02.16.10
Another week, another branch
Just a quick update from the trenches on the “newer Gecko” project: I’m writing this post from a Camino 2.1a1pre based on Gecko 1.9.2.2pre (the same Gecko version used in Firefox 3.6.2pre nightly builds).
Last Monday, shortly after Christopher Henderson and I had produced working Gecko 1.9.1-based builds, he posted the first screenshots of a 1.9.2-based Camino. Over the following week, Christopher has debugged a couple of crashes, as well as the history-not-saving-across-sessions bug mentioned in the comments of the previous announcement. I fixed a few other build-related issues and hacked around a couple of smaller Gecko bugs, and Philippe Wittenbergh started working on polishing our custom CSS to handle the newer Gecko versions.
As a result of the week’s work, we now have available a Gecko 1.9.2-based Camino 2.1a1pre Universal build (with all the best warts of both) for further testing. Those of you who want to play along at home can build with this large patch (the CSS fixes are in additional patches in bug 545353). N.B. You should treat this build as highly experimental. It might eat all of the cheese in your house. Be sure to make a backup copy of your profile first.
We’d like nightly build users and other interested people to hammer on this build for a while to help us gauge the degree of bugginess; if the bugs we hear about seem manageable, we’ll focus our attention here. For the time being, please comment about specific problems on this thread in the forums.
02.16.10 at 11:22 am
WOW !!! Thank you ALL again !!!!
2010 is the “CAMINO-YEAR”
By the way… there is “no more” integer-bug (about:config) in the 1.9.2 build
It works fine again!
Best Regards
Mehmet
02.16.10 at 1:43 pm
Mehmet: Yes, I put in a hack to “fix” the integer bug; it’s not a real or permanent fix, but it makes it work for the moment.
02.16.10 at 2:08 pm
Thank you ver much Smokey
There is also “no more” crash with “CMD+Q” in the 1.9.2-Build
02.16.10 at 2:27 pm
Good to hear that the crashing has stopped, too
02.19.10 at 9:44 am
I have pounded on this build without a crash!
It is very fast and stable; iGoogle and My Yahoo
don’t like it at all though…
I also can’t get into mozillaZine; that may very well
be my fault but, I can contact you all here at Camino Planet. As far as I am concerned all Camino lack is site zoom memory as does the Firefox add on No Squint. My poor eyes could use that.
Your Humble Lab Rat.
I will keep pounding on this Build
02.19.10 at 1:51 pm
Dan Welsh: Thanks for the comments. To post in the Camino Forum on mozillaZine, mozillaZine requires that you have/create an account there and be logged in (which in turn requires accepting cookies for mozillaZine).
I’ve visited iGoogle and My Yahoo! a couple of times with the build and didn’t notice anything amiss; can you be more specific about the problems you had with those sites?
We do have zoom settings on our radar; it’s bug 391299 (although I don’t know if it will end up making 2.1 or not).
05.28.10 at 2:14 am
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