The Burning Edge: November 2004 Archives

A build from the middle of the Aviary landing

Fixed: Aviary branch landing (partial).
Fixed: Change version number to 1.0.
Fixed: 196576 - Add MySQL support.
Fixed: 266485 - Enable SPNEGO proxy authentication.
Fixed: 175380 - PageDown/PageUp leave too much in common between "pages".
Fixed: 249782 - Make Mozilla compile with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
Fixed: 240070 - Add nsIContentPolicy <> nsIPermissionManager general glue.
Fixed: 261232 - Require builders to specify application(s) to client.mk and configure when building.
Fixed: 221161 - Customize domain endings (TLDs) for Ctrl+Enter, Shift+Enter, etc. completions in URL bar.
Fixed: 209694 - Clear margin merged with bottom margin on empty last child.
Fixed: 60289 - ::first-letter doesn't get margin-right applied.
Fixed: 100175 - InnerHTML smushing multiple options together on select.
Fixed: 201897 - Shrink-wrap absolutely positioned boxes, right of container, have 0 width.

There is a Branch landing plan on the mozilla.org wiki. Regressions from the Aviary landing should have the aviary-landing keyword.

This build has a lot of regressions. I recommend waiting at least until the end of the landing before downloading a new trunk build.

Since Aviary landing: Toolbar items (back button, address bar) are usually not updated.
Since Aviary landing: 272495 - Find toolbar is broken.
Since Aviary landing: Installing extensions does not work.
Since Aviary landing: 272504 - Live bookmarks icon, secure icon and hostname not displayed in status bar.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion)

Posted on November 30, 2004 at 10:27 PM | Comments (4)

Aviary branch landing in progress

Ben Goodger:

OK, I have landed one half of the Aviary Branch. (the browser half). This may cause some difficulty and prblems with the build/nightly build machines. I swear it all built on my machine. I am going to procede with merging the other half tomorrow. Please bear with me.

Hendikins described the location of this quote as "right above the flames".

Posted on November 30, 2004 at 05:32 AM | Comments (4)

2004-11-21 Trunk builds

Fixed: 265987 - [Security hole] Any tab can replace contents of current tab.
Fixed: 269585 - [Topcrash] Trunk crash at nbc.com opening a new window.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), BlueFyre's O2 G7 SSE, stipe's O2

Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Official Mac

Posted on November 21, 2004 at 05:54 PM | Comments (6)

2004-11-19 Trunk builds

Fixed: 265940 - Regression: Textfield doesn't scroll horizontally to left after backspace or left arrow.
Fixed: 263697 - Regression: Content-Disposition headers no longer looked at when saving documents.
Fixed: 270030 - Regression: Tabbing through document is broken in certain cases.
Fixed: 269736 - Regression: Invalidation bug on dynamically painted/moved tab.
Fixed: 267352 - Regression: Printing doesn't print form inputs.
Fixed: 21616 - Space after ::first-letter pseudo-element line is larger than between other lines.
Fixed: 259979 - Changes to keyword.URL require restarting Firefox.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), BlueFyre's O2 G7 SSE

Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Official Mac

Posted on November 19, 2004 at 11:22 PM | Comments (0)

2004-11-16 Trunk builds

Fixed: 266868 - Can't click a link that extends out of a layout-table:fixed table.
Fixed: 269859 - Turn on XTF in the default build.
Fixed: [Linux] 268099 - Filepicker buttons are too wide.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), BlueFyre's O2 G7 SSE

Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Official Mac

Posted on November 16, 2004 at 10:04 PM | Comments (4)

2004-11-13 Trunk builds

Fixed: 268303 - Installer's component selection panel has missing strings.
Fixed: 258514 - Clicked anchor with location hash set to element id gives first child anchor focus rectangle & selection not always updated correctly.
Fixed: 263132 - [IME] Reconverting does not work with IME of Japanese.
Fixed: 163572 - [IME] Converting string is inserted every hitting space key.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), BlueFyre's O2 G7 SSE

Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Official Mac

Posted on November 13, 2004 at 05:11 PM | Comments (2)

2004-11-12 Trunk builds

I'm comparing this build to 1.0 from the Aviary branch, so I'm not listing fixes and regressions. See the previous Burning Edge post for a comparison between the branch and trunk.

Official Windows, Official Windows installer (discussion), BlueFyre's O2 G7 SSE

Official Linux, Official Linux installer

Official Mac

Posted on November 13, 2004 at 03:20 AM | Comments (6)

Moving to the trunk

Trunk fixes and new features: Almost all of what's new on the trunk is in Gecko rather than in the Firefox UI, so it's mostly interesting to web developers, but these fixes seemed like they would be of general interest:

217527 - Left column on Slashdot is sometimes too narrow or too wide for its contents.
238493 - (Re)implement widget change caching. (Fixed problems where ads in pages would flicker into other parts of the page during page load, e.g. on Gamespot.)
97283 - Mouse wheel scrolling does not work for elements such as div using overflow - auto or scroll.
251986 - Keyboard scrolling does not work for elements such as div using overflow - auto or scroll.

Missing features: The plugin finder, the find toolbar, and the new tab/window options are branch-only for now. Merging will probably begin over the weekend or next week.

Regressions: I'm seeing many minor regressions, but none of them annoy me enough to keep me from using trunk builds. Partial list of trunk-only regressions. I'll keep an eye on vote counts and comments to see if any regressions should be red items in Burning Edge posts.

Stability: I backed up my profile to be safe, but I haven't hit any crashes or dataloss bugs in several hours of using today's trunk build.

Performance: I haven't tried to measure performance differences.

Extensions: The 7 extensions I use all work on the trunk. I had to manually enable some extensions that didn't advertise themselves as working in Firefox 0.9 (the trunk thinks it is 0.9), but that was easy: I just right-clicked the extensions and selected "Enable". It also made the Thumbs button disappear from both my toolbar and the Customize Toolbars window, but disabling and re-enabling the Thumbs extension fixed it.

From the roadmap:

Shortly after 1.0 is released we will resync the branch with the Gecko trunk fully and there will be a period of bug fixing and little feature work leading up to a release tentatively called "1.1" which will be our first release off the trunk.

Firefox 1.1 is targeted for March 2005.

Posted on November 13, 2004 at 03:14 AM | Comments (9)

Unofficial builds of Firefox 1.0

amano's, stipe's, moox's, JTw's

theNonsuch's

Posted on November 12, 2004 at 08:06 PM | Comments (2)

Trunk open thread

How are Firefox trunk builds?

Posted on November 09, 2004 at 01:59 AM | Comments (32)

Firefox 1.0 Released

There have been no changes since the previous Burning Edge post (2004-11-07 branch builds). Firefox 1.0 is the same file as that build, at least for the Windows English zip build (I checked using md5sum).

There is one surprise: Firefox's default home page now redirects to a co-branded version of the Google homepage. Mitchell explains:

In keeping with our emphasis on the end-user, we have redesigned the Firefox startpage. We wanted a startpage that reflected the Mozilla project and provided a good access point to the web. Given the importance of search, we decided to add search functionality to the start page itself. Google has long been recognized as a leader in search experience and so we chose Google.

All builds and source

Release notes, Unofficial changelog

mozillaZine article, MozillaNews article, Ben's blog post, Blake's blog post, Mitchell's blog post

Posted on November 09, 2004 at 01:07 AM | Comments (12)

2004-11-07 Branch builds

Fixed: 252679 - Add EULA for Firefox.
Fixed: Another round of icon updates.
Fixed: 262688 - Bump version numbers to 1.0.
Fixed: 267122 - Security hole.
Fixed: 245770 - Backslash rendered as yen in japanese locale.
Fixed: 267352 - Printing doesn't print form inputs.
Fixed: 267854 - Parser data listeners don't get all the data in all cases.
Fixed: 267648 - Upgraded from PR to RC2 through Sw update, lost "Help Content" and "For Internet Explorer Users" links.
Fixed: 266511 - Import Wizard doesn't show what items were imported.
Fixed: 180628 - Page setup dialog takes RTL where it shouldn't.
Fixed: 253008 - Set network.proxy.share_proxy_settings if IE has a single proxy set up.
Fixed: 267723 - ViewSource doesn't scroll to the selected line when opened from JS Console links; ViewSource->Edit->Go to Line broken as well; works in 1.0PR.
Fixed: 267738 - Java plugin place-holder does not find Java plugin, plugin information bar works.
Fixed: 266857 - Cannot print more than once with a printer with non-Latin1 (e.g. Japanese) characters in its name.
Fixed: 255196 - DDE: Request WWW_OpenURL send to Mozilla web page address without last character of address.
Fixed: 256111 - Customize toolbar bottom items are partly covered by horizontal scrollbar if size is not wide enough.
Fixed: 266822 - Crash if right-clicking on a text box, wait for text box to go away, press escape [@ nsMenuListener::KeyPress]; affects find bar in Firefox.
Fixed: 267797 - Crash with gmail.com.
Fixed: 267249 - Crash when clicking on link in pop-up window.
Fixed: 267804 - Crash blocking iframes with AdBlock extension.
Fixed: 267919 - Crash if Adobe SVG plugin is not installed.
Fixed: 236343 - [Mac] Full screen mode shows Windows-like minimize/maximize/close buttons.
Fixed: 205974 - [Mac] Missing PrintPDE.plugin: can't print background colors, selection or frames.
Fixed: Add to credits: Jeff Walden, Luke Stone, Mitchell Baker, Chris Beard.

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

Official Linux, Official Linux installer, daihard's SSE2

Official Mac, powerbook's G4-optimized, theNonsuch's G5-optimized

Posted on November 08, 2004 at 12:35 AM | Comments (9)

Firefox 1.0 RC2

Fixed: Add creative commons search plugin to default set.
Fixed: Updated Firefox icon. 32x32 is brighter, 16x16 is darker and higher-contrast.
Fixed: 266554 - No referrer sent for meta refresh.
Fixed: 264560 - Security hole.
Fixed: 267263 - Security hole.
Fixed: 267244 - Ensure Locales all use correct tracking params for Yahoo/Google.
Fixed: 266292 - Strange behaviour with command line, or even sometimes crash, when using gtk handled arguments.
Fixed: 267367 - Image loading from chrome results in auth prompts if src is protected.
Fixed: Add to credits: Namachivayam Thirumazhusai (shiva), Doron Rosenberg, Peter van der Woude (peter6), Jonathan Granrose, Chase Phillips
Fixed: [Mac] Many changes to Pinstripe (default theme for Firefox on Mac)