Yet another nightly from Firefox team. Please don’t forget that this is not a final version, it’s an alpha. Build contains many issues known and unknown ones. Use it on your own risk. This build fixes a total of 25 bugs which is a big amount, Firefox team managed to fix all of them just in a single day. For more details check this changelog.
Fixed Bugs:
#251910 [Firefox:Places]- No hover highlighting (i.e. mouse-tracking) in Bookmarks/History sidebar [All]
#339754 [Core:Installer: XPInstall Engine]- Threadsafety asserts from chrome registry when installing extensions [Lin]
#368811 [Firefox:General]- Firefox crashes on exit after plugin install activated by InstallTrigger. install(xpi, installCompleteFunction) [Win]
#386065 [Core:Layout: Form Controls]-legend {font-size:0;} still shows the text (yahoo.com mainpage) [Win]
#386551 [Core:Disability Access APIs]- expose ARIA description on document [All]
#386585 [Core:ImageLib]- Update libpng to version 1.2.21 [All]
#391740 [Toolkit:XUL Widgets]- listheader in richlistbox appears to right/at bottom of richlistitems [All]
#391868 [Core:Layout]- Page Source very small with meta charset=windows-1258 [All]
#394805 [Core:Layout: BiDi Hebrew & Arabic]- “ASSERTION: ResolveBidi called on non-first continuation” [All]
#396745 [Directory:LDAP XPCOM SDK]- nsILDAPConnection: :Init should take an nsILDAPURL as a parameter instead of three others. [All]
#397135 [Toolkit:XUL Widgets]- tree._ensureColumnOrder dies if no columns are defined [All]
#397288 [Core:GFX: Thebes]- Missing text without fallback from U+0000-00FF fast path when first font-family doesn’t have necessary glyphs [Lin]
#397296 [Firefox:Build Config]- Firefox builds need to use the current NSS CVS tag [All]
#397434 [Firefox:Phishing Protection]- Phishing update request is malformed [All]
#397518 [Core:MathML]-” ASSERTION: The block in an {ib} split shouldn’t be living inside an inline” with mathml [Mac]
#397796 [Toolkit:XULRunner]- Allow XULRunner apps to specify the name of xulrunner-stub via configure [All]
#398056 [Toolkit:Breakpad Integration]- symbolstore.py does not recognize srcdirs with SVN when using svn-ssh [Lin]
#398363 [Core:Widget]- Removing Cairo Checks in nsBaseDragService [All]
#398512 [Core:Widget: Gtk]- crash on shutdown and before restart (gdk_display_close) with gtk xim module [Lin]
#399048 [Core:Security: UI]- Add accesskeys to all buttons, make Get Certificate the default button (Add Exception dialog) [All]
#399050 [Firefox:Download Manager]- directories created with wrong permissions [Lin]
#399136 [Directory:LDAP XPCOM SDK]- 396745 broke nsLDAPChannel.cpp [Lin]
#399259 [Firefox:Form Manager]- Form manager shouldn’t cache Login Manager service at startup. [All]
#399354 [Core:SVG]- Some SVG filters not checking in2 requirement [Lin]
#399440 [Firefox:Menus]- Work offline menu has incorrect state after cancelled request to go offline in sub windows [Mac]
Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:
#398156 [Core:Disability Access APIs]- Several wairole to ATK object attributes missing [Lin]
#398807 [Firefox:Session Restore]- session restore accounts for 2-3% of talos pageload (make it faster) [All]
#399542 [Core:ImageLib]- libpng 1.2.21 update broke a unit test [All]
#388564 [Core:JavaScript Engine]- [RFE] JavaScript Tracing Framework [Sol]
#391584 [Core:Selection]- double-clicking a word followed by link selects the first word of the link text [Win]
#393928 [Core:Plug-ins]- Let Java applets be scriptable through NPRuntime as well. (make OJI obsolete) [All]
#397783 [Core:Layout]- Remove lots of redundant nsISupportsArray include/forward definitions from content [All]
#399376 [Core:XP Toolkit/Widgets: Trees]- Trees don’t crop cells properly if the header is hidden [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.lastDir is ignored when right-clicking and “Save Link As …” when browser. download. useDownloadDir is true. [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]
#398551 [Firefox:Download Manager]- Since checkin for bug 396477 it is impossible to download tar.gz or tar.bz2 files. [Lin]
Download now.
Vygantas is a former web designer whose projects are used by companies such as AMD, NVIDIA and departed Westood Studios. Being passionate about software, Vygantas began his journalism career back in 2007 when he founded FavBrowser.com. Having said that, he is also an adrenaline junkie who enjoys good books, fitness activities and Forex trading.
