind] [Mac]

#394676 [Core:XBL]-XBL constructors fire after window. onload event [All]

#394792 [Core:Layout: Form Controls]- [FIX]Only bother updating text input commands for focused text inputs [All]

#395150 [Firefox:Password Manager]- fillDoc() shouldn’t trudge through each form if there are no stored logins for site [All]

#395402 [Firefox:Tabbed Browser]- Remove theme-specific bindings [All]

#395828 [Core:JavaScript Engine]- JS leaks on GMail and Google Calendar [All]

#395907 [Core:JavaScript Engine]- eval of function declaration does not change existing variable [All]

Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:
None

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]

#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 Download Dir 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]

#395773 [Firefox:Places]- Bookmarks backup suggests invalid file name [All] (OS setting)

Download.

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Tune Up Your Firefox about:blank Page

By Vygantas | September 16, 2007 | 0 Comments

Isn’t Firefox about:blank page bit boring? Just a white backgrund and nothing else. Have you ever wanted to make it look different? Guess what. You can do that now with Firefox Stylish add-on.

Some cool looking about:blank pages

Firefox about:blank
Download.

Firefox about:blank dark
Download.

I had some problems after installing “about:blank – FF blurry” style. It messed up all my other styles. Maybe that’s just me, but don’t say that I haven’t warned you. Use it on your own risk.

You can find many about:blank pages styles here or even create your own one.

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Opera 9.5 Post-Alpha Released

By Vygantas | September 14, 2007 | 0 Comments

It’s been 10 days since the very first Opera 9.5 Alpha release. Today Opera team released Opera 9.5 Post-Alpha version. This build includes lots of bug fixes as well as some minor new things, for example: X button on notifiers. Regardless bug fixes there are still some known issues:

Wand doesn’t save anymore

Yahoo mail beta might crash Opera

Some UNIX packages are missing

Opera 9.5 won’t work on Windows 98/95

Changelog

[272376] Cursor in source viewer positioned at the end

[277681] Some order lists are displayed as unordered lists

[279302] Line wrapping does not work correctly in some cases, causing overly long lines of text and horizontal scrollbars; often seen at Wikipedia

[280678] Files are often saved with the incorrect file extension

[281550] Setting an external source viewer does not work

[267842] View bar is available in the customization dialog again

[274676] Original text color (inside tables) not reverted when closing content blocker dialog

[267859] Numbers (and borders) not shown in configured speed dial entries

[273030] Text squished/mashed together after removing thumbnail

[273822] Link focused by inline find cannot be activated (Enter doesn’t work after spatnav)

[281879] Show cached images randomly breaks

[282003] Lots of unread messages and drafts after upgrade

APNG 1.0 support added. Will work as animated gifs on webpages and skins

Select custom application when downloading files

Add multithreading to mail for improved performanced

Added x button on notifiers

Fixed IE bookmark folder import

General stability fixes

Tons of layout/js fixes

Windows specific changes

Greatly improved performance with alpha transparency (animations, scrolling)

Mac specific changes

Further tweaking of tabs in native skin

Removed page loading spinner from Address bar

Rounded edges on many dialog Title bars

Fixed application window focus/activation problems

Fixed problems with Flash problems with wmode=opaque and CSS hover

Prevent some start-up freezes

Pulsing progress bar

As you know it’s not a final Opera 9.5 release, use it on your own risk.

Windows
Windows Classic
Macintosh
Unix

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Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (13 Sep 2007)

By Vygantas | September 14, 2007 | 0 Comments

Firefox Yet another nightly build from Firefox team. It’s Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8, 13 Sep 2007, this version includes only one bug fix (according to changelog) which is:

#395862 [Firefox:General]-Help > About broken in trunk [All]

Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

#395066 [Firefox:Places]-Hang when trying to clear browsing history [All]

Everything else seems to be the same since the previous nightly build.

Download.

Animated Favicons, Firefox Only?

By Vygantas | September 12, 2007 | 3 Comments

Web Browsers Is there anything wrong with the code itself or only Firefox (and Firefox based browsers) can handle animated favicons?

[link href="ico.gif" TYPE="image/gif" REL="icon"]
Changed <> with the [] so code would be visible.

http://www.pokelondon.com

I’ve checked this site with Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0.0.6, Opera 9.23, Opera 9.5 Alpha, Safari 3.0.3 Beta, and only in Firefox I’ve seen animated favicon. Any ideas?

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Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (11 Sep 2007)

By Vygantas | September 11, 2007 | 0 Comments

Firefox 3 Let’s go straight to the point and check this build changelog (with bugs numbers).

Fixed:

#389437 [Core:Layout: Fonts and Text]-crashes [@ ns Sample Word Breaker: :NextWord] when using Alt+Arrow in text fields [All]

#391266 [Core:GFX]-with color management on, Acid2 face looks like a bankrobber [Win]

#394403 [Core:ImageLib]-Crash Viewing Image [ @ nsGIFDecoder2: :DoLzw] [Win]

#394534 [Core:HTML: Parser]-[FIX]First attribute doesn’t win in misplaced content [Lin]

#395407 [Toolkit:Breakpad Integration]-Symbol upload and unpack can conflict if builds have the same buildid [All]

#395633 [Firefox:Places]-backup date is wrong [Win]

Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

#393464 BACKOUT[Firefox:Places]-Bookmarks manager doesn’t search in tags field [All]

#395066 [Firefox:Places]-Hang when trying to clear browsing history [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]

#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. Use Download Dir is true. [Win]

#000000 [Firefox:General]- Crashes with Adblock Plus (even if disabled)[All]

Download.

Opera Developer Tools FAQ

By Vygantas | September 11, 2007 | 1 Comment

If you have no idea what is Opera Developer Tools, please check this page or just continue reading.

These developer tools have been used by Web Application developers at Opera Software for some time. The tools are early previews, and should be considered alpha quality software. They are provided below in the form of buttons that can be dragged to any Opera toolbar. The tools are provided on an as-is basis.

Now you may check Opera Developer Tools FAQ by David Storey here.

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