The Burning Edge http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge Developments in nightly builds of Mozilla Firefox Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:30:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2012-01-31 Trunk builds http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/2012/01/31/2012-01-31-trunk-builds/ http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/2012/01/31/2012-01-31-trunk-builds/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:30:17 +0000 Jesse Ruderman http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/?p=1070

Notable fixes:

  • Fixed: 455553 - New Tab Page feature. (Off by default. To enable, set browser.newtab.url to about:newtab and browser.newtabpage.enabled to true, then open a new browser window.)
  • Fixed: 681548 - Media controls visual refresh.
  • Fixed: 719177 - Use UpdateOverflow hint more.

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Notable fixes:

  • Fixed: 566489 - Inline URL autocomplete (up the next slash).
  • Fixed: 171237 - Find in Page: scroll so the highlighted result is in middle of the screen.
  • Fixed: 198964 - Enable smooth scrolling by default.
  • Fixed: 358452 - Let authors put line breaks in tooltips (title attribute).
  • Fixed: 275223 - Page Info columns should be sortable.
  • Fixed: 410904 - http_referer request not being sent with embedded flash.
  • Fixed: 246620 - Add line numbers to View Source.
  • Fixed: 611032 - Errors from before the Web Console is opened do not show.
  • Fixed: 536557 - Implement CSS3 text-align-last.
  • Fixed: 497995 - Implement border-image revisions in latest css3-background.
  • Fixed: 481815 - [Windows] Provide a Windows service to update without Administrator password.
  • Fixed: 714281 - Show the all tabs button only when the tab strip overflows.
  • Fixed: 708585 - Add hidden pref to make app tabs “restored on demand”.
  • Fixed: 712421 - Allow pasting a URL in the download manager window to download it.
  • Fixed: 707567 - Prepend http:// to URL copy selection only if (at least) full hostname is selected.
  • Fixed: 666306 - Video content should become large play button when video is not autoplay and with controls enabled.
  • Fixed: 497543 - Provide a thumbnail service.
  • Fixed: 102699 - Implement text/html for DOMParser.
  • Fixed: 697479 - Implement JS Map and Set.
  • Fixed: 695222 - Implement CSS3 "column-fill: balance".
  • Fixed: 525816 - XMLHttpRequest should allow to specify a network timeout in ms (for async requests).
  • Fixed: 695859 - Don't progressively display images during decode if we have all of the data.
  • Fixed: 598482 - Hook up invalidation flushing to the refresh driver and make all painting asynchronous.
  • Fixed: 605138 - Scripts from topix.net apparently causing page to scroll down when opening.
  • Fixed: 10209 - Problems with absolute or fixed position on table.
  • Fixed: 675221 - Remove XPCOM proxies.
  • Fixed: 675078 - Remove JSThreadData and JSThread. (luke's blog post)
  • Fixed: 566700 - Remove sharp variables. (waldo's post)
  • Fixed: 702251 - Decommit unused arenas in the background.
  • Fixed: 703100 - Remove the existing text-run word cache and replace with a simpler and more efficient scheme.
  • Fixed: 627628 - Be smarter about dispatching starved paints.
  • Fixed: 675015 - Suppress synthetic mouse events due to scrolling until the scroll is complete.
  • Fixed: 524925 - Avoid reflows for transform changes.
  • Fixed: 706914 - Compile large scripts in chunks.
  • Fixed: 715308 - Decode ::Draw()'n images before other images.
  • Fixed: 692879 - [Mac] Implement CoreGraphics Azure backend.
  • Fixed: 618353 - [Windows] Window frame is one pixel too wide on Win 7.

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]]> http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/2012/01/28/2012-01-28-trunk-builds/feed/ 0 2011-12-27 Trunk builds http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/2011/12/28/2011-12-27-trunk-builds/ http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/2011/12/28/2011-12-27-trunk-builds/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:39:43 +0000 Jesse Ruderman http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/?p=1060

Notable fixes:

  • Fixed: 534956 - Sync add-ons.
  • Fixed: 689920 - Integrate Tilt (Tools > Web Developer > Insepct > 3D).
  • Fixed: 694068 - Automatically download and install an available hotfix add-on.
  • Fixed: 631479 - Add support for Graphite fonts.
  • Fixed: 376997 - Images should be rendered against a neutral background (gray?).
  • Fixed: 249735 - F6 goes to the first focusable element instead of the location bar.
  • Fixed: 122213 - Error Console should also include time and date the error occurred.
  • Fixed: 648429 - HTTP cache: compress all compressible files.
  • Fixed: 666349 - Update WebSocket API to latest draft.
  • Fixed: 695222 - Implement column-fill property of CSS3 spec.
  • Fixed: 705597 - about:blank subframe entries in session restore make browser slow.
  • Fixed: 702748 - Add a pref for disabling per-site remembering of download directory.
  • Fixed: 204786 - Add setting to change delay before tooltip shows.
  • Fixed: 707672 - OpenUILink[In] behavior should not be determined by browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground.
  • Fixed: 670967 - [Windows] Fire a memory-pressure event when the amount of available virtual address space or physical memory is low.
  • Fixed: 676349 - [Windows] Implement high-resolution platform timers.
  • Fixed: 696436 - [Mac] Rename MoCo-generated Aurora and Nightly builds to "FirefoxAurora.app" and "FirefoxNightly.app".
  • Fixed: 562506 - [Linux] Process icon are builtin, while launcher icon uses the system icon theme.

All 1307 changes between 2011-12-07 nightly and 2011-12-27 nightly

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]]> http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/2011/12/28/2011-12-27-trunk-builds/feed/ 0 2011-12-07 Trunk builds http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/2011/12/08/2011-12-07-trunk-builds/ http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/2011/12/08/2011-12-07-trunk-builds/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:46:55 +0000 Jesse Ruderman http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/?p=1054

Notable fixes:

  • Fixed: 528288 - Implement SPDY protocol. (Off by default for now: network.http.spdy.enabled)
  • Fixed: 637931 - Shrink JS objects. (Makes Firefox use about 5% less memory overall. memshrink newsletter, js newsletter)
  • Fixed: 527141 - Addon update check should take into account compatibility preferences.
  • Fixed: 642624 - If shutdown Firefox when all closed windows are popups, exception occurs and session isn't saved.
  • Fixed: [Android] Switch nightlies from XUL UI to native (Java) UI.
  • Fixed: 699156 - Support Typed Arrays in XPConnect.
  • Fixed: 699319 - Implement cross-thread communication.
  • Fixed: 704911 - Unusable performance selecting text on github.

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Notable fixes:

  • Fixed: 429592 - Catch hangs (preffed off).
  • Fixed: 505192 - Chrome profile migration.
  • Fixed: 470628 - Add a Full Screen button to the default <video> controls.
  • Fixed: 449157 - Implement the looping attributes in media elements.
  • Fixed: 651072 - Support HTML parsing in XMLHttpRequest per XMLHttpRequest Level 2.
  • Fixed: 691797 - Optimize RegExp.prototype.test with leading .*.
  • Fixed: 632423 - Text poorly rendered with hardware acceleration off.
  • Fixed: 467409 - Nested about:sessionrestore instances causes huge sessionstore.js file (backslashplosion).

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Notable fixes:

  • Fixed: 698653 - Flip extensions.strictCompatibility pref in Firefox to make addons compatible-by-default. (Blair's blog post)
  • Fixed: 700151 - Enable DOM full-screen API on desktop Firefox by default. (cpearce's blog post)
  • Fixed: 92264 - Support element.outerHTML property.
  • Fixed: 666446 - Perf: Lots of animated gifs swamp us with paint events.
  • Fixed: 641027 - Perf: Snapshot-at-the-beginning write barrier for incremental GC.
  • Fixed: 699668 - Perf: Long garbage collector sweep times due to LifoAlloc destructor in JSCompartment::sweep.
  • Fixed: 699528 - Perf: Firebug disables ICs, making JS much slower, even when inactive.

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