The Burning Edge

The Burning Edge FAQ now answers "How close is Firefox 1.0?" instead of "How close is Firefox 0.9?". I also added answers to "What do 'trunk' and 'branch' mean?" and added a link to each question at the top.

• Fixed: 253738 - Winstripe updates: toolbar icons (Go, History, Downloads, New Window and New Tab), New Folder in the Bookmark Manger. New Tab should now look less like a toaster.
• Fixed (?): 251891 - Since Find toolbar was implemented, Find as you type doesn't work with int'l charachters.
• Fixed: 250758 - Firefox crashes when trying to open an URL in a new tab.
• Fixed: 253664 - Change File > Send accelerator to "e" instead of "S".
• Fixed: 253454 - Rename Livemarks to Live Bookmarks.
• Fixed: 253478 - Remove bookmark notification pannel.
• Fixed: 252905 - Need a way to trigger re-registration for all profiles when new components are installed.

• Since July 31: 253876 - With "Use find as you type" enabled, pressing arrow keys, home, or end triggers Find bar.
• Since July 30: 253709 - Search bar autocomplete pops up near left-top of screen after clicking on elements in a site.
• Since ~July 30: 253757 - Submenus of context menu don't open automatically.
• Since July 27: 253288 - [WindowsXP with Luna] At secure sites, the Lock icon missing from the status bar.

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

No official Linux builds.

Official Mac

• Fixed: 250906 - Potential security hole: Null (%00) in filename fakes extension (ftp, file).
• Fixed: Find Next is broken (since July 29).
• Fixed: 253339 - Remove old program files when installing on top of an existing installation.
• Fixed: 203183 - Bookmarks context menu stays when clicking other menus.
• Fixed: 243720 - Bookmark can't move into sub-folder in personal toolbar (drag and drop).
• Fixed: 218686 - Autoscroll activates when middle-clicking document scrollbars.
• Fixed: 250666, etc. - Implement the npruntime plugin scriptability extensions to NPAPI.
• Fixed: 252703 - Live theme switch: Component bar icons & bookmark icons not changed.
• Fixed: 174266 - Links opening blank new window but content showing in current window if browser.block.target_new_window.

• Since July 27: 253288 - [WindowsXP with Luna] At secure sites, the Lock icon missing from the status bar.

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

Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Official Mac

This post is a day late due to problems with Movable Type and/or my database server. You can blame me for the missing July 28 entry, though.

• Fixed: 253121 - Security hole: Lock icon and certificates spoofable with onunload document.write.
• Fixed: 249004 - Security hole: Do not import invalid/untrusted certs, prevent a DoS that disables SSL connections to trusted peers.
• Fixed: 173569 - Clicking in focused textbox should open autocomplete results (as in IE).
• Fixed: 229762 - If username field is prefilled by page to a value that matches a stored signon, pwmgr should prefill password.
• Fixed: 247960 - The 2 panes of bookmarkmanager do not interact.
• Fixed: 246973 - Closing print preview does not display multiple tabs warning and closes the app.
• Fixed: 253329 - Firefox no longer checks if it is the default browser on startup.
• Fixed (?): 28998 - Proxy: Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol (WPAD).
• Fixed: 244479 - [Mac] Chrome\overlayinfo not created; no Help Contents or DOM Inspector in the menu, no security tab in Page Info.
• Fixed: 253101 - [Windows 95, Windows NT] Aviary branch builds do not run under old versions of Windows.
• Fixed: 253291 - [Linux installer] Changes to preferences file not saved.
• Fixed: 252397 - Find toolbar: Flash find toolbar field the first two (?) times you use it.
• Fixed: 252958 - Find toolbar: New window inherrits temporary toolbar as permanent toolbar.
• Fixed: 252960 - Find toolbar: Find next after temporary find toolbar auto-hides restores it as permanent toolbar.
• Fixed: Find toolbar: Textbox is sometimes red when it's empty.
• Fixed: Find toolbar: Don't start typeaheadfind in <isindex> field.
• Fixed: 253161 - Favicons should follow redirects.
• Fixed: Autocomplete should ignore all key navigation if the input is disabled.
• Fixed: 249610 - Disabling form autocomplete doesn't take effect until restart.
• Fixed: Change "Stored cookies" to "View cookies".
• Fixed: 244692 - Tabs bar, Status bar, Download/Extensions/Themes Manager should not respond to double-middle- and double-right-clicks.
• Fixed: More updates to Help.

• Since July 29: Find Next is broken.
• Since July 27: 253288 - [WindowsXP with Luna] At secure sites, the Lock icon missing from the status bar.

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

Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Official Mac

• Fixed: 253118 - Cookies don't work; Privacy Options broken (just yesterday's build).
• Fixed: 246078 - URLs from other apps result in Firefox opening the first hit on Google for "StartDDE" (which is The Burning Edge) (since July 24).
• Fixed: 246078 - URLs from other apps result in two Firefox windows or a window and an error dialog (since ~March 15 or ~June 8).
• Fixed: 245406 - Display domain in status bar for secure sites.
• Fixed: 232708 - Ctrl+F4 does not close tab when address bar has focus.
• Fixed: 191410 - Modifying bool prefs in about:config should just toggle instead of prompting for a new value.
• Fixed: Updates to Help, including help for the new Find bar, the reorganized Web Features options panel, and the new cookie options.
• Fixed (?): Some folks see the undetermined progressmeter draw past the edge of the progressbar.

• Since July 27: 253288 - [WindowsXP with Luna] At secure sites, the Lock icon missing from the status bar.

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

Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Official Mac

• Fixed: 252549 - Better Update Handling for identical versions.
• Fixed: Make the find field look like a Luna text field on XP.
• Fixed: 248215 - Crash importing IE settings.
• Fixed: 251308 - Don't fail to start firefox if write to extensions directory fails.
• Fixed: 59557 - Permissions should not be world-readable for profile directory.
• Fixed: 213963 - Cookies get lost after a huge number of cookies is reached.
• Fixed: 13 more core fixes from trunk, mostly related to cookies.

• Since July 26: 253118 - Cookies don't work; Privacy Options broken.
• Since ~March 15 or ~June 8: 246078 - URLs from other apps result in Firefox opening the first hit on Google for "StartDDE" (which is now The Burning Edge).

I did not link to nightly builds because of bug 253118. Windows users can download sweetlou hourly builds with the bug fixed.

• Fixed: 237727 - Installer should delete certain files if we install over an existing Firefox installation.
• Fixed: 252288 - Still instances of wrong favicons.
• Fixed: 232089 - Bookmarks 'create in' shouldn't persist.
• Fixed: 252540 - Favicons sometimes not stored correctly.
• Fixed: 251802 - Refresh livemark doesn't work from toolbar/menu.
• Fixed: 234089 - Bookmarks toolbar folder shouldn't be deletable with C-x (crasher).
• Fixed: 238661 - Moving a bookmark folder to itself deletes the folder.
• Fixed: 251988 - Livemark menu doesn't work after going to page without livemark and clicking.
• Fixed: 251335 - Bookmarks toolbar folder has different context menu from other bookmark folders.
• Fixed: 252133 - New bookmarks items should be added below selected items, not above.
• Fixed: 252401 - Favicons should get ignored if they're > a certain size 16k).
• Fixed: 252792 - Livemark context menu contains active new folder menu item.
• Fixed: 252870 - Context menu of empty personal toolbar folder has inconsistent items.
• Fixed: 252875 - Bookmarks root name not localizable.
• Fixed: Bookmarks sidebar loses focus after a bookmark is selected.
• Fixed: Don't show scheduling/notification tabs in bookmark properties for livemarks.
• Fixed: 251382 - Firefox help not keyboard accessible.
• Fixed: 251950 - Ctrl+W doesn't close help window.

• Since July 24: 246078#c156 - URLs from other apps result in Firefox opening a PDF. (The PDF is the first hit on Google for "StartDDE".)

No official Windows (discussion), bangbang's O2 G7 SSE2

Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Official Mac

• Fixed: 213186 - Change "Cookies are delicious delicacies." to something more informative.
• Fixed: 217664 - Ability to use same proxy for all protocols.
• Fixed: 231393 - Tab URL does not persist on bad links if tabs switched. (The ideal fix is to switch from error dialogs to error pages, but error pages won't be the default in Firefox 1.0.)
• Fixed: 226491 - [Windows] Need to build a Progressmeter that supports undetermined mode.
• Fixed: 247011 - Cookies UI is not gray when "Enable cookies" is disabled.
• Fixed: 220681 - New window uses small icons even though original window has large icons.
• Fixed: 247054 - Crash when clicking Options -> Downloads in Option Dialog.
• Fixed: Update Find toolbar icons (again).

• Since July 24: 246078#c156 - URLs from other apps result in Firefox opening a PDF. (The PDF is the first hit on Google for "StartDDE".)

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

Official Linux, Official Linux installer, Yek's build for FC3

Official Mac