The Burning Edge

Firefox 1.5.0.x will be released from this branch, MOZILLA_1_8_0_BRANCH. Most of the changes on this branch will address security holes and reliability issues (crashes, hangs, and memory leaks), but major regressions and site-compatibility bugs will be considered too.

If you use Firefox 1.5, please switch to one of these builds if you're affected by one of the bugs below or if you want to help test that the fixes didn't break anything.

Fixes:

• Fixed: 305970 - [Linux] Certain UI operations (opening dialogs, drag and drop) cause refresh, prolonged hang (with new versions of GTK).
• Fixed: 311480 - "Firefox could not install this item because of a failure in Chrome Registration. Please contact the author about this problem." (This bug is responsible for the release note: "If Firefox 1.5 is installed on a multi-user system in a location which is not writable by users, Firefox must be run once by a privileged user. If this is not desirable, an empty file must be created in the following directory: <install-directory>/extensions/talkback@mozilla.org/chrome.manifest")
• Fixed: 316775 - Leak when selecting.
• Fixed: 317478 - Leaks due to global scope polluter being removed from not enough (?) prototype chains. (Large leak on any page that relies on seeing element IDs in the global scope.)
• Fixed: 318922 - E4X: invalid syntax to use a memory variable crashes Firefox.
• Fixed: 319391 - "eval('...') = ..." gives "invalid assignment lefthand side" as a compile-time error instead of as a runtime error (regression).

MOZILLA_1_8_0_BRANCH checkins between branch creation and 2005-12-24 06:00

Windows nightly, Windows hourly (discussion)

No Linux nightly

Mac nightly, Mac hourly

Fixes:

• Fixed: 111432 - Mouse wheel scrolling doesn't work in print preview on page margin or on frame page.
• Fixed: 299343 - Can't copy and paste into the beginning of a line (since June 17).
• Fixed: 321195 - Light/dark motifs in Chatzilla randomly work and change in Firefox 1.5.

Trunk regressions:

• Since Sept 22: 309521 - Puzzle-piece UI for missing plugins is missing.

Trunk checkins between 2005-12-21 06:00 and 2005-12-24 06:00

Windows nightly, Windows hourly (discussion)

Linux nightly, Linux hourly

Mac nightly, Mac hourly

Fixes:

• Fixed: 23485 - Browser window should strip newlines from url pastes.
• Fixed: 253481 - <xul:textbox> attribute to specify what happens to pasted line breaks.
• Fixed: 253479 - position:fixed elements in XUL document crash/hang browser.
• Fixed: 255408 - Need to be able to build mozilla --with-system-nss.

Trunk regressions:

• Since Sept 22: 309521 - Puzzle-piece UI for missing plugins is missing.

Trunk checkins between 2005-12-19 06:00 and 2005-12-21 06:00

Windows nightly, Windows hourly (discussion)

Linux nightly, Linux hourly

Mac nightly, Mac hourly

Fixes:

• Fixed: 284379 - Enabling middlemouse.contentLoadURL and middle clicking a tab should still close tab.
• Fixed: 262222 - Relative URLs in Live Bookmark link elements not resolved.
• Fixed: 274777 - Update to Expat 1.95.8.

Trunk regressions:

• Since Sept 22: 309521 - Puzzle-piece UI for missing plugins is missing.

Trunk checkins between 2005-12-15 06:00 and 2005-12-19 06:00

Windows nightly, Windows hourly (discussion)

Linux nightly, Linux hourly

Mac nightly, Mac hourly

Fixes:

• Fixed: 132183 - Chrome registry can't handle uppercase package names.
• Fixed: 298960 - -remote can no longer handle commas or quotes.

Fixes for trunk regressions:

• Fixed: 319732 - Frequent crash while typing string to search for in page (since Dec 9).
• Fixed: 319024 - Password Manager does not remember data (since ~Dec 1).
• Fixed: 306426 - Certain submenus blink (flash, flicker) rapidly and do not expand when hovered over (since ~Aug 26).

Trunk regressions:

• Since Sept 22: 309521 - Puzzle-piece UI for missing plugins is missing.

Trunk checkins between 2005-12-10 06:00 and 2005-12-15 06:00

Windows nightly, Windows hourly (discussion)

Linux nightly, Linux hourly

Mac nightly, Mac hourly

Fixes:

• Fixed: 318489 - Unable to create new XMLHttpRequests from an XPCNativeWrapped window. (Some Greasemonkey scripts break, and break in a way that can be only be fixed in ways that make them more likely to have security holes.)
• Fixed: 303713 - textbox.dispatchEvent(keyEvent) no longer adds character to textbox in Firefox 1.0.6.
• Fixed: 266933 - Flash movies using a WMODE other than "windowed" will not start playing if they are not visible in the page.
• Fixed: 306538 - Autocomplete doesn't work without a mousemove event.
• Fixed: 201528 - Browser ignores MARQUEE BEHAVIOR = "SLIDE".

Trunk regressions:

• Since Dec 9: 319732 - Frequent crash while typing string to search for in page (find as you type).
• Since Sept 22: 309521 - Puzzle-piece UI for missing plugins is missing.

Trunk checkins between 2005-12-04 06:00 and 2005-12-10 06:00

Windows nightly, Windows hourly (discussion)

Linux nightly, Linux hourly

Mac nightly, Mac hourly

Fixes:

• Fixed: 241518 - Calling addEventListener with a closure holding a content node leaks the document. (If I understand correctly, this bug caused Firefox to leak a lot when using some Greasemonkey scripts.)
• Fixed: 315841 - Java applets disappear when you have plugin registered with content policy (e.g. with Adblock).
• Fixed: 304243 - When Flash Shockwave or Java Applet plug-in is active on another tab, clicking Back causes that tab to go back.
• Fixed: 312415 - Selected images (from a selection of the document to print) are black.
• Fixed: 312566 - [Windows] Fix MouseTrailer and other mouse handling issues (Was: Try to get rid of MouseTrailer).
• Fixed: 307399 - [Windows] Moving mouse from menu to titlebar leaves menu highlighted.
• Fixed: 314856 - [Mac] Touchpad (two-finger) scrolling way too fast on Mac OS X 10.4.3.
• Fixed: 305970 - [Linux] Certain UI operations (opening dialogs, drag and drop) cause refresh, prolonged hang (CPU at 100%) (since April?).

Fixes for trunk regressions:

• Fixed: 315966 - [Mac] Bottom-to-top image crashes (since Nov 10).

Trunk regressions:

• Since Sept 22: 309521 - Puzzle-piece UI for missing plugins is missing.

Trunk checkins between 2005-11-26 06:00 and 2005-12-04 06:00

Windows nightly, Windows hourly (discussion)

Linux nightly, Linux hourly

Mac nightly, Mac hourly