The Official Win32 20060822 [Branch] build is out.

[chob]

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The Official Win32 20060822 [Branch] build is out.

Most recent official releases:

• Firefox 1.5.0.6 (20060803)
• Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 (20060712)
• Yesterday's Branch Thread

Hourly Branch builds: PROMETHEUS-VM (Lin) || BM-XSERVE02 (Mac) || PACIFICA-VM (Win) || Branch Tinderbox || Bonsai

Last update: 2006-08-22 @ 05:27 PDT (all check-ins since the latest nightly included)

Resolved Fixed (all 1.8.1 unless marked differently):

Partial Landings/WIPs/Incoming (all 1.8.1 unless marked differently):

1. #336469[Firefox:Installer]-use new APIs in Vista to register file and protocol handlers [Win]
2. #340555[Firefox:RSS Discovery and Preview]-Toolkit feed parser needs nicer API [All]
3. #347416[Firefox:Toolbars]-Visual refresh doesn't natively style toolbar buttons anymore [Win]
4. #348079[Firefox:General]-Finalize RSS Handlers for en-US [All]
5. #348674[Firefox:Tabbed Browser]-increase color intensity of tab overflow animation [Mac]
6. #348960[Firefox:General]-Enable official branding and set version to Firefox 2 Beta 2 for upcoming release [All]
7. #349122[Firefox:Tabbed Browser]-misc fallout from theme changes to tabs [All]

Regressions/Confirmed/Annoying/Common bugs:

1. #258543[Firefox:Password Manager]-Disabling form autocomplete prevents selecting from multiple saved logins [All]
2. #265915[Firefox:Find Toolbar / FastFind]-typeahead pref. & "repeated character find" issues [Win]
3. #314755[Firefox:General]-confirmation dialog for clearing private data (sanitize) appears when firefox starts [Mac]
4. #318829[Core:GFX: Gtk]-Switching (changing) gtk+ theme hangs Firefox [@ firefox-bin + 0x410 (0xffffe410)] [Lin]
5. #340677Bugs filed against the new pref window (Note the bugs that depend on/block this bug)
6. #347454Bugs filed against the new default theme (Note the bugs that depend on/block this bug)

Useful information for testers:

• To copy your useragent+buildtime and installed extensions to the clipboard, and to easily get TalkBackIDs, 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 with the Console² extension.
• Remember to backup the valuable data in your profile regularly!

Planned Milestones:

• Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 (August 23)
• Firefox 2.0 RC1 (Sept 19), RC2 (Oct 2), RC3 (Oct 11)
• Firefox 2.0 Final (Oct 24)

Fixed 1.8 branch bugs since Firefox 1.5 (20051129) = 1927
Bugs ?1.8.1 = 5 || Bugs +1.8.1 = 17 || Bugs ?2.0 = 10 || Bugs +2.0 = 79

[Maarten]

Maybe stupid question, but help files are supposed to be up to par by now, or will they be updated in the final days before the official 2.0 release? Reason for asking: I noticed that for example "Connection settings" have moved to Advanced settings, but not in the help file...
(Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060820 BonEcho/2.0b2)

[chob]

Maybe stupid question, but help files are supposed to be up to par by now, or will they be updated in the final days before the official 2.0 release? Reason for asking: I noticed that for example "Connection settings" have moved to Advanced settings, but not in the help file...
(Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060820 BonEcho/2.0b2)

I expect the Help documentation still has to be updated. Certainly when you choose certain tabs in the Tools > Options and click help, you are not taken immediately to the relevant help page as you always are in ff1.5

[Maarten]

I discovered it by going to Help -> Help Contents -> Options -> General and discovering the connection settings info, while I knew that they are now under Advanced (to my dislike, since I have to switch my proxy on/off when using laptop at work/home...)

By the way: the link in Tools -> Add-ons and clicking "Get extensions" is broken, goes to https://addons.mozilla.org/data/www/add ... xtensions/

[chob]

Release-Build-Nightly (RC1 ?) is out.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 <b>Firefox</b>/2.0b2 ID:2006082101

Yes, there's a new build machine called fx-release which will build firefox on-demand (not hourly) for specific purposes (ie: candidate builds). These daily branch threads will follow the fx-nightly machine as they always have done tho.

I think this new machine will give the release managers a bit more control over when they get their builds, and also allow for candidate builds to be branded Firefox, whilst the nightly builds will continue to be Bon Echo.

[pal-moz]

By the way: the link in Tools -> Add-ons and clicking "Get extensions" is broken, goes to https://addons.mozilla.org/data/www/add ... xtensions/

same as search engines, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349444 (dup #348568)

[Jus]

I discovered it by going to Help -> Help Contents -> Options -> General and discovering the connection settings info, while I knew that they are now under Advanced (to my dislike, since I have to switch my proxy on/off when using laptop at work/home...)

You can use an extension like proxy button for that.

[Uncle Spellbinder]

Downloaded and installed firefox-2.0b2.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz. Yet I still get Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 BonEcho/2.0b2 - Build ID: 2006082104.

Not a big deal, really. Just wondering if I might have a problem here.

[nrthomas]

Uncle SpellBinder, it really depends where you got the build from, since the tinderbox arrangements are different from previous releases. To paraphrase what chob said above, the normal nightly tinderbox will continue to produce the <a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8/">unbranded BonEcho builds</a>; and special Release configs will be used to make the <a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2.0b2-candidates/">branded release candidates.</a>

[Uncle Spellbinder]

@ CrazyFred

Gottcah. That explains it. I got mine from: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2006-08-21-04-mozilla1.8/

Thanks.

[Maarten]

@Jus: yes, after writing that post I started to look for an extension.. appeared that the two I tried aren't compatible with bon echo 2. Too bad there isn't an option to 'install anyway and wait for update to come along'
but thanks anyway!

[smsmith]

Too bad there isn't an option to 'install anyway and wait for update to come along'
but thanks anyway!

There is:
http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/we ... index.html

[Maarten]

@smsmith: yes, I just saw it when installing the extension thanks!

[TRAiNER4]

Is there a bug filed for the close button shifting up on an active tab? I click an inactive tab to make it active and the close button shift up.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 BonEcho/2.0b2 ID:2006082103

[Uncle Spellbinder]

Is there a bug filed for the close button shifting up on an active tab? I click an inactive tab to make it active and the close button shift up.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 BonEcho/2.0b2 ID:2006082103

Glad someone else is seeing this. I thought I was going mad.

From the previous thread (nobody responded):
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 BonEcho/2.0b2 - ID: 2006082104

Anyone seeing this. The tab no longer is 1 pixel off when using 100 DPI or higher and the hand no longer appears when hovering over a tab. But now, whenever I hover over the close X on any tab, it jumps a pixel or so. Same whenever I hover over a bookmark folder on my bookmark tool bar. This happens in both my primary profile and a clean, untouched profile (several bookmark folders added for testing purposes).

It seems to be more than the jumping close X on tabs. I'm also getting it in the menubar. When the drop down appears, hovering over any of them, and they jump a bit.