Firefox3/M7/ReleaseNotes

Please add items for the Gran Paradiso - Alpha 7 / Milestone 7 release notes.

Firefox

• Mac-specific
  • Context menus are far less buggy. We have checked in fixes for almost every serious context menu bug.
  • Many fixes to the clipboard and drag services. We now support promised file dragging. Clipboard and drag operations in Places work much better.
  • Support for Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) has been removed. Gecko 1.9 will no longer build or run on Mac OS X 10.3.
  • Several other stability, security, and general bug fixes.
• Shutdown Performance
  • Users that keep a browser history longer than the default may experience a significant delay on first-shutdown, as the history table is rebuilt to fix bug 371800. This should not affect users that have not changed their history preference from the default (9 days). More information is available in bug 319455.
• Master password
  • A bug in this release makes it so changing the master password will cause Firefox to forget all saved passwords (bug 390451).
• Privacy / History
  • Remembering visited pages default changed from 9 days to 180 days(bug 332748).

Gecko & Platform

• URLClassifier
• doc.all changes
• oncopy/onpaste
• SVG lighting filters
• Full zoom (4821)
• CSS 'text-rendering'
• cross-origin wrappers https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367911
• showModalDialog() https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194404
• XPATH generator: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319768
• SVG tile filter: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373572
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319455
• history menu is slow https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385397
• -moz-border-*-start and -moz-border-*-end CSS properties are implemented (bug 74880)
• XUL menu and popup reworking https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279703
• Canvas text https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339553
• Color profile support (disabled by default) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16769
• Quite a few sites can crash when you change font-size, eg http://www.shacknews.com http://www.macrumors.com/ see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386584
• If you use the firefox password manager and also use a master password, and then you change your master password, you will loose all your remembered passwords. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=390451
• Unix/X11 specific
  • Browser-side support for windowless plugins https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137189. (Plugin-side support is required.)

Queries

• Bugzilla keyword "relnote" search

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These notes will eventually appear at the "Changes in this Development Milestone" section of the release notes. See the Gran Paradiso Alpha 6 notes for an example.