Summary: mozilla.dev.apps.firefox - September 30 - October 6, 2006
Announcements
- Vista Compatibility Lab
- Mike Schroepfer announced the current work being done testing mozilla products with Vista. A wiki and IRC channel have been created to track their progress.
Discussions
- Firefox trunk and rc1 slowdown using tabs
- Discussion regarding certain theme components (specifically alpha-transparency) creating a high CPU load on OS/2.
- Title case capitalization rules in Firefox
- Discussion regarding rules for capitalizing the first letter of Firefox menu items in the FF UI.
- Engineering Student Project - Industry Coach
- Paul Betts from Ohio State University is looking for someone from Mozilla to be his "Industry Coach" for Engineering 494 - How Great Ideas Turn into Great Products. Mozilla is a great product afterall.
- Reload vs. reload from cache
- Discussion regarding the lack of user understanding regarding reloading and reloading from the cache and how to address it.
- Why Suggestions in search bar doesn't work for me?
- Discussion regarding suggestions in the search bar not functioning in the October 3rd nightly build of FF 2.0.
- Places in Firefox 3
- Discussion regarding places (a new system for storing bookmarks, histroy and other page info) in Firefox 3. A wiki has been set up aswell as weekly meetings, and a face-to-face meeting will be scheduled at a later date.
- Everyone and his goldfish thinks bug 300198 should be fixed
- An as-of-yet unreplied to complaint regarding the status of bug 300198 remaining WONTFIX.
Meetings
None this week.