May 2005
Tuesday 31 May 2005
- XTech the Lunchbox - I'm still jetlagged from the Amsterdam trip (given I never recovered while in Amsterdam). Later I'll write about it. For now, let's do build system clean-up and spend time on Deer Park.... (14:05)
Thursday 26 May 2005
- "Browse the web at an angle" - Picture taken during Robert O'Callahan's SVG/canvas presentation at X-Tech May 26, 2005.... (04:29 | 4 Comments)
Monday 16 May 2005
- Status update for week ending May 13, 2005 - Highlights - Firefox 1.0.4 security firedrill, release turnaround in less than a week! - all new build machines mounted in colo, most configured for building, rest on their way - pending (as of May 13) Thunderbird 1.0.2 locales have been released... (13:52 | 2 Comments)
Friday 6 May 2005
- Status update for week ending May 6, 2005 - Highlights - Firefox trunk builds now include Canvas. (Linux builds with Canvas are still experimental, see next item.) - Progress made on new Firefox trunk Linux build system -- builds being QA'd by MoFo staff. - bryner landed his fastback patch!... (20:06 | 2 Comments)
Wednesday 4 May 2005
- Fastback Inside! - Earlier today bryner landed his "bfcache" patch, a set of changes to cache DOM presentation information in the browser. What does this mean to you and our users? With the feature enabled in Firefox, where before the browser needed to re-render each page from a local cache of documents, now when you click back and forward the most recently viewed pages appear instantly! We are approaching our first Deer Park alpha release and as such the feature is currently pref'd off by default. Thanks to bryner and the Gecko hackers (among them boris, brendan, dbaron) for making this feature happen! Want to give it a try? As Jeff is right to point out below, trunk builds are only for the brave at this point.. this software may toast your hard drive and sparks may shoot out of your computer giving you a permanent orange afro! I offer NO GUARANTEES that bad things won't happen and won't be able to support anyone that has a problem caused by some heinous bug in a trunk build. That said, the build works well enough for my day-to-day use. For those of you still reading that remain undaunted, follow these steps to give bfcache a whirl: Download and install the latest Firefox trunk nightly. Linux MacOS X Windows Run Firefox and type 'about:config' in the location bar. Right-click on the main content area. Select New Select Integer Enter the preference name 'browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers' and click OK. Enter '5' and click OK. Shutdown and restart Firefox. Take the feature for a test drive! View a large web page with lots of elements, like planet.mozilla.org or mozillaZine feedHouse. Next, go to another page, like Slashdot. Click Firefox's Back button. If the preference is properly enabled, the previous page should appear instantly. Click the Forward button to see it work again with Slashdot. If you find a bug in this feature, or if you find a problem with viewing pages even while bfcache is pref'd off, please report a bug on the problem and place it under the "History: Session" component. NOTE: Don't confuse the "browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers" pref with "browser.sessionhistory.max_entries". max_viewers is the pref that needs to be set. You must create "browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers" so it holds an integer value (5 is a good start) as by default it's unset.... (17:32 | 36 Comments)