Archive for September, 2007

Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (11 Sep 2007)

By | September 11, 2007 | 0 Comments

Firefox 3Let’s go straight to the point and check this build changelog (with bugs numbers).

Fixed:

  • #389437 [Core:Layout: Fonts and Text]-crashes [@ ns Sample Word Breaker: :NextWord] when using Alt+Arrow in text fields [All]
  • #391266 [Core:GFX]-with color management on, Acid2 face looks like a bankrobber [Win]
  • #394403 [Core:ImageLib]-Crash Viewing Image [ @ nsGIFDecoder2: :DoLzw] [Win]
  • #394534 [Core:HTML: Parser]-[FIX]First attribute doesn’t win in misplaced content [Lin]
  • #395407 [Toolkit:Breakpad Integration]-Symbol upload and unpack can conflict if builds have the same buildid [All]
  • #395633 [Firefox:Places]-backup date is wrong [Win]
  • Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

  • #393464 BACKOUT[Firefox:Places]-Bookmarks manager doesn’t search in tags field [All]
  • #395066 [Firefox:Places]-Hang when trying to clear browsing history [All]
  • Regressions/Annoying/Common bugs:

  • #337761 [Core:XPCOM]-Folder does not open anymore for dragged link [All]
  • #339804 [Firefox:General]-Multiple login requests for authentification proxies if sessionstore is enabled [Win]
  • #386343 [Firefox:General]-Breakpad doesn’t work [Win]
  • #388209 [Firefox:Places]-bookmarks menu dnd indicator not visible if I want to drop an item before a separator [Win]
  • #389131 [Other Applications:Reporter]-Reporter should move away from SOAP (Reporter fails to send reports on trunk) [All]
  • #394079 [Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]-Location bar autocomplete hangs after first character is typed; regardless of speed of character input [Win]
  • #394910 [Firefox:Download Manager]-The download always goes to browser. download. lastDir when browser. download. Use DownloadDir is false [Win]
  • #395534 [Firefox:Download Manager]- browser. download. lastDir is ignored when right-clicking and “Save Link As …” when browser. download. Use Download Dir is true. [Win]
  • #000000 [Firefox:General]- Crashes with Adblock Plus (even if disabled)[All]
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    Opera Developer Tools FAQ

    By | September 11, 2007 | 1 Comment

    Opera Developer ToolsIf you have no idea what is Opera Developer Tools, please check this page or just continue reading.

    These developer tools have been used by Web Application developers at Opera Software for some time. The tools are early previews, and should be considered alpha quality software. They are provided below in the form of buttons that can be dragged to any Opera toolbar. The tools are provided on an as-is basis.

    Now you may check Opera Developer Tools FAQ by David Storey here.

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    Some Statistics, Firefox Downloads and My.Opera.com Members

    By | September 11, 2007 | 0 Comments

    Firefox Recently Reached Four Hundred Million (400 000 000) Firefox Downloads.

    My.Opera.com Reached One Million (1 000 000) Members.

    And the question remains: how many active users?

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    IE7 Pro 1.1 Released

    By | September 11, 2007 | 0 Comments

    IE7 ProThis is probably a “must have” add-on for Internet Explorer 7 users.

    IE7Pro is a must have add-on for Internet Explorer, which includes a lot of features and tweaks to make your IE friendlier, more useful, secure and customizable. IE7Pro includes Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker, Flash Block, Greasemonkey like User Scripts platform, User Plug-ins and many more power packed features. You can customize not just Internet Explorer, but even your favorite website according to your need and taste using IE7Pro.

    Changelog:

  • Added Online Bookmarks
  • Added Text Saver
  • Added Privacy Cleaner
  • Easy Homepage Improvements
  • Fixed Some Bugs
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    Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (10 Sep 2007)

    By | September 10, 2007 | 0 Comments

    Firefox Good evening everyone, we have another nightly release from Firefox team, it’s Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 of 10 Sep 2007. Changelog:

    Fixed:

  • [Firefox:Places]-Provide backup and restore functionality for Places bookmarks [All]
  • [Firefox:General]-[regression] No Protocol Handling Dialog Appears with Unknown Protocols [All]
  • [Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]- if the user chooses a result from autocomplete results, or types it manually, have that weigh heavily in ranking ac results [All]
  • [Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]-when searching previous autocomplete results, if we find any, tell the front end immediately, instead of waiting for our first db query to return [All]
  • Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

  • [Firefox:Places]-Hang when trying to clear browsing history [All]
  • 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]
  • [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:Location Bar and Autocomplete]- Location bar autocomplete hangs after first character is typed; regardless of speed of character input [Win]
  • [Firefox:Download Manager]-The download always goes to browser.download.lastDir when browser.download.useDownloadDir is false [Win]
  • [Firefox:Download Manager]- browser. download. lastDir is ignored when right-clicking and “Save Link As …” when browser. download. useDownloadDir is true. [Win]
  • [Firefox:General]-Crashes with Adblock Plus (even if disabled) [All]
  • Download.

    Opera Mini 4 Beta 2, Mini Review

    By | September 10, 2007 | 1 Comment

    Although it’s not a final Opera Mini 4 version we can still make a short review about it.

    Opera Mini 4 Beta 2 Loading Screen
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    Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (7 Sep 2007)

    By | September 7, 2007 | 0 Comments

    FirefoxIt’s Friday evening here and it’s time for yet another Firefox 3 Pre Alpha 8 nightly build from Firefox team. Let’s go straight to the changelog then.

    Fixed:

  • [Core:GFX: Thebes]-“ASSERTION: lost track of line breaks somehow” with text-transform [Mac]
  • [Core:SVG]-Rationalise SVG frame construction [All]
  • [Firefox:File Handling]-web-based protocol handler defaulting in mimeTypes.rdf [All]
  • [Firefox:Places]-Bookmarks manager doesn’t search in tags field [All]
  • [Core:Spelling checker]-Update Hunspell to version 1.1.12 [All]
  • [Firefox:General]-Toolbar customization sheet is broken [Mac]
  • [Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]- show tag results in url bar autocomplete [All]
  • Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

  • [Firefox:Places]-code to drop the user_title column from moz_places table
  • 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]
  • [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:Location Bar and Autocomplete]- Location bar autocomplete hangs after first character is typed; regardless of speed of character input [Win]
  • [Core:ImageLib]-Crash Viewing Image [ @ nsGIF Decoder2: :DoLzw] [Win]
  • [Firefox:Download Manager]-Crash if you stop a paused download [@ nsDownloadManager: :ExecuteDesiredAction] [Win]
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    Opera 9.5 – Synchronization Explained

    By | September 7, 2007 | 2 Comments

    OperaRecently Opera Desktop Team wrote a nice article about my opera synchronization (My Opera synchronization explained). You can read it here. As you can guess, article explains about whole synchronization process as well.

    New BlackBerry Browser Or Opera Mini?

    By | September 7, 2007 | 0 Comments

    New BlackBerry Browser Or Opera Mini? Take your time and vote. Current results:

    What would be your preferred BlackBerry browser?

    Opera Mini, of course! (61%)
    I need to know more: comparison test would be good but I haven’t got the time (18%)
    The bundled-in browser already on my BlackBerry (9%)
    I love this new BlackBerry browser we’re talking about-can’t wait (8%)
    Couldn’t care less- rarely browse Web on my BB (3%)

    Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (5 Sep 2007)

    By | September 6, 2007 | 0 Comments

    FirefoxYet another nightly build from Firefox developers with more bug fixes.

    Fixed:

  • [Firefox:Password Manager]- replace modal pre-submit save password dialog with post-submit bar [All]
  • [Core:Keyboard: Navigation]- Should css scrollable areas without scrollbars be tabbable? [All]
  • [Core:XPCOM]-do_ Get FastLoad Service should use ns Get Service ByCID [All]
  • [Core:Widget: Cocoa]- occasionally lose caret in text fields and url bar (focus issues after cocoa widgets enabled) [Mac]
  • [Core:Printing]-Crash [@ ns PrintEngine: :Document Ready For Printing] with testcase that sets print preview, then reloads the page [All]
  • [Core:Disability Access APIs]-implement nsI Access Node: :scrollToPoint [All]
  • [Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]- remove unused globalItemList* strings from mozilla/ toolkit /locales /en-US /chrome /mozapps /extensions /extensions. properties [All]
  • [Core:Disability Access APIs]- GetChildAtPoint() fails for scrolled content [All]
  • [Toolkit:Breakpad Integration]- SetupExtraData should create “Crash Reports” dir if it doesn’t exist [All]
  • [Core:XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus]- Menubar menus flicker when they are opened/closed [All]
  • [Core:Disability Access APIs]- text-changed: delete event details no longer correct effective 26th July build [All]
  • [Core:Plug-ins]- Java plugin doesn’t stay disabled on restart when disabled via plugin manager [All]
  • [Core:Networking]- https add-on install from filepicker crashes [@ net_Get URL SpecFromFile] [Lin]
  • [Firefox:Download Manager]- Downloads no longer remember last download directory – always defaults to Downloads [All]
  • [Core:File Handling]- move RDF code from ns External Helper App Service to ns Handler Service [All]
  • [Firefox:File Handling]- auto-add preferred handler to possible handlers when retrieving them [All]
  • [Core:XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus]- Add cycle collection to XUL PopupListener [Mac]
  • [Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]- Extension incompatible message states Gecko Toolkit which users may find confusing [All]
  • Firefox:RSS Discovery and Preview]- Cannot successfully subscribe to RSS feed in Outlook 2007 from Firefox [Win]
  • [Firefox:Download Manager]- 0 byte downloads don’t appear in download manager [All]
  • [Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]- show notification using nsIAlertService when extension updates are available. [Mac]
  • [Core:DOM]-“ASSERTION: Item was successful, but node from collection was null!” involving DOMNodeRemoved event [Mac]
  • [Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]- NS_ ERROR_ ILLEGAL_ VALUE calling nsIExtensionManager.update when profile updates [Lin]
  • [Core:DOM: Events]- cache event listener manager when dispatching events [All]
  • [Core:DOM]-Inline May Dispatch Mutation Event [All]
  • [Firefox:Download Manager]- Info bubble for just-completed downloads says “Wednesday, December 31, 1969 6:00 PM” [All]
  • [Core:Event Handling]-Crash [@ nsGeneric HTML Element: :SetElementFocus] with kbd focus, onbeforecopy removing window [All]
  • [Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]- clean up extensions.css [All]
  • [Core:JavaScript Engine]- Too- much- native- recursion crash with getter, evalcx [Mac]
  • Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

  • [Core:Style System (CSS)]- consistently use NS_THEME_NONE [Mac]
  • [Core:Widget]-with gfx.color_management turned ON inconsistent behaviour for selection colours [All]
  • [Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]- Remove unused code from plugins landing [All]
  • [Firefox:RSS Discovery and Preview]- non well-formed feed breaks UI [Mac]
  • [Core:Layout]- Asserts on redoing totally empty line. [All]
  • [Core:Layout: HTML Frames]-[FIX]”ASSERTION: Already have an undisplayed context entry for aContent” with multiple body elements and position:absolute in iframe [All]
  • 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]
  • [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:Location Bar and Auto-complete]- Location bar auto-complete hangs after first character is typed; regardless of speed of character input [Win]
  • [Core:ImageLib]-Crash Viewing Image [ @ nsGIFDecoder2: :DoLzw] [Win]
  • Download now.