122050 - make mozilla 0.9.9 not suck

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Tracking, defect)

Description

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Mozilla 0.9.9 must rule.

Comment 1

[Nick Lewycky]

Nominating bug 40867, bug 61348, bug 77337. (No web browser will be ruling
without a working view-source option. And MathML should come in a milestone
before the 1.0 release, for obvious reasons.)

Comment 2

[Jonas Jørgensen]

I second Nick's 40867/77337 nomination. View-source 0.9.9 must rule.

Comment 3

[Anders Korsvall]

I nominate bug 88870 (Java support needed for Mac OS X build) for 0.9.9. Now
that OS X is the default OS on all new Macs it is even more important that we
make Java support in Mozilla rule on that OS too.

Comment 4

[Oscar van Vliet]

May I nominate bug 105619? It was on the 0.9.6 list and regressed in 0.9.8. It
is  both top100 and topcrash.

Comment 5

[m_mozilla]

bug 112241 has been reopened and will be causing many 0.9.8 crashes. I would
like to nominate it as a dependancy.

Test case and details for bug 112241 at
    http://wickline.org/mozilla/2002020600/

-matt

Comment 6

[Peter Lairo]

No-brainer: bug 122227 (should have been fixed for 0.9.8)

Nominations: 
bug 114606, bug 105537, bug 98572, bug 91662, bug 76495, bug 72493, bug 67161,
bug 64908, bug 61497, bug 59148, bug 58744, bug 56301, bug 46227, bug 36776, bug
35046, bug 33732, bug 32157, bug 17199, bug 17048, bug 16489 (has patch!), bug
10097, bug 7840

Comment 7

[m_mozilla]

nominating bug 124240 because the %s token used in custom keywords is not
future-proofed and is going to make it very difficult to add additional features
to custom keyword queries in the future. %s; (note semicolon) *is*
future-proofed and will allow things like %s; %s1; %s2; etc.

It will be painful to switch, but it will only get more painful as more users
start using Mozilla (and derivatives). Better in the 0.9.9 release notes than in
the 2.1 release notes.

This user interface change should be made before 1.0, so that folks custom
keyword queries will break sooner rather than later (and less pain will be felt
overall).

-matt

Comment 8

[Waldemar Horwat]

Nominating bug 33732, bug 74688, bug 83313, bug 83289, and bug 113717.

Comment 9

[Waldemar Horwat]

Nominating bug 114150.

Comment 10

[Dan]

Nominate bug 123983?

Comment 11

[Steve Wardell]

Nominating: Bug 58301

Comment 12

[Greg K.]

Perhaps the open bugs still blocking the resolved bug 115520 should block this
bug now as well.

Comment 13

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

nominating bug 122081, which has a patch with r= and sr=.

Comment 14

[eberry]

I nominate bug 116074.  This is the "constantly blinking titlebar" bug under 
Windows.  It has 20 duplicates over the last week.

Comment 15

[K Carter]

Nominate bug 126594. Recent regression on Win98 where chrome is drawn
incorrectly. No scrollbar arrows for example.

Comment 16

[Daniel Steinberger]

i'd like to nominate bug 121230 "PNG (containing alpha channel / transparency)
causes display errors on scroll or other interaction" since it's a regression,
not beeing seen in 0.9.8 and is affecting all those w3.org valid html/css
banners and every other image with 8bit alpha channels.

Comment 17

[Robert Kaiser]

Can I still nominate? Want to add bug 118140 and bug 126666 to nominations...
(both are important to L10n and have patches attached)

Comment 18

[Carsten Menke]

I really want to vote for bug 127442, I don't know for how many people this bug
occurs, but I could not imagine that Mozilla 0.9.9 the version prior to the
Ultimate Landing 1.0 should contain this and the following:

bug 119450 Not possible to Install Language Packs using "Download More" in Prefs
bug 126675 One of the many Print Preview Crashers
bug 122489 Despite of that it is marked MacOS X only, it doesn't work for me as
well, and not be able to delete entries in the AdressBook should not be case of 0.99

Additional to this, I think most important is, to get the crasher's out of
Mozilla for 0.99 nothing disappoints me more when a program crashes.

My Humbe Opinion

Carsten

Comment 19

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

bug 124741 -- Save failure for some content types (simple patch, needs sr and a)
bug 127375 -- Not taking down the (dysfunctional) progress dialog when saving as
              text

Comment 20

[Tom Mraz]

Nominating (maybe too late) these three bugs with patches:

Bug 82151 and bug 127554 - these two patches will hopefully fix the remaining
issues with textarea editing.

And bug 82056 which has patch with r/sr and would be nice and small mailnews ui
cleanup.

Comment 21

[wacheo]

I'd like to nominate bug 128531 and 127129, where chinese GB characters fail to
display in some cases.

Comment 22

[meniscus]

I would like to nominate mail-sorting bugs 
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50938
and
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121588.

These bugs cannot be very difficult to fix, but they make the mail client 
extremely annoying to try to use. Alot of people (like myself) will not switch 
to using the Mozilla mail client as long as this bug persists.

-Chance

Comment 23

[Cormac F]

For those who can nominate bugs: consider bug 125698
This is a regression from 0.9.8, an irritation for those who use form prefill or
double-click to fill form fields (adding email to bugzilla reports, for instance)

Comment 24

[Quinn Yost (mythdraug)]

Nominating bug 122765 "Mozilla loses focus and Z order 
due to Alert /other dialogs".  

Very visible, very annoying.

Comment 25

[komine]

I would like to nominate bug 125958.
Installer creates invalid profile direstories on Windows.

Comment 26

[Carsten Ott]

#79812 'Some GB2312 characters are dispaly as "?" in this page'
fixed, but still a bug on solaris8 (sparc)
tested with 0.9.6, 7, 8
further test url: http://cn.yahoo.com/

because of no (real) alternatives under solaris i think resolving this is
important. thanks.

Comment 27

[Gilles Durys]

I suggest adding bug 123812. This one gives the impression of a non working
mail/news.

Comment 28

[Lars Hugentobler]

it's probably way too late, but i'd still like to mention that i consider fixing
bug 116217 urgent, for it's a very disturbing incident for all of us who use
mozilla for onlineshopping

Comment 29

[Scott Gifford (old account)]

I'd like to third the nomination of the view-source bugs, bug 40867, bug 61348,
and bug 77337.  It's embarrassing to have to fire up NS4 to debug CGI scripts.

Comment 30

[Mike Shaver (:shaver -- probably not reading bugmail closely)]

View-source bugs aren't going to make the (imminent) 0.9.9 release.  We're only
taking small, well-considered fixes for topcrash and other such bugs at this
point, and perhaps not even those any more.

Do work hard on the view-source bugs that bother you, though, so that we can get
solid fixes for them into 1.0.

(I discourage further discussion of the view-source issues here; we understand
well that they're very annoying, and we're eager to have fixes.  Nothing to do
for 0.9.9, though, and that's what this bug is about.)

Comment 31

[wacheo]

I'd like to nominate again for bug 127129 (and bug 128531, which is basically
the same thing). This bug is fixed in the trunk but still not in 0.9.9 (as of
build 2002031008). It causes some characters to disappear and is quite "visible"
so I think it should make the 0.9.9 release.

Comment 32

[jean.marais]

Hi. Because of the nature of this project I don't really know where to give
'user type feedback' to the right people ... and the box is labeled 'Additional
Comments', so I think I'm allowed to comment.

Just a concern... ?You? miss your target dates by quite a bit and it happens
quite often it seems? Why is this? 

If you have a target date - you should leave out what's not finished and release
then (or close to then), is this possible or is the tree not in a state where it
can be released? Is it not possible to revert to a version that can be released
close to the date?

OR

You should rather have a feature target list instead of a date. Link to Bugzilla
or something. Its looks a bit bad when you are this late.. Or am I missing
something? Then its understandable and visible when there is still 3 things on
the list ..for example.

.. just intended as positive feedback/suggestion.

Cheers

Comment 33

[wacheo]

> Hi. Because of the nature of this project I don't really know where to 
> give 'user type feedback' to the right people ... 

http://www.mozillazine.org/ should be a good place for this. :)

Comment 34

[Steve Wardell]

All dependencies resolved.. we ready to rock with 0.9.9? Is next Netscape branch
going to be based on this or wait until 1.0 or later?

Comment 35

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

We're ready to rock. 
Mozilla 0.9.9 has been made to not suck. Resolving as Fixed.

Comment 36

[Eugene Savitsky]

Steve Wardell: I believe they wait at least till 1.0 and then released in next
1-2 months. Look at the nsbeta1 bugs this time...

PS Sorry for the spam, but I'm waiting for some next Netscape dates since I
promote it. 

I believe Mozilla is only a base for other enduser browsers and does not belongs
to enduser HDD's.