Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 - New Nightly Build (28 Aug 2007)

It’s been just a few hours since I’ve posted about “Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 - New Nightly Build (27 Aug 2007)”. I have more good news about Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8. 28 Aug 2007 build was just released. This nightly build fixes even more bugs than the previous one. Here’s what has been fixed:

[Core:Widget: Cocoa]-Aqua menu-style selects supress background, but not foreground [Mac]

[Core:Style System (CSS)]-Loading gmail leaks nsCSSValuePair objects [Lin]

[Core:Widget: Cocoa]-Listboxes cannot be styled [Mac]

[Firefox:Download Manager]-Have the download manager store the referring uri when appropriate (and use it in the front end) [All]

[Core:Widget: Cocoa]-ASSERTION: nsMenuX: :AttributeChanged: WRITE SHOW CODE FOR SUBMENU [Mac]

[Firefox:Places]-places’ sqlite file can get overly large, do incremental vacuuming [All]

[Firefox:Places]-inconsistent use of title / name in bookmarks UI [Win]

[Core:Layout: R & A Pos]-Clipped objects are sometimes not fully redrawn after clipping [Win]

[Core:GFX]-Full page zoom interacts badly with bfcache [All]

[Core:Layout]-Wrong menupopup positioning inside HTML table [Win]

[Core:Plug-ins]-nsNPObjWrapper: :GetNewOrUsed() removes PLDHash entries from the wrong table if OOM (JS) [All]

[Core:Build Config]-Upgrade Mozilla trunk to NSPR_HEAD_20070820 [All]

[Core:SVG]-New style nsSVGEnum [Lin]

[Firefox:Preferences]-accesskey duplicates on advanced tab [All]

[Core:DOM: Events]-nsDOMPopupBlockedEvent leaks an nsWeakReference [Lin]

[Core:JavaScript Engine]-js1_5/Exceptions/ regress-121658.js - Out of memory [All]

[Firefox:Places]-js error when I open the view menu in the places organizer (missing the view.sortBy.tags.* string properties) [All]

[Firefox:Places]-”view | show columns | name” is not disabled [All]

[Core:General]-Excessive memory usage and hang when downloading from oldversion.com [All]

[Firefox:Places]-Stop setting the bookmarkFeedURI annotation on livemark children [Mac]

[Toolkit:Storage]-crash when I try to VACUUM (StorageUnicodeFunctions: :likeFunction() should handle null aArgv[0] and aArgv[1]) [Win]

And just a reminder: This is NOT a final version. It contains bugs, use it on your own risk.

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Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 - New Nightly Build (27 Aug 2007)

Don’t you just love to install new web browsers builds? Yes, you do. Firefox team yesterday released their new Firefox 3 series build. It’s Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8, 20070828 (Trunk). So what does this new build brings? It’s alpha, so basically bug fixes, many of them were fixed. Here’s a full changelog:

Fixed:

[Core:General]-Mozilla runs at ~100% cpu usage after connection is interrupted or wakeup from hibernate or standby [Win]

[Code:Printing]-”print” prints blank pages (regression) [Lin]

[Core:GFX: Thebes]-Font preferences panel selects random fonts in cairo builds [Lin]

[Firefox:Tabbed Browser]-Winstripe background tabs polish [Win]

[Core:Layout]-Hang or crash when changing text dynamically with bidi and new textframe. [Lin]

[Core: Layout: Fonts and Text] -Trunk mac-only topcrash at const [Mac]

[Core:GFX: Thebes]-firefox fail to render നെ (U+0D28 U+0D46 - Malayalam NA E) properly in തള്ളിയതിനെ [Win]

[Firefox:General]-Split PopupAutoComplete in three: UrlbarAutoComplete, SearchAutoComplete and ContentAutoComplete [All]

[Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]-getItemForID returns an empty nsIUpdateItem if the item doesn’t exist [All]

[Core:Layout: Floats]-[FIX]Crash [@ nsFrameConstructorState: :ProcessFrameInsertions] with float, XUL, block-in-inline [All]

[Core:Layout]-[FIX]“ASSERTION: assigning special sibling to other than first-in-flow!” with -moz-column, block-in-inline [All]

[Core:XP Toolkit/Widgets: Trees]-Crash [@ nsRect::nsRect] with XUL [Mac]

[Core:Layout]-[FIX]“ASSERTION: expected the float to be a child of the outer CB” and more with float, block-in-inline [All]

Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

[Core:Build Config]-Upgrade Mozilla trunk to NSPR_HEAD_20070820 [All]

[Core:Location Bar]-Enter key should only go to selected autocomplete item if was used to select item [All]

[Firefox:Places]-New starring, bookmarking and tagging UI [All]

[Core:GFX: Thebes]-Many fonts and widgets do not display [Lin]

Regressions/Annoying/Common bugs:

[Core:XPCOM]-Folder does not open anymore for dragged link [All]

[Firefox:General]-Multiple login requests for authentification proxies if sessionstore is enabled [Win]

[Core:GFX: Thebes]-Increased GDI usage (leading to repainting problems) when viewing sites with lots of images [Win]

[Toolkit:Breakpad Integration]-Breakpad doesn’t write minidumps on Windows 2000 (old DbgHelp.dll) [Win]

[Firefox:General]-Profile Manager starts then hangs - dialog box not appearing [Vista]

[Firefox:General]-Breakpad doesn’t work [Win]

[Firefox:Places]-bookmarks menu dnd indicator not visible if I want to drop an item before a separator [Win]

[Other Applications:Reporter]-Reporter should move away from SOAP (Reporter fails to send reports on trunk) [All]

[Firefox:Menus]-Bookmarks Menu - dropmarker missing [Win]

[Core:Plug-ins]-Disable then Enable plugin requires a page refresh to activate [Win]

[Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]-Restart button in Installation tab remains grayed out after an update of multiple extensions [Win]

[Firefox:Download Manager]-Downloads no longer remember last download directory - always defaults to Downloads [Win]

This is NOT a final build. Use it on your own risk.

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5 Web Browsers Features To Save Your Time

Yes, the world is moving fast, don’t you think so? It’s about time for you to learn some tricks and do everything much faster (if not already doing so). So to begin my first post from “Tips” section I will list 5 web browsers features which helps me to save a lot of time every day. If you are not already using them, I hope that this post will help you to save some time as well as helps me. So here we go. 5 web browsers features to save your time (listed alphabetically).

Mouse Gestures.
Great thing to save your time. Don’t just move your mouse to click back button, thats why you have mouse gestures for.

Picture Source: Mozdev.org

Download Opera 9.23 with Mouse Gestures.
Download Mouse Gestures add-on for Firefox.
Download Mouse Gestures add-on for Internet Explorer (IE7Pro)

Search Engines Management (not for search engines only).
Isn’t that annoying when you have to open a web page and only then type what you are looking for? It is. But there’s a solution. When I want to search for something, I don’t visit Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, eBay and other sites home pages anymore. Just pick a character, select your web page and that’s all. I prefer Opera’s Search Engines Management, easy to add your own stuff in a few seconds just by clicking “Add” button.

Download Opera 9.23 with Search Engines Management.
Download Firefox 2.0.0.6 with Search Engines Management.
Download Search Engines Management add-on for Internet Explorer (IE7Pro)
Netscape and other Firefox based browsers supports this too.

Sessions.
Don’t you just get bored when you have to open your previously visited web pages? Now why you have to do that? Forget it. Web browsers developers thought about you.

Download Opera 9.23 with Sessions.
Download Firefox 2.0.0.6 with Sessions.
Download Sessions add-on for Internet Explorer (IE7Pro)
Netscape and other Firefox based browsers supports this too.

Snap Links (Firefox add-on) by Pedro Fonseca.
This is probably one of the best things I ever seen. This little add-on helps you to open multiple links at same time. Just mark them using right mouse click and that’s all. Every marked link will open in a new tab. I love this little add-on.

Download Snap Links add-on for Firefox.

Speed Dial.
This feature allows you to open your favorite sites just in one click. No need to use bookmarks, no need to type a few symbols in the address bar in order to see your favorite sites addresses. Just one click and you are here, surfing your favorite site already.

Picture Source: Opera.com

Download Opera 9.23 with Speed Dial.
Download Speed Dial add-on for Firefox.

Hope that helps.

Web Browsers Finances - Opera Software 2007 Q2 Results

Good afternoon everyone. Few months ago I’ve started to monitor web browsers market share growth. Today I am thinking about something new again.

Oh yes, we all love graphs and various numbers (I love them). So since we are monitoring browsers market share already, what else can we monitor? Finances.

Opera Software today released their “Second Quarter 2007 Report” which includes some very interesting information. Here are some pictures (had to modify them a bit to make them fit in this blog).

As you can see Opera Software managed to increase almost everything (expect stock options costs), from revenues to employees.

Here are some more interesting information:

Soon to hit one billion per month. Congratulations to Opera Mini team.

Opera Software also provided their goals in 2007. Here are they:

Note: This does NOT constitute financial guidance.

Do you think they can complete all of them?

The only thing which made me wonder a bit was their “Working with global leaders” page.

Don’t you miss anything?

I went to their partners page and haven’t found “Yahoo!” there as well. Aren’t they in some kind of partnership? Have they just forgot to add this web giant?

Second Quarter 2007 Report.

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Opera 9.5 - More Details Revealed

There was some (one?) complain(s) in the “No Opera 9.5 or Opera Mini 4 Beta 2 or Final Today” post that Opera team haven’t posted anything in THEIR blog. So here you go, they did it on Saturday evening.

Whole post tells about Opera 9.5 developing, there are still many issues which needs to be fixed before releasing first public build and as Junyor (Tim Altman) said: “We have strict quality standards that have not yet been met”. That explains everything.

New Features

Opera always hides most important features which will be available in their next browser release, whether it’s Opera for desktop, Opera for mobile phone or any other one. I really like that. It makes you excite about something what you don’t know and when only a day or two are being left before release, they start to tease you even more. Thank you for that.

OK, new features/fixes. So not many was revealed, but here are the few:

An ability to manually update newsfeeds, just press F5 and you are done (I hope they will add some kind of button in the interface too).
Remember when you’ve clicked View > Encoding menu and it didn’t do anything for messages? Fixed.

That’s all. Let’s wait.

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Firefox Campus Edition

Recently Firefox released their Firefox web browser Campus Edition and as they say:

Firefox Campus Edition combines the Speed, Security and features of the Firefox browser with Special extras that give you Streamlined access to music, cool sites and useful information.

With Firefox Campus Edition you can do some cool stuff which includes: music listening while you are surfing (FoxyTunes), facts managing (Zoter) and new sites search/discovering (StumbeUpon).

What is Firefox Campus Edition?
Firefox Campus Edition combines the Firefox web browser with special extras that give you streamlined access to music, cool sites and useful research tools. It’s a way to get the most out of the web that’s been created just for students. And it’s free!

What extras are included?
FoxyTunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more with a click right from your browser.

StumbleUpon lets you channel surf the Internet to find great websites, videos, photos and more based on your interests.

Zotero helps you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work - in the web browser itself.

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FavBrowser.com v2

Now you’ll probably think: Oh no, one more topic about FavBrowser.com. Why don’t you guys post about web browsers anymore?

I have some information so would like to share with everyone of you.

First of all, thanks to everyone who is spreading word, linking to FavBrowser.com from their sites and just reading this blog. Thank You.

This week I was playing a bit with the logo but that’s not enough, right? I am thinking about more changes. So here are some of them:

• New web design. I will try to make it look bit more like a portal. Not really sure when I will finish it. But I don’t want to design this web page just for myself, so if you have any suggestions, please let me know them.
• More news. From now I will be posting not just about big guys like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari or Opera.
• Different posts style. I was just writing about new web browsers releases, included change log and that’s all. I will try to give those posts more “pashion” so every web browser fan would enjoy reading it much more.

Also some minor changes (added already) like e-mail subscriptions and “Hot Topics”.

Want anything else? Feel free to offer.

No Opera 9.5 or Opera Mini 4 Beta 2 or Final Today

I was just thinking to write about that and noticed that Junyor from Opera already said: “No weekly of Kestrel today.”.

There is one reason for that (which now I understand). Opera Mini 4 Beta wasn’t released on Friday as it’s bad day for such releases. So we will get new build on Tuesday or Wednesday (no idea which week) as Opera wants to get as many attention as possible and Friday is not good for that. Don’t expect Opera 9.5 or Opera Mini 4 Beta 2 or Final today.

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Pingdom Gives Away $120 000 In Free Accounts

Mr. Uptime Firefox plug-in is celebrating it’s 1 year anniversary, congratulations. For this reason Pingdom.com is giving away $120 000 in free accounts (1000 accounts total worth $120 each) so hurry up if you are interested. For Firefox users only, nice promo.

Why Pingdom?

Your website was probably down last month. Email servers, FTP servers, firewalls, and a multitude of other services can also perform poorly or even stop responding entirely.

The question is, are you aware of it? Do you know when it happens? Do you know for how long? This is where Pingdom comes in.

We can monitor all aspects of your website and other infrastructure for you and instantly let you know when anything goes wrong. Not only that, Pingdom will also collect a great deal valuable and useful statistics for you.

Q: Why do I need Mr Uptime?

A: On a daily basis millions of Internet users encounter websites that don’t work as intended. In most cases you as a user just want to visit a website to get information but can’t because of various kinds of issues. It could be a problem on your end, with the website, or somewhere in between. Mr Uptime will help you by informing you when the website is working correctly for you again.

Which One Do You Like More?

Please take a few seconds and tell me: Which one do you like more? With or without the slogan?

With:

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Without:

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Thank You.

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