Firefox 1.0.5 released

JGC · 2005-07-21 16:54:17

I did some thunderbird 1.0.6 packages yesterday, doing firefox and Mozilla packages later tomorrow. I grabbed a shitload of patches from fedora and mandriva for these releases and they will be compiled with gcc4, so expect new versions in testing tomorrow or at least this weekend.

dtw · 2005-07-21 18:00:54

Will thunderbird have the RSS reader yet?

hotsock · 2005-07-21 18:46:12

yea, gcc 4.0 is buggy. i've had numerous problems with it where i've had to downgrade to the one in current.

kth5 · 2005-07-21 20:57:16

JGC wrote:

I did some thunderbird 1.0.6 packages yesterday, doing firefox and Mozilla packages later tomorrow. I grabbed a shitload of patches from fedora and mandriva for these releases and they will be compiled with gcc4, so expect new versions in testing tomorrow or at least this weekend.

the patch i posted earlier should suffice. as for these "shitload of patches" i'd rather just apply this one additionally. the package build will still work with 3.4.3/3.4.4 btw.

besides, gcc 4 isn't buggy in most cases. only a bit stricter forcing the devs to write better code and apply to standards. heh

JGC · 2005-07-21 21:30:38

Thunderbird will have a working RSS reader yes (finally o/)

About the patches: I added the native gtk fileselector, some the pango renderer, some patches to build against a standalone NSPR lib and a patch to build with gcc4. This shitload of patches will solve many bugs:
- gnome will install again without firefox installed first
- *box users shouldn't get hanging firefox anymore
- pango rendering is nicer compared to straight xft/freetype calls

dtw · 2005-07-22 09:02:33

EXCELLENT!

paranoos · 2005-07-26 19:57:32

alright, i was really looking forward to using the new mozilla-firefox in testing, but it seems there's something wrong here... i started it up, and it shrank the window to 800x600. this problem seems familiar, so i resized it to the way i like, closed, and restarted, 800x600 again! i also tried moving my .mozilla/firefox folder somewhere to back it up and start a new profile, same problem.

i could write a pekwm rule to resize it, but i really don't want to!

paranoos · 2005-07-29 06:02:10

ok, after embarrassing myself (slightly) at firefox's bugzilla, i discovered that this bug does not occur in mozilla's official firefox build, but only in the arch package. one of those patches applied is messing things up. let me discuss the bug.

using nvidia twinview, firefox will resize the window on startup, making sure it's smaller than the lowest resolution described in twinview. since my second monitor is a tv, i'm running it at 800x600 .. my main monitor is 1600x1200, so it's pretty annoying that firefox only occupies 1/4 of the screen, and i have to resize it every time i run the program.

i'm hoping to be able to track down which patch is adding this bug, and hopefully fix it as well. wish me luck!

paranoos · 2005-07-31 07:38:19

phew, finally. i tracked this whole thing down to enabling xinerama in mozconfig. i filed a bug with flyspray.

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