Catégorie: "Mozilla"

Changes Firefox 29 beta2 to beta3

Mars 31st, 2014

In order to improve the feedback and the beta releases of Firefox, we are going to start publishing some information on beta releases.
For this, we are using the mercurial repository and using these two tags/revisions: --rev "ancestor(FIREFOX_29_0b2_RELEASE,FIREFOX_29_0b3_RELEASE)::FIREFOX_29_0b3_RELEASE" (See bsmedberg's blog post for more information on this syntax).

We are ignoring the commit from the ffxbld robot.

Firefox 29 beta 3 release(compared to Firefox 29 beta 2)
Here are some numbers:

  • 49 changesets
  • 112 files changed
  • 2174 insertions
  • 423 deletions

List of changes:
Philipp Sackl: Bug 979938 - Delay the display of the tab close button to avoid visual noise. r=Dao, a=sylvestre
Masayuki Nakano: Bug 981963 Ignore following char message if its wParam is 0 r=jimm, a=sledru
JW Wang: Bug 907162 - Fix MediaDecoderStateMachine might dispatch MediaDecoder::PlaybackEnded more than once and trigger multiple 'ended' events in HTMLMediaElement. r=cpearce, a=sledru
JW Wang: Bug 934794 - Fix failing to update stream blocking status when endBlockingDecisions == mStateComputedTime. r=roc, a=sledru
Olli Pettay: Bug 985988 = Event handlers should update preventDefault flag similar way to event.preventDefault(). r=masayuki, a=sledru
Brandon Benvie: Bug 970172 - Prevent VariablesView Variables from handling clicks while editing. r=vporof, a=sledru
Brian Nicholson: Bug 962103 - Make progress bar overlap content. r=lucasr, a=sledru
Brian Nicholson: Bug 962103 - Fix progress bar visibility on pre-Honeycomb devices. r=lucasr, a=sledru
John Schoenick: Bug 985859 - navigator.mimeTypes access should be case-insensitive. r=bsmedberg, a=sledru
Sebastian Hengst: Bug 982615 - Sync panel is not entirely displayed in localized builds. r=mak, a=gavin
Bobby Holley: Bug 986542 - Don't categorically disable script for detached docshells. r=bz, a=sledru
Gavin Sharp: Bug 955950 - Add pref to disable "reset Firefox" nag. r=MattN, a=sledru
Ryan VanderMeulen: Bug 985859 - Adding missing include to fix bustage. a=bustage
Shane Caraveo: Bug 915835 fix leak in socialmarks event listeners, r=markh, a=lsblakk
Chris Karlof: Bug 983256 - Change the client generated expiration time in FxA assertions to be 'forever'. r=jedp, a=lsblakk
Shane Caraveo: Bug 984628 fix social button states, r=markh, a=sylvestre
Nathan Froyd: Bug 942411 - Set the src of the iframe after adding it to the document. a=test-only
Phil Ringnalda: Bug 863658 - Replace mozilla-banner.gif with a plain blue image in 359903-2.html since we aren't trying to test individual pixel differences in resized image painting there. r=bz, a=test-only
Ryan VanderMeulen: Bug 948389 - Replace mozilla-banner.gif with a plain blue image in 405577-1.html since we aren't trying to test individual pixel differences in resized image painting there. r=roc, a=test-only
Brian Grinstead: Bug 962931 - Request longer timeout for browser_webconsole_split.js. r=msucan, a=test-only
Brian R. Bondy: Bug 981166 - Turn off Metro Firefox and cleanup DEH registration. r=rstrong, jimm. a=sylvestre
Nicholas Hurley: Bug 978759 - Fix shutdown crash in seer. r=mcmanus, a=sledru
Margaret Leibovic: Bug 943262 - Use CharsetMenu.jsm instead of charsetTitles.properties for Character Encoding menu items. r=bnicholson, a=sledru
Sid Stamm: Bug 835357 - Fix telemetry probes for DNT so they accumulate before the pings are sent. r=mcmanus, a=sledru
Ryan VanderMeulen: Backed out the requestCompleteLog part of Bug 942411 because it wasn't needed for the fix anyway. a=bustage
Brian Smith :: Return the correct error message when no potential issuers are found during path bulding in insanity::pkix, r=keeler a=sylvestre
Brian Smith: Bug 978120, Part 1: Make nsIX509Cert.setCerttrust, and nsIX509CertDB.addCert, and nsIX509CertDB2.addCertFromBase64 work on Android and B2G, r=keeler a=sylvestre
Brian Smith :: part 2: Enable more PSM xpcshell tests on Android and B2G, r=keeler a=testonly
Margaret Leibovic: Bug 982181 - Hide home banner after it is animated off screen, to avoid intercepting click events on pre-honeycomb devices. r=lucasr a=sledru
Ryan VanderMeulen: Backed out changesets d3352d36dbdf and e74b6a1da573 (Bug 978120) and changeset 816c209eaa71 (Bug 978528) for Android xpcshell failures.
Monica Chew :: Force url classifier clients to specify which tables to lookup, add a pref to skip hash completion checks (r=gcp,ba=sledru)
Matthew Noorenberghe: Bug 985786 - [10.6] Make the button to leave fullscreen match the styles of other toolbarbuttons and fix its missing image. r=mconley a=Sylvestre
Marco Bonardo: Bug 983571 - browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML = true no longer works. r=Yoric a=sylvestre
Marco Bonardo: Backout 450a302d1ffa (Bug 983571) due to xpcshell failures
Monica Chew :: Rename urlclassifier.download_block_table and urlclassifier.download_allow_table (r=gcp,a=sledru)
Marco Bonardo: Bug 983571 - browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML = true no longer works. r=Yoric a=sylvestre
Masatoshi Kimura: Bug 986347 - Restore accidentaly removed HasBogusPopupsDropShadowOnMultiMonitor() call. r=jimm a=sylvestre
Mike de Boer :: restore sidebar splitter and header styles on Windows 8. r=jaws, a=sledru.
Mike Conley: Bug 984156 - Make subview footer menuseparators have a non-zero height to prevent bookmarks folder scrolling issues. r=mak, a=sledru.
Gijs Kruitbosch: Bug 986529 - invert tab close icons on windows classic, r=jaws, a=sledru.
Tim Nguyen: Bug 984979 - Fix back button :active state on Windows 8, r=gijs, a=sledru.
Gijs Kruitbosch: Bug 985815 - fix customtoolbars test so it doesn't break subsequent tests, r=jaws, a=sledru.
Gijs Kruitbosch: Bug 985815 - propagate collapsed state to other windows, add test. r=jaws, a=sledru.
Gijs Kruitbosch: Bug 987615 - fix layout of buttons which are too long in customize mode, r=jaws, a=sledru.
Steven MacLeod: Bug 967028 - Use a SHistoryListener to collect entries from history.pushState(). r=Yoric, a=sylvestre
Jonathan Watt: Bug 959128 - Fix transforms of clipPath content for clipPath being used within SVG-in-OpenType glyph. r=heycam, a=sylvestre
Brian R. Bondy: Backout 7971f738a6cd temporarily as a safety precaution. r=jimm, rsrong, me. a=me
Ehsan Akhgari: Backed out 2 changesets (Bug 957652) because Bug 957431 is being backed out, a=sylvestre
Ehsan Akhgari: Backed out 2 changesets (Bug 957431) because we decided we're keeping Attr.ownerElement in the end; a=sylvestre ba=me
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If you have any suggestion to improve this for the next report, don't hesitate!

MozillaReleases account on Twitter

Mars 21st, 2014

Lately, we, the release team at Mozilla, have started to use again the MozillaReleases account on Twitter.

We are publishing news about the releases, new features, interesting bugs, etc.

If you have suggestions (more technical, more bug reports, etc), don't hesitate to share them in the comments.

Testing Firefox ESR 24.4.0

Mars 12th, 2014

Next week, March 18th, in parallel of the new major release of Firefox, we will be publishing our next stable release (24.4.0).

For those who are not familiar with ESR (Extended Support Release), Mozilla maintains a specific version of Firefox for about a year. In these releases, we only backport high-risk/high-impact security vulnerabilities.
This version is mainly used by companies which don't want to update their versions of Firefox every 6 weeks but also some Linux distributions which needs to be maintained for a while.

We published the pre release of Firefox ESR 24.4.0 for testing. No need to go a full qualification but testing of internal websites are welcome.
Please file bugs for any critical regressions you find and make sure to set the need-info? flag on release-mgmt@mozilla.com so that we have visibility into the issue.
Alternatively, you can directly email release-mgmt@mozilla.com or the enterprise list.

Pre release ESR binaries:

Hello Planet Mozilla

Février 11th, 2014

Hello Planet Mozilla

I started as a new employee a few weeks ago. I am working as Release Manager for the next releases of Firefox (both on desktop + android).
As a start, Lukas and I will be working on Firefox 29 (no pressure at all to start with Australis + Firefox account).
I grew up with the first versions of Netscape, followed the Phoenix/Firebird adventures and I have been a supporter of Firefox since then.
I am glad to join such an important project, especially in the perspective of the recent privacy scandals. I think that Mozilla is in the best position to communicate to the public, to denounce certain activities and provides technologies to bypass them.

Besides that, let me introduce myself. I have been in free software for almost a decade.
My previous work as working on Scilab (from Inria to Scilab Enterprises) where I stayed for almost 8 years. Over the years, I worked on various development (C, C++, Java, Python, Scilab, etc), user experience, roadmap definition, release management, R and D / customer project management, management, board member, etc. During this period, I learnt tons of things from coding, release and product management, QA, etc.

In parallel, I worked part time at IRILL, a free software research center (hosted by Inria). I was involved as community management ie organizing event like GNU Hacker meeting, FOSDEM, Euro LLVM, etc and recording them. I had the chance to meet plenty of people from the FLOSS world (including folks from Mozilla who suggested me to join the adventure).

I am also involved in two communities: Debian and LLVM.

The first one is Debian. I started to contribute in Debian to get Scilab properly packaged. 7 years after, I am now maintaining important packages like LLVM, Clang, libedit, emscripten (!) or BLAS/LAPACK, treasurer of the French representative association and organizing the French mini Debian Conference (Debconf) / Meetup.

For the last couple of years, I contributed to LLVM, Clang and LLDB. I participated to the release 3.3 and 3.4. My technical contributions were mainly driven by the packaging, the nightly Debian/Ubuntu packages and also by the rebuild of the Debian archive using Clang (instead of gcc).

And when I am not behind my laptop, I am teaching scuba diving with my girlfriend or hiking, mountaineering, ski touring, climbing, etc.

Yeh, I am a bit hyperactive.