Firefox 3 Pre-Milestone 9 (Alpha 9?) 2007 10 12 Released

October 12, 2007

Firefox Alpha 9 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]

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