Archive for March, 2004

2004-03-12 Builds

  • Continued regression: 236977 - Document icon used for firefox.exe (F+paper instead of F+globe)
  • Continued regression: 236607 - File > Import crashes
  • Continued regression: 236673 - Crash when starting without a profile
  • Continued regression: 234966 - crash scrolling with mousewheel (for a few users)
  • Continued regression: 234717 - Right-clicking a in a *subfolder* of the bookmarks menu makes that folder inaccessible if nothing is selected on the context menu
  • Continued regression: 234116 - Context menu commands don't work in *subfolders* of bookmarks menu.

Windows builds: Official Windows (discussion), Official Windows installer, mmoy's O2 G7 SSE2 with crc32 optimization for PNGs, BlueFyre's O2 G7 SSE, djeter's O2 SSE

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux+xft+gtk2

Mac builds: Official Mac

2004-03-11 Builds

  • 203077 - Change profile directory from phoenix/ to firefox/ and automatically import profiles from phoenix/ to firefox/
  • 227129 - Installer: Radio buttons for software agreement agree/disagree broken
  • 206029 - Flash Plugin installer removes line endings from all.js (in gcc builds when cygwin is set to use UNIX line breaks)
  • Several cookie fixes
  • 191053 - International domain names (IDN) are displayed as garbage in bookmark
  • 215797 - Can't open URL which has IDN from History window
  • 68796 - Some IPv4 addresses won't resolve w/IPv6 OS
  • Continued regression: 236977 - Document icon used for firefox.exe (F+paper instead of F+globe)
  • Continued regression: 236607 - File > Import crashes
  • Continued regression: 236673 - Crash when starting without a profile
  • Continued regression: 234966 - crash scrolling with mousewheel (for a few users)
  • Continued regression: 234717 - Right-clicking a in a *subfolder* of the bookmarks menu makes that folder inaccessible if nothing is selected on the context menu
  • Continued regression: 234116 - Context menu commands don't work in *subfolders* of bookmarks menu.

Windows builds: Official Windows (discussion), Official Windows installer, djeter's O2 SSE, BlueFyre's O2 G7 SSE, mmoy's O2 G7 SSE2 with crc32 optimization for PNGs, moox's gcc builds

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux+xft+gtk2, daihard's, MrC's

Mac builds: Official Mac

2004-03-09 Builds

  • Fixed: 236619 - weird gray line under menubar
  • Fixed: 236711 - Options window is too narrow
  • Fixed: 57607 - background images do not load in background windows
  • Continued regression: 236607 - File > Import crashes
  • Continued regression: 236673 - Crash when starting without a profile
  • Continued regression: 234966 - crash scrolling with mousewheel (for a few users)
  • Continued regression: 234576 - Autoscroll crashes (for some users)
  • Continued regression: 234717 - Right-clicking a in a *subfolder* of the bookmarks menu makes that folder inaccessible if nothing is selected on the context menu
  • Continued regression: 234116 - Context menu commands don't work in *subfolders* of bookmarks menu.

Windows builds: No official Windows builds, aebrahim's official-nightly-like build

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux+xft+gtk2,

Mac builds: Official Mac

2004-03-08 Builds

  • Fixed in late builds: 236619 - weird gray line under menubar
  • Fixed: 236659 - Crash when using URL bar autocomplete too soon after startup
  • Continued regression: 236711 - Options window is too narrow
  • Continued regression: 236607 - File > Import crashes
  • Continued regression: 236673 - Crash when starting without a profile
  • Continued regression: 234966 - crash scrolling with mousewheel (for a few users)
  • Continued regression: 234576 - Autoscroll crashes (for some users)
  • Continued regression: 234717 - Right-clicking a in a *subfolder* of the bookmarks menu makes that folder inaccessible if nothing is selected on the context menu
  • Continued regression: 234116 - Context menu commands don't work in *subfolders* of bookmarks menu.

Windows builds: Official Windows in latest-trunk (late) (URL points to the latest build, not to this specific build) (discussion), Official Windows installer is broken, aebrahim's official-nightly-like build, BlueFyre's O2 G7 SSE

In the official Windows build, firefox.exe's default icon is a flame-F in front a sheet rather than a globe. I think this is a bug.

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux+xft+gtk2, daihard's xft+gtk2 SSE2, aebrahim's xft+gtk2, MrC's xft+gtk2 SSE2

Mac builds: Official Mac

2004-03-07 Builds

  • Fixed: 214893 - Mail Integration UI. Adds "Mail" button to toolbar palette, with a submenu providing convenient access to mail, newsgroups. Adds Ctrl+M to compose new message.
  • Fixed: 124307 - respect umask for downloaded files (Linux permissions)
  • Fixed: 235948(?) - Enable gnomevfs (on Linux). (What does this mean?)
  • Continued regression: 236711 - Options window is too narrow
  • Continued regression: 236619 - weird gray line under menubar
  • Continued regression: 236607 - File > Import crashes
  • Continued regression: 236673 - Crash when starting without a profile
  • Continued regression: 234966 - crash scrolling with mousewheel (for a few users)
  • Continued regression: 234576 - Autoscroll crashes (for some users)
  • Continued regression: 234717 - Right-clicking a in a *subfolder* of the bookmarks menu makes that folder inaccessible if nothing is selected on the context menu
  • Continued regression: 234116 - Context menu commands don't work in *subfolders* of bookmarks menu.

Windows builds: No official Windows builds, aebrahim's official-nightly-like build, stipe's O2 G7, BlueFyre's O2 G7 SSE

Linux builds: Official Linux, No official Linux+xft+gtk2

Mac builds: Official Mac

2004-03-06 Builds

  • Fixed: 86193 - Add hidden pref to prevent pages from disabling context menu(dom.event.contextmenu.enable)
  • Fixed: 137478 - O2 builds (and some other builds) crash in jpeg code when checking for MMX/SSE2 support
  • Fixed: 125762 - Use Intel's SSE2 iDCT code in jpeg decoder on SSE2-supporting processors. (Affects all builds, not just SSE2 builds.)
  • Fixed: 205648 - Context menu key on Windows keyboards doesn't work under Linux
  • Continued regression: 234966 - crash scrolling with mousewheel (for a few users)
  • Continued regression: 234576 - Autoscroll crashes (for some users)
  • Continued regression: 234717 - Right-clicking a in a *subfolder* of the bookmarks menu makes that folder inaccessible if nothing is selected on the context menu
  • Continued regression: 234116 - Context menu commands don't work in *subfolders* of bookmarks menu.

Windows builds: No official Windows builds, stipe's O2 with Flash, Mook's O7 with DIBSection patch (mirror/7z.exe version), MozJF's

Mook (not to be confused with moox) included Stefan Ring's DIBSection patch in his build. The patch fixes bug 204374, which makes Firefox stop repainting when you open about a hundred large images at once.

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux+xft+gtk2

2004-03-05 Builds

  • Continued regression: 234966 - crash scrolling with mousewheel (for a few users)
  • Continued regression: 234576 - Autoscroll crashes (for some users)
  • Continued regression: 234717 - Right-clicking a in a *subfolder* of the bookmarks menu makes that folder inaccessible if nothing is selected on the context menu
  • Continued regression: 234116 - Context menu commands don't work in *subfolders* of bookmarks menu.

Windows builds: No official Windows builds, BlueFyre's O2 G7 SSE, krueger's

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux+xft+gtk2

Mac builds: Official Mac

2004-03-04 Builds

  • Fixed: Import (bookmarks, passwords, cookies, form history, history, and options) from Internet Explorer for Windows doesn't work
  • Fixed: groupboxes in Options look weird (from 236107)
  • Fixed: 235397 - Make Esc not close view source
  • Fixed: Show the download manager even for fast downloads.

Because of the last fix, the download manager now opens when saving an image (66723 or 143949?).

  • Continued regression: 234966 - crash scrolling with mousewheel (for a few users)
  • Continued regression: 234576 - Autoscroll crashes (for some users)
  • Continued regression: 234717 - Right-clicking a in a *subfolder* of the bookmarks menu makes that folder inaccessible if nothing is selected on the context menu
  • Continued regression: 234116 - Context menu commands don't work in *subfolders* of bookmarks menu.

Windows builds: Official Windows builds are screwy, BlueFyre's O2 G7 SSE, aebrahim's official-nightly-like build

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux+xft+gtk2, daihard's xft+gtk2 SSE2, dmb's, MrC's xft+gtk2 with DOMi,Venkman (SSE2, SSE, and non-SSE)

Mac builds: Official Mac