2004-09-28 Branch builds
- Fixed: 124750 - Other tab steals focus with javascript textbox.focus().
- Fixed: 261692 - New livemark RSS icon has a dropdown in the bookmarks menu.
- Fixed: 248987 - When "Hide the tab bar when only one tab is open" in unchecked, "closing" the last tab should blank the tab instead of temporarily hiding the tab bar.
- Fixed: 254078 - Flashing cursor in View Source window cannot be moved by arrow keys.
- Fixed: 255812 - Scroll bar in extension manager is very slow, uses 70-100% CPU.
- Fixed: 259203 - Uninstalling current non-default theme breaks browser.
- Since Sept 15: 258767 - Shift+Delete to remove autocomplete results crashes Firefox.
Official Windows,
Official Windows installer
(discussion),
bangbang's,
moox's
September 29th, 2004 at 5:27 am
Strange, the Official Linux (non-installer) shows up as 20040921.
September 29th, 2004 at 12:53 pm
Strange fix for 248987. The old method might not have been intuitive but at least allowed people to temporary disable the tab bar to have more space while the new one just loads the rather useless about:blank.
September 29th, 2004 at 1:56 pm
@previous commenter
While there might not be a ‘correct fix’ for 248987, I’m really glad the old, stupid, non-intuitive and fundamentally incorrect behavior of just hiding the tab bar is gone.
Say I accidentaly opened I site that is inappropriate at work, and want to quickly close it (boss approaching). What do I do? Try to close the tab.. and you want to give it more screen space instead? how intelligent! I’m glad you dont design UIs.
September 29th, 2004 at 2:02 pm
Maybe I’ve come across as too harsh in my previous comment.. but I really hated the old behavior. I’ve blogged about in the past:
http://weblog.wlkr.net/archives/000097.html
http://weblog.wlkr.net/archives/000201.html
September 29th, 2004 at 9:39 pm
There’s been extensions to fix it for a long time now, like blank last tab.
September 29th, 2004 at 10:27 pm
Yeah, and this checkin does exactly what blank last tab did.. without needing to install the extension!
September 30th, 2004 at 2:48 am
> Say I accidentaly opened I site that is inappropriate at work, and want to quickly close it (boss approaching).
Pressing back, perhaps? Are you sure you mean “accidentaly opened”? ;-)
> […] and want to quickly close it […]
Set a blank page homepage or bookmark this, that has the same effect actually. Or if you use multiple tabs Undo Close Tab can be handy. Or just close the Browser if you’ve Session Saver. Also a blank page seems rather suspicious, if you ask me.
> and you want to give it more screen space instead? how intelligent!
I regulary need to compare content of various (different) browsers and programs at once, so every pixel matters, but I don’t need it often enough to let it hide by default and missing functionality. I would also be happpy by a View->Toolbars entry or something along the line, so I don’t to change the pref back and forth.
> Yeah, and this checkin does exactly what blank last tab did.. without needing to install the extension!
Did you read https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248987#c14
September 30th, 2004 at 2:56 am
> bookmark this
data:text/plain;charset=utf-8,
September 30th, 2004 at 2:58 am
or create one yourself at http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/data/data
September 30th, 2004 at 8:53 am
> Yeah, and this checkin does exactly what blank last tab did.. without needing to install the extension!
well what about the rest of us who liked the old behavior? CTRL-W still closed the last tab, by closing the window…but now there’s no way to close the tabbar. I mean 95% of the time i want it open, but there’s the rare case that i need that little extra screenspace. oh well
September 30th, 2004 at 4:13 pm
That is not a reasonable argument for keeping the old behavior. What you’re asking for is a geeky preference: something like “hide the tab bar” on the context menu when you right-click it. However, whether or not that preference should be added is a separate discussion.
Talking about this fix:
old behavior: the preference “hide the tab-bar when only one tab is open” was overloaded, and if a user had unchecked it, it wasnt respected.
new behavior: the user’s choice is respected.
September 30th, 2004 at 6:22 pm
I have to agree with vfwlkr. The old behavior was unintuitive and irritating.
October 1st, 2004 at 12:46 am
> The old behavior was unintuitive and irritating.
Is that so? Previously if you clicked the close button the last ‘tab’ was closed (or did you saw any tab remaining?), just the browser stayed. Now clicking it just loads another page (which just happens to be about:blank). Now talk about intuitive.
The only thing wrong with the old behaviour was that it stayed so after browser restart, something which could’ve been fixed by itself.
October 1st, 2004 at 1:57 am
> the preference “hide the tab-bar when only one tab is open” was overloaded, and if a user had unchecked it, it wasnt respected.
It was repected, the tab-bar was not hidden if there was only one tab open, it was hidden when the user requested it explicitly.
October 1st, 2004 at 10:07 am
When I click the “close” button, I expect the page I was looking at to no longer be there. So yes, loading about:blank is just fine with me.
October 1st, 2004 at 2:52 pm
vfwlkr said:
“Say I accidentaly opened I site that is inappropriate at work, and want to quickly close it (boss approaching). What do I do?”
try out the PaNIC extension.
http://extensions.roachfiend.com/#panic
October 2nd, 2004 at 2:03 am
sweetlou builds have moved to http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/sweetlou-0.9/
October 2nd, 2004 at 5:01 am
Thanks, Synonymous.