50805 - Scratchpad for Beta 3 Release Notes

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[verah (gone)]

Please put your additions and corrections for the Beta 3 release notes here.

Comment 1

[verah (gone)]

Accepting.

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42997

Comment 3

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43029

menu.css missing cause winzip does not unzip files of 0k size

Comment 4

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

51920

problems in linux with xfree v4, has workaround/fix

Comment 5

[Peter Lubczynski]

Plugins don't work on the Mac yet

Comment 6

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

Please replace the Windows portion of the Mousewheel section with this:

Mousewheel scrolling is known to not work with certain drivers.  If you have
problems, try updating your driver and/or disabling any "helper" programs that
your mouse uses.  Also, note that mousewheel scrolling will not work if you have
scrolling set to full-page mode in Control Panel.

Comment 7

[laurel]

Attachment: 1st draft mailnews notes

Comment 8

[Dawn Endico]

fyi, fwiw. what a brave soul. I don't have time to see if this guy
has a bugzilla acct and cc him

Subject: 
               System Requirements for Linux
  Resent-Date: 
               Wed, 27 Sep 2000 06:08:06 -0700 (PDT)
 Resent-From: 
               [e-mail]
         Date: 
               Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:07:24 -0400
         From: 
               Joe King <[e-mail]>
           To: 
               [e-mail]




I have M17 running on a Pentium 133 32M ram. Runs kind of slow,  but it 
runs.

I am using Slackware 7.1 (kernel 2.2.16, glibc 2.1)

Comment 9

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

I to have heard of mozilla/ns6 running slow on 'slower' pentiums with 32 MB.
However, this is a beta software still

Comment 10

[Heikki Toivonen (remove -bugzilla when emailing directly)]

I hope you are aware of the Bugzilla keywords that people use on bugs to have 
them included in the release notes... relnote, relnote2 and relnote3. There are 
lots of bugs, and if you need help in wording I am sure the bug owners can write 
some stuff down.

Comment 11

[Grace Bush]

bugscape bug 2569
"Macintosh users with a version of Stuffit Expander earlier than 5.5 may get an 
error stating the archive is corrupted.  You can ignore that error and continue 
with the installation."

 "Users that need a newer version of StuffIt Expander to extract the installer 
can download it from 
http://www.aladdinsys.com/expander/expander_mac_login.html

Comment 12

[Grace Bush]

bug 46558- Linux only
Users must have write permission for the target installation directory before 
they try to install

bug 49345-Linux only
Users who install the product must run the product at least once to allow for 
autoregistration to occur and for the component.reg file to be written to the 
installation directory.  If a different user than the installer runs the product 
first, a core dump will occur.

Comment 13

[Grace Bush]

bugscape bug 1730- Linux only
The special features links on the Activation page work slowly and intermittently

bugscape bug 2304-Mac only
First attempt at installation may crash intermittently. Subsequent attempts are 
successful

Comment 14

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

bugzilla bug 20743
Mac only: "If you experience crashes when you have several windows open, increase 
the application's memory size as follows. Select the icon for the application in 
the finder, choose "Get Info" on the "File" menu, and in the resulting window 
switch to the "Memory" settings using the popup menu. Then enter a larger number 
in the "Preferred Size" field; 20000 or larger should fix the crashes."

Comment 15

[laurel]

Attachment: 2nd draft mailnews

Comment 16

[shrirang khanzode]

bug 48110 :Browser crashes on startup in plc4.dll due to Crescendo 5.01 plugin. 
Workaround is to update your crescendo installation to latest version.

Comment 17

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

bug 14003: the -version command line option does nothing.

bug 24665: File > Close and Ctrl/Cmd+W don't work on profiles w/o account setup.
click the window's close widget to close the window.

bug 47139: View Frame Source not yet added to the main View menu; however, it
does show up in the context menu.

bug 49744: -chrome in -help is unclear. it *should* say, "-chrome launches the
specified chrome package".

bug 51087: the order of Preferences categories is inconsistent across platforms.

bug 52154: there is no coloring in the source window.

bug 53440: the fixed-width font size droplist might disappear. here's a
workaround:
	1. open Prefs dialog.
	2. resize it so that it is much bigger.
	3. dismiss the dialog (use the mouse tho' or you'll run into bug 53838).
	4. bring up Prefs again --> the fontsize droplist is now displayed;
	   persists, too, even after resizing the dialog to a smaller size.

bug 49909: Unix/Netscape bindings vs. Windows/Netscape bindings issues.

bug 22963: Colors preferences are essentially unusable since most changes are
currently reflected in the chrome, rather than the content window.

bug 44176: sometimes the download progress dialog doesn't appear while a file is
being saved to disk.

bug 26761: -help doesn't work on win32 (primarily optimized/verification
builds).

bug 32372: there isn't a frontend preference to turn off stylesheets.

bug 33163: unable to have multiple simultaneous [parallel] downloads.

bug 47203: the old Unknown File Type dialog still appears when downloading a
file. this primarily occurs when
	1. double-clicking a file to save from an ftp page (all platforms), or,
	2. single-clicking most-if-not-all links on an html page that
	    directly point to a binary (http:// or ftp://) for download.

bug 50420: the original extension of a file you download might be changed. to
workaround this, make a note of the original extension, then change it back.

bug 32108: there is no dialog that asks you to confirm cancellation of file
downloads.

bug 52730: several features of Page Info are missing (w/re: 4xp), namely:
	* cannot view info on frames
	* cannot view info on xml or ftp pages
	* File MIME Type, Source, Local cache file, Content length, Expires,
	  Charset, Security (already filed as bug 49697)
	* not in context menu, no shortcuts either: can only access from the
	  main menu.

Comment 18

[laurel]

Attachment: draft3 mailnews

Comment 19

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

bug 54581: Command+number shortcuts in Tasks menu absent/not working in editor
window.

bug 51018: navigating while a file is downloading will terminate the download.

bug 54059: unable to edit the MIME type field. you'll need to delete and create
a new helper app type with your changes.

bug 50740: hqx files are treated as plain text files. a likely workaround is to
create a helper app type to handle this extension.

bug 53870: existing profile: cannot dismiss Edit Type dialog after changing
radiobutton (Helper App panel in prefs). workaround: click OK anyway (which will
save the change), then click Cancel to actually dismiss the dialog.

bug 50914: type list for the Helper Application is sometimes blank.

Comment 20

[shrirang khanzode]

bug 50914 :Helper application panel listing is blank, cannot add mime type when 
using old profile. Workaround is to use a new profile and see this working fine.

Comment 21

[John Unruh]

Bug 31174 - SSL requests not going to proxy. "Secure (https) websites such as 
https://www.verisign.com cannot be reached through a proxy."

Comment 22

[John Unruh]

Bug 36381 - Mac-Crash when visiting java enabled web sites. "The Mac version 
will crash when visiting java-enabled web sites."

Comment 23

[John Unruh]

Bug 50931 - Mac-Security Pop-up windows are blank. "Visiting a secure site with 
an untrusted Certificate Authority, or an expired or mis-matched certificate can 
bring up a blank dialog box."

Comment 24

[John Unruh]

Bug 54637 - PSM crashes when loading a secure site. "Before installing PR3 for 
Windows, search your drives for psm.exe, and delete the folder that it resides 
in, and its subfolders."

Comment 25

[John Unruh]

Bug 53739 - Mac-Opening Security Manager locks up browser. "Opening the Security 
Manager on the Mac can lock up the browser."

Comment 26

[John Unruh]

Bug 54031 - "Netscape 6 may not be able to connect to some secure (https) IBM 
web servers."

Comment 27

[racham]

bug 46320 (Reduce global files for peaceful gecko installtion) : Profile
registry location is moved.

In order to fix this bug, we moved the profile registry from windows directory
to the Application Data directory on Windows and to the HOME directory on Mac
and Linux.

Here is the pertained newsgroup posting :

As an effort to reduce the global files for gecko installation and make registry
name & location  more embedding friendly (bug 46320), the location of profile
registry will be moved to $HOME/<Product Name> directory. Product name is
a name that we can pass to XPCOM init, which defaults to Mozilla if no name is
provided. The name of the registry is also changed on all platforms (see under
platform specific details). The change is transparent and a typical user
shouldn't get affected by this change.

To support this change, profile manager copies the profile information in
mozregistry.dat to registry.dat on the first launch (after the fix to 46320 is
checked in) with this change and a flag is set in new registry (registry.dat)
indicating the transfer. So, from there on, registry.dat will be your new
profile registry and any profiles you add/remove/rename will be reflected in new
registry registry.dat.

Note : If you delete registry.dat and kept mozregistry.dat, you lost the data
transfer flag set in the new registry. On the subsequent launch profile data
will be transferred from mozregistry.dat. If you don't want to this transfer to
happen wipe out/rename mozregistry.dat.

Here are some platform specific details :-

Home directory :

Windows : Initially we started the implementation with %HOME% being the location
for registry.dat file. But, from the feedback we got from various sources, we
found out that HOME variable is not the rightone to depend on. So, we changed
the location to Application Data folder instead. A way to fond out where your
Application Data folder is to start mozilla with -profilemanager commandline
option (open dos console. go to the place where mozilla.exe is located. type
mozilla -profilemanager -console. you will find a statement that says where your
registry is stored. All that path prior to Mozilla folder is your Application
Data folder path).

On Windows, if your Application Data folder is not set, then we default to your
windows directory i.e., the original
     mozregistry.dat location (c:\winnt for winNT, c:\windows for Win95, 98 etc.,)

Mac   : Documents folder will be the HOME for mac.
Linux : do 'echo $HOME' to find where home is pointing to.

New name of the registry :

Windows : registry.dat
Mac     : Application Registry
Linux   : appreg

example : say if your Application Data folder on windows is set to say
d:\profiles\foo\Application Data, complete path to your registry file is
d:\profiles\foo\Application Data\Mozilla\registry.dat

PS : For the developers who want to access the registry location, get the
directory services first, and then to get registry directory ask for
NS_XPCOM_APPLICATION_REGISTRY_DIR ( and from javascript "AppRegD")
to get registry file and ask for NS_XPCOM_APPLICATION_REGISTRY_FILE (and from
javascript "AppRegF")

Comment 28

[racham]

bug 6464 - Windows only (Profile system should honor OS's multi-user
definitions) : Users50, the root folder for all user profile directories has
been moved to  Application Data folder.

Newsgroup excerpt :

In the process of fixing bug 6464 (Profile system should honor OS's multi-user
definitions), we are planning on moving Users50 folder (default home for all
user profiles) from the current location (2 levels up from the executable) to
Windows Application Data folder for all the all newly created and migrated
profiles. Your profile directories will still live in the same place they were
in and they can be accessed successfully without any problems as long as you
haven't deleted your registry file.

Application data folder locations (let's say OS is installed on C drive):

Windows 2000  : C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data
Windows NT     : C:\Winnt\Profiles\<user name>\Application Data
Windows 95,98
    if password protection is disabled : C:\Windows\Application Data
    if password protection is enabled  : C:\Windows\Profiles\<user
name>\Application Data

The provieded paths need not to be absolutte. Please use regedit and search for
"Application Data' to find out the actual location.

Also, we discovered over the time that some Win95 and 98 machines does not
return proper value for Application Data folder. In all those cases, we used
Windows folder (say something like c:\winnt for windows, c:\windows for 95 , 98
etc)as the fallback.

Note : We will be adding sub folder 'Mozilla' to store all our files.

A dump statement ("New location for profile registry and user profile
directories is -> " ) is added in the profileSelection.js so that the new
location (should be same as the mentioned above for corresponding platforms)
gets printed onto the console when you run the app with 'mozilla -console
-profilemanager'.

Comment 29

[racham]

I would like to emphasize couple of key points from my last update.

"
In the process of fixing bug 6464 (Profile system should honor OS's multi-user
definitions), we are planning on moving Users50 folder (default home for all
user profiles) from the current location (2 levels up from the executable) to
Windows Application Data folder **** for all newly created and migrated
profiles****.

----> Remember that the Users50 folder is created in the new location only when
you try to cteate a new profile or try to migrate a profile 4.x. <----

**** Your profile directories will still live in the same place *****

----> I meant your existing profile folders (probabaly sitting under say
c:\<folder chosen installtion in the past>\Users50\*) will be in same place.
They don't need to be moved anywhere as the registry knows keeps track of the
location. <----

they were in and they can be accessed successfully without any problems as long
as you haven't deleted your registry file.
"

Comment 30

[Grace Bush]

add to bug 1730
DO NOT USE SPECIAL FEATURES LINK in Linux Activation- causes browser to 
hang

Comment 31

[Grace Bush]

bugscape bug  2689 
During activation, if existing Netcenter member presses the 'I forgot my 
password link', an erroneous error message is given not allowing user to sign 
in. User must sign in as new member or cancel.

Comment 32

[John Unruh]

Bug 50843 - "Win98- Loading of secure (https) sites with lots of picture files 
can be very slow."

Comment 33

[[e-mail]]

"What's New" might mention View/Use Stylesheet -- this beats most everyone else
AFAIK.

The *Note: about cookperm.txt now seems irrelevant, full Preferences UI exists
and works for this, and I'm using it.

22515 is verified, Keyboard mnemonics ARE working on Linux these days
28508 is fixed too, Select All does work from context menus

Comment 34

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

should this not be closed now?

Comment 35

[verah (gone)]

Marking Fixed.

Comment 36

[verah (gone)]

Marking Verified.