The Burning Edge

Ben Goodger:

We're heading into a 1.0Preview Release early-mid next week. We don't have Release Candidates ready yet (maybe by Friday), but do take a look at the latest nightlies if you want to help test.

Firefox 1.0 PR blockers

Bugs nominated to block Firefox 1.0 PR

What's new in Firefox 1.0 Preview Release

Draft Release Notes

• Fixed: 22183 - UI spoofing can cause user to mistake content for chrome. The fix was to make the address bar (but not the status bar) always visible.
• Fixed: 250396 - Clean up Web Search commandkeys (details).
• Fixed: 255439 - Extension/Theme Manager and Help Contents don't close on ESC.
• Fixed: 245324 - Incompatible extension warning needs different text for app incompatibility than version incompatibility.
• Fixed: 256201 - Add a "Clear Search History" menuitem to the search bar context menu to aid discoverability.
• Fixed: 256682 - Ctrl-down in search field does not select next engine.
• Fixed: 253015 - Changing search engine doesn't set focus to search box.

• Since August 10: 255123 - [Windows] Opening internet shortcut (.url file) restores second window when all windows minimized.
• Since ~August 5: 254525 - [Windows] Opening internet shortcut (.url file) brings error dialog when firefox is already running.
• Since ~July 23: 254040 - Incorrect address in address bar after typing phrase for I'm Feeling Lucky Google search.

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

Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Official Mac

• Fixed: 252118 - Necko ignores settings for max-persistent-connections-per-server.
• Fixed: 257375 - about:mozilla should be localizable.
• Fixed: 241987 - Export bookmarks doesn't save the bookmarks to a file like bookmarks.html.
• Fixed: 239358 - [FC2 Linux] Reverse DNS lookups are degrading performance.
• Fixed: 221365 - [Mac] Shockwave plugin does not work on Mac (app needs vers resource).
• Fixed: 257047 - Update all user-facing version strings to "1.0 Preview Release".
• Fixed: 256029 - OK doesn't work after changing home page and switching to another category.
• Fixed: 257242 - Doubled up search plugins if you used Mycroft to install search plugins that are now included by default (Amazon, Dictionary.com, eBay, Google, Yahoo).
• Fixed: Change live bookmark menu item from "RSS" to "Subscribe to 'RSS'...".
• Fixed: Don't show bogus Blogger Atom links.

Extension manager fixes:

• Fixed: 257304 - Use RDF instead of SOAP/WSDL for generic extension update service.
• Fixed: 247322 - No error when installing 0.9 and not 0.9+ compatible extensions in firefox 0.9+.
• Fixed: 252543 - Extension never gets installed second time when it has files in components\.
• Fixed: 256930 - Turn off dynamic theme switching. (Can be turned back on with extensions.dss.enabled)
• Fixed: 256960 - Individual Extension/Theme update is broken.
• Fixed: 256961 - Cancel button is disabled on "Updates Found" page.
• Fixed: 257179 - Theme update failures and blank wizard panel.
• Fixed: 258013 - Incompatible disabled extensions can be reenabled.
• Fixed: - Add a hidden pref for admins that completely disables update checking (app.update.enabled). There is still a user-visible pref that disables automatic update checking (extensions.update.autoUpdateEnabled).
• Fixed (?): Turn the updates-available status bar indicator into a toolbar button.
• Fixed: part of 252779 - Use HTTPS for update checking.
• Fixed: Remove the tiny per-item buttons in extension manager. "Options" is now a normal button outside of the list, and "Home" / "About" are now relegated to context menu items.
• Fixed: 257045 - Update app/EM internal version numbers to "0.10".
• Fixed: 251821 - Disabled/grayed-out status bar icons for updates, live bookmarks, alternate styles, popup blocking and security.

• Since August 10: 255123 - [Windows] Opening internet shortcut (.url file) restores second window when all windows minimized.
• Since ~August 5: 254525 - [Windows] Opening internet shortcut (.url file) brings error dialog when firefox is already running.
• Since ~July 23: 254040 - Incorrect address in address bar after typing phrase for I'm Feeling Lucky Google search.

If you have downloaded a branch build after August 25th, and installed it with the installer, you'll have to manually remove the following files in your searchplugin directory (otherwise the engines will appear doubled up): Amazon.com.png, Amazon.com.src, Dictionary.com.png, Dictionary.com.src, Yahoo.gif, Yahoo.src. (From pch's checkin comment for bug 257242.)

A patch to hide Firefox's "hidden window" from Exposé in Mac OS X 10.3 was checked in, fixing bug 223545. But this patch was backed out due to a regression it caused on Mac OS X 10.2 (bug 257647).

Draft Firefox 1.0 PR release notes have been posted.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), shill's, pigfoot's, bangbang's

Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Official Mac

• Fixed: 231361 - Download manager doesn't show downloaded filesize after 1MB if the filesize is "unknown".
• Fixed: 245655 - Security warning dialogs cannot be made permanent through the checkbox.
• Fixed: 241363 - Search box is ugly in Customize Toolbars dialog.
• Fixed: 238022 - Remove "Additional Browser Enhancements" from installer.
• Fixed: 253698 - Add "open in tabs" for live bookmarks.
• Fixed: 251032 - Floated SELECT loses drop-down widget.
• Fixed: 254175 - Allow installer building to be fully localizable.
• Fixed: 256663 - Old default plugin/new plugin placeholder can both appear on same page. (I think the fix was to disable the new plugin finder on the branch.)
• Fixed: 253332 - Implement Page Style > None.
• Fixed: 256886 - Leak when opening Themes window.
• Fixed: 255394 - Include Firefox version number in Google query strings (?)
• Fixed: 248509 - [Windows] NT4 "illegal instruction" SSE2 jpeg crash [@ dct_8x8_inv_16s ].
• Fixed: 254303 - [Linux] 1.7.2 tar.gz package has wrong permissions.
• Fixed: 235781 - [Linux] XPInstall ignores user's umask when installing files.

• Since August 10: 255123 - [Windows] Opening internet shortcut (.url file) restores second window when all windows minimized.
• Since ~August 5: 254525 - [Windows] Opening internet shortcut (.url file) brings error dialog when firefox is already running.
• Since ~July 23: 254040 - Incorrect address in address bar after typing phrase for I'm Feeling Lucky Google search.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), bangbang's O2 G7 SSE2, moox's builds

No official Linux builds, matlhDam's SSE with SVG

Official Mac, MMx's German (de-DE) build