Archive for October, 2004

2004-10-14 Branch builds

  • Fixed: 253793 - Find in page won't stop if you go to the next page.
  • Fixed: 251989 - Feedback missing on current highlighted text & cued search when findbar is opened.
  • Fixed: 258821 - Cancel creating bookmark/folder doesn't work.
  • Fixed: 69070 - Security hole: Do not allow http: documents to load images from file: via <IMG>.

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

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Mac builds: Official Mac

2004-10-13 Branch builds

  • Fixed: 263606 - Update notification broken (updates button always visible, always green, no tooltips) (since Oct 9).
  • Fixed: 253326 - Information bar (blocked popup, missing plugin, etc) should be closeable.
  • Fixed: 262758 - Live bookmarks leak memory/RDF resources.
  • Fixed: 252133 - New bookmark items get added to end of container, instead of next to selected item.
  • Fixed: 172962 - [Mac, Linux] Options for where to open URLs from other applications (reuse tab, new tab, new window), like on Windows.
  • Fixed: 88579 - [Windows] Bad default Traditional Chinese font.
  • Fixed: 250983 - "Close Window" (Ctrl+Shift+W) does not display confirm dialog when multiple tabs are open.
  • Fixed: 248817 - Pressing delete with nothing selected breaks delete in Bookmark Manager.
  • Fixed: 263549 - For non-custom installs, only install Talkback 20% of the time (randomly).
  • Fixed: 263928 - Add distribution ID to parameters sent to some search engines.
  • Fixed: 263394 - Live bookmark with bad tags crashes browser.
  • Fixed: 263680 - /FIXED:NO linker option increases executable size.
  • Fixed: 263263 - Potential security hole: Dialog box asks if I meant to load www.google.com. If I answer no, it loads anyway.
  • Fixed: 222799 - Options dialog assumes white background/black text colours.
  • Fixed: New Options icons.
  • Fixed: 263738 - Crash on print/print preview [@ nsTableRowFrame::InsertCellFrame].
  • Fixed: 257215 - [Linux] Unable to migrate from Opera.
  • Fixed: 250847 - [Linux] Problems with -install-global-extension.

If you use branch nightlies, you'll probably get update notifications for the data: security fix, even though that fix is included in the nightlies. To fix these bogus update notifications, go to about:config and change app.version from 0.10 to 0.10.1.

Windows builds: Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), bangbang's, amano's with MNG and experimental patches

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux installer, matlhDam's SSE with SVG

Mac builds: Official Mac, MMx2000's German, French, Italian and Czech

2004-10-10 Branch builds

  • Fixed: Divert all window.open() calls, not just featureless windows. (Change default for hidden pref link.open_window.restriction to 0.)
  • Fixed: Don't divert window.open to a new tab if the named window exists.
  • Fixed: 235450 - If the web page tries to open a pop-up with a useless URL ("", "about:blank", same URL as page), omit it from the menu that lets you manually open a pop-up.
  • Fixed: 57600 - Make document.open() use the codebase of the caller as the URI of the document. Using the URI of the calling document is wrong when the caller is a document loaded from a javascript: URI.
  • Since Oct 9: 263606 - Update notification broken (updates button always visible, always green, no tooltips).

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

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Mac builds: Official Mac, MMx2000's Italian and French

2004-10-09 Branch builds

  • Fixed: 254040 - Incorrect address in address bar after using keyword (I'm Feeling Lucky) feature (since ~July 23).
  • Fixed: 252306 - New popup notifier causes infinite reload loop on sites that reload on resize.
  • Fixed: 252599 - 'Add a Keyword for this Search' doesn't save all form elements (checkbox, radio button).
  • Fixed: 262065 - Temporarily disable alternate stylesheet statusbar icon until 83663 fixed.
  • Fixed: 259717 - Amazon search plugin uses kurona-20 instead of mozilla-20 as affiliate code.
  • Fixed: 261991 - Re-order search plug-in list.
  • Fixed: 258189 - Use new icons for Yahoo and eBay search.
  • Fixed: 263019 - Get more info link should pass in system info and non-installed mimetypes.
  • Fixed: 262807 - Updates button doesn't appear if using an old profile and having customized toolbars.
  • Fixed: 262544 - Firefox should indicate if a restart is required after installing an update.
  • Fixed: 262953 - Installer Option to reset homepage.
  • Fixed: 247603 - Removing address bar breaks stuff.
  • Fixed: 262537 - Tabs opened from left click and from external applications should always open in foreground.
  • Fixed: 263060 - Ensure that editor is initialized properly before performing selection operations (regression that affected some bookmarklets since Oct 5).
  • Fixed: 207781 - Topcrash: Crash if I scroll the page while keeping the cursor on the link.
  • Fixed: 245722 - Topcrash: Crash on start after importing passwords.
  • Fixed: 240490 - Topcrash: Crash printing XUL pages. (The fix was to disable printing XUL pages.)
  • Fixed: 256635 - [Linux] N-th tab shortcuts should use Alt-1 to Alt-9 rather than Ctrl-1 to Ctrl-9.
  • Fixed: 248419 - [Linux] Yellow background in location bar for secure site indication does not show.

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

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Mac builds: Official Mac

2004-10-05 Branch builds

  • Fixed: 242036 - Setting window.status is ridiculously slow.
  • Fixed: 256218 - Add go button to default toolbar.
  • Fixed: 241625 - "Open in tabs" doesn't focus content area in first tab.
  • Fixed: 260591 - Bookmarks.html not created if it does not exist in profile, bookmarks fail to save.
  • Fixed: 259039 - Import bookmarks wizard doesn't display open file dialog (closes after choosing "from file").
  • Fixed: 258787 - Personal Toolbar: Not all context menu items are available when right clicking.

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

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux installer, sri's, matlhDam's

Mac builds: Official Mac

2004-10-04 Branch builds

  • Fixed: 258767 - Shift+Delete to remove autocomplete results crashes Firefox (since Sept 15). (Fixed at 11AM, before the official Windows builds but after the official Mac and Linux builds.)
  • Fixed: Divert featureless window.open calls to tabs.
  • Fixed: 248432 - Unable to uninstall extensions which have not finished downloading.
  • Fixed: 254662 - "Don't exit" dialog boxes exits anyway.
  • Fixed: 252182 - Extensions are not correctly re-enabled after -safe-mode.
  • Fixed: 247884 - Upgrading doesn't remove the old entry from Add Remove Programs - Windows.
  • Fixed: 258892 - When changing themes, Firefox reverts to uninstalled theme if you fail to select a new theme.
  • Fixed: 242393 - Topcrash: After dowloading page [@ nsHttpChannel::OnDataAvailable ].

If you select "Force links that open new windows to open in: a new tab", Firefox diverts links with target="_blank". It also diverts JavaScript window.open() calls, but only calls that don't specify window features (e.g. size and which toolbars are displayed). Most calls to window.open() specify the size of the window. You can change this by setting the browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction pref in about:config.

  • 0: divert window.open() (what I use)
  • 1: don't divert window.open()
  • 2: divert window.open() without features (default)

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

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux installer, daihard's

Mac builds: Official Mac

Bug 259708 fully disclosed

Several readers were curious about the details of bug 259708, the security hole 0.10.1 was released to fix. The bug is now public. In addition, the reporter, Alex Vincent, blogged the story of the bug.

2004-10-02 Branch builds

  • Fixed: 262272 - Icon in location bar doesn't clear when visiting site without favicon.
  • Fixed: 259005 - Print preview should hide the browser statusbar.
  • Fixed: 256048 - Icon for the disabled Clean Up button in Downloads Manager missing.
  • Since Sept 15: 258767 - Shift+Delete to remove autocomplete results crashes Firefox.

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

Linux builds: Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Mac builds: Official Mac