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  • Washington state abandons all tourism marketing Washington state is shuttering the official tourism agency that unifies its marketing message and abandoning all public support for one of its largest industries. Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:37:15 GMT
  • TSA re-inspects elderly woman over wet diaper The family of a gravely ill 95-year-old woman says federal inspectors wouldn't let her mother board a plane because her adult diaper was wet, setting off alarms. Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:23:27 GMT
  • 2011-12-27 Trunk builds

    Notable fixes:

    • Fixed: 534956 - Sync add-ons.
    • Fixed: 689920 - Integrate Tilt (Tools > Web Developer > Insepct > 3D).
    • Fixed: 694068 - Automatically download and install an available hotfix add-on.
    • Fixed: 631479 - Add support for Graphite fonts.
    • Fixed: 376997 - Images should be rendered against a neutral background (gray?).
    • Fixed: 249735 - F6 goes to the first focusable element instead of the location bar.
    • Fixed: 122213 - Error Console should also include time and date the error occurred.
    • Fixed: 648429 - HTTP cache: compress all compressible files.
    • Fixed: 666349 - Update WebSocket API to latest draft.
    • Fixed: 695222 - Implement column-fill property of CSS3 spec.
    • Fixed: 705597 - about:blank subframe entries in session restore make browser slow.
    • Fixed: 702748 - Add a pref for disabling per-site remembering of download directory.
    • Fixed: 204786 - Add setting to change delay before tooltip shows.
    • Fixed: 707672 - OpenUILink[In] behavior should not be determined by browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInBackground.
    • Fixed: 670967 - [Windows] Fire a memory-pressure event when the amount of available virtual address space or physical memory is low.
    • Fixed: 676349 - [Windows] Implement high-resolution platform timers.
    • Fixed: 696436 - [Mac] Rename MoCo-generated Aurora and Nightly builds to "FirefoxAurora.app" and "FirefoxNightly.app".
    • Fixed: 562506 - [Linux] Process icon are builtin, while launcher icon uses the system icon theme.

    All 1307 changes between 2011-12-07 nightly and 2011-12-27 nightly

    Nightly builds (discussion)

  • 2011-12-07 Trunk builds

    Notable fixes:

    • Fixed: 528288 - Implement SPDY protocol. (Off by default for now: network.http.spdy.enabled)
    • Fixed: 637931 - Shrink JS objects. (Makes Firefox use about 5% less memory overall. memshrink newsletter, js newsletter)
    • Fixed: 527141 - Addon update check should take into account compatibility preferences.
    • Fixed: 642624 - If shutdown Firefox when all closed windows are popups, exception occurs and session isn't saved.
    • Fixed: [Android] Switch nightlies from XUL UI to native (Java) UI.
    • Fixed: 699156 - Support Typed Arrays in XPConnect.
    • Fixed: 699319 - Implement cross-thread communication.
    • Fixed: 704911 - Unusable performance selecting text on github.

    All 1114 changes between 2011-11-30 nightly and 2011-12-07 nightly

    Nightly builds (discussion)

  • 2011-11-30 Trunk builds

    Notable fixes:

    • Fixed: 429592 - Catch hangs (preffed off).
    • Fixed: 505192 - Chrome profile migration.
    • Fixed: 470628 - Add a Full Screen button to the default <video> controls.
    • Fixed: 449157 - Implement the looping attributes in media elements.
    • Fixed: 651072 - Support HTML parsing in XMLHttpRequest per XMLHttpRequest Level 2.
    • Fixed: 691797 - Optimize RegExp.prototype.test with leading .*.
    • Fixed: 632423 - Text poorly rendered with hardware acceleration off.
    • Fixed: 467409 - Nested about:sessionrestore instances causes huge sessionstore.js file (backslashplosion).

    All 493 changes between 2011-11-19 nightly and 2011-11-30 nightly

    Nightly builds (discussion)

  • 2011-11-19 Trunk builds

    Notable fixes:

    • Fixed: 698653 - Flip extensions.strictCompatibility pref in Firefox to make addons compatible-by-default. (Blair's blog post)
    • Fixed: 700151 - Enable DOM full-screen API on desktop Firefox by default. (cpearce's blog post)
    • Fixed: 92264 - Support element.outerHTML property.
    • Fixed: 666446 - Perf: Lots of animated gifs swamp us with paint events.
    • Fixed: 641027 - Perf: Snapshot-at-the-beginning write barrier for incremental GC.
    • Fixed: 699668 - Perf: Long garbage collector sweep times due to LifoAlloc destructor in JSCompartment::sweep.
    • Fixed: 699528 - Perf: Firebug disables ICs, making JS much slower, even when inactive.

    All 527 changes between 2011-11-08 nightly and 2011-11-19 nightly

    Nightly builds (discussion)

  • 2011-11-08 Trunk builds

    Notable fixes:

    • Fixed: 693743 - 3rd party add-on check doesn't disable those add-ons on start-up, if they were installed into the profile or application folder.
    • Fixed: 693901 - Add extensions.strictCompatibility pref. (Bug 698653 will change the default.)
    • Fixed: 581065 - Allow searching for incompatible add-ons if compatibility checks are disabled.
    • Fixed: 616016 - Visually identify status bar add-on items in the add-on bar while customizing.
    • Fixed: 482921 - Re-implement view source syntax highlighting using the HTML5 parser, and add tooltips for most syntax errors. (Henri's blog post)
    • Fixed: 698929 - Implement event.stopImmediatePropagation.
    • Fixed: 697666 - Don't build the jstracer by default.
    • Fixed: 94199 - Startup speed: Fastload XBL methods and properties.
    • Fixed: 674744 - [Mac] Implement conditional forward button for pinstripe.
    • Fixed: 577867 - [Windows] No way to un-group separate instances on Windows 7 TaskBar.
    • Fixed: 454532 - [Windows] Font glyphs incorrectly displayed with certain printer drivers.

    Backouts of changes mentioned in previous posts:

    All 812 changes between 2011-10-23 nightly and 2011-11-08 nightly

    Nightly builds (discussion)

  • 2011-10-23 Trunk builds

    Fixes:

    • Fixed: 509664 - Restore browser.link.open_external hidden pref (as browser.link.open_newwindow.override.external).
    • Fixed: 437722 - Relatively positioned buttons should be abs pos containing block.
    • Fixed: 613149 - Support HTML5 bdi element and CSS property unicode-bidi: isolate.
    • Fixed: 615976 - Implement WebGL antialiasing.
    • Fixed: 451250 - Turn the POSTDATA prompt into an information page (when navigating in session history).
    • Fixed: 673188 - Memory: Compile regexps lazily.
    • Fixed: 669096 - Memory: Injecting function from chrome extends the lifetime of navigated-away inner window.
    • Fixed: 591780 - Spell checker should support dictionaries from restartless addons.
    • Fixed: 364914 - Don't spell check a <textarea>'s initial contents until I focus it.
    • Fixed: 693743 - 3rd party add-on check doesn't disable those add-ons on start-up, if they were installed into the profile or application folder.
    • Fixed: 648801 - Prototype a proxy-based NodeList implementation.
    • Fixed: 677797 - [Windows] Mandatory ASLR on Windows.
    • Fixed: 682534 - [Windows] Implement conditional forward button for winstripe / large icons mode.
    • Fixed: 677027 - [Linux] Implement conditional forward button for gnomestripe.

    All 1152 changes between 2011-10-02 nightly and 2011-10-23 nightly

    Nightly builds (discussion)