Archive for April, 2004

2004-04-16 Trunk builds

  • Fixed: 58305 - Find in page does not search in form textboxes and textareas
  • Fixed: 56472 - focusing form element does not clear selected text in page
  • Since Apr 11: 240367 - Saving page or image results in "Download Error" dialog (but succeeds anyway)
  • Since ~Mar 28: 239366 - Official gtk2 build crashes on startup on Fedora Core 1. (Workaround)
  • Since Mar 20: 238186 - URL in Page Info dialog appears blue.

Windows builds: Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), djeter's O2 G5, bangbang023's O2 G7 SSE2, Darkstar's O2 G7 SSE2, Braese's G7 SSE, scragz' G6 SSE, G7 SSE, G7 SSE2, G7, O2, and O2 G7 SSE

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

Mac builds: Official Mac

2004-04-15 Trunk builds

  • Fixed: 240404 - Content area context menu broken (selection context menu appears even when nothing is selected) (since Apr 13)
  • Since Apr 11: 240367 - Saving page or image results in "Download Error" dialog (but succeeds anyway)
  • Since ~Mar 28: 239366 - Official gtk2 build crashes on startup on Fedora Core 1. (Workaround)
  • Since Mar 20: 238186 - URL in Page Info dialog appears blue.

Windows builds: Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion, djeter's O2 G7 SSE2, bangbang023's O2 G7 SSE2, Lohvarn's builds, scragz' G6 SSE, G7 SSE, G7 SSE2, G7, O2, and O2 G7 SSE

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

Mac builds: Official Mac

2004-04-14 Trunk builds

  • Fixed on trunk and branch: 234761 - Crash by invalid Content-Style-Type on typing Enters in textarea
  • Fixed on trunk and branch: 240449 - Infinite loop in DocumentViewerImpl::CreateStyleSet
  • Fixed: 235832 - Crash on Save Image As with jpeg images and Save Page As on local files (Mac only)
  • Since Apr 13: 240404 - Content area context menu broken (selection context menu appears even when nothing is selected)
  • Since Apr 11: 240367 - Saving page or image results in "Download Error" dialog (but succeeds anyway)
  • Since ~Mar 28: 239366 - Official gtk2 build crashes on startup on Fedora Core 1. (Workaround)
  • Since Mar 20: 238186 - URL in Page Info dialog appears blue.

Windows builds: Official Windows, Official Windows installer, BlueFyre's O2 G7 SSE, djeter's O2 SSE and O2 G7 SSE2

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

Mac builds: Official Mac

2004-04-13 Trunk builds

  • Fixed on trunk and branch: 240285 - form change event not properly detected by the popup blocker
  • Fixed on trunk and branch: 240174 - Starting mozilla prints "No running window found" every time
  • Fixed: 24861 - Quotes nesting doesn't work (CSS "quotes" property, <Q> elements)
  • Fixed: 238257 - File URLs don't respect XUL directory listing format preference
  • Since Apr 11: 240367 - Saving page or image results in "Download Error" dialog (but succeeds anyway)
  • Since ~Mar 28: 239366 - Official gtk2 build crashes on startup on Fedora Core 1. (Workaround)
  • Since Mar 20: 238186 - URL in Page Info dialog appears blue.

Windows builds: Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), Lohvarn's, BlueFyre's O2 G7 SSE

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

Mac builds: Official Mac

2004-04-12 Trunk builds

  • Fixed (in Apr 11 builds): 233440 - Change download manager shortcut from Ctrl+E to Ctrl+Y.
  • Fixed: 223238 - browser should add missing Windows registry key "CurrentVersion" if Java plugin is found
  • Since Apr 11: 240367 - Saving page or image results in "Download Error" dialog (but succeeds anyway)
  • Since ~Mar 28: 239366 - Official gtk2 build crashes on startup on Fedora Core 1. (Workaround)
  • Since Mar 20: 238186 - URL in Page Info dialog appears blue.

There is a new web interface to Talkback (instructions) that lets you get stack traces from Talkback reports you send. Firefox nightlies on Linux include Talkback. Firefox nightlies on Windows don't include Talkback yet, so test crashes on Windows with Seamonkey nightlies instead.

MOZILLA_1_7_BRANCH has been created, but there are no branch builds yet. Firefox 0.9 and 1.0 will be based on the Mozilla 1.7 branch.

Windows builds: Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), mmoy's with his new IDCT optimizations , bangbang023's O2 G7 SSE2, JTw's O2, djeter's O2 G7 SSE2 with many patches, BlueFyre's O2 G7 SSE, chaosite's O2 G7 SSE2

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux gtk2+xft, Official Linux gtk2+xft installer, dmb's gtk2+xft SSE2 installer

Mac builds: Official Mac

FreeBSD builds: nilson's

2004-04-11 Builds

  • New: GTK2 installer
  • New: Right-click a form textbox and select "Add keyword for this search" to set up bookmark keywords easily
  • Fixed: 237918 - Installer build throws javascript error on file->import and import dialog does not function.
  • Fixed: 239439 - Official Windows nightly zips are big (because they include winEmbed.exe) (since Mar 31)
  • Fixed: 238449 - browser context menu is shown when right clicking on java applet crossword (since ~Feb 21)
  • Fixed: 127016 - appendChild(cloneNode(true)) causes inline scripts to execute again
  • Fixed: 52005 - poor performance scrolling large plain text files (scrolling is slow)
  • Fixed: 239572 - 1.7b crash in [@ GetDocumentFromScriptContext] XMLEXTRAS.DLL when killing loading popup
  • Fixed: 237283 - Make x-remote aware of program names as well as profiles. This should make it possible to finally be able to tell the difference between firefox and thunderbird on linux.
  • Since ~Mar 28: 239366 - Official gtk2 build crashes on startup on Fedora Core 1. (Workaround)
  • Since Mar 20: 238186 - URL in Page Info dialog appears blue.

Windows builds: Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), BlueFyre's O2 G7 SSE, bangbang023's O2 G7 SSE2, djeter's O2 and O2 SSE with many patches, MozJF's, MozJF's with SVG, JTw's O2

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

Mac builds: Official Mac

Disappearing for a few days again

I'm going to the University of Oregon to check out the Ph.D. program at their CS department. I'll be back on Sunday.

2004-04-06 Builds

  • Fixed: 239833 - Firefox leaks pretty much everything related to its chrome windows
  • Fixed: 239122 - Liveconnect can be used to read any file on user's filesystem
  • Fixed: 239404 - onerror popups should be blocked
  • Fixed: 237085 - Text disappears in single-line input field or location bar on entering a large set of characters (only fixed for XFT)
  • Fixed: 236579 - [GNOME] system fonts are not picked up to be used by chrome
  • Fixed: 238654 - Content-location possible regression in 1.7b: may 'fail' on many servers [Fix: ignore Content-location from servers that send bogus Content-location info, such as IIS 6.0]
  • Since Mar 31: 239439 - Official Windows nightly zips are big (because they include winEmbed.exe)
  • Since ~Mar 28: 239366 - Official gtk2 build crashes on startup on Fedora Core 1.
  • Since Mar 20: 238186 - URL in Page Info dialog appears blue.
  • Import bug: 237918 - Installer build throws javascript error on file->import and import dialog does not function.

Windows builds: Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), djeter's O2 G7 SSE2 and O2 G5, BlueFyre's O2 G7 SSE, MozJF's, bangbang023's O2 G7 SSE2, moox's "speedy", chaosite's O2, O2 SSE, and O2 G7 SSE2, JTw's O2

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux gtk2+xft, dmb's

Mac builds: Official Mac