12.16.08

Fun Monday Landings

Posted in Camino at 2:17 am by Smokey

It’s been a crazy day today (er, yesterday already) here, but there were a number of important patch landings I wanted to mention, if only quickly.

• The crash that has been plaguing 10.4 users for quite some time, and which I wrote about last month, should finally be fixed on Gecko 1.9.0, meaning the December 16 Camino 2.0b1pre nightly builds should now be safe for users of Mac OS X 10.4.11!
• At long last, we have built-in support for the Flashblock whitelist, via a new “Flash Exceptions List” button in Web Features. Thanks to Bryan Atwood, who has worked on this patch since he implemented the original Flashblock integration back before Camino 1.5. Finally our release schedule, our reviewers’ schedules, and Bryan’s free time were able to be in sync. Those of you who have been using custom rules in userContent.css should migrate your whitelists to the new Flash Exceptions List, where they’ll be easier to edit and will prevent any potential conflicts between the two lists.
• The Stuart Morgan-Sean Murphy collaboration produced a patch to enable starting the dragging of background tabs with a single click, and it also landed today.
• Themers take note: After Christopher Henderson’s patch to support full-size site icons in the tab bar landed today, the tab bar is now 24px high. If you have any tab themes, you’ll need to update the various pieces of the tab bar to use 24px high images for Camino 2.0.

As a result of all of these landings, we’re now frozen for Camino 2.0 Beta 1. If you notice any new bugs that we’ve overlooked in these features, please let us know. This means that, barring any unforeseen problems, we should be able to have Camino 2.0 Beta 1 ready in the near future.

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