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,
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]
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
* Fixed problem with reliably finding perl 5.8.0.
* Made build faster.
* Shut up most of the compiler warnings (turned off --pedantic).
* Strip the binaries.
* Saved 2 meg on size of binary package (16M -> 14M).
2. Moved install to ${X11BASE}/lib/phoenix to keep it out of the way
of mozilla, since it uses the same namespace for dirs/files.
3. Link bin/phoenix and bin/phoenix.config into install tree's bin dir.
TO DO: make installation smaller. make distfile smaller. test,test,test.
