Posted
about 17 hours
ago
by
Jesse Ruderman
Fixes:
Fixed: 407875 - Unprivileged users are not notified of security updates.
Fixed: 260264 - Popups from a site that is in the "Allowed List" (whitelist) are blocked, starting with the n-th popup (dom.popup_maximum).
Fixed: 521905
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- Make extensions.checkCompatibility be per-application-version. (Mossop's blog post)
Fixed: 396392 - Support for getClientRects and getBoundingClientRect in DOM Range.
Fixed: 503481 - Implement async attribute of script element.
Fixed: 517804 - Try to avoid reflows and new invalidations during painting. (On Mac, this makes warm startup 13% faster.)
Fixed: 452319 - border-collapse rewrite.
Fixed: 519357 - Only load known components from app directory. (DevNews post)
Fixed: 524904 - [Windows] Add support for generic DLL blocklist.
Fixed: 525103 - [Windows] Block npffaddon.dll (malware) and old versions of avgrsstx.dll (AVG SafeSearch).
Fixed: 497665 - Images are downloaded multiple times if defined multiple times, on Shift-Reload / Ctrl+F5.
Fixed: 517224 - Firefox downloads CSS background images that it doesn't need (from overridden CSS rules).
Fixed: 77882 - getComputedStyle returns incorrect font-weight value if |font-weight:bolder| or |font-weight:lighter|.
Fixed: 512645 - Only clamp nested timeouts.
Fixed: 510082 - Silverlight 3 plugin elements don't repaint correctly.
Fixed: 520178 - [Windows] Minimized windows appear offscreen when restoring from session store.
Fixed: 499816 - [Windows] Minimizing Firefox does not release window focus.
Fixed: 440486 - [Windows] The FAX dialog disappear and Fax cannot be done from Firefox, but works otherwise.
mozilla-central pushlog for 2009-11-03 04:00 to 2009-11-21 04:00
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Posted
about 18 hours
ago
by
vladimir
I purchased a Droid when they came out. It's my first Android device, and it's been an interesting experience. I am not a fan of the iPhone, and I've been using a Blackberry for the past few years (an 8700 first, then the original Curve, then
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the updated 8900). The Droid is a great looking device; I like the industrial look, with my only complaint being that the big gold-coloured area on the D-pad is way too garish; it would also have been nice had that area been a trackpad-like virtual trackball. The keyboard leaves a lot to be desired, though. It's a physical keyboard, which is nice, but it's no match for a Blackberry keyboard. Typing on it is slow and cumbersome, given the very wide layout, and some keys are very oddly placed. (I found it amusing that while the Blackberry has a dedicated unshifted key for "$", the Droid has a dedicated key for "?"...)
The feel of the OS is pretty nice, although some things are more sluggish than they really should be on an OMAP3 device. Stuart keeps telling me that Fennec has smoother panning in the browser, and I think he's right. It's not a deal breaker though; I find myself using the browser a lot to do all sorts of things that I never would have considered on my Blackberry (because, wow, the web browser situation there is awful), but that was a frustrating experience on my iPod Touch as well. I've spent a while "browsing the web" on my phone, which I've never been able to say I've done before.
But, it's still a phone, and while the voice portion isn't all that important to me, the overall communication package is. Coming from a Blackberry, the overall messaging situation on the Droid is simply horrible. Email, whether Exchange or IMAP, is a disaster. The email client seems designed for simple "lol r u there" type of messages, and even the message lists don't seem intended for people who get more than 5 messages a day -- turning a message list into landscape mode is worthless as you only get to see about 3-4 messages in the list (same view as in portrait mode, just along the much smaller axis of the display), no IMAP IDLE support etc. are all very strange on a top-end phone. Exchange support works ok for Calendar sync, but for email sync it would only download the first 1000 bytes or so of a message, including headers; this meant that I often only got to see the first sentence or two of an email. I don't know whether this is a problem with the Droid or our Zimbra Exchange connector, but switching to IMAP for work mail fixed that problem.
An recently-released version of the open-source K9 Email Client that works on the Droid resolves many of these issues, though it needs some polish. I might write some code there, since it's close to becoming a pretty good email solution.
The Gtalk client is probably in worse shape than email. It's almost as if Google entirely ignored Gtalk on this device (and I can't believe that would be Verizon's fault, since things like Google Voice work just fine). First, it's in general buggy -- it's crashed on me multiple times, often freezes when returning to it from another app (after clicking a link to the browser, for example), and often shows contacts as offline with a big red message despite the contact clearly having a green dot next to their name and responding to my messages.
In the browser and in other apps, you can share a web page with someone using a "Share with" button. The list you're presented is conspicuously missing Gtalk, despite having Facebook, Email, Messaging (SMS) and a random Twitter client I installed on there. What gives? All of these features are available on the Blackberry; I'm not sure if it was RIM that did the Gtalk app there, but can we get whoever it was to rewrite the Android one?
One of the best things about the Blackberry is the unified messaging; there's a single view where I can go to see all my emails, my gtalk conversations, my SMS messages, app updates, and whatever else. No such thing exists on Android. The closest thing is the notification bar, which requires a swipe down to use, and then only shows things that have come in since the last time you looked. I'd prefer a more time-based list that contains both old and unread items. Sounds like the Sony-Ericsson X10 might be doing some interesting things there, and I hope that someone figures out how to create an app like this. What it comes down to is that anything to do with communication is faster and simpler on my Blackberry, which is really strange; you'd think Google would have spent some time working this out, as everything else about the device is far superior to my 8900. I understand that more "enterprise oriented" customers (which apparently means those that like to use email a lot?) aren't necessarily the target market here, but they could've really attacked that market with some simple work that wouldn't have affected anything else.
The good news is that all of these are fairly straightforward software issues. The hardware is solid, and Google has shown that they'll do frequent upgrades of the OS. Given that the Droid is a "Google Experience" device, those updates should find their way to the device quickly. Some fixes, combined with getting Firefox Mobile on the Droid and other Android devices, will make this a great phone. [Less]
Posted
about 20 hours
ago
by
chofmann
Last Summer I got the chance to visit several Universities while traveling around Brasil. One of the stops was to meet up with Prof. Fabio Kon and students at the University of Sao Paulo and the FLOSS Competence Center. For...
Posted
1 day
ago
by
morgamic
Are you up for the challenge?
This week Mozilla launched the security quiz on Facebook. We encourage you to take the quiz and see how much you know about web security!
Similar to our plugin checker, the security quiz is a part of
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our larger effort to raise awareness about web security.
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Posted
1 day
ago
by
Blair McBride
Was stubbornly fighting the flu for part of the week, so I didn’t get as much done this week as I had hoped.
Tab matches in Awesomebar
Status
Finished nsPlacesAutocomplete integration – works wonderfully well
Filed bug
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530209 to change the preferences UI to allow adding tab matches
Tryserver builds at http://people.mozilla.org/~bmcbride/tabmatches/latest/
Loose ends
Waiting on feedback
Next steps
Unit tests
Respond to feedback
Target for next week
Unit tests
Binding for untrusted text in security dialogs
No change.
Miscellaneous
Helped with some lightweight theme bugs for 3.6
Reflections
Sometimes, there is no good solution. But there is a best solution.
Related posts:
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Posted
1 day
ago
by
Bryan Clark
The other day I did a quick hack using Raindrop & Jetpack to get new mail notifications from Raindrop. In total it took me less than an hour. It’s no Joe Shaw hack, so I don’t expect to get in the paper for this but I figured I’d share
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anyway.
This Jetpack checks Raindrop to see if there are new messages and bubbles them up as notifications if there are. Here’s the source code:
var messages = {};
function checkMail() {
var api="http://localhost:5984/raindrop/_api/inflow/conversations/home?limit=10";
jQuery.getJSON(api,
function(data, textStatus){
jQuery.each(data, function(i,item){
if (item.unread) {
if (!messages[item.id] || messages[item.id] != item.messages.length) {
var n={title: item.subject,
body : item.messages[0].schemas["rd.msg.body"]["body_preview"],
icon : 'http://localhost:5984/raindrop/inflow/i/logo.png'};
jetpack.notifications.show(n);
}
messages[item.id] = item.messages.length;
}
});
});
}
setInterval(checkMail, 10000);
To try this out you’ll need Raindrop installed and running and Jetpack installed in Firefox.
Go to about:jetpack and copy the above code into the Develop tab, then click the try out this code link just below the Bespin editor.
If you don’t want to do all that you can just watch the video below (no sound, so you might want to play some music)
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Posted
1 day
ago
by
Mary Colvig
Are you a Firefox fan? Or even better, a Personas fan? If so, we’d like you to star in a video we’re creating to showcase Personas. Here are the details:
Date: Monday, November 23, 2009
Time: 12:00 p.m
Location:
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Mozilla HQ, 650 Castro Street, Suite 300, Mountain View, CA 94041
Sign up sheet (create an account to add your name to the wiki or comment below to sign up)
Come as yourself – no fancy costumes needed – and meet other Firefox fans. We’ll treat you to lunch and make it worth your while! And, we promise none of these antics…
Jump up and Dance by Gary Pauck (Firefox Flicks) [Less]
Posted
1 day
ago
by
tglek
I spent couple of days fixing the remaining test-suite failures on GCC 4.5 trunk for Dehydra. Since the last time I looked into this, GCC went from crashing all over the place to only crashing if I did something bad. It was nice to discover that as a
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result of switching to 4.5 Dehydra users will get saner .isExplicit behavior and more precise location info.
Treehydra will take more work due to me misunderstanding GTY annotations.
By the way, I am really grateful for all of the people who contributed GCC 4.5 fixes so far. You guys have been a big help in getting Dehydra testsuite to 100% on 4.5. Looks like I will meet my goals to finish De+Treehydra by the end of the year in time for GCC 4.5 release and my “Introducing Dehydra to the Developer World”-type talk at LinuxConf.au.nz 2010.
Startup
I reduced my focus on startup speed at the moment to catch up on Dehydra. I plan to work on reducing xpconnect overhead during startup next, ie more of this bug. [Less]
Posted
1 day
ago
by
Dietrich Ayala
Current numbers are available on the Performance Snapshot page.
Summary, relative to Firefox 3.5:
Warm startup: For Mac, 36% better on 3.6 and 35% better on 3.7. For Windows, 5% and 5%. Flat on Linux. Also, Warm startup for Mac on
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3.6 is a whopping 13% better than last week, due to the landing of bug 517804.
Cold startup: For Mac, 20% better on both 3.6 and 3.7. For Windows, not measuring yet. For Linux, we’re seeing a regression of ~9% across branch and trunk in the snapshot but not on the graphs, so I need to figure out where the discrepancy is.
This week’s activity:
Dirty-cold-Ts went live this week, thanks to Alice and Lukas. Example: cold startup with a large places.sqlite on Mac.
Joel is making progress on making a super-static Firefox in bug 525013.
Ben is making progress on the fastload replacement in bug 520309.
No updates on Windows cold-startup testing for Talos on bug 522807. I need to test on Vista, and turn off Pre/Superfetch.
Taras has patches up for service caching (bug 516085) and super-fast-path-ing of Components.* (bug 512584), however the latter he’s hit a wall, passing on to Blake or someone else who knows that code.
Ted landed rebasing on Windows in bug 484799.
Jonathan Kew has a new patch in bug 519445 for further reductions in Mac startup time spent in font system initialization, just about there…
Ryan Flint put a patch to minify JS on bug 524858, not working yet, but significantly reduced the size of shipped JavaScript files.
Projects in a holding pattern:
JARification: David abandoned moving JS modules into a JAR file, since those files are fastloaded. However, since we want things like post-extension-install restarts to be fast, and those cause fastload cache invalidation, we might want to do things like this anyways. I filed a bug for the same treatment for components. These are lower priority, since they’re not the normal startup case. Follow along with all JAR-ification via the tracker bug.
Startup Timeline: No updates, still not landed. Add [ft] in the whiteboard of your bug w/ the function names you want timed and David will generate it and update the bug.
Static Analysis: No progress on bug 506128. David needs to file a bug with the final log of named-yet-uncalled functions.
Dirty Profile Testing: No progress. Need to list scenarios, file bugs for each, generate Talos config patches and profile data, and then move it into Rel-Eng territory. Also, need to get a separate Tinderbox tree, since it’s going to cause a bazillion new columns.
Joel Reymont noted in bug 513076 that there are serious drawbacks to getting our libraries in the dyld shared cache on Mac, so has deprioritized that work.
No updates on Zack’s CSS parser changes in bug 513149.
As usual, more details and links are available on the project wiki, and we’re available to answer questions in #startup on irc.mozilla.org.
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Posted
1 day
ago
by
missmobile
CNET UK recently reviewed Firefox running on the Nokia N900 (see Firefox Mobile on Nokia N900 hands-on photos: Fire in your trousers). I liked their product shots of Firefox in action (who wouldn’t?) and wanted to share some of those shots with
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you all today.Nice pic of the Firefox start page. We’ve incorporated a mini animation to help guide first-time users to navigate around the UI.
…A quick slide to the right reveals open tabs in thumbnail view so you can easily see what website you want to select. Tap on the corner of the thumbnail to delete the open tab, or tap on the button below to open a new one.
…A quick slide to the left shows the stowed away controls: bookmarking, back and forward, as well as preferences. Bookmark a page you like with one touch and edit the tag if you’d like.
Next to the new tab button is the WeaveSync button. Tap on that button and WeaveSync synchronizes and delivers your open tabs from your PC. This is a great example of how you can work away at your desktop, get up and go, pull out your mobile, and have everything waiting for you (browsing history, saved passwords, bookmarks, as well as open tabs) just as you had left it.
By tapping on the Tools button and going to your preferences in Firefox, you can select the add-on button to search and install your favorite add-ons from your mobile device. You can also manage your search engines here that appear at the bottom of the screen when you’re conducting a search with the Awesome Bar.
Ah yes, the glorious Awesome Bar in action. We know typing is hard so the Awesome Bar helps you get where you’re going in only a few keystrokes. With WeaveSync, the Awesome Bar gets that much more powerful as it recalls your browsing history from both your PC and mobile. See the search engines below so you can narrow your search further. Quick access to Wikipedia gets me one step closer to winning Bar Trivia Night.
Hope you enjoyed the photos…I know I did. I’ll continue to post the latest and greatest screenshots on my Flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/missylooney/
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