SeaMonkey 2.18 Changelog (Target Milestone)


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  <li><a href="#new">New Features and Fixes</a>
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      <li><a href="#mail">MailNews</a></li>
      <li><a href="#composer">Composer</a></li>
      <li><a href="#general">General</a></li>
      <li><a href="#windows">Windows</a></li>
      <li><a href="#linux">Linux</a></li>
      <li><a href="#spc_os">Special Operating Systems</a></li>
      <li><a href="#build">Compiling</a></li>
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<h2 id="new">New Features and Fixes</h2>

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<span class="legend" id="mail">MailNews</span>

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  <li>Provide information like preview text, subject and sender in mail notification window - as in Thunderbird (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404580">Bug 404580</a>)</li>
  <li>Element.setAttribute(attr, null); now sets the attribute to the string &quot;null&quot; instead of the empty string (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=825605">Bug 825605</a>)</li>
  <li>messenger.xul: ReferenceError: gDisallow_classes_no_html is not defined (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=831348">Bug 831348</a>)</li>
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<span class="legend" id="composer">Composer</span>

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  <li>Make it easier to edit disabled form fields (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=827017">Bug 827017</a>)</li>
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<span class="legend" id="general">General</span>

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  <li>Implement Phishing Protection (a.k.a. Safe Browsing) support in SeaMonkey (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477718">Bug 477718</a>)</li>
  <li>Resync' Directory Provider from Firefox (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631897">Bug 631897</a>)</li>
  <li>Update help for redesigned Add-ons Manager (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652328">Bug 652328</a>)</li>
  <li>Port |Bug 752461 - First time after choosing to &quot;Never activate plugins for this site&quot; the video is still playing| (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=807664">Bug 807664</a>)</li>
  <li>Get the executable path directly from the directory service instead of guesswork. (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=824272">Bug 824272</a>)</li>
  <li>pref-applicationManager.xul is broken because Services isn't defined in the scope. (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=826771">Bug 826771</a>)</li>
  <li>Remove NotificationsComponents.manifest from SeaMonkey installer package manifest (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=827513">Bug 827513</a>)</li>
  <li>Port |Bug 827303 - Firefox core and crypto services components assume services/sync is built| (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=830413">Bug 830413</a>)</li>
  <li>Update Suite Download Manager UI for Private Browsing changes (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=833015">Bug 833015</a>)</li>
  <li>Drop livemarks support from SMILE (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=834493">Bug 834493</a>)</li>
  <li>Modify Privacy & Security Preferences UI to reflect recent backend additions (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=835134">Bug 835134</a>)</li>
  <li>Remove uses of RESULT_TYPE_FULL_VISIT and RESULT_TYPE_DYNAMIC_CONTAINER from comm-central, now that bug 835543 removed those constants (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836094">Bug 836094</a>)</li>
  <li>In the Form Submit Observer, use fullZoom from nsIDOMWindowUtils rather than inferring zoom from CSS to device pixel ratio (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836269">Bug 836269</a>)</li>
  <li>Port | Bug 836120 - Reduce memory overhead of Sync when it isn't configured | to Seamonkey (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836702">Bug 836702</a>)</li>
  <li>Followup to Bug 773761, don't define overlay twice in the same block. (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=837397">Bug 837397</a>)</li>
  <li>Add basic private browsing support (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=837492">Bug 837492</a>)</li>
  <li>Add private browsing page (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=837493">Bug 837493</a>)</li>
  <li>Add command line argument to open a private window (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=837496">Bug 837496</a>)</li>
  <li>Add File - New - Private Window menuitem (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=837510">Bug 837510</a>)</li>
  <li>Port Bug 826409 - Remove onBeforeDeleteURI and onBeforeItemRemoved notifications (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=838333">Bug 838333</a>)</li>
  <li>Add Open Link in Private Window context menuitem (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=841230">Bug 841230</a>)</li>
  <li>Open Location dialog should be able to open a private window (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=841616">Bug 841616</a>)</li>
  <li>Use &quot;website&quot; rather than &quot;web site&quot; in en-US preference panes (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=842320">Bug 842320</a>)</li>
  <li>Today nightly build very buggy (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=842529">Bug 842529</a>)</li>
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<span class="legend" id="windows">Windows</span>

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  <li>User-Oriented Labels in Data Manager for &quot;sts/use&quot; and &quot;sts/subd&quot; (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=822535">Bug 822535</a>)</li>
  <li>Seamonkey-aurora and trunk needs to have release-l10n created (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=830096">Bug 830096</a>)</li>
  <li>Port |Bug 783778 - Update Google favicon in the search bar| to SeaMonkey (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=834692">Bug 834692</a>)</li>
  <li>Fix some mingw warnings in nsWindowsShellService (Port |Bug 829288| to SeaMonkey) (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=834693">Bug 834693</a>)</li>
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<span class="legend" id="linux">Linux</span>

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  <li>SeaMonkey's linux64 are not building due to nss errors. (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=838401">Bug 838401</a>)</li>
  <li>make package broken due to missing packages (Port Firefox bugs: Bug 831683 and Bug 836206). (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=838526">Bug 838526</a>)</li>
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<span class="legend" id="spc_os">Special Operating Systems</span>

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  <li>macOS: Switching between active/inactive causes toolbar/statusbar to not repaint properly (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=831160">Bug 831160</a>)</li>
  <li>macOS: Fix OSX64 buildage from |Bug 780561 -  (new-packager) Overhaul the packager| (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=837570">Bug 837570</a>)</li>
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<span class="legend" id="build">Compiling</span>

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  <li>Port |Bug 824330 - Enable services in xulrunner and don't build under services/ when building against a libxul SDK| to SeaMonkey (<a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=828957">Bug 828957</a>)</li>
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