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Firefox 1.0 Preview Release Candidates Available

Posted by timothy on from the cutting-edge-is-the-bleeding-edge dept.

blakeross writes "The preview release of Firefox 1.0 is just around the corner, and we've now got candidate builds available. Please help us bang on these builds to ensure that the preview release is sound and ready to go, as this will be our largest and most public release to date. We're also working hard on an exciting and unprecedented grassroots campaign that will launch with the preview release, so stay tuned."

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  1. Not to complain... by dmayle · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not just to complain..., but has the Slashdot reflow bug been fixed in 1.0? It's been known for ages, but it's recently gotten much worse in 0.9.x (In 0.8 I rarely had the problem, under 0.9.3 under three different operating systems, (and three different microarchitectures) I get it more times than not on Slashdot articles and comments.)

    Granted, I won't give up the best browser I've ever used, but it's getting to be really annoying.

    And come on, we all know that the Mozilla devs spend more time reading Slashdot than anything else, so why hasn't it been fixed yet?

    1. Re:Not to complain... by colinramsay · · Score: 4, Informative

      http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217527

      That's the bug. It's fixed on the main trunk but not on the Firefox 1.0 branch... yet.

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    2. Re:Not to complain... by 0x0d0a · · Score: 4, Informative

      It is definitely a Gecko bug (the rendering component of Mozilla and Firefox) relating to incremental reflow, not a problem with Slashcode. It's not something to be glossed over. On the other hand, as others have pointed out, it's fixed in Gecko -- just the fix hasn't been rolled into Firefox.

      In the meantime, you could try disabling incremental rendering (at the cost of potentially greater delay until a web page is in a readable state) and see if that works around the problem: go to about:config and add a boolean value for content.notify.ontimer and set it to false.

      There's some random Firefox-related discussion on a forum here. While these people don't really know what they're talking about, they do nicely list the incremental reflow prefs that you can play with. You might be able to come up with a reasonable workaround until the fix gets rolled in.

      Remember to set the prefs back when you update Firefox to a fixed version -- you don't want to be either burning CPU time like mad or waiting longer than you need to to be reading pages.

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  2. Re:Change log? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/0 .10.html http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/bigger-pictu re.html#newin1.0pr1