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It looks like Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Beta 2 will be released within a couple of months, in the third quarter to be exact. As for now, Microsoft asks web site owners to make sure that their pages will be displayed correctly on IE 8. Check “Your Web site may not display correctly in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1” article for more details about web pages compatibility.
It looks like Opera 9.5 Beta 2 will be released very soon. I guess after yesterday’s one more weekly build from Opera Desktop Team with title “Beta 2 is Coming…” sums it up. I predict the release of Opera 9.5 Beta 2 on the next Wednesday. But don’t take my word for it.
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It looks like we’re going to see a new Opera Mini Beta release soon. It’s not known yet, whether that will be Opera Mini 5, Opera Mini 4.5 or any other version (at least Opera Mini team is not telling that). It will be interesting to see what new features were added and what was improved.
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Long awaited Firefox 3 Beta 3 is now released. With about 1300 changes (compared to the previous beta release), Firefox 3 Beta 3 is surely moving forward to bring users the ultimate web experience. The following release offers improved malware protection, download manager and greater performance as well. Continue Reading
Today’s Opera build introduced a well known feature, which can already be found on: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari and probably few others, not so well known web browsers. This new feature allows Opera users to control tabs behavior when closing them. If you will open the following settings window: Preferences > Advanced > Tabs
It’s easy to notice the following options to choose from: Continue Reading
Yet another Firefox nightly build (2008 02 01) was just released. This is not a final release, use it on your own risk.
Bugs fixed
#353962 [Core:JavaScript Engine] – Firefox 2.0 often hangs in Intel Mac OS X 10.4.7 [Mac]
#354135 [Core:JavaScript Engine] – jsxml.c does not check for too deep recursion [All]
#374040 [Core:Internationalization] – nsIScriptable DateFormat does not work as expected with dateFormatLong [Lin]
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Opera Desktop Team just released a first weekly build this month. Please note that this is not a final release, those builds still contains lots of bugs and various issues.
Known issues
Crash when you clear history while history search is disabled
Format selector when saving pages is broken
Some plugins on Mac don’t work at all
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Firefox 3 Beta 2 is expected to be released in late December, as for now, here’s another nightly build from Firefox team, which is working on weekends too. This nightly introduces lots of fixes, so let’s proceed with the changelog, shall we?
Fixed
258405 [Firefox:Toolbars] – New measure to prevent XUL spoofing also allows other custom toolbars to appear, not only the location bar. [All]
342504 [Core:DOM] – [FIX]Tab is blanked when clicking an anchor link identical to the current url [All]
365851 [Core:JavaScript Engine] – get/set/ call optimizations [All]
396930 [Core:Disability Access APIs] – giving focus to tree before its populated crashes Thunderbird [@ nsUInt32Array: :GetAt] [Lin]
398907 [Firefox:OS Integration] – Firefox saves wrong window restore size while closing a maximized window. [Win]
399746 [Firefox:Page Info] – Exception… “‘[JavaScript Error: "gImage View.data[i] has no properties” {file: “chrome://browser/ content/ pageinfo/ pageInfo.js” line: 554}]’ when calling method: [nsIDOM NodeFilter: :acceptNode]” [All]
401247 [Firefox:Places] – Assertion Failed (assert: null node) when middle-clicking on blank space in Bookmarks Toolbar [All]
403691 [Core:Security: PSM] – unable to display decoded policies extension in certs from https://www.digicert.com [All]
403830 [Core:DOM] – Use arena pools and a separate heap for content [Win]
404894 [Toolkit:XUL Widgets] – Text in disabled xul should be grayed [Mac]
406194 [Firefox:Places] – Rich url bar keeps old scroll position even on new input [All]
406230 [Firefox:Download Manager] – Vertically align download icons in the center [All]
406790 [Toolkit:Microformats] – Add support for an option to show/hide hidden microformats [All]
407044 [Firefox:Download Manager] – Download manager should use more Linux stock icons [Lin]
407193 [Firefox:Preferences] – Restore animate FadeIn behavior for Mac prefpanes (revert fix for bug 394881) [Mac]
407286 [Firefox:Places] – ExpireItems (EXPIRATION _COUNT _PER _RUN) takes about 700ms (down from 8 seconds) but could be faster? [All]
407292 [Firefox:Places] – When adding a bookmark with no title, we should use the uri as the title [All]
407421 [Core:XP Miscellany] – [FIX]Named windows/tabs are randomly targeted from windows that target them [All]
407540 [Firefox:Places] – Tags checked when they are created for a different bookmark [Mac]
407655 [Firefox:Download Manager] – Reorganize download context menus [All]
407788 [Core:Security: UI] – polish Delete Server Certificate Exceptions dialog [Win]
408135 [Core:Layout] – nsCSSRuleProcessor: :GetRuleCascade does unnecessary array churning [All]
408214 [Toolkit:Breakpad Integration] – crash reporter sending random “Name” field [Win]
408295 [Core:Style System (CSS)] – avoid temporary arrays when cascading style rules [All]
408316 [Firefox:Places] – License header in the middle of browser.js [All]
408322 [Firefox:Places] – right click, bookmark this link doesn’t bookmark the link [All]
408356 [Firefox:Build Config] – Removed deprecated MathML fonts on update and pave-over install [All]
408359 [Firefox:Password Manager] – P assword Manager dialog’s Show/Hide Passwords button does not have an access key [All]
408368 [Core:JavaScript Engine] – Suboptimal code in array_sort implementation [All]
408373 [Firefox:Password Manager] – Typo in a comment in nsLogin Manager Prompter.js [All]
408403 [Core:DOM] – [FIX]Use QI tables for document classes [All]
Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming
404530 [Firefox:OS Integration] – Make use of GTK stock icons in more places [Lin]
407415 [Core:GFX: Thebes] – NaNs in gfx*Font with font-size:0 and font-size-adjust [All]
Regressions/Annoying/Common bugs
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]
400075 [Core: ImageLib] – long delays painting the app when it’s brought to the foreground. [Win]
402348 [Firefox: Tabbed Browser] – popup statusbar notification switches to incorrect tab when tab closed [All]
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It’s time for yet another weekly Opera 9.5 build for you to test; and as it was said, Sparc Solaris builds are there as well, although those builds crashes once you will try to use mail, but that’s what the progress is all about. And now, let’s see new weekly build changelog.
Unread count inconsistencies should be fixed
Animated GIFs should be fixed, for real this time
Fixed crash when clicking on the widget panel
Single clicking no longer behaves like drag and drop in bookmarks panel
Content Blocker now works again if you have disabled Speed Dial
Fixed various SVG crashers
Fixed various XSLT crashes
UNIX-specific
Sparc Solaris builds now start… but crashes when you try to use mail
Known issues
[BUG 295195] Download preferences are broken after saving changes. This leads to many seemingly separate bugs, such as wrong MIME-type when uploading JPG images or headers displayed in MHTML documents
[BUG 299224] Account settings broken when adding a new IRC/Chat account
[BUG 292685] Occasional crashes when opening download links from mail/newsfeeds
[BUG 299767] Opera on UNIX might crash if you close a tab while flash is being initialized
[BUG 292802] Opera on UNIX crashes when Java is initialized
Download Opera 9.5 for Windows (Build 9694)
Download Opera 9.5 for Windows (Classic Installer) (Build 9694)
Download Opera 9.5 for Macintosh (Build 4579)
Download Opera 9.5 for UNIX (Build 1719)
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