2004-09-28 Branch builds

  • Fixed: 124750 - Other tab steals focus with javascript textbox.focus().
  • Fixed: 261692 - New livemark RSS icon has a dropdown in the bookmarks menu.
  • Fixed: 248987 - When "Hide the tab bar when only one tab is open" in unchecked, "closing" the last tab should blank the tab instead of temporarily hiding the tab bar.
  • Fixed: 254078 - Flashing cursor in View Source window cannot be moved by arrow keys.
  • Fixed: 255812 - Scroll bar in extension manager is very slow, uses 70-100% CPU.
  • Fixed: 259203 - Uninstalling current non-default theme breaks browser.
  • Since Sept 15: 258767 - Shift+Delete to remove autocomplete results crashes Firefox.

Windows builds: Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), bangbang's, moox's

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux installer, sri's O3 SSE2

Mac builds: Official Mac

18 Responses to “2004-09-28 Branch builds”

  1. Dave Arter Says:

    Strange, the Official Linux (non-installer) shows up as 20040921.

  2. Anonymous Says:

    Strange fix for 248987. The old method might not have been intuitive but at least allowed people to temporary disable the tab bar to have more space while the new one just loads the rather useless about:blank.

  3. vfwlkr Says:

    @previous commenter

    While there might not be a ‘correct fix’ for 248987, I’m really glad the old, stupid, non-intuitive and fundamentally incorrect behavior of just hiding the tab bar is gone.

    Say I accidentaly opened I site that is inappropriate at work, and want to quickly close it (boss approaching). What do I do? Try to close the tab.. and you want to give it more screen space instead? how intelligent! I’m glad you dont design UIs.

  4. vfwlkr Says:

    Maybe I’ve come across as too harsh in my previous comment.. but I really hated the old behavior. I’ve blogged about in the past:
    http://weblog.wlkr.net/archives/000097.html
    http://weblog.wlkr.net/archives/000201.html

  5. Rirath Says:

    There’s been extensions to fix it for a long time now, like blank last tab.

  6. vfwlkr Says:

    Yeah, and this checkin does exactly what blank last tab did.. without needing to install the extension!

  7. anonymous Says:

    > Say I accidentaly opened I site that is inappropriate at work, and want to quickly close it (boss approaching).
    Pressing back, perhaps? Are you sure you mean “accidentaly opened”? ;-)

    > […] and want to quickly close it […]
    Set a blank page homepage or bookmark this, that has the same effect actually. Or if you use multiple tabs Undo Close Tab can be handy. Or just close the Browser if you’ve Session Saver. Also a blank page seems rather suspicious, if you ask me.

    > and you want to give it more screen space instead? how intelligent!
    I regulary need to compare content of various (different) browsers and programs at once, so every pixel matters, but I don’t need it often enough to let it hide by default and missing functionality. I would also be happpy by a View->Toolbars entry or something along the line, so I don’t to change the pref back and forth.

    > Yeah, and this checkin does exactly what blank last tab did.. without needing to install the extension!
    Did you read https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248987#c14

  8. anonymous Says:

    > bookmark this
    data:text/plain;charset=utf-8,

  9. anonymous Says:

    or create one yourself at http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/data/data

  10. anonymous Says:

    > Yeah, and this checkin does exactly what blank last tab did.. without needing to install the extension!

    well what about the rest of us who liked the old behavior? CTRL-W still closed the last tab, by closing the window…but now there’s no way to close the tabbar. I mean 95% of the time i want it open, but there’s the rare case that i need that little extra screenspace. oh well

  11. vfwlkr Says:

    That is not a reasonable argument for keeping the old behavior. What you’re asking for is a geeky preference: something like “hide the tab bar” on the context menu when you right-click it. However, whether or not that preference should be added is a separate discussion.

    Talking about this fix:

    old behavior: the preference “hide the tab-bar when only one tab is open” was overloaded, and if a user had unchecked it, it wasnt respected.

    new behavior: the user’s choice is respected.

  12. amake Says:

    I have to agree with vfwlkr. The old behavior was unintuitive and irritating.

  13. Anonymous Says:

    > The old behavior was unintuitive and irritating.
    Is that so? Previously if you clicked the close button the last ‘tab’ was closed (or did you saw any tab remaining?), just the browser stayed. Now clicking it just loads another page (which just happens to be about:blank). Now talk about intuitive.

    The only thing wrong with the old behaviour was that it stayed so after browser restart, something which could’ve been fixed by itself.

  14. anonymous Says:

    > the preference “hide the tab-bar when only one tab is open” was overloaded, and if a user had unchecked it, it wasnt respected.
    It was repected, the tab-bar was not hidden if there was only one tab open, it was hidden when the user requested it explicitly.

  15. amake Says:

    When I click the “close” button, I expect the page I was looking at to no longer be there. So yes, loading about:blank is just fine with me.

  16. Eric Says:

    vfwlkr said:
    “Say I accidentaly opened I site that is inappropriate at work, and want to quickly close it (boss approaching). What do I do?”

    try out the PaNIC extension.
    http://extensions.roachfiend.com/#panic

  17. Synonymous Says:

    sweetlou builds have moved to http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/sweetlou-0.9/

  18. Jesse Ruderman Says:

    Thanks, Synonymous.