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1 Oct 2010
In celebration of Mozilla Foundation bug #600000, I thought I’d go back and see what happened to all the old milestone bugs.
- 10,000 – The “Open File or Location” dialog was non-modal and would show up on Windows’s taskbar, leading to real user confusion if they switched windows. After some round-and-round discussion, the developers decided they could fix it by resolving 6783, which they did in time for M15.
- 50,000 – This was a dupe of bug 2212, which still isn’t fixed. The align=”char” attribute is still unsupported in Firefox!
- 100,000 – Turned into a celebration thread and the real issue was refiled as 100006. In the old Mozilla suite, if you searched your bookmarks and tried to delete from the search results, you got an Exception. It was a duplicate of 81893. The bug had actually already been fixed, there just hadn’t been a new release yet.
- 200,000 – A crash in Netscape 6/7 when looking at a specific bug. Since the crash was happening in a proprietary library that Netscape added for that suite, it was closed as invalid and refiled with Netscape’s bug system. Unfortunately, their system isn’t up anymore, so I can’t tell if the problem was ever fixed.
- 300,000 – Some sort of obscure crash on shutdown. The submitter filed an attachment within five minutes, and it was reviewed and checked in within a day.
- 400,000 – The toolbar interface in full-screen mode wasn’t always the same. This was a duplicate of 397873, which had been filed and resolved about two days earlier. This was the first milestone bug that was Firefox-specific instead of in the Mozilla suite or in the core libraries.
- 500,000 – A cleanup bug filed and fixed by a developer. In fact, the same developer (“timeless”) filed the last two milestone bugs as well.
- 600,000 – Updates aren’t working right for SeaMonkey (formerly the Mozilla suite).
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16 Dec 2008
I’ve been using Firefox since it was called Phoenix[1], and for the past few major releases, I’ve been trying to test the beta versions. I grabbed the first 3.1 beta in October, but it was unstable, and some of the features were jarring. The tab switching behavior was a special challenge to my productivity, and the new JavaScript engine (TraceMonkey) was probably a source of a lot of the instability.
Last week, Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 was released, and it’s much nicer. I haven’t had a single crash yet, and it does feel a bit snappier. And all of the tab switching stuff has been backed out. Us web developers are excited about some new stuff like HTML 5 <video> and <audio> tags, cross-site XHR support, and CSS-like DOM selectors. But besides the speed, I don’t think end-users are going to be rushing to this release.
[1] – I’m pretty sure I installed Phoenix 0.3 way back in fall of 2002. Look, you can still get it!
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20 Apr 2008
jssh is a Firefox addon that allows you to control your browser through a telnet session. -
13 Mar 2008
Add this to your "Why you should be looking forward to Firefox 3" pile
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11 Mar 2008
And it seems like the only thing anyone can talk about is the speed.
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31 Dec 2007
Some have made the idiotic suggestion that Firefox be renamed to "Netscape" now that AOL has abandoned the latter.
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18 Dec 2007
Lightweight theming; fast and simple. It's a great idea, and there's apparently web-driven dynamic theme support right around the corner.
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6 Dec 2007
I noticed this when I came back on Tuesday. I like it, but right now it's a bit slower than the old location bar. I hope that's temporary.
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20 Nov 2007
Officially, it's only recommended for developers. But I think it's so awesome that anyone who's interested should risk it.
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16 Nov 2007Firefox 3 page zoom
In Firefox 2, zooming just changes the size of text. In Firefox 3, it resizes images, buttons, padding, form elements, everything. View full size to see what it looks like zoomed all the way out.
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15 Nov 2007Firefox 3 location bar autocomplete
Another side-effect of Places is that the auto-complete dropdown is so much faster and so much better at searching your history. Instead of just looking at the start of the URL, it searches through all title and URL substrings. Here, "API" gives me more or less exactly the history results I wanted.
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9 Nov 2007Firefox 3 smart folders
The third in an unbounded set of the things I love about Firefox 3. There's a new backend for history and bookmarks (called "Places") that makes things way faster and easier to do neat things with, like search and statistics. The Page Info dialog's number-of-visits value, for instance, is definitely pulled from there. Firefox 3 also comes pre-configured with some smart folders like these.
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7 Nov 2007Firefox 3 page info dialog
The page info dialog was one of the 2007 Summer of Code projects.
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6 Nov 2007
An intro to the best feature in Firefox 3, and a preview into how it's very soon going to be even better.
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6 Nov 2007Firefox 3 file:// listing
RIP unformatted file listings 1994-2007
