The Official Win32 20060427 [Branch] build is out.

Posted April 26th, 2006, 8:23 am

Warning:
Use the export function in todays build to get your bookmarks.html file back.
Places will be disabled soon and you probably won't be able to transform them back with a newer build.
(read: Ben Goodgers post #5 for proper instructions)

<a href=\"http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/qa/archives/2006/04/community_test_day_on_tap_for.html\">Mozilla Quality</a> wrote:Community Test Day on tap for next week...

Looks as if we will have a Firefox Community Test Day next Thursday or Friday - stay tuned for more information. [We've] just finished up testing Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5.0.2, Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0.8, and Mozilla Suite 1.7.13. We are now working on Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5.0.3, so the test day will likely focus on testing for that release.

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The Official Win32 20060427 [Branch] build is out.

Most recent official releases:
Firefox 1.5.0.2
Bon Echo 2.0 alpha 1
20060426 1.8.1 Branch (For Firefox 2.0)

Hourly Branch builds: PROMETHEUS (Lin) || ATLANTIA (Mac) || PACIFICA (Win) || Branch Tinderbox || Bonsai

Last update: 2006-04-27 -- 04:30 PDT = 11:30 UTC (all check-ins since the latest nightly included)

Resolved Fixed:

#268590[Firefox:Tabbed Browser]-Allow multiple messages in browsermessage [All]
#319315[Firefox:General]-Context menu from spellchecker keeps growing [Win]
#321366[Core:Networking: Cache]-Crash [@PR_Close].[@nsDiskCacheStreamIO::Flush()] [All]
#323504[Core:Style System (CSS)]-Crash due to too much recursion in RuleProcessorData::~RuleProcessorData (too many direct adjacent combinators) [All]
#329668[Firefox:General]-Land spellchecking on 1_8_BRANCH [All]
#334515[Core:Editor]-crash initialising iframe as html edit where html loaded contains a second iframe [@ nsQueryInterface::operator()] [Win]
#335455[Toolkit:Data Collection/Metrics]-Don't send cookies with the metrics upload [All]
#335480[Toolkit:Data Collection/Metrics]-no longer calling GetMemUsage_Shutdown [All]
#335564[Firefox:Safe Browsing]-rename variables from protection to safebrowsing or urlclassifier [Lin]

Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming:

#333751[Firefox:RSS Discovery and Preview]-Land Initial Content Sniffer/Stream Converter for in-page Feed Preview [All]
#67127[Core:XP Toolkit/Widgets]-Newline in tooltips (title attribute) converted to black bars [All](1.8.1)
#216434[Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]-autocomplete dropdown covers textbox when textbox is near bottom of screen [All](1.8.1)
#264716[Firefox:General]-For some sites the popup warning doesn't let you show the popup that was blocked [Win](1.8.1)
#311653[Firefox:Search]-Icon and dropdown in Search Bar has incorrect (stale) tooltip [All](1.8.1)
#327256[Core:XPCOM]-Add ability to nsCOMArray to preallocate space [All](1.8.1)
#330887[Firefox:Search]-6.2% Ts regression on Pacifica [All](1.8.1)
#334515[Core:Editor]-crash initialising iframe as html edit where html loaded contains a second iframe [@ nsQueryInterface::operator()] [Win]

Regressions/Confirmed/Annoying/Common bugs:
Make sure you vote for bugs that you suffer from. Do NOT vote for bugs you don't see on your system.

#237736[Core:DOM: Core]-M17x FF10 crash [@ PL_DHashTableRawRemove] (nsGenericElement::~nsGenericElement) [Win]
#252371[Firefox:Find Toolbar / FastFind]-incremental find/search in page does not find/highlight text in textarea/form/text entry boxes [All]
#258543[Firefox:Password Manager]-Disabling form autocomplete prevents selecting from multiple saved logins [All]
#265915[Firefox:Find Toolbar / FastFind]-typeahead pref. & "repeated character find" issues [Win]
#266910[Firefox:Location Bar and Autocomplete]-Navigating location bar history w/ keyboard drops www/ftp prefix from displayed address [All]
#307358[Firefox:Extension/Theme Manager]-Missing notification after auto-check finds updates to Extensions [All]
#314755[Firefox:General]-confirmation dialog for clearing private data (sanitize) appears when firefox starts [Mac]
#318829[Core:GFX: Gtk]-Switching (changing) gtk+ theme hangs Firefox [@ firefox-bin + 0x410 (0xffffe410)] [Lin]
#327140[AUS:Systems]-Partial update generation failing [All] (No updates for 1.8.0 builds)

To copy your useragent+buildtime to clipboard, use the Nightly Tester Tools extension. (from extensionsmirror)
Get the Update Channel Selector extension to update nightly builds. (from extensionsmirror)
Get more out of the Javascript Console, see this page for Console².
If you're a daily tester then backup the valuable data in your profile!
Windows Classic theme: #303806[Firefox:General]-Wallpaper patch for better appearance on Windows XP / Luna [Win] has changed the default theme to fit the Windows XP Luna theme. If you prefer Windows-Classic, make the changes shown on this page or use the extension from this page.

Planned Milestones:
Bon Echo 2.0 alpha2 (May 9), Bon Echo 2.0 beta1 (June), Bon Echo 2.0 beta2 (July),
Firefox 2.0 rc1 (Aug.), Firefox 2.0 rc2 (Aug.), Firefox 2.0 final (Aug.)

Fixed 1.8 branch bugs since Firefox 1.5 20051129 = 533 (all Places bugs removed)
Bugs requested for blocking Gecko 1.8.1 = 128
Bugs confirmed for blocking Gecko 1.8.1 = 26
Bugs requested for blocking Firefox 2.0 = 14
Bugs confirmed for blocking Firefox 2.0 = 100

Posted April 26th, 2006, 2:12 pm

OK quick question to branch testers: What is your method for testing?

No one really talks about it much...

Posted April 26th, 2006, 2:17 pm

Omega X wrote:OK quick question to branch testers: What is your method for testing?

No one really talks about it much...

I don't normally go anything special, just go about my normal browsing and I find the odd bug or two on the way. I'm shure there are methods you can do to find more bugs like writing internet pages with "evil" testcases for the HTML rendering engine etc.

Sorry, I know I'm not a lot of help :-)

Cheers,

Ryan Jones

Posted April 26th, 2006, 2:27 pm

testing branch and trunk pretty much have the same procedures. i usually just download a build in the morning (or when i wake up), then go to the usual sites i visit and try to confirm other bugs people have found. if a fix for something important to me is checked in ill get another build, otherwise i usually wait till sometime in the evening to get another. probably not as frequent as i should be, but not everyone can devote 24 hours a day to testing.

Posted April 26th, 2006, 3:40 pm

RyanJ wrote:
Omega X wrote:OK quick question to branch testers: What is your method for testing?

No one really talks about it much...

I don't normally go anything special, just go about my normal browsing and I find the odd bug or two on the way.

...And I thought that I was the only one who did that.

Posted April 26th, 2006, 3:47 pm

Nah, same here.
Although I do check the javascript console quite often for unusual messages
I download about 8 different builds a day, but don't run all of them.
They're mostly used to narrow down any regressions

Posted April 26th, 2006, 3:54 pm

Peter(6) wrote:Nah, same here.
Although I do check the javascript console quite often for unusual messages
I download about 8 different builds a day, but don't run all of them.
They're mostly used to narrow down any regressions

If I had the time I would have one copy of each version installed and would try to do some proper tests on them but I'm in school most of the day and with homework and such I justt don't get them time I would need... I do what I can though by filling the bugs I find as I go along :-)

Cheers,

Ryan Jones

Posted April 26th, 2006, 4:10 pm

@ RyanJ
I have a normal daytime job, so I know all about the limits of what one can do ;-)

After 4 years of testing finding stuf becomes a bit easier though.

Posted April 26th, 2006, 7:04 pm

So what's the approx. date for branch - Places ? Is it Fri. or Sat. ?

Posted April 27th, 2006, 2:09 am

Eggster wrote:So what's the approx. date for branch - Places ? Is it Fri. or Sat. ?

I'd go for monday.

Posted April 27th, 2006, 2:22 am

It's supposed to be announced here: http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/

Posted April 27th, 2006, 3:53 am

Of course, if you really want to know what's going on, you can watch the Branch Bonsai link (at top of this thread), or the Tinderbox link to see when a build will be available.

Posted April 27th, 2006, 5:04 am

I'm using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060426 BonEcho/2.0a1 ID:2006042604.

Today, when visiting my online banking site, the display was really messed up. Nothing was aligned correctly, and sometimes the browser was "confused" about whether it was finished with a page (the cursor would indicate it was still working but the status bar said "stopped", clicking on any other link would be ignored).

In the Javascript console I see over and over again this error:

Warning: Error in parsing value for property 'width'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: https://online.wamu.com/common/style/screen.css
Line: 164

and

Warning: Error in parsing value for property 'width'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: https://onlinebanking.personal.wamu.com ... screen.css
Line: 142

I haven't seen this before, have never had a display issue on that site, which I visit daily. Their website hasn't changed.

Anyone else?

Posted April 27th, 2006, 8:32 am

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