Behind the Scenes

For a web developer, the awesome fantastic Firebug provides everything you need, but it is currently only available for Firefox. Asrail is trying to make Firebug 1.2 work with SeaMonkey 2, though; I successfully installed an XPI today. Until he releases something I will just give you a hint: search for "caio seamonkey firebug" in Google Groups. Or take a look at Firebug Lite.

Progress

• Drag & Drop tabs between browser windows: backend (Bug 113934)
• Windows default application check: allow to change what to check (Bug 447637)
• Preferences window: MailNews / Notifications (Bug 428705), MailNews / Composition (Bug 429143) and Advanced / Keyboard Navigation (Bug 444146)
• enable building SeaMonkey with --enable-libxul: /suite directory (Bug 397277)
• Redirect mail (resend with possibility to editing before sending): backend (Bug 359226)

MailNews

• convert attachment filename correctly when importing from Japanese Eudora (will also be fixed in SM 1.1.12) (Bug 443344)
• do not lose IMAP offline stores when connecting to server fails (Bug 213827)
• rename 'Unsent' folder to 'Outbox' (Bug 387656)
• allow to specify whether to run filters when checking mail, run manually, or both (add a separate manual filter context) (Bug 440635)
• cache the top-level address book to help performance (Bug 403256)
• ensure that disabling "Automatically mark messages as read" works (Bug 450740)
• add ability to filter only selected messages in a folder (Run Filters on Selected Messages) (Bug 444209)
• make sure signed/encrypted messages (e.g. S/MIME) always get transfer encoding applied (Bug 232515)
• ignore spaces after tag attribute equal sign in HTML messages (Bug 338323)
• convert Ask me before downloading more than __ messages option (in the news server settings) to number-type textbox (Bug 451862)
• make sure "Edit as new" for opened eml files does not result in a broken compose window (Bug 366482)
• use better wording in Folder Properties Retention Policy tab dialog (Bug 339151)
• always use Content-Disposition: attachment (was inline for text-type attachments) for sending attachments (Bug 65794)
• play back tags to IMAP server when switching from offline to online (Bug 141606)
• make Mark All Read keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+C on Linux (like on Windows; was: Ctrl+Shift+M) (Bug 422757)
• do not delete mail keywords/tags when detaching/removing attachments (Bug 440366)
• add option to quote the contents of displayed inline attachments in replies (UI for mail.reply_quote_inline pref) (Bug 441659)
• show just the name and not the email address in the message pane (Bug 309057)
• rename Properties to Settings in account context menus (Bug 249620)
• implement auto-expunge for IMAP mailboxes (see bug comment 4) (Bug 359284)

Address Book

• make Search/Filters check correctly for address in Mac OS X Address Book (Bug 437908)
• remove spaces from Mac OS X Address Book display names when first and/or last name is empty (Bug 451021)
• allow Junk settings to use read-only address books (like Mac OS X Address Book, but not remote ones) for white lists (Bug 451361)
• support multiple address books for Junk whitelist (Bug 449747)

CSS

• support white-space:pre-line (Bug 230555)
• support positioned and floated generated content (in conjunction with :before and :after) for non-replaced elements (Bug 238072)
• ignore CSS2.1 empty-cells:hide in conjunction with border-collapse:collapse (Bug 392047)

DOM

• implement ElementTraversal (Bug 447917)
• implement W3C Selectors API (querySelector and querySelectorAll) (Bug 416317)
• implement WHATWG/HTML5 Drag and Drop (Bug 356295)

Printing

• enable printing while in Print Preview on Linux/Unix (Bug 126802)
• clear print_to_filename after printing on OS/2 to make sure that it's not overwritten next time (Bug 446290)

Locales

• add lt (Lithuanian) to source locales (Bug 451054)
• add pt-BR (Brazilian Portuguese) to source locales (Bug 451153)

Certificates

• make the "bad cert error dialog" more helpful (add View Certificate button) (Bug 439722)

Compiling

• make theora build with VC7.1 (Bug 450265)
• add ability to pull specific revisions/tags from comm-central, mozilla-central or dom-inspector (Bug 451811)
• make Qt port compile with comm-central (Bug 450957)

General

• do not treat Ctrl+Enter as Ctrl+J when captured by a Javascript event (Bug 318235)
• add support for Aero Glass effects (-moz-appearance: -moz-win-glass) to Widget layer (Bug 418454)
• let downloaded files inherit NTFS properties (like permissions, compression, encryption) from parent folder/directory (Bug 224692)
• convert FTP paths from UTF-8 to original charset (e.g. Cyrillic) (Bug 427089)
• support new toolkit async autocomplete (Bug 443370)
• ensure that major updates are offered when certain language packs are installed (make locale in updater.ini mandatory) (Bug 446527)
• catch more Software Update failures, e.g. working offline (Bug 312661)
• delete and re-init cookies.sqlite if cookie deletion fails due to corrupted database (Bug 448372)
• set DISPLAY environment variable when --display is given to make Xremote work correctly (Bug 441140)
• fix dropping images to external applications (Bug 435220)
• add workaround for creating plugin cache file on Windows (enable displaying PDF delivered via SSL) (Bug 420310)
• make "seamonkey -h" mention -migration switch (Bug 431636)
• handle WM_ENDSESSION message to cleanly unload in case of exiting or restarting Windows (Bug 212316)
• line up Modern submenus horizontally (Bug 451609)

Crashes

• do not crash when exiting on OpenSolaris (with Xinerama enabled) (Bug 449371)
• do not crash when saved search is open after deleting a searched subfolder (Bug 438414)
• do not crash in debug mode while getting POP3 mail on startup (Bug 452521)

A New Home

The move to hg went quite smoothly (thanks to the preparatory work of KaiRo and others). Now that SeaMonkey and MailNews have their own repository shared with Thunderbird and Calendar, tracking changes is a lot easier. However, the loss of Bonsai still hurts a bit. Bug 394669 has been fixed but it still needs to be pushed live (Bug 448459). While you are waiting for that, take a look at what is possible with a bit of client-side PHP and RegEx:



Progress

• Download manager: make toolkit dlmgr buildable by suite (backend prerequisite) (Bug 440932)
• Preferences window: Composer / New Page Settings (Bug 435079), MailNews / Return Receipts (Bug 445011), MailNews / Junk Mail (Bug 445010), MailNews / Character Encoding (Bug 445012); enable using filefield elements (Bug 448106)

MailNews

• update saved search folders' unread count when deleting mail without reading it (Bug 300487)
• allow filters to move a mail after copying it (Bug 376235)
• implement highlightNonMatches in Toolkit autocomplete (to show that email address could not be found in address book) (Bug 441526)
• do not report "Mail server is not an IMAP4 mail server" if server says BYE (Bug 408861)
• filter news based on any headers [original fix had been backed out due to regressions] (Bug 16913)
• add confirmation dialog for Empty Trash (Bug 179891)
• make sure removing tags from local messages survives rebuild index (Bug 439132)
• set default for MDN confirmation dialog to No (i.e. Do Not Send) (Bug 166164)
• support IMAP RFC 4551 - CondStore extension (Bug 436151)
• do not issue IMAP fetch CHANGEDSINCE unless using CondStore (Bug 448558)
• do not remove new messages from view after changing tag (Bug 444815)
• do not clear messages and thread panes when compacting a folder other than the selected one (Bug 271988)
• turn off error pages for MailNews windows (XML Parsing Error: no element found/netError.xhtml on newsgroup message download timeout) [will probably also be fixed in SM 1.1.12] (Bug 327510)

Breakpad

• disable email field after submission (Bug 427034)

CSS

• support CSS3 'word-wrap' property (breaks long lines) (Bug 99457)
• implement CSS3 column-rule-* (Bug 271586)
• implement W3C Selectors API (querySelector and querySelectorAll) (Bug 416317)
• implement parsing of @font-face rules (Bug 441469)

Compiling

• actually support --skip-calendar in comm-central's client.py (Bug 447225)
• add configure option to l10n repositories (Bug 447619)
• change build process to generate unique BuildIDs (including minutes and seconds) (Bug 431270)

General

• use separate accesskey for "Search Web for " menu item (Bug 447833)
• save form inputs' state with Save Page As (Bug 293834)
• add Ogg Theora backend for HTML5 video element (Bug 422538)
• do not show "Content Encoding Error" page when redownloading a previously cancelled .tar.gz file (Bug 426273)
• show file:// directories containing files >= 2GB on Linux (Bug 278738)
• do not try to retrieve image when img src="" and image URI equals document URI (Bug 444931)
• utilize min-height on fieldset tag (Bug 210094)
• check for left/top start position on startup to prevent overlapping widgets like the Dock (Bug 433358)

Crashes

• do not crash and lose mails if Rebuild Index is executed while compacting folder is in progress (Bug 392015)