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What's New in Firefox 3.5.2
The most important bugs are fixed
List of bugs are here
| ID | Sev | Pri | OS | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 479667 | enh | -- | Wind | Firefox should use SetProcessDEPPolicy to enable NX on XP SP3 |
| 501657 | nor | -- | Linu | xulrunner-1.9.1 will fail to build if system ply <2.5> |
| 503886 | nor | -- | All | Allow non-mozilla central applications to use automation-build.mk |
| 495798 | nor | -- | Wind | background-color:transparent on button not honored in high contrast mode |
| 504032 | nor | -- | Mac | [FIX]Cloning media lists needs to copy mIsEmpty |
| 500254 | blo | -- | Mac | Crash in vorbis_book_decodevv_add at vorbis_codebook.c:483 |
| 500978 | nor | -- | All | Download Manager treats search terms as regular expressions |
| 495224 | min | -- | All | Builds involving symlinks in the source dir fail to find config/config.mk |
| 504706 | nor | -- | Mac | bug 502604 fix had bumpy landing on 1.9.1 |
| 493440 | tri | -- | All | URI elements in the Properties dialog should always be LTR |
| 495495 | cri | -- | All | Entering Private Browsing mode prohibits keyboard focus on URL location bar |
| 501124 | cri | -- | Wind | Missing strtointeger path in js_StringToInt32 |
| 492200 | nor | -- | All | Upgrade libpng to 1.2.37 |
| 497355 | blo | -- | All | Assertion failure: STOBJ_GET_CLASS(obj) != &js_BlockClass, at /Users/moztest/comm/main/src/mozilla/js/src/jsscope.cpp:79 |
| 497363 | maj | -- | Wind | qcms renders wrong colors on some "good" monitors |
| 502574 | min | -- | All | Defunct loop in onTitleChanged |
| 502832 | nor | -- | All | TM: Crash [@ memcpy] |
| 502890 | nor | -- | All | Assigning to a called method on trace does not change the object's shape |
| 497172 | enh | -- | All | Add default OCSP responder for globalsign |
| 497184 | nor | -- | All | Add default OCSP responder for trustwave |
| 498500 | nor | -- | Mac | Mac DMG unpackaging is unreliable |
| 493837 | nor | -- | All | JarMaker fails when using ../configure directly |
| 504043 | cri | -- | Sola | Firefox will crash on sparc platform when some website. |
| 505416 | nor | -- | Sola | http://www.usatoday.com/ crash on sparc. |
| 507963 | nor | -- | Linu | Intermittent failure of browser_privatebrowsing_findbar.js |
| 502273 | nor | -- | Wind | contentEditable is disabled if an attribute is removed from the node |
| 500931 | nor | -- | Wind | xpcIJSWeakReference.get() unwraps XPCNativeWrapper |
| 501270 | nor | -- | Mac | Assertion failure: !fp->fun || !(fp->fun->flags & JSFUN_HEAVYWEIGHT) || fp->callobj |
| 501577 | nor | -- | Linu | Possible leak in nsXPCWrappedJS::GetNewOrUsed |
| 502449 | cri | -- | Mac | Crash [@ __memcpy] |
| 503817 | cri | -- | All | Assertion failure: original == thisv || original == OBJECT_TO_JSVAL(obj) |
| 502723 | nor | -- | Wind | updater checks the wrong MAX_PATH define |
| 496534 | nor | -- | All | [Packaged build+tests] mochitest-browser-chrome: browser_pluginnotification.js fails (and times out) |
| 499429 | nor | -- | All | [Packaged build+tests] mochitest-browser-chrome: "browser_tabs_owner.js | 4 tabs are open - Got 5, expected 4" |
| 495098 | cri | -- | All | Crash when using single XMLHttpRequest object for two simultaneous requests; test case included [@ nsXMLHttpRequest::StreamReaderFunc ] |
| 496308 | cri | -- | Mac | Crash [@ nsDOMPopupBlockedEvent::GetRequestingWindow] |
| 500822 | nor | -- | All | Importing passwords to mozstorage can fail when signons3.txt is corrupted. |
| 498897 | maj | -- | Wind | Web code gets "permission denied" error if a content policy is present |
| 499770 | nor | -- | All | um.activeUpdate is null in onStopRequest for some edgecases |
| 503468 | nor | -- | All | canPlayType should return "", not "no" |
| 453689 | nor | -- | Linu | Firefox needs to register the proper name with session management for restart |
| 491910 | nor | -- | All | [Packaged build+tests] mochitest-plain: "test_bug391728.html | Test plugin was not found" |
| 472097 | nor | -- | Wind | xul!nsMemoryImpl::IsLowMemory is broken on systems w/ lots of vm |
| 488210 | cri | -- | Mac | "ASSERTION: Going to destroy a frame we didn't remove. Prepare to crash" with XUL listbox |
| 504275 | nor | -- | Linu | Bookmark favicon images with menus_have_icons=false |
| 504647 | nor | -- | All | JITted regular expressions crash SPARC Nanojit |
| 496917 | blo | P1 | All | Can't include an arbitrary version name in the version field of the update xml |
| 501275 | maj | P1 | All | TM: Crash [@ nanojit::Assembler::nPatchBranch] |
| 501605 | cri | P1 | Wind | very slow startup for Firefox 3.5 due to accessing IE Internet Temporary Files and Windows Temp folder |
| 504456 | cri | P1 | All | Exploitable heap overflow in NSS shell expression (filename globbing) parsing |
| 492720 | nor | P2 | All | libgjs failed to compile with jsopcode.h of Firefox 3.5 beta 4 |
| 451898 | nor | -- | All | URL spoofing bug involving Firefox's error pages and document.write |
| 495297 | nor | -- | All | Unnecessary relinking of libxul |
| 495058 | nor | -- | All | Location bar emptyText not shown when deteaching blank tab or about:privatebrowsing into a new window |
| 496832 | nor | -- | All | Disable media entries in context menu when media source is invalid |
| 503750 | cri | -- | All | Crash when parameters of navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition are null [@ nsGeolocationRequest::SendLocation(nsIDOMGeoPosition*) ] |
| 496287 | nor | -- | All | App update incompatible list should not warn about disabled/blocklisted items |
| 454047 | nor | -- | All | Pop-up locationbar is editable after session restore |
| 496097 | nor | -- | All | Handlers dialog list items have no accessible names. |
| 393832 | nor | -- | All | svg circle with infinite radius causes hang |
| 495184 | nor | -- | Linu | current drag operation (dropEffect) is not updated while dragging outside the application |
| 497723 | nor | -- | Mac | [Mac] Alltabs dropdown lacks scroll arrows |
| 478528 | nor | -- | All | mochitest-plain: test_bug419527.xhtml (and test_bug375314.html) intermittently leaks 300 kB, after using |document.addBinding()| |
| 490253 | nor | -- | All | TestAUSReadStrings.cpp: fix nits in result reports |
| 490258 | nor | -- | Wind | TestXREMakeCommandLineWin: fix nits in result reports |
| 503308 | nor | -- | Linu | Debug build failure in toolkit/mozapps/update/TestAUSReadStrings.cpp: undefined reference to `NS_DebugBreak' |
| 397185 | nor | -- | Wind | test_textbox_number.xul fails when decimal separator set in Regional Settings is comma |
| 475383 | nor | -- | All | load plugins from $profile/plugins |
| 479995 | nor | P1 | Linu | [linux] mozUserCancelled isn't implemented on gtk / pressing ESC while dragging a tab doesn't cancel the drag (bug 465608 isn't fixed) |
| 487567 | cri | P2 | OS/2 | OS/2 cannot sign softokn3.dll after upgrade to nss-3.12.3 |
