Help Mozilla Test Gran Paradiso Alpha 7

Posted by paul on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 19:21Using Firefox

Hey SFXers:

Mozilla is looking for experienced web developers and highly technical users to give us feedback on the latest milestone for the next major version of Firefox, Gran Paradiso Alpha 7.  Built on top of Gecko 1.9, Gran Paradiso Alpha 7 is now available for testing purposes. In particular, we're testing for website compatibility and stability.

You can find the full release notes and download Alpha 7 here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/3.0a7/releasenotes/

Also, testers can back up their profiles using the following instructions: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup

Gran Paradiso 1.9 Alpha 7 contains the following notable changes:

    * 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.
    * Default visited pages history size 9 to 180 days (see bug 332748)
    * Full page zoom of images, layout and text (see bug 4821)
    * Many fixes for context menus, clipboard, and drag services on Mac OS X.
    * Reworking of XUL menus and popups (see bug 279703)
    * document.all now returns a NodeList of elements (see bug 259332)
    * Several new clipboard events (see bug 280959).
    * A class of wrappers to mediate access between web pages from different origins (see bug 367911)
    * Cross site XMLHttpRequest specification implemented (see bug 389508)
    * A method for opening modal dialogs from content (see bug 194404)
    * Color profile support (see bug 16769)
    * Text in <canvas> (see bug bug 339553)
    * SVG lighting (bug 383184) and tile filters (bug 373572)
    * Support for CSS text-rendering property for HTML (see bug 387969)
    * Many fixes to CSS font property bugs (see bug 377947, bug 216456, bug 383979), bug 388458), and bug 383979)
    * -moz-border-*-start and -moz-border-*-end CSS properties are implemented (see bug 74880)
    * -moz-initial implemented for all remaining CSS properties except quotes and -moz-border-*-colors (see bug 80887)
    * window.getComputedStyle supports all supported CSS properties (see bug 316981)
    * Dropped SOAP support (see bug 332174)
    * Browser-side support for windowless plugins on Unix/X11 (see bug 137189)
    * A full Gecko 1.9 bug fix list


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Will Check It Out.
Submitted by ALIENDUDE5300 on Thu, 09/06/2007 - 23:29.

So far, I am quite impressed with many of the changes since the current 'stable' release. And it passes Acid2! (But view images doesn't work.)

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Submitted by Ken Saunders on Fri, 09/07/2007 - 00:42.

Works fine for me.


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Hmm...
Submitted by ALIENDUDE5300 on Fri, 09/07/2007 - 01:43.

Long time no see, Ken. Seeing as it worked for you I disabled all 17 of my extensions, and it worked... not sure what extension caused it not to work (specifically with the acid2 image), but I don't feel like attempting to find out. As long as it works, who cares. Acid2 is mainly improper HTML and CSS anyways.

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