Today we’ll switch to using Cairo as the default graphics layer in Windows nightly builds. Linux and Mac nightly builds will follow as soon as some remaining blockers are fixed. The switch to Cairo will cause some regressions in overall performance, font selection, and text rendering. There’s a list of currently known bugs […]
Due to some performance regressions and memory leak assertions which had been holding the tree closed, Places has returned to being disabled in nightly trunk and 1.8 branch builds. This is a temporary measure (see bug 327188) and it is hoped that these problems will be fixed by early next week. Watch this space for […]
Draft schedules for 1.0.8 and 1.5.0.2 are as below:
more information can be found here.
Development work has wrapped on 1.0.8. We are now in bug verification and release prep targeting a mid-March release.
Code Freeze for 1.5.0.2 is this Monday - Feb 20. This freeze will allow enough time for bug verification, release engineering, […]
Starting tomorrow, February 16th, the new bookmarking and history system based on SQLlite (called Places), will be enabled by default on both the trunk and the 1_8_BRANCH (as per bug 327188.) There are no remaining bugs that report data loss, but the migration from your profile’s bookmarks.html file into the database driven system is non-destructive. […]
We are happy to announce the finalists in our Extend Firefox Contest, a contest held to award the best and brightest extension developers in the Firefox community. The contest asked entrants to create Firefox Extensions that are innovative, useful, and integrate with today’s Web services. Over 200 Extensions were submitted to the contest. Many […]
Mozilla today released a developer preview of its application framework, code-named XULRunner, that aids in the rapid development and deployment of cross-platform applications.
XULRunner provides a base for software application authors to leverage familiar Internet technologies, the Mozilla XUL user-interface language, and the same networking and rendering engine as Firefox to develop rich-client applications, such as […]