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Firefox 6 for web developers

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Re: Firefox 6 for web developers

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Post by mbrubeck »

ck2 wrote: post #13

Thanks for adopting the existing "standard" for touches, now I can remove some of the extra code I had for F4 mobile.

Awesome! Please let us know if you find any problems with the touch events in Fx6 mobile. (You can contact me directly at mbrubeck@mozilla.com or file a bug at bugzilla.mozilla.org under the "Fennec" product.)

Re: Firefox 6 for web developers

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Post by josscrowcroft »

yan wrote: post #2

"For security reasons, data: and javascript: URIs no longer inherit the security context of the current page when the user enters them in the location bar; instead, a new, empty, security context is created. This means that script loaded by entering javascript: URIs in the location bar no longer has access to DOM methods and the like, for example. These URIs continue to work as before when used by script, however." G…

Yeah, I caught this hanging out at the bottom of the list too... Immediately set to thinking how I'm gonna have to go rewrite the dozen or so bookmarklets I've written to support FF6

Re: Firefox 6 for web developers

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Post by mbrubeck »

josscrowcroft wrote: post #26
yan wrote: post #2

"For security reasons, data: and javascript: URIs no longer inherit the security context of the current page when the user enters them in the location bar; instead, a new, empty, security context is created. This means that script loaded by entering javascript: URIs in the location bar no longer has access to DOM methods and the like, for example. These URIs continue to work as before when used by script, however." G…

Yeah, I caught this hanging out at the bottom of the list too... Immediately set to thinking how I'm gonna have to go rewrite the dozen or so bookmarklets I've written to support FF6

Bookmarklets are not affected when used as bookmarks. Only URIs typed directly into the location bar are affected.

Re: Firefox 6 for web developers

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Post by mixmastamyk »

hendler wrote: post #19

Happy about websockets. But mostly excited for FF 7 with the memory management improvements. http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2011/08/09/firefox-7-is-... Firebug needs a manual update. see http://getfirebug.com/downloads [edited to add firebug link] Learned that

Meh, I've been using FF8 nightly for a few weeks and the memory improvements are modest at best. I just had to restart my browser because it got up to 650mb even after closing tabs.

Re: Firefox 6 for web developers

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Post by tbassetto »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #29
hendler wrote: post #19

Happy about websockets. But mostly excited for FF 7 with the memory management improvements. http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2011/08/09/firefox-7-is-... Firebug needs a manual update. see http://getfirebug.com/downloads [edited to add firebug link] Learned that

Meh, I've been using FF8 nightly for a few weeks and the memory improvements are modest at best. I just had to restart my browser because it got up to 650mb even after closing tabs.

It may be caused by poorly written extensions and/or extensions "forced" to be compatible with nightlies.
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