01.28.08

Camino 2008 Week 4

Posted in Camino at 1:27 am by Smokey

All those weeks of “two-dozen-plus bugs fixed” are finally catching up with us; this week we’ve slowed down a bit and have taken some time to restore our collective sanity. ;)

  • The big news of the week was the landing of Bryan Atwood’s patch for saving (and using) multiple sets of account information for a single website. In addition to his last-minute work to get that patch ready for landing, Bryan fixed four follow-up bugs related to the multiple accounts support last week, and he also found some time to update his patch for a Flashblock whitelist (“Exceptions List” in Camino parlance) now that we’ve put the Web Features preference pane on a diet.
  • Mark Mentovai landed a fix this week for the dreaded “symbol-stripping” bug that was rendering crash logs useless, and he switched the PPC builds on the MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH to use GCC 4 as the compiler (as a side effect, ✈ will now require Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher). Mark also did some more work on fixing keyboard focus defaults in alerts, improving the localized display of dates, and making our build system friendlier.
  • Stuart Morgan took on some clean-up work in addition to his usual complement of reviews. He also wrote a patch to make incremental search in the new Find bar function more like a sane person would expect. ;)
  • Jeff Dlouhy posted a more functional version of his patch to integrate Quick Look into the Downloads window. Unfortunately the patch currently only works in shared builds, so the feature is a long-shot for making Camino 1.6.
  • I kept busy with non-Camino things this week, but I did continue to do reviews on some of Mark’s build-related patches, worked on a few website bugs, and patched about:license to be ready for the third-party code Jeff’s tab drag-and-drop patch includes.

That’s about it for this week. The next security release for Camino 1.5.x beckons, so some of us (at least me) will be focused on that instead of ✈ for all or part of next week—and those efforts won’t be nearly as exciting to many of you as the new features that we’ve been turning out lately. ;)

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