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Changes Firefox 29 beta4 to beta5

· sylvestre · Mozilla

Firefox 29 beta 5 has just been pushed to the mirrors. This release is similar to beta3 and beta4 is term of number of commits but their total size has been divided by 2. In this beta, some critical bugs fixed, various sync improvements and, obviously, Australis!

We are also providing two more statistics: by extensions and by modules (the number of files changed).

  • 43 changesets
  • 128 files changed
  • 1049 insertions
  • 425 deletions

By extensions:

ExtensionOccurrences
js52
cpp26
h10
css7
html6
jsm4
xul3
json3
xhtml2
list2
ini2
in2
xml1
sh1
py1
java1
c1

By modules:

ModuleOccurrences
services39
browser19
js15
content9
mobile8
dom8
layout6
docshell5
testing4
toolkit3
gfx3
netwerk1
modules1
memory1
intl1
build1

List of changesets:

Boris ZbarskyBug 988106 - No more unnecessary .wrappedJSObject in debugger. r=past, a=sledru
Bobby HolleyBug 969441 - Check for recursion outside of the hairy transplant callsites. r=billm, a=sledru
Nikhil MaratheBug 967005 - Report rejected promises when worker stops running. r=bent, a=sledru
Sean StanglBug 616491 - Limit YARR stack size to 1MB. r=mjrosenb, a=sledru
Mark HammondBug 970167 - Disable passwords engine when a master password is set. r=rnewman, a=sledru
Bas SchoutenBug 984796 - Fix some small errors in path flattening code. r=jwatt, a=sledru
Mark HammondBug 985212 - Check if the username looks like an email address to determine what sync to use. r=rnewman, a=sledru
Henrik SkupinBug 987147 - [tps] Re-add support for old sync authentication. r=jgriffin, a=sledru
Peter Van der BekenBug 988863 - Preserve Location in AddProperty. r=bholley, a=sledru
Olli PettayBug 987433 - DOMTokenList should have a strong reference to its owner so that the API doesn't suddenly start returning empty string. r=khuey, a=sledru
Brian NicholsonBug 988527 - Fix progress.9.png to have balanced padding. r=lucasr, a=sledru
Benjamin BouvierBug 989166 - Reserve stack explicitly rather than implicitly. r=sstangl, a=sledru
Margaret LeibovicBug 976680 - Remove landscape padding from home banner. r=bnicholson, a=sledru
Sylvestre LedruBug 990213 - Post Beta 4: disable EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER a=me
Marco CastelluccioBug 898647 - Move app package in the Resources directory on Mac. r=myk, a=sledru
Randell JesupBug 986762 - Don't release DataChannelConnection on transient thread on readblob failure. r=smaug, a=sledru
Myk MelezBug 982559 - Use intent data to start app from legacy shorcut. r=wesj, a=sledru
Jared WeinBug 969963 - Grey out PanelUI-popup items when a subview is opened. r=mconley a=sledru
Gijs KruitboschBug 983997 - move pulse animation into animation container, too, r=mak,a=sylvestre
Chris PetersonBug 952602 - #ifdef EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER to disable navigator.plugins[] cloaking before GA release. r=bsmedberg a=sylvestre
Nick AlexanderBug 983350 - Follow-up: Rev User-Agent string. r=rnewman, a=follow-up
Mats PalmgrenBug 988453 - Make nsHyphenationManager::Shutdown() resilient against being called more than once. r=roc a=sledru
Jim MathiesBug 978127 - Update various win8 specific australis customized ui tests to use new Services.metro.supported prop. r=gijs. a=tests
Jon CoppeardBug 986843 - Replace AutoHoldZone with AutoCompartmentRooter r=terrence a=sylvestre
Bobby HolleyBug 989183 - Check for nsXBLJSClass. r=bz, a=sledru
Ehsan AkhgariBug 965362 - Do not assume that all of the contents of the HTTP channel will be available by the time we decide to read it synchronously in devtools tests. r=robcee, a=test-only
Ehsan AkhgariBug 947531 - Focus the test window before starting the test. a=test-only
Martyn HaighBug 970209 - Surround update logic in about:apps with synth apk specific wrapper. r=wesj, a=sledru
Matt BrubeckBug 972844 - Add a Maybe Later link on about:feedback intro. r=mfinkle, a=sledru
Matt WoodrowBug 973264 - If we wrap gfxImageSurface data when creating a SourceSurface, hold a reference to the original surface so the data stays alive. r=Bas, a=sledru
Olli PettayBug 989210 - Consistently make cycle collector to deal with TextTrackManager's member variables. r=reyre, a=abillings
Jan de MooijBug 989586 - Fix Ion correctness Bug when inlining |new Array(x)|. r=bhackett, a=sledru
Robert StrongBug 982448 - some fxmetro pref's still being left behind with values without --enable-metro in the mozconfig. r=bbondy, a=sledru
L. David BaronBug 989130 - Back out changeset fe119a83b1f2 (Bug 942017) while leaving the corresponding test from changeset 3c63decb4e7e. r=jfkthame approval-mozilla-beta=sylvestre
Luke WagnerBug 983448 - Fix masm.convertUInt32ToFloat32 on x86. r=bbouvier, a=sledru
Mike HommeyBug 984447 - Properly handle forks in mozjemalloc after Bug 694896. r=smichaud, a=sledru
Ehsan AkhgariBug 919208 - Rewrite test_bug668513.html to run in its own window so that it won't be able to navigate the test runner frame back. r=bzbarsky, a=test-only
Anthony LamBug 970213 - Replace icon with custom design. r=wesj, a=sledru
Cameron McCormackBug 989965 - Resolve style for pseudo-elements correctly when style rules that have user action pseudo-classes on them are present. r=bzbarsky, a=sledru
Myk MelezBug 968129 - Load initial tab in WebappImpl:loadStartupTab. r=mfinkle, a=sledru
Ehsan AkhgariBug 990202 - Move the test page to a new window to prevent it from navigating the test runner frame back. r=bzbarsky, a=test-only
Randy LinBug 912627 - Remove spurious assertion. r=cpearce, a=sledru
Ryan VanderMeulenBacked out changeset cd8fed951743 (Bug 982448) for Windows mochitest-bc perma-fail.

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a= means uplift approved by

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