The Burning Edge

In the 7 days since my last Burning Edge post, all of the regressions I had been tracking here, plus a few more, have been fixed!

• Fixed: 241068 - Intermittent crash when entering text in input field. (Since ~Apr 17)
• Fixed: 238186 - URL in Page Info dialog appears blue. (Since Mar 20)
• Fixed: 241700 - alt+spacebar must be pressed twice to activate Windows control menu (since ~Apr 22)
• Fixed: 242082 - Help Viewer TOC topic-loading broken on 20040428
• Fixed: 240962 - Charset in Content-Type header is ignored for XHTML
• Fixed (?): 239366 - Official gtk2 build crashes on startup on Fedora Core 1 (Since ~Mar 28).
• Fixed: Green square in status bar (Since ~Apr 30).

Many additional bugs have been fixed and features added:

• Fixed: 123662 - "File / cannot be found. Please check the location and try again" when loading page
• Fixed: 203756 - Enable URLBar autofill with hidden pref "browser.urlbar.autoFill"
• Fixed: 236313 - Mozilla crashes after clicking "SKYPASS" at Korean Air site
• Fixed: 242282 - M17rc1 crash quickly hitting back button [@ nsPluginDOMContextMenuListener::Destroy]
• Fixed: 230417 - M17b crash [@ 0x00000000 - nsIView::Destroy] - Print preview crashes at http://www.linuxworld.com/story/32629.htm
• Fixed: 242564 - Default p3p cookie action changed to reject
• Fixed: 242069 - "Manage Security Devices" and "Manage Certificates" does not work (error "openDeviceManager is not defined" etc. shown in Javascript Console)
• Fixed: 158071 - Input undo/redo buffers cleared after Javascript changes to input values
• Fixed: 241592 - page with flash object and unsized image never finishes loading
• Fixed: 57906 - :root element grows to fit contents [BG] (stretches)
• Fixed: 60212 - Add DOM 2 UIEvent interface
• Fixed: 212177 - Pasting selections containing images as text doesn't include alt text
• Fixed: 242503 - selectbox options are redendered as text outside of the selectbox
• Fixed: 97434 - Some Windows keyboard behaviours missing from trees
• Fixed: 217916 - advanced options: expanding/collapsing bugs

But there are several new major regressions:

• Since May 6: 242856 - Slow image rendering.
• Since ~May 4: 242691 - Animated gifs do not animate properly.
• Since May 1: 242709 - Disabling Submit button prevents form from submitting.
• Since May 1: 242439 - submit button on planet.nl does not work.
• Since ~Apr 30: 242275 - browser window hangs on https certificate dialog (installer builds only).
• Since ~Apr 26: 241865 - Drag-n-drop link to download manager doesn't work.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), moox's experimental build, BlueFyre's O2 G7 SSE, bangbang's O2 G7 SSE2, Lohvarn's builds, dbright's builds, djeter's O2 G7 SSE2 and O2 G6 SSE, TierMann's O2 G7 SSE, O2 G6

Lohvarn made branch builds in addition to trunk builds.

Official Linux, no official gtk2+xft builds, daihard's SSE2, MozJF's gtk2+xft

Official Mac

• Fixed: 241924 - Mozilla can upload files without user confirmation. (This was a regression; Mozilla 1.6 and Firefox 0.8 did not have the bug.)
• Fixed: 241447 - Typing in toolbar affected by character duplication when Flash is being played. (This was a regression in the last few days.)
• Fixed: 241646 - Shift+Mousewheel (scrollwheel) behavior backwards and unintuitive (WFM)
• Fixed: Update to Firefox Help 1.1
• Fixed: 77019 - <tr style="visibility: collapse;"> looks like hidden and collapsed
• Fixed: 118717 - Never let sites position windows outside the screen
• Fixed: 164821 - document.open('text/html','replace') does not replace history entry
• Fixed: 220187 - TABINDEX property ignored for input type=file
• Fixed: 225500 - installer thinks that Seamonkey is Firefox and must close it for installation/uninstallation to continue
• Fixed: 240257 - directory listings show wrong sizes for files > 4 GB
• Fixed: 241053 - find in textarea misses some matches
• Fixed: 241611 - Possible shutdown crashes due to silliness in nsDownloadManager::Init
• Fixed: 236241 - Use Current Page fails when Options is not opened from a browser window
• Fixed: 231442 - Opening Options from Download Manager defaults to General tab if General is last selected
• Fixed: 241050 - M17rc1 and Trunk topcrash [@ nsJSContext::DOMBranchCallback]

• Since ~Apr 30: Green square in status bar (workaround).
• Since ~Apr 22: 241700 - Alt+spacebar must be pressed twice to activate Windows control menu.
• Since ~Apr 17: 241068 - Intermittent crash when entering text in input field. (Workaround: disable autocomplete in Options > Privacy > Saved Form Information)
• Since ~Mar 28: 239366 - Official gtk2 build crashes on startup on Fedora Core 1. (Workaround)
• Since Mar 20: 238186 - URL in Page Info dialog appears blue.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), Lohvarn's builds, BlueFyre's O2 G7 SSE, bangbang's O2 G7 SSE2, dbright's G7 SSE2 and G6 SSE, TierMann's G7 SSE, G6

Official Linux, Official Linux gtk2+xft, Official Linux gtk2+xft installer

Official Mac

• Fixed on trunk and branch: 204706 - the cursor should remain at the end of the text field when arrowing down through completions
• Fixed on trunk and branch: 228320 - When any sidebar is active, a 5-pixel spacer appears on the left of all popups

• Since ~Apr 17: 241068 - Intermittent crash when entering text in input field. (Workaround: disable autocomplete in Options > Privacy > Saved Form Information)
• Since ~Mar 28: 239366 - Official gtk2 build crashes on startup on Fedora Core 1. (Workaround)
• Since Mar 20: 238186 - URL in Page Info dialog appears blue.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), JTw's G6, djeter's O2 G6 SSE, O2 G7 SSE2, BlueFyre's G7 SSE, DarkStar's O2 G7 SSE2, O2 G6 SSE, bangbang's O2 G7 SSE2, TierMann's O2, O2 G7 SSE, moox's O2 G6 and O2 G7

Official Linux, no official gtk2 builds, aebrahim's gtk2+xft

Official Mac

• Since ~Apr 17: 241068 - Intermittent crash when entering text in input field. (Workaround: disable autocomplete in Options > Privacy > Saved Form Information)
• Since ~Mar 28: 239366 - Official gtk2 build crashes on startup on Fedora Core 1. (Workaround)
• Since Mar 20: 238186 - URL in Page Info dialog appears blue.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), BlueFyre's G7 SSE, marko_3000's O2 G7 SSE with SVG, djeter's O2 G7 SSE2, bangbang's O2 G7 SSE2, TierMann's O2 with SVG, JTw's G6, amano's gcc build, Legenda's O2 G7 SSE

Official Linux, no official gtk2 builds, aebrahim's gtk2+xft, MozillaCop's gtk2+xft for AthXP, Duron

Official Mac

• Fixed: 240811 - Can't install extensions (since Apr 17)
• Fixed: 240367 - Saving page or image results in "Download Error" dialog (but succeeds anyway) (since Apr 11)
• Fixed: 205550 - Mozilla web services (WSDL, SOAP) leak memory
• Fixed: 213963 - Increase limit on number of cookies (cookies get lost after a huge number of cookies is reached)

If you still can't install extensions or if you can't close tabs with this build, installing/unzipping to an empty directory will fix it.

• Since ~Apr 17: 241068 - Intermittent crash when entering text in input field. (Workaround: disable autocomplete in Options > Privacy > Saved Form Information)
• Since ~Mar 28: 239366 - Official gtk2 build crashes on startup on Fedora Core 1. (Workaround)
• Since Mar 20: 238186 - URL in Page Info dialog appears blue.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), BlueFyre's G7 SSE, bangbang's O2 G7 SSE2, TierMann's O2 G7 SSE, marko_3000's O2 G7 SSE with SVG, JTw's O2 G6 and O2 G7 SSE2 with DOMi, Cal, scragz' G6 SSE, G7 SSE, G7 SSE2, G7, O2, and O2 G7 SSE

Official Linux, no official gtk2 builds

Official Mac

• Since ~Apr 17: 241068 - Intermittent crash when entering text in input field.
• Since Apr 17: 240811 - Can't install extensions. Will be fixed in tomorrow's builds.
• Since Apr 11: 240367 - Saving page or image results in "Download Error" dialog (but succeeds anyway). Will be fixed in tomorrow's builds.
• Since ~Mar 28: 239366 - Official gtk2 build crashes on startup on Fedora Core 1. (Workaround)
• Since Mar 20: 238186 - URL in Page Info dialog appears blue.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), BlueFyre's G7 SSE, bangbang's O2 G7 SSE2, djeter's O2 with SVG, marko_3000's O2 G7 SSE, JTw's G6 and G7 SSE2 with DOMi, SVG, scragz' G6 SSE, G7 SSE, G7 SSE2, G7, O2, and O2 G7 SSE

Official Linux, no official gtk2 builds, aebrahim's gtk2+xft

Official Mac

• Fixed: 240835 - No progress indication in download manager.
• Fixed: 237754 - reintroduce getRegistryEntry, allowing Launchy to work again.
• Fixed on trunk and branch: 240759 - necko DNS cache stops working (LIFO instead of FIFO)
• Fixed: 64485 - [Linux] Intellimouse Explorer Backwards and Forwards button support
• Fixed: 142120 - Too many stops for Ctrl-RightArrow ("a b" stop 3 times instead of 2) (Linux and Mac)

These builds have a new partial Extension Manager. Ben says "I recommend steering clear of as much of this UI/functionality as possible in the next week or three since it's pretty broken right now and really does nothing useful yet. Please don't file any bugs on any of this yet - it's very very far from done."

• Since ~Apr 17: 241068 - Intermittent crash when entering text in input field.
• Since Apr 17: 240811 - Can't install extensions.
• Since Apr 11: 240367 - Saving page or image results in "Download Error" dialog (but succeeds anyway).
• Since ~Mar 28: 239366 - Official gtk2 build crashes on startup on Fedora Core 1. (Workaround)
• Since Mar 20: 238186 - URL in Page Info dialog appears blue.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), TierMann's O2 G7 SSE, djeter's O2 G7 SSE2, scragz' G6 SSE, G7 SSE, G7 SSE2, G7, O2, and O2 G7 SSE

Official Linux, no official gtk2 builds

Official Mac

Seamonkey (but not Firefox) now has "File > Upload File..." for FTP upload. There was a Firefox checkin related to this change, but I think there's still no way to upload files to FTP using Firefox.

• Since Apr 17: 240811 - Can't install extensions
• Since Apr 17: 240835 - No progress indication in download manager
• Since Apr 11: 240367 - Saving page or image results in "Download Error" dialog (but succeeds anyway)
• Since ~Mar 28: 239366 - Official gtk2 build crashes on startup on Fedora Core 1. (Workaround)
• Since Mar 20: 238186 - URL in Page Info dialog appears blue.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), BlueFyre's O2 G7 SSE, scragz' G6 SSE, G7 SSE, G7 SSE2, G7, O2, and O2 G7 SSE

Official Linux, Official Linux gtk2+xft, Official Linux gtk2+xft installer

Official Mac