SeaMonkey 2.8 Changelog (Target Milestone)
New Features and Fixes
Browser
- Page Info does not display any information about video stream from video tag (Bug 485686)
- Unused entities in pageInfo.dtd (Bug 523573)
- Sync Feed Preview with Firefox as at 2011/11 (Bug 700604)
- BrowserSearch.loadSearch() uses the current search engine if the search sidebar is selected even if the sidebar itself is hidden. (Bug 705452)
- Should be able to open a new tab by middle-clicking the "Go" button. (Bug 708640)
MailNews
- Account wizard doesn't have place to enter port info (Bug 78357)
- "Delete folder" menu item should be available for trash folder after users switch delete mode to "Mark as Deleted" & "Remove Immediately" modes (Bug 91958)
- Port |Bug 193281 - Ability to import/save e-mail messages from .eml text files to folders (Message|Copy)| (Bug 700899)
- Enable View Source for .eml files and port |Bug 550478 - Attached .eml - Other Actions --> View Source - only shows body| (Bug 704016)
Composer
- Number untitled pages (Bug 102275)
- Move Editor toolbar buttons from editorOverlay to editingOverlay (Bug 694027)
General
- Danish localization of SeaMonkey (Bug 698916)
- Reduce CPU load in the Download Manager UI during downloads (Port Bug 397424). (Bug 701051)
- Port UI parts of |Bug 617528 - implement the HTML5 "context menu" feature (contextmenu attribute)| (Bug 702019)
- Recently Closed Tabs/Windows in the Go menu are no longer disabled when empty (Bug 702297)
- Port |Bug 700201 - Addons that haven't been updated for an extremely long time should not be compatible by default| (Bug 702792)
- Port |Bug 700854 - {Media,Image,Video}Document should reference an external stylesheet for use in styling their contents| (Bug 702800)
- Implement Application.platformIsMac in order to support Lightning Bug 316916 (Bug 706421)
- Port bug 673017 changeset 02ce78afb984 ('places-connection-closing' removal) to SeaMonkey (Bug 709829)
- Print button is misaligned in the Mail & News toolbar with the Modern theme (Bug 722758)
Windows
- Message Display panel clipped on Windows 7 (Bug 608103)
- Help->Check for Updates gives error in SeaMonkey 2.5b1 (Bug 691083)
- stop test_multi_select.xul hanging on Windows (Bug 701540)
- gkmedias.dll is missing in latest nightly (20111215) (Bug 711348)
- pre-release warning on 2.8 release notes (Bug 736968)
Special Operating Systems
- macOS: [Mac default] Make use of the new nsNativeTheme toolbarbutton styling in DM and PageInfo (Bug 677667)
Compiling
- Port |Bug 579175 - services/sync ignored in filter.py| to SeaMonkey (Bug 632922)
- Include hyphenation dictionaries in omnijar - remove old files from builds on update. (Bug 701428)