Firefox 3 Pre-Alpha 8 – New Nightly Build (4 Sep 2007)

By | September 5, 2007


FirefoxHello Everyone,
Every day (even on weekends) Firefox team is working hard to give us their latest web browser version, fixes lots of bugs and adding and/or polishing new features. We have another nightly release from them today as well.

Fixes:

  • [Core:XP Toolkit/Widgets: Trees]-Items in trees has a cropped right-margin [All]
  • [Core:Internationalization]-Line Breaking with Pango/Uniscribe [Lin]
  • [Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]-Disable insecure extension updates by default [All]
  • [Core:SVG]-Browser hangs mixing filters and text [Win]
  • [Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]-Remove overrides from extensions.xml [All]
  • [Core:Security: PSM]-Add scriptable interface to verify digital signatures [All]
  • [Core:Layout]-Remove unused trimmed-space counting [All]
  • [Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]-Add a get plugins link to the add-ons mgr. [All]
  • [Toolkit:XUL Widgets]-tree.xml: _reorderColumn should not fail in cases where the move and before columns are the same. [All]
  • [Core:Build Config]-Firefox confvars.sh includes xml-rpc as a default extension [All]
  • [Firefox:General]-Load app defaults and extension defaults separately [All]
  • [Core:X-remote]-Memory leak in XRemoteClient: :DoSend Command Line() [Lin]
  • [Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]- XPCOMUtilify Extension Manager [All]
  • [Core:Layout: Fonts and Text]-Inconsistent text-decoration positioning [All]
  • [Core:XP Toolkit/Widgets: XUL]-“ASSERTION: post-reflow queues not empty” with xul:listboxbody and xul:text [Mac]
  • [Core:Widget: Cocoa]-Aqua textfields – textarea, input type=”text” – do not accept padding. [Mac]
  • [Core:Layout]-Crash [@ nsIFrame: :Invalidate] with object, positioning and bidi character [Win]
  • [Core:GFX: Thebes]-“ASSERTION: Textrun was not completely removed from the cache” with non-breaking hyphen [Mac]
  • [Core:Widget: Cocoa]-Bookmarks menu opens wrong bookmark [Mac]
  • Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

  • [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 elements and position: absolute in iframe [All]
  • [Core:XSLT]-numerous xslt leaks visiting http://www.metacafe.com [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]
  • [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:Download Manager]- Downloads no longer remember last download directory – always defaults to Downloads [Win]
  • [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 [ @ nsGIF Decoder2: :DoLzw] [Win]
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