Firefox 3.1 Beta 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform,
which has been under development for the past 9 months. Firefox 3.1
is an incremental release on the previous version with significant
changes to improve web compatibility, performance, and ease of use:
* Improved the new Private Browsing Mode.
* Improvements to web worker thread support.
* Improved performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey
JavaScript engine.
* New native JSON support.
* Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing
for faster content rendering.
* Support for new web technologies such as the <video> and <audio> elements,
the W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, CSS 2.1 and 3 properties,
SVG transforms and offline applications.
Thanks to: beat@, nox@, gahr@, Florian Smeets,
the release notes)
* Add a new Firefox launch script [1]
* Merge URI helper patch from www/mozilla
* Add option to make URLs open in new tabs instead of new windows [1]
* Sanitize CFLAGS [1]
* Update the GNOME .desktop file with i18n translations and MIME types [1]
PR: 75816 [1]
Submitted by: Jose M Rodriguez (freebsd) <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> [1]
* Install a firefox desktop entry for the GNOME desktop [1]
* Fix the post-install plug-in repository generation when root is using
a non-default shell [2]
Submitted by: ahze [1]
Clemens Fischer <ino-qc@spotteswoode.de.eu.org> [2]
* Add support for installing the new Firefox brand icon by defining
WITH_NEW_ICON [1]
For all that's new, check out http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/
PR: 71781 [1]
Submitted by: Radek Kozlowski <radek@raadradd.com> [1]
list of Known Issues, see:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/0.9.html
This update also includes a new pkg-install script based on ports/65590
from Thierry Thomas <thierry@pompo.net>. However...
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After installing Firefox, you must su - to root, and run ``firefox'' before
running it as any other user. If you do not su - to root, you may lose some
of your user settings. If you try to run Firefox as a normal user without
first running it as root, the browser will not show up. This is a known issue
with Firefox, and they hope to address it in a future release.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
release of the Firebird web browser with a new name to avoid conflicts with
the Firebird database. This is version 0.8.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/
* Update to 0.8 and change name to firefox [1]
* Make PLIST from a fake installation [1]
* Restore original credit and portname in Makefile [1]
* Optionally install headers and IDL files [2]
* Use PERL instead of REINPLACE_CMD in a few places [1]
* Use OPTIONS
* Enable the Inspector extension
* Fix another possible esound related problem
* Enable basic optimizations if WITH_DEBUG is not specified
PR: 62631 [2]
Submitted by: trevor [1] [2]
notes at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/release-notes.html,
but it went from being based on Mozilla 1.4b to 1.5a.
Note, the master site may be temporary. The source tarball at
${MASTER_SITE_MOZILLA} was missing some key bits that prevented compilation.
Mozilla Firebird is the browser reborn from the ashes of the Phoenix.
* Update to 0.6 [1]
* Add optional GTK+-2 support [2]
* Add [untested] Sparc64 support [3]
* Add [untested] Alpha support [4]
* Do not compile with -O2 by default. Instead specify -DWITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS
to get extra optimizations
* Link the Java Plug-in again
Submitted by: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> [1]
Christopher Nehren <apeiron@comcast.net> [2] (based on)
tmm and kris [3]
Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de> [4]
Minor fixes by: obraun
