February 2012
28 posts
Fixed an important WebGL regression (performance) introduced in Firefox 12 (Aurora) http://t.co/Nr9b12gf
The arrow keys now scroll three lines at a time instead of two: http://t.co/IEpL1iyV
FIXED http://t.co/71A1Wh8v - DOM4 DOMException types and codes implemented.
FIXED: http://t.co/GhL4rAFw - JS: Implement Harmony for-of loops. https://t.co/yh8ELZ9L
Snappy optimizations for faster Firefox startup on Windows: http://t.co/IA2AfLuu
Plugin processes killed after three minutes of not being used (please read http://t.co/bGYbOSAa before firing questions)
Harf-Buzz text engine update landed (bug 695857)
FIXED http://t.co/yf7NVILK - Inline autocomplete only autocomplete URLs you’ve typed
FIXED http://t.co/2QSJC77f - OSX 10.7 Support animation when opening windows in Lion
SPDY testing on trunk is going well.We are not planning to turn it off (may ship with it on in Firefox 13) unless something serious comes up
Incremental GC has landed
http://bugzil.la/641025 We divided GC time into short increments. Overall, we still spend the same amount of time doing GC, but each individual pause is shorter.
Support for different values for X & Y directions (two-value syntax) has been added to CSS background-repeat : https://t.co/p5KhleWn
The new live bookmarks landed! Now it is wholly async (no IO on main thread) and have a read icon. Fx is more snappy. https://t.co/7rBMISbQ
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
Safebrowsing move from SQLite to flat file landed: https://t.co/C5VJg7E3
*Initial* JavaScript Debugger Has Landed: https://t.co/2aL0wybG - Preffed off: to enable, set devtools.debugger.enable to true.
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
