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

By | August 28, 2007 | 0 Comments

Firefox Pre Alpha 8Don’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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