Firefox 3 Pre-Milestone 9 (Alpha 9?) 2007 10 26 Released

Everyone is polishing their web browser and Firefox team is not an exception. They have just finished new Firefox 3 nightly build. Please not that this is not a final version, use it on your own risk. Changelog? Here it is.

Fixed:

#362549 [Core:GFX: Thebes]-[Mac][Cairo] Tab content bleeds into loading tabs [Mac]

#382358 [Firefox:Places]-move places properties back into localizable location before betas [All]

#384112 [Core:Widget: Gtk]–moz-appearance: menulist-button broken in GTK [Lin]

#389628 [Firefox:General]-Implement UI for full page zoom [All]

#399128 [Core:Disability Access APIs]-Events (still) missing for collapsed XUL combo boxes. [Lin]

#395144 [Firefox:Download Manager]-Figure out what to do when we are supposed to open an application with download resume [All]

#397266 [Core:Disability Access APIs]-Crash on multitab dialog pages when JAWS is running. [Win]

#397293 [Core:XP Toolkit/Widgets: XUL]-Crash [@ CGBitmapContextCreateImage] with xul, opacity [Mac]

#398886 [Firefox:Password Manager]-resetting a master password does not clear existing password manager logins [Win]

#399815 [Firefox:Download Manager]-Store autoResume in moz_downloads table to indicate if a download should auto-resume [All]

#399858 [Core:Disability Access APIs]-Crash [@ no stack] with label, input type=image [All]

#400025 [Core:SVG]-SVG stroke on text is rendered on… something else [Win]

#400619 [Core:Plug-ins]-NPRuntime-based plugins can’t query DOM immediately after NPP_SetWindow [Win]

#400751 [Firefox:Password Manager]-Migrating from an existing SeaMonkey installation causes errors in password manager due to old style encyption [Lin]

#400809 [Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]-remove unneeded/unused parts from the urlbar binding [All]

#400892 [Firefox:Password Manager]-Saving form passwords broken when info bars are not available. [Lin]

#400759 [Core:Security: PSM]-PSM should build with NSS size optimization [All]

Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

#321402 [Core:Layout: Block and Inline]-bug 320502 caused text/inlines inside XUL boxes (often -moz-inline-box) to disappear (Folder view does not display header info in Domino Web Mail (inotes)) [All]

#389366 [Core:Layout: Canvas]-Canvas’s .getImageData is returning premultiplied alpha pixels [All]

#396695 [Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]-add-ons go into “needs to restart” loop commonly after a firefox update [Win]

#399476 [Firefox:Places]-bug #387996 caused Txul and Ts regressions [All]

#399706 [Core:Security: PSM]-glibc detected: free(): invalid pointer attempting to select cert [Lin]

#399838 [Firefox:Download Manager]-Automatically init (not open) the download manager when starting the app [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]

#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]

#398085 [Core:JavaScript Engine]-Crash on Load [@ js_Interpret] [All]

#400075 [Core:ImageLib]-long delays painting the app when it’s brought to the foreground. [Win]

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