The Burning Edge

Exciting fixes:

• Fixed: 274784 - Make back and forward blazingly fast. (MozillaZine article, chase's blog entry with instructions for enabling this feature, asa's blog entry, jesus_X's blog entry.)
• Fixed: Build and enable SVG support by default. (MozillaZine article, examples.)
• Fixed: Add support for <canvas>. (Example.)
• Fixed: 291033 - Enable support for profile temp directory on local filesystem. (MozillaZine article, gemal's blog entry.)
• Fixed: 171349 - [Win98] Firefox icon is Win98's standard icon (taskbar & upper lefthand corner of app).

Security fixes:

• Partially fixed: 289074 - Security hole in markLinkVisited (Bug 217195) has not been fixed.
• Fixed: 289675 - Getter/setter on window.__proto__.__proto__.__proto__ allows XSS attacks.
• Fixed: 290079 - Arbitrary code execution via sidebar (part 2).
• Fixed: 290038 - Search plugins can silently overwrite existing search plugins.
• Fixed: 290037 - Search plugins can get javascript access to currently active tab.
• Fixed: 290036 - Link tag allows to execute arbitrary code without user interaction.
• Fixed: 289204 - Showing a blocked popup has chrome privs.

If you're using an old trunk build, you should upgrade to a new trunk build or switch to 1.0.3 so you're not vulnerable to these holes.

More fixes:

• Fixed: 210043 - Enable context menu "copy image" on more platforms.
• Fixed: 258277 - Add menu item to Check for Updates.
• Fixed: 228968 - Downloading a large file >2GB displays negative status values.
• Fixed: 292326 - Arrowscrollbox doesn't scroll on hover.
• Fixed: 283897 - VBulletin 3.0.1 WYSIWYG Post Reply Function is Broken.
• Fixed: 240276 - Reorganize nsGfxScrollFrame.
• Fixed: 180962 - Insecure form submission warning pops up twice (in the first tab).
• Fixed: 245631 - Crash loading .ico file [@ nsICODecoder::ProcessData ].
• Fixed: 96423 - German character &szlig; - buggy capitalization (text-transform: uppercase or capitalize).
• Fixed: 268513 - Overflow:scroll causes memory growth.
• Fixed: 220626 - Enable keyboard access to Blocked Popups notification bar.
• Fixed: 189982 - Automatic image resizing: state of the image should be kept after resizing the browser window.
• Fixed: 53995 - [Windows] Using "text zoom" to scale fonts very small makes them come back normal.
• Fixed: 231300 - [Windows] NsLocalFile::MoveTo is very slow to move directories.
• Fixed: 239218 - [Mac] Menus are nonfunctional when 'tools' have focus (Downloads / Extensions / Theme Managers, JavaScript Console and Page Info window).

New features for web developers and extension developers:

• Fixed: 290592 - Array extras: forEach, indexOf, filter, map, some, every.
• Fixed: 274928 - Make it possible for apps, extensions, and vendors to all add tokens to the User-Agent string (using default preferences) without overwriting each other (general.useragent.extra.*).
• Fixed: Many changes to Extension Manager

Fixes for regressions:

• Fixed regression: 289211 - "Open a new window" (e.g. Ctrl+N) doesn't load the home page (since Apr 5).
• Fixed regression: 288509 - Dragging favicon from location bar into bookmark menu creates double entry (since Mar 30).
• Fixed regression: 273466 - Can't drag favicon from url bar into bookmark sidebar to create bookmark (since Aviary landing).

Many extensions won't work right away when you upgrade to this version, but if you reinstall the extensions, most will work.

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 5: 293135 - Form content is lost when pressing back (regardless of whether fastback is enabled).
• Since Apr 29 : 292431 - 15% performance regression on DHTML due to fix for bug 240276.
• Since Feb 24: 284245 - Richedit/designMode not working anymore at blogger.com.
• Since Feb 23: 285544 - Safe Mode doesn't work.
• Since ~Jan 22: 279497 - Selected profile does not always appear focused.
• Since ??: 273200 - Ctrl+W in Find bar breaks middle-clicking links, find toolbar, and back button.
• 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