The Burning Edge

Trunk builds of Firefox use the version number 1.6a1, which prevents most existing extensions from working. You can work around this by setting app.extensions.version in about:config to 1.0+ or by using the "Make compatible" feature of the Nightly Tester Tools extension. Some extensions are actually incompatible, so be prepared to use -safe-mode if installing an extension this way breaks Firefox.

If you use a trunk build with your branch profile, your extensions will be disabled and you'll have to re-enable them if you return to the branch. If you want to use different profiles on the trunk and branch, you can make Firefox bring up the profile manager with "firefox.exe -P", and you can make Firefox use a specific profile with "firefox.exe -P profilename".

There have been hundreds of trunk-only fixes since the previous Burning Edge trunk post. Here are some of the most interesting ones:

New stuff:

• Fixed: 172817 - Allow external source viewer/editor. (Use about:config to set view_source.editor.external to true and set view_source.editor.path to the path to your favorite text editor.)
• Fixed: 316782 - Provide templatized array class [down with nsVoidArray!].
• Partially Fixed: 305949 - Stop exporting nonfrozen XPCOM functions.
• Fixed (?): 312760 - Provide base channel for use by protocol implementations.
• Fixed: Part of 245684 - Add JPG encoding support.

Fixes:

• Fixed: 113187 - Cannot use shortcut of single key(e.g., space key, "/", "'", "F", "N", "B", "P" and "T") if IME is active.
• Fixed: 251123 - HTTPS lock icon does not explain mixed secure/non-encrypted icon when hovering. (Now says "Warning: Contains unauthenticated content" in this case, and "Authenticated by %S" otherwise.)
• Fixed (?): 271498 - Context menu appears top left of page when using keyboard.
• Fixed: 309044 - Flashplayer 8 "Bad NPObject as private data!".
• Fixed: 112502 - <sup> or "vertical-align:super" changes the position of text too higher.
• Fixed: 309075 - Right-clicking a partially off-screen link shouldn't scroll the page.
• Fixed: 315990 - "this.statement.causes.an.error" is ignored instead of throwing.
• Fixed: 313807 - [Mac] Unicode keyboard layouts stop working after visiting a page with <applet> tag (since Aug 17 on both trunk and branch).
• Fixed: 200119 - Crash during shutdown (StopCRLUpdateTimer) [@ nsHashtable::Reset ].
• Fixed: 315189 - Loading this URL crashes [@ nsHTMLDocument::MatchLinks].
• Fixed (?): 311399 - [Mac] Crash [@ SetOrigin] during rendering context destruction [Mac].
• Partially fixed: 313309 - Provide table-driven QueryInterface mechanism.
• Fixed: 121414 - JS could use some focused partial evaluation.

Fixes for trunk regressions:

• Partially fixed: 309521 - Plugin finder is broken. (The infobar is back, but the puzzle piece isn't.)

Trunk regressions:

• Since Sept 22: 309521 - Puzzle-piece UI for missing plugins is missing.
• Since Nov 10: 315966 - [Mac] Bottom-to-top image crashes.

Trunk checkins between 2005-11-07 06:00 and 2005-11-26 06:00

Windows nightly, Windows hourly (discussion)

Linux nightly, Linux hourly

Mac nightly, Mac hourly

Fixes:

• Fixed: 316025 - Crash at allaccess.com and MySpace (over 20% of all RC2 crashes).
• Fixed: 315189 - Setting innerHTML to a string containing a <style> tag causes display problems (e.g. at Yahoo! Mail Beta) or crashes.
• Fixed: Several OS/2 bugs.

No known major regressions.

Gecko 1.8 branch checkins between 2005-11-07 12:00 and 2005-11-11 16:05

Windows nightly, Windows hourly

Linux nightly, Linux hourly

Mac nightly, Mac hourly

Trunk builds of Firefox use the version number 1.6a1, which prevents most existing extensions from working. You can work around this by setting app.extensions.version in about:config to 1.0+ or by using the "Make compatible" feature of the Nightly Tester Tools extension. Some extensions are actually incompatible, so be prepared to use -safe-mode if installing an extension this way breaks Firefox.

If you use a trunk build with your branch profile, your extensions will be disabled and you'll have to re-enable them if you return to the branch. If you want to use different profiles on the trunk and branch, you can make Firefox bring up the profile manager with "firefox.exe -P", and you can make Firefox use a specific profile with "firefox.exe -P profilename".

There have been over a hundred trunk-only fixes since the previous Burning Edge trunk post. Here are some of the most interesting ones:

New stuff:

• Fixed: 313414 - Add a way to do "sandboxed" http connections that don't modify the cookie list.
• Fixed: 314465 - Implement a non-copyingCompareUTF8toUTF16.
• Fixed: 263042 - Ship both autocomplete impls with the new-toolkit (<textbox type="autocomplete-xpfe">) to aid transition, #ifdef-hell.
• Fixed: 264308 - Implement DOM Level 3 UserData API.
• Fixed: 314218 - New version of JEP (0.9.5+a), please land on trunk and branch.

Fixes:

• Fixed: 147670 - Wrong (last or empty) tooltip text displayed for dropdown list menu items.
• Fixed: 226094 - Support JavaScript Core for WinXP AMD64.
• Fixed: 314549 - Various bugs involving containers not actually fixed for subframes.
• Fixed: 312036 - History.dat contains entries deleted from the "date and site" view.
• Fixed: Several fixes for specific DHTML performance tests.

Fixes for trunk regressions:

• Fixed: 312804 - No longer shows loading-image.gif when loading images; shows broken-image.gif instead (since Oct 17).
• Fixed: 309706 - Stack overflow crash [@ jpinscp.dll + 0xaa87] (since Sept 22).

Trunk regressions:

• Since Sept 22: 309521 - Plugin finder is broken.

Trunk checkins between 2005-10-25 06:00 and 2005-11-07 06:00

Windows nightly, Windows hourly (discussion)

Linux nightly, Linux hourly

Mac nightly, Mac hourly

Fixes:

• Fixed: A few potential security holes.

No known major regressions.

Gecko 1.8 branch checkins between 2005-11-05 06:00 and 2005-11-07 12:00

Windows nightly, Windows hourly (discussion)

Linux nightly, Linux hourly

Mac nightly, Mac hourly

Fixes:

• Fixed: 309044 - Flashplayer 8 "Bad NPObject as private data!" (clicking FlashBlock placeholder does not show the Flash).
• Fixed: 314258 - ExtensionItemUpdater:checkForDone: Failure in listener's onAddonUpdateEnded.

Fixes for regressions:

• Fixed: 315017 - [Linux] Undetermined progressmeter doesn't work.

No known major regressions.

Gecko 1.8 branch checkins between 2005-11-04 06:00 and 2005-11-05 06:00

Windows nightly, Windows hourly (discussion)

Linux nightly, Linux hourly

Mac nightly, Mac hourly

Fixes:

• Fixed: 314754 - "Extension compatibility updates" check never completes.
• Fixed: 314684 - Endless update loop from firefox 1.5 beta2 to 1.5 rc1 if 1.0.x was ever installed (finds and downloads an update, fails to apply, then prompts for re-download).

Fixes for regressions:

• Fixed: 312777 - Negative margins cause floated elements to be placed to the right of incorrect earlier boxes (since March 2005).
• Fixed: 312363 - document.write into iframe results in broken-lock icon (bankhapoalim.co.il incorrectly indicated as only partially encrypted) (since Sept 3, 2005).
• WFM: 314484 - Firefox 1.5 RC1 topcrash [@ 0xffffff4d] [@ js_GC] (frequent crash, especially when Greasemonkey is installed).

No known major regressions.

Gecko 1.8 branch checkins between 2005-11-01 06:00 and 2005-11-04 06:00

Windows nightly, Windows hourly (discussion)

Linux nightly, Linux hourly

Mac nightly, Mac hourly