SeaMonkey 2.1a2 Changelog (Target Milestone)
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New Features and Fixes
Browser
- Port Bug 529674 [Restore windows at the saved position without moving them around on the screen] to SeaMonkey (Bug 558641)
- Port Bug 506482 [Don't write sessionstore.js to disk for read only events] to SeaMonkey (Bug 558646)
- Port Bug 561702 [sessionstore should not use RegExp static state] to SeaMonkey (Bug 567726)
- Rename mTabs to tabs in suite tabbrowser (Bug 573733)
MailNews
- Rename "Unsent Messages" to "Outbox" in the backend (Bug 475511)
- Make Search, Folder Location and Views widgets for MailNews customizable toolbars (Bug 521927)
- Save multiple messages as individual files in directory (Bug 555972)
- Reordering of newsgroups using drag & drop doesn't work anymore (Bug 556887)
- Port |Bug 559040 - Make the internal archiving code work for any set of messages thus being nicer to extensions| to SeaMonkey (Bug 570578)
- Remove dead variable "messages" from archiving code (BatchMessageMover) (Bug 571713)
- Make use of Services.jsm in suite commandglue.js (Bug 572080)
- Port |Bug 522252 - make archiving of read-only folders do a copy, not a move| to SeaMonkey (Bug 573278)
General
- make view source optionally open in text/plain helper app (Bug 8589)
- pages loaded from search results should highlight the search term (Bug 158773)
- Font help for User Defined (Bug 159254)
- Add possibility to drag downloaded files from download window and drop/move them to desktop (as example) (Bug 192728)
- Fix filenames for mozilla help to follow readme-style (Bug 226191)
- System setting for mouse wheel not documented (Bug 280873)
- Overlay suite features onto toolkit view source window (Bug 411754)
- Achieve "web site" vs. "website" (vs. "site"?) consistency in SeaMonkey UI (Bug 423282)
- [Port Bug 479899 to SeaMonkey Modern] s/#autoscroller/.autoscroller/g (Bug 482218)
- Make Search and Go buttons widgets for Browser customizable toolbars (Bug 529647)
- Add/port about:support (Troubleshooting Information page) to SeaMonkey (Bug 545110)
- Port Bug 520659 (Lazily build places trees when possible) to SeaMonkey (Bug 547815)
- Implement Firefox TabBrowser API: getIcon() (Bug 558673)
- SeaMonkey part of Toolkit bug 561116 (Bug 561645)
- Clean up nsContextMenu.js, lay the base for future work touching it (Bug 562339)
- Use Suite's search tips rather than toolkit's in suitehelp.rdf (Bug 566139)
- [SM] Customize toolbar sheet moves when selecting the show dropdown menu (Bug 566424)
- Replace "Download retention" with "Download history" in Browser preferences (Bug 566484)
- Port |Bug 489994 - Downloads list should honor always remember helper application| to SeaMonkey (Bug 569898)
- New mochitest failures in SeaMonkey (Bug 572703)
- rights infobar not displayed any more (Bug 573384)
- Tracking bug for build and release of SeaMonkey 2.1 Alpha 2 (Bug 573401)
- Add SeaMonkey 2.1a2 and 2.1a3pre to crash-stats.m.c (Bug 573989)
- Remove nsAddonRepository.js on updates (Bug 574467)
Windows
- Installing Trunk 2.1a Overtop Existing Branch 2.0 Causes Non-Functional SeaMonkey (Bug 562047)
- Open the Addon Manager in a tab (Bug 566905)
- PCA complains when installer is cancelled (Bug 569791)
- Make notification bar open the Addon Manager in browser rather than its own window (Bug 572049)
Linux
- Bug 521523 regressed libunixproxy.so packaging (Bug 545631)
- Make site icons work in places history and bookmarks (Bug 554908)
- Get Linux64 SeaMonkey building again (Bug 571652)
Special Operating Systems
- macOS: Remove extensions.getMore* preferences (Bug 530102)
- macOS: SeaMonkey 2.1 does not package widget_cocoa.xpt (Bug 545628)
- macOS: The 'active' attribute is gone, should instead use -moz-window-inactive pseudoclass (Bug 555508)
- macOS: [Mac] Remove splitter cursor overrides (Bug 558668)
- macOS: Update Mac readme.txt file for trunk (Bug 564680)
- macOS: Port Bug 519099 [Location bar stops working and does not allow any input. Restarts does not help] to SeaMonkey (Bug 567655)
Compiling
- [SeaMonkey] crashtest and reftest suites hang at startup since "new add-ons manager UI" landing (Bug 563012)
- [SeaMonkey, non-nightly] Fix "Warning: package error or possible missing or unnecessary file: ..." (Bug 564606)