February 2012
14 posts
Support of the 4-value syntax has been added to CSS background-position. https://t.co/yacvyZ9t CSS type <position> is now wholly supported.
ASLR is now mandatory for dll in add-ons (on WIndows) as on non-ASLR dll can ruin the security of the whole program: http://t.co/IQFdZrZ4
Incremental Garbage Collection is there! Should get rid of some periodical hangs and a step towards Generational GC. https://t.co/9SUCkzZ1
The Harmony (EcmaScript 6 draft) for…of loops landed in @FirefoxNightly aimed at Fx 13 : https://t.co/boFm71oR RESOLVED FIXED #JavaScript
*Initial* JavaScript Debugger Has Landed: https://t.co/2aL0wybG - Preffed off: to enable, set devtools.debugger.enable to true.
Safebrowsing move from SQLite to flat file landed: https://t.co/C5VJg7E3
FIXED: Add a possibility of styling form:invalid https://t.co/FNsiiLao
Support for “turn” unit in CSS: https://t.co/l8XRvNl4
New SafeBrowsing backend in @FirefoxNightly: http://t.co/DH2ZVpAD
SPDY trial on @FirefoxNightly http://t.co/WrsBB7uM
the amount of scrolling performed by using the arrow keys has been increased: https://t.co/J6ee9sOU
DOMParser now support parsing of HTML document fragment, see: https://t.co/5Z5lOOTS
It’s now possible to build Firefox on Linux with Skia as the graphic backend:
https://t.co/icDPoJcO
January 2012
28 posts
FIXED: Avoid reflows for transform changes - https://t.co/uCtN6twL
Pasting a URL in the download manager window will download it: https://t.co/7xPPS4Z4
FIXED: Implement Harmony simple Map and Set builtins - https://t.co/oG448CAD
FIXED: Add preference to control how app tabs are loaded when restore_on_demand is set: https://t.co/EHAQEpwH
SpiderMonkey no longer supports sharp variables http://t.co/fp953pUK
Line breaks support in tooltips (title attribute) http://t.co/q0F18DVN
New Tab Page is landing in tonight Nightly. Need a config pref change to activate it. http://t.co/TsDT84dw (Thx @bogas04 for the video)
Errors from before the Web Console is opened are now displayed in the Console once open: http://t.co/zC7k7zU3
Quartz backend for the new 2D API (Azure) landed, on by default, for canvas. OS X only, canvas only (for now) - http://t.co/bCZa7R4L
1st revision of a Firefox profile migrator has landed. First step towards implementing a “profile cleaning” feature http://t.co/ZUkHza1V
FIXED - Enable smooth scrolling by default https://t.co/s65uwuZ2 (part of the Snappy project: https://t.co/2QYRBaru)
FIXED: Scroll view a few lines beyond occurrence of found search term to show more context instead - https://t.co/VYZnA0EH
The CSS3 property text-align-last allowing to define the alignment of the last line of a paragraph has landed. https://t.co/L9cnAHSJ
No UAC dialog in Firefox 12
Every time Firefox updates, you get this dialog:
In Firefox 12 (nightly right now), we killed it! No more UAC dialog anymore :) This is a huge step in our way to full silent update.
The 'text-run word cache' has been replaced
This is one of these very technical bugs that very few people are able to solve. But the main consequence of it being fixed is a gain of speed.
According to Jonathan Kew, who did this nice work, it can lead up to 2% speed-up of the page rendering on some systems (but not all), especially in pages with big blocks of text, like Wikipedia.
At the same time, this work fix some bugs with the...
The SVGTests interface has been implemented: http://t.co/lL9PhFcq
From now on Nightly won’t progressively display an image if it has all its data. Speeds up rendering of such images : https://t.co/hiINrgUx
Another step towards MathML3 support! Next Nightly supports the align attribute on <munder>, <mover>, and <munderover> https://t.co/SqGIQjlC
The crazy floating scrollbar is a story of the...
Since years there was an ugly scrollbar in the Customize Toolbar palette. It is now away, thank to Jared Wein.
Now:
Before:
And the usual gory technical details if you like them.
There is now an “Undo Add To Dictionary” entry in the contextual menu, right after you added a word to it. https://t.co/zedhtPMd
[linux] Firefox now uses the system icon (not the built-in one) https://t.co/SRfsMZzs
Impl. of DOM3 composition events progress! In next Nightly, an input event is fired after a compositionupdate one: https://t.co/M4UWlbxB
December 2011
39 posts
CSS3 column-fill is there (prefixed)
The CSS3 Multi-columns layout has reached Candidate Release in April 2011. Since years, Firefox implements most of it, prefixed with -moz.
But there are some differences, as the spec slightly evolved since it was implemented in Gecko. In order to be able to unprefix the CSS3 multi-columns properties, there is an ongoing action to adapt Gecko’s implementation.
That’s why earlier in...
Support of CSS3 border-image-* added (prefixed).
The CSS3 border-image implemented since years in Firefox wasn’t on par with the spec, which was modified after its implementation in Gecko.
This has been fixed in the next Nightly. Now the border-image CSS property is a shorthand for the following CSS3 properties:
border-image-outset (available prefixed as -moz-border-image-outset);
border-image-source (available prefixed as...
FIXED: Allow @-rules to nest when parsing CSS (see test case). https://t.co/0tTeX2B9
Just landed: support for new scrollbar style in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion https://t.co/dAFskRtV
WebSocket: Firefox now supports the final IETF spec (RFC 6455) and the W3C Candidate Recommendation 08 December 2011 https://t.co/9lOpYicw