The Burning Edge

Firefox Nightly 23, weeks 1-6

Jesse Ruderman — Wed, 15 May 2013 02:25:25 +0000

Speed & memory:

Fixed: 805241 - JS: Merge the new baseline compiler.
Fixed: 804676 - JS: Remove dependence of Ion compilation on ScriptAnalysis::analyzeTypes.
Fixed: 825928 - Graphics: Layers refactoring.
Fixed: 865546 - Graphics: Large scaled images in SVG's cause choppy scrolling.
Fixed: 854803 - Graphics: Images on slow network continously use 1 full core.
Fixed: 600307 - Rewrite and cleanup DOMStorage code.
Fixed: 566746 - Form history should use asynchronous storage API.
Fixed: 697377 - Form Autocomplete should use asynchronous storage API.

For more, read Taras's Snappy blog and MemShrink blog posts.

New web technologies:

Fixed: 765780 - Enable plugins and JavaScript in designMode.

For more, read Firefox 23 for developers.

Security & privacy:

Fixed: 838692 - Don't allow navigating named targets from sandboxed iframes.
Fixed: 549697 - Add click-to-play plugin UI to the addon manager.
Fixed: 834836 - Turn on pref to block mixed active content.

Other notable fixes:

Fixed: 858538 - Download-attribute kills WebSocket connections.
Fixed: 560072 - Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor throws for many DOM objects.
Fixed: 485149 - Using box-shadow on a
with does not follow box shape.
Fixed: 857820 - Drop only blink effect from text-decoration: blink; and completely remove element.
Fixed: 369180 - Proxy Authentication required while typing Search String.
Fixed: 649216 - Remove unnecessary delay when clicking tab close buttons sequentially.
Fixed: 636564 - [Mac] Lion-style floating scrollbars.

Sources:

Firefox Nightly 22, weeks 1-6

Jesse Ruderman — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:41:05 +0000

Speed & memory:

Fixed: 840282 - Land OdinMonkey (asm.js optimizing compiler).
Fixed: 759585 - Change the granularity of collection from compartment to zone.
Fixed: 829747 - Do Async Canvas layers update.
Fixed: 716859 - Streaming WebGL Buffers (Double-buffering, etc).
Fixed: 751418 - Enable OpenGL acceleration on Skia.
Fixed: 753768 - Move page thumbnails I/O off the main thread.
Fixed: 716140 - Multithreaded image decoding.
Fixed: 689623 - Layout needs to provide information on which images are visible or likely to be visible.
Fixed: 810151 - Use readahead for ordered jar files such as omni.ja. Should be ~10% startup speedup.

For more, read Taras's Snappy blog and Nick's MemShrink blog.

New web technologies:

Fixed: 629801 - HTML: Implement element.
Fixed: 839371 - HTML: Implement element.
Fixed: 841948 - HTML: Enable on Nightly and Aurora.
Fixed: 345195 - HTML: Replace the anonymous in by a simple text.
Fixed: 829602 - JS: ParallelDo intrinsic and self-hosted ParallelArray.
Fixed: 846406 - JS: Implement arrow functions.
Fixed: 789897 - JS: Implement the preventExtensions and isExtensible trap for proxies.
Fixed: 839979 - JS: Implement Object.is.
Fixed: 690659 - XHR: Filename parameter in the FormData.append method.
Fixed: 604039 - DOM: Prototype Gamepad (Joystick) API.
Fixed: 650295 - DOM: Add support for speech input.
Fixed: 782211 - DOM: Implement notification API spec.
Fixed: 736324 - DOM: Allow naming blob URL.
Fixed: 783129 - DOM: Implement the document.register interface method.
Fixed: 407983 - DOM: Add clipboardData to the onpaste event.
Fixed: 737100 - DOM: Extend Pointer Lock for non-fullscreen elements.
Fixed: 805613 - Fullscreen: Handle multiple fullscreen documents concurrently.
Fixed: 724554 - Fullscreen: Don't exit fullscreen when focusing window on different display.
Fixed: 700023 - Fonts: Enable Graphite font shaping by default.
Fixed: 419588 - Image: Add support for multiple ICO and ICNS sizes.

For more, read Firefox 22 for developers.

Security & privacy:

Fixed: 818340 - Block cookies from sites I haven't visited. (Blog posts: Jonathan Mayer, Alex Fowler)
Fixed: 790732 - Stop defining |Components| object in content scopes.

Other notable fixes:

Fixed: 82301 - Today History folder should be expanded by default.
Fixed: 767944 - Implement a manager for centralized quota and storage handling.
Fixed: 253564 - Plain text documents should word-wrap. (Toggle using View > Page Style or the pref “plain_text.wrap_long_lines”)
Fixed: 548763 - [Mac] Show download progress in dock icon.
Fixed: 844604 - [Windows] Increase default text size on hidpi displays.
Fixed: 748740 - New tab is not opening after "Ctrl/Cmd+Click" on a link if there is "event.stopPropagation()" in the "click" handler.
Fixed: 738952 - PDF: make "Save as..." File menu entry and Ctrl+S work.
Fixed: 743252 - PDF: Don't print the URL and other information when printing PDFs.
Fixed: 830267 - Don't store plugin preferences via pluginreg.dat: store them per-mimetype.
Fixed: 760140 - AAC and MP3 not supported in (but AAC supported as a sound track!) when the Fluendo Complete Codec Pack is installed.

Sources:

Firefox Nightly 21, weeks 1-6

Jesse Ruderman — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:53:36 +0000

Speed & memory:

Fixed: 784591 - Don't leave around decoded image data for display: none images.
Fixed: 836010 - When startup is determined to be slow, tell users about ways to improve their startup time.
Fixed: 823147 - Avoid hitting D2D slow path when drawing radial gradients from css.
Fixed: 821361 - JS: Optimize closures that only run once.
Fixed: 807853 - JS: Add parallel compilation mode.
Fixed: 715419 - JS: Specialize Array.prototype.sort when given the comparator is "return arg1 - arg2".
Fixed: 835417 - DOM: Mark DOM getters as pure when they are.
Fixed: 239254 - [Linux] Support disk cache on a local path.

For more, read Taras's Snappy blog and Nick's MemShrink blog.

New web technologies:

Fixed: 820508 - Add support for
element.
Fixed: 508725 - Implement scoped stylesheets.
Fixed: 440046 - Implement window.crypto.getRandomValues (secure PRNG).
Fixed: 828261 - Implement window.location.origin.
Fixed: 792263 - Implement decodeAudioData.
Fixed: 796463 - Enable WebRTC's PeerConnection by default.

For more, read Firefox 21 for developers.

Security & privacy:

Fixed: 838557 - Create and use a common interface for ASan/Valgrind memory handling functions.
Fixed: 821892 - Click-to-play: "Page Info" -> Permissions needs to be aware of plugin permission differentiation.
Fixed: 774315 - Click-to-play: Add "Hide this plugin" to context menu, to work around broken sites.
Fixed: 822371 - Mixed content: Improved UI for users who have set security.mixed_content.block_active_content.

Other notable fixes:

Fixed: 833511 - Add rotation gesture support to image documents.
Fixed: 765398 - Implement three-state UI for DNT (do not track me, okay to track me, decline to state).
Fixed: 815640 - Make permission manager aware of "file://" (without dirty hacks).
Fixed: 726275 - Shift-click on back/forward button doesn't load page.
Fixed: 712763 - Session restore loads saved windows in reverse order.
Fixed: 608735 - DOM: XMLHttpRequest's getAllResponseHeaders() returns null if the request is the result of CORS.
Fixed: 838269 - DOM: Support cross-global |... instanceof DOMInterface|.
Fixed: 777385 - DOM: Support Paris bindings objects that are either nsISupports or non-cycle-collected as weak map keys.
Fixed: 818023 - JS: function.caller does not always work.
Fixed: 786135 - JS: Make parseInt("042") === 42.
Fixed: 827784 - [Windows] Provide an option to disable favicons on webpage shortcuts.
Fixed: 837859 - [Windows] Enable Windows Media Foundation support for H.264 AAC, and MP3 playback on Windows 7 and later.
Fixed: 813488 - [Windows] Enable metro browser build.

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Firefox Nightly 20, weeks 1-6

Jesse Ruderman — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:23:36 +0000

Speed & memory:

Fixed: 816642 - Avoid fragmenting cache files.
Fixed: 807021 - Move LocalStorage writes off the main thread.
Fixed: 789932 - nsExternalAppHandler downloads files on the main thread.
Fixed: 813559 - JS: enable off-thread ion compilation by default.
Fixed: 747289 - JS: CSE on DOM getters when possible.
Fixed: 808245 - JS regexp: Use YARR's new MatchOnly JIT mode.
Fixed: 717853 - Testing: Integrate DMD into the browser.

For more, read Taras's Snappy blog and Nick's MemShrink blog.

New web technologies:

Fixed: 548206 - HTML: Implement the auto value for the HTML dir attribute.
Fixed: 676619 - HTML: Implement proposed download attribute.
Fixed: 769385 - HTML: Support .
Fixed: 808148 - JS: Math.imul().
Fixed: 817368 - JS: Map.prototype.{keys,values,entries}.
Fixed: 814562 - JS: WeakMap.clear().
Fixed: 795542 - JS Workers: StringEncoding API (TextDecoder and TextEncoder interfaces).
Fixed: 617532 - DOM: UndoManager.
Fixed: 564815 - DOM: Implement window.devicePixelRatio.
Fixed: 654352 - DOM: Implement document.caretPositionFromPoint().
Fixed: 819741 - DOM: Support ArrayBufferView instances as parameters to XMLHttpRequest.send().
Fixed: 811701 - DOM: Move innerHTML/outerHTML/insertAdjacentHTML from HTMLElement to Element.
Fixed: 779917 - Implement CSS.supports().
Fixed: 783409 - CSS flexbox. (No longer behind a pref.)
Fixed: 793617 - CSS mask-type.
Fixed: 818400, 648722 - CSS :scope (for the upcoming scoped stylesheets feature).
Fixed: 329212 - Display the as a tooltip.
Fixed: 803124 - Canvas: isPointInStroke().
Fixed: 748433 - Canvas: Extend compositing with blend modes.
Fixed: 495040 - Video: Implement playbackRate and related bits.
Fixed: 799315 - Video: Windows Media Foundation backend for media playback.
Fixed: 825594 - WebRTC: Enable mozGetUserMedia.

For more, read Firefox 20 for developers.

Security & privacy:

Fixed: 818732 - Switch Nightly to per-window private browsing.
Fixed: 456884 - Provide a way to open a link into private browsing mode.
Fixed: 810082 - Click-to-play: improve handling of invisible or hidden plugins (e.g. on music sites like Pandora).
Fixed: 746374 - Click-to-play: differentiate by plugin type.

Other notable fixes:

Fixed: 675902 - New Downloads view for Places Library.
Fixed: 433168 - Context menu is not shown for form buttons and select elements.
Fixed: 614304 - ESC key stops animations and aborts XMLHttpRequest and WebSocket. (Jonas explains why) (Install SuperStop to make Shift+Esc do something similar.)
Fixed: 786120 - There should be default action settings for each direction which can override current settings.
Fixed: 263433 - Links in UI ('text-link' XUL widget) should open tabs rather than windows.
Fixed: 814952 - SVG ellipse with stroke but no fill is not displayed.
Fixed: 455165 - Firefox fails on chained ogg stream.
Fixed: 731974 - requestAnimationFrame generates too short/long frames, especially at the beginning of animation.
Fixed: 814101 - [Windows] Azure does not honor Windows cleartype setting.
Fixed: 805591 - [Windows] Add UI to be shown when plugin is unresponsive.
Fixed: 765215 - [Windows] Hangs on resuming from sleep.

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Firefox Nightly 19, weeks 1-6

Jesse Ruderman — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:33:18 +0000

Speed & memory:

Fixed: 715402 - Wait until chrome is painted before executing code not critical to making the initial window visible.
Fixed: 756313 - Don't load homepage URI before first paint.
Fixed: 750417 - Closing a tab reflows the entire tab bar during the animation, making the animation crappy.
Fixed: 811176 - Clean up JIT code more aggressively.

For more, read Taras's Snappy blog and Nick's MemShrink blog.

New web technologies:

Fixed: 115199 - Implement CSS2 @page.
Fixed: 503720 - Implement CSS3 viewport-size units.
Fixed: 685012 - Implement page-break-inside: avoid.
Fixed: 648610 - Implement
Fixed: 800983 - Implement getDefaultComputedStyle, which computes style taking only UA and user sheets into account.
Fixed: 715798 - [Mac] Add color emoji support. 😀

For more, read Firefox 19 for developers.

Security improvements:

Fixed: 799009 - Remove support for obsolete SSL-related warning prompts.
Fixed: 788653 - Make enablePrivilege pref name more dire.
Fixed: 801576 - Align Gecko and the spec on cross-origin access to window.history.
Fixed: 803181 - Change update background download interval from 10 minutes to 1 minute and update check interval from 24 hours to 12 hours.

Other notable fixes:

Fixed: 661881 - Implement about:telemetry.
Fixed: 486918 - [Windows, Linux] Improve image downscaling.

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Firefox Nightly 18, weeks 1-6

Jesse Ruderman — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:32:50 +0000

Speed & memory:

Fixed: 650180 - Build a new optimizing JavaScript compiler. (Blog post about IonMonkey)
Fixed: 747288 - Generate faster jitcode for DOM getters/setters.
Fixed: 539356 - DLBI - Replace Invalidate() calls in reflow with display list analysis.
Fixed: 769764 - Remove synchronous proxy API and synchronous DNS resolution in nsProxyAutoConfig.js.
Fixed: 726125 - Certificate of a signed extension is validated on each startup.
Fixed: 650968 - Enabling a lightweight theme (Persona) causes significant startup slowness.
Fixed: 773460 - Pref on Azure canvas.
Fixed: 666317 - Discard decoded images on a memory-pressure notification.
Fixed: 718910 - [Mac] Hide the profile-cache directory so Spotlight doesn't index it.

For more, read Taras's Snappy blog and Nick's MemShrink blog.

New web technologies:

Fixed: 666041 - CSS Flexbox Layout Level 3. (Behind a pref: layout.css.flexbox.enabled)
Fixed: 703537 - Implement Harmony direct proxies.
Fixed: 564815 - Implement window.devicePixelRatio.
Fixed: 793294 - Implement AudioBuffer.
Fixed: 745025 - Implement CanvasElement.mozPrintCallback.
Fixed: 719286 - Implement embedded SVG glyphs in OpenType fonts.
Fixed: 694807 - Implement PeerConnection object. (Behind a pref: media.peerconnection.enabled) (Mozilla Hacks post)
Fixed: 594935 - Support calc() on gradient stop positions.
Fixed: 726615 - Support W3C touch event instead of MozTouch event.
Fixed: 720083 - Workers: add support for transferable objects from HTML5 spec.

For more, read Firefox 18 for developers.

Security improvements:

Fixed: 754472 - Click-to-play: implement multiple plugin doorhanger ui.
Fixed: 772897 - Implement UI for plugins made click-to-play by the blocklist.
Fixed: 62178 - Implement mechanism to prevent sending insecure requests from a secure context. (summary)
Fixed: 781617 - http is given from history even when https is explicitly typed in address bar.

Other notable fixes:

Fixed: 674373 - [Mac] Support HiDPI mode.
Fixed: 603880 - [Windows] HiDPI: Apply the system scale factor.
Fixed: 408284 - [Linux] Support translucent windows.
Fixed: 254139 - File | Save Page As should default to , not filename.</li> <li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772319">772319</a> - Add an option to disable the "Close other tabs" prompt.</li> <li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87717">87717</a> - Allow connections to localhost (127.0.0.1) when "Offline".</li> <li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440093">440093</a> - Don't overwrite current tab when opening multiple bookmarks in tabs.</li> <li>Fixed: <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468568">468568</a> - Printing pages with downloadable fonts doesn't render all fonts on the page.</li> </ul> <p><a href="http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=FIREFOX_AURORA_17_BASE&tochange=FIREFOX_AURORA_18_BASE">All 6114 changes between FIREFOX_AURORA_17_BASE and FIREFOX_AURORA_18_BASE</a></p> </div> </article> </main></body></html>