The Burning Edge

Fixes for regressions:

• Fixed: 293419 - When upgrading from 1.0 to 1.1 ext's that are compatible based on their update.rdf do not work.
• Fixed: 286299 - Extensions or themes installed in Firefox or Thunderbird 1.0.x don't appear on 1st launch of trunk build.
• Fixed: 295847 - aSubject has no properties during software update.
• Fixed: 295292 - Crash when using fixed positioning, with no data rendered inside element. (since ~May 23)

Other fixes:

• Fixed: 276006 - Modified Signed extensions appear to install (but don't). Report the error.

Most serious bugs that occur only when the experimental "fastback" feature is enabled:

• With fastback on: 292933 - Info. popup box on tinderbox display wrong details.
• With fastback on: 292934 - Favicon not updated when going back/forward in tab.
• With fastback on: 293235 - When using the back button (or keyboard), visited links are not marked as visited.
• With fastback on: 294231 - With fastback on, clicking back on your mouse while viewing a PDF causes FF to hang.
• With fastback on: 293234 - Animated GIFs sometimes freeze when going back or forward with bfcache.

Regressions (new bugs):

• Since ??: 295673 - Cannot scroll using keyboard when div with overflow:auto and padding has focus.
• Since ??: 295732 - Extensions fail to install with unexpected error -203, for some users.
• Since ~May 11: 293761 - Layout screw-up after clicking on "Attach a file" at Gmail.
• Since Feb 24: 284245 - Richedit/designMode not working anymore at blogger.com.
• Since ~Jan 22: 279497 - Selected profile does not always appear focused.
• Since November on trunk: 269927 - Tooltip appears after closing tab.

Checkins between 2005-05-27 15:00 and 2005-05-31 15:00

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Official Mac

Security fixes:

• Fixed: 295457 - Security hole.

Fixes for regressions:

• Fixed: 295095 - Ctrl+Shift+letter treated as Ctrl+letter (since May 21).
• Fixed: 294926 - Middle-click on link gives autoscroll icon; does not open link (Since May 20).
• Fixed: 292690 - <marquee> regression causes unwanted horizontal page-widening (since ~May 2).
• Fixed: 274271 - Blocked install notification bar does not appear when clicking on InstallTrigger link (since Aviary landing).
• Fixed: 294893 - Major leakage on Linux balsa Dep GTK1 (gcc 3.4) (since ~May 20, from bug 281988).
• Fixed: 295101 - Crash at select node -Trunk [@ XPCWrappedNativeScope::RemoveWrappedNativeProtos 32ac0b94 ] [@JS_GetClass] (since ~May 20, from bug 281988).
• Fixed: 295121 - Secure Site indicator not shown when secure site loaded in new tab (since May 20).
• WFM: 294101 - Safe mode - uninstall/disable does not work, but disables all extensions in normal mode (since ~May 13).

Other fixes:

• Fixed: 294399 - Rebrand firefox for Deer Park. (Trunk builds will be known as Deer Park until Firefox 1.1 nears.)
• Fixed: 295538 - Bump app.extensions.version to 1.0+ for pre-1.1 releases.
• Fixed: 294524 - Reload buttons doesn't work after sanitizing.
• Fixed: 295052 - Crash when apply method is called on String.prototype.match.
• Fixed: 292696 - Point Reporter to production instance. (There was also a server-side change so that reports from old builds go to the production instance.) (more info)
• Fixed: 291608 - Firefox ships 102 KB of unused EM images.
• Fixed: 293583 - When phone home occurs for more than one extension the update info is used from the first extension update info.
• Fixed: 295535 - Leak in extension manager.

Most serious bugs that occur only when the experimental "fastback" feature is enabled:

• With fastback on: 292933 - Info. popup box on tinderbox display wrong details.
• With fastback on: 292934 - Favicon not updated when going back/forward in tab.
• With fastback on: 293235 - When using the back button (or keyboard), visited links are not marked as visited.
• With fastback on: 294231 - With fastback on, clicking back on your mouse while viewing a PDF causes FF to hang.
• With fastback on: 293234 - Animated GIFs sometimes freeze when going back or forward with bfcache.

Regressions (new bugs):

• Since ~May 23: 295292 - Crash when using fixed positioning, with no data rendered inside element.
• Since ~May 11: 293761 - Layout screw-up after clicking on "Attach a file" at Gmail.
• Since Feb 24: 284245 - Richedit/designMode not working anymore at blogger.com.
• Since ~Jan 22: 279497 - Selected profile does not always appear focused.
• Since November on trunk: 269927 - Tooltip appears after closing tab.

Checkins between 2005-05-21 08:00 and 2005-05-27 15:00

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Official Mac

Security fixes:

• Fixed: 281988 - Stop sharing DOM object wrappers between content and chrome. Move XPCNativeWrapper from JavaScript to C++, add "xpcnativewrappers" option for packages. (Makes it much easier to write chrome code and extensions that interact with page content without introducing security holes.)

Fixes for regressions:

• Fixed: 294630 - Crash when closing tab with picture.
• Fixed: 294258 - Reload clears form values, incorrectly (with fastback enabled?).
• Fixed: 294150 - 50% Ts regression since landing of bug 293461 (since May 12).
• Fixed: 294324 - Scrolling performance regression(since May 16).
• Fixed: 293070 - Ordered lists (<ol> tags) inside <font> display all 0s.
• Fixed: 262031 - Contextmenu of about:config does not close when create a new preference name.
• Fixed: 293453 - Unable to click link when inside div with overflow:auto and border-top.
• Fixed: 294235 - http://www.powweb.com/ crashes Firefox [@ nsHTMLDocument::MatchLinks].
• Fixed: 292657 - [GTK2] Drop-down selection box with CSS height attribute "drops down" at top left corner of screen (0,0).

Other fixes:

• Fixed: 285653 - Add Reporter tool to nightly builds. (To access, use Help > Report Broken Website. Currently pointed at test instance of Reporter server. Bugs in Reporter, Search reports of broken websites, Asa's blog entry.)
• Fixed: 294399 - Rebrand firefox for deer park. (When Firefox is built without --enable-official-branding, it now calls itself "Deer Park" rather than "Gecko Browser". I think this is temporary.)
• Fixed: 263595 - Remove "Use Firefox Start as my Home Page" from installer.
• Fixed: 293548 - Provide Windows registry install location for extensions.
• Fixed: 292981 - Provide a (much more complete) scriptable interface to the Windows registry.
• Partially fixed: 294357 - Firefox and Thunderbird load a lot of trash in the registry and don't clean it up again.
• Fixed: 267657 - Clicking SVG link causes new window to open.
• Fixed: 294815 - Possible to create a <browser> with no securityUI by accident. ("this.docShell is null" error in browser.xml with certain extensions installed.)
• Fixed: 264064 - Lose secure site indicators when customizing toolbars.
• Fixed: 38174 - List numbers and bullets ignore FONT changes.
• Fixed: 290969 - [Mac, Linux] XMLHttpRequest leaks memory (all) and eventually crashes.

Most serious bugs that occur only when the experimental "fastback" feature is enabled:

• With fastback on: 292933 - Info. popup box on tinderbox display wrong details.
• With fastback on: 292934 - Favicon not updated when going back/forward in tab.
• With fastback on: 293235 - When using the back button (or keyboard), visited links are not marked as visited.
• With fastback on: 294231 - With fastback on, clicking back on your mouse while viewing a PDF causes FF to hang.

Regressions (new bugs):

• Since May 21: 295095 - Ctrl+Shift+letter treated as Ctrl+letter.
• Since May 20: 294926 - Middle-click on link gives autoscroll icon; does not open link.
• Since ~May 13: 294101 - Safe mode - uninstall/disable does not work, but disables all extensions in normal mode.
• Since ~May 11: 293761 - Layout screw-up after clicking on "Attach a file" at Gmail.
• Since ~May 2: 292690 - <marquee> regression causes unwanted horizontal page-widening.
• Since Feb 24: 284245 - Richedit/designMode not working anymore at blogger.com.
• Since ~Jan 22: 279497 - Selected profile does not always appear focused.
• Since November on trunk: 269927 - Tooltip appears after closing tab.

Checkins between 2005-05-14 08:00 and 2005-05-21 08:00

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Official Mac

Security fixes:

• Fixed: All security bugs that were fixed for Firefox 1.0.4.
• Fixed: 292589 - Security hole, might not affect Firefox.

Fixes for regressions:

• Fixed regression: 293586 - Navigation icons change their shade of grey after time (since May 10).
• Fixed regression: 293588 - Wrong items are selected in dropdowns (regardless of whether fastback is enabled) (since May 5).
• Fixed regression: 290673 - Hovering link sometimes triggers strange mouse and back button behavior (since Apr 15).

Other fixes:

• Fixed: 280159 - Change Find Highlight button from Ctrl+Enter to Alt+A (more discoverable, fewer conflicts).
• Fixed: 283987 - No warning when closing multiple tabs in full screen (close button).
• Fixed: 293461 - Make Safe Mode a generic startup flag, not just for EM, and make its handling less fragile.
• Fixed: 275529 - Extension Manager does not reject invalid IDs. (Valid IDs are GUIDs or things that look like email addresses.)
• Fixed: 294082 - Canvas does not work with installer builds.

Most serious fastback bugs:

• With fastback: 292933 - Info. popup box on tinderbox display wrong details.
• With fastback: 292934 - Favicon not updated when going back/forward in tab.
• With fastback: 293235 - When using the back button (or keyboard), visited links are not marked as visited.

Regressions (new bugs):

• Since ~May 13: 294101 - Safe mode - uninstall/disable does not work , but disables all extensions in normal mode.
• Since May 12: 294150 - 50% Ts regression since landing of bug 293461.
• Since ~May 11: 293761 - Layout screw-up after clicking on "Attach a file" at Gmail.
• Since ~May 2: 292690 - <marquee> regression causes unwanted horizontal page-widening.
• Since Feb 24: 284245 - Richedit/designMode not working anymore at blogger.com.
• Since ~Jan 22: 279497 - Selected profile does not always appear focused.
• Since November on trunk: 269927 - Tooltip appears after closing tab.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer, Official Windows MSI (discussion)

Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Official Mac

Fixes for regressions:

• Fixed regression: 293135 - Form content is lost when pressing back (regardless of whether fastback is enabled) (since May 5).
• Fixed regression: 285544 - Safe Mode doesn't work (since Feb 23).
• Fixed regression: 273200 - Ctrl+W in Find bar breaks middle-clicking links, find toolbar, and back button.
• Fixed regression: 292431 - 15% performance regression on DHTML due to fix for bug 240276 (since Apr 29).
• Fixed regression: 292312 - Scroll bars (scrollbars) are too small (since ~April 27).

Other fixes:

• Fixed: 286525 - Installing / updating a theme creates a copy of the jar in the chrome directory.
• Fixed: 248827 - Support HTTP/1.1 408 response code.
• Fixed: 292051 - Shorten Image DDB's life.
• Fixed: 293306 - Canvas leaks lots of memory.
• Fixed: Several other Canvas bugs.

Most serious fastback bugs:

• With fastback: 292933 - Info. popup box on tinderbox display wrong details.
• With fastback: 292934 - Favicon not updated when going back/forward in tab.
• With fastback: 293235 - When using the back button (or keyboard), visited links are not marked as visited.

Regressions (new bugs):

• Since May 10: 293586 - Navigation icons change their shade of grey after time.
• Since May 5: 293588 - Wrong items are selected in dropdowns (regardless of whether fastback is enabled).
• Since ~May 2: 292690 - <marquee> regression causes unwanted horizontal page-widening.
• Since Apr 15: 290673 - Hovering link sometimes triggers strange mouse and back button behavior.
• Since Feb 24: 284245 - Richedit/designMode not working anymore at blogger.com.
• Since ~Jan 22: 279497 - Selected profile does not always appear focused.
• Since November on trunk: 269927 - Tooltip appears after closing tab.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer, Official Windows MSI (discussion)

Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Official Mac