Firefox 3 Pre-Milestone 9 (Alpha 9?) 2007 10 05 Released

By | October 5, 2007 | 0 Comments

Firefox 3 Pre-Milestone 9 Alpha 9Yet another day and yet another Firefox 3 build from its developers team. While it’s still really long time to go, it’s good to see that with every day they Firefox 3 becomes more and more “polished”. Latest build changelog:

Fixed:

  • #384304 [Firefox:Startup and Profile System]- /usr/bin/firefox is not able to handle symlinks due to error in script [Lin]
  • #395138 [Firefox:File Handling]- show types set to “always ask” in Applications prefpane [All]
  • #395689 [Core:XSLT]- XML pretty print leaks [Mac]
  • #397749 [Core:SVG]- New style nsSVGAngle [All]
  • #398360 [Firefox:General]- speed up onSecurityChange [All]
  • #398394 [Firefox:Places]-[places] add “match” label to places search builder [All]
  • #398471 [Core:Widget: Cocoa]- Widgets translated incorrectly when there is a complex transform. [Mac]

    • Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

  • #380901 [Core:JavaScript Engine]- Release SpiderMonkey 1.7 [All]
  • #387480 [Core:Security: UI]- Support network-fetched cert import in Web Sites tab of Cert Mgr [Mac]
  • #393757 [Core:Style System (CSS)]- Don’t report CSS style errors for identifiers designated as vendor-specific [All]
  • #394483 [Core:File Handling]- web-based protocol handlers don’t work in certain situations [All]
  • #397690 [Firefox:Preferences]- Handler apps display as executables rather than full application name [All]
  • #387996 [Firefox:Places]- add a “Places” folder to the bookmarks menu, populated with smart folders [All]

    • Regressions/Annoying/Common bugs:

  • #333965 [Firefox:Places]- Places’ search feature hangs [Win]
  • #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]
  • #385245 [Firefox:Places]- history sidebar very slow (way slower than fx2) [All]
  • #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.l astDir is ignored when right-clicking and “Save Link As …” when browser. download. useDownloadDir is true. [Win]
  • #397012 [Firefox:Menus]-menus won’t close on second click [Win]
  • #398085 [Core:JavaScript Engine]- Crash on Load [@ js_Interpret] [All]
  • #398346 [Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]- Opening/closing toolbar customize breaks the location bar [All]

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