Updates to the Mozilla based browser for maemo

We've listened. This is our second public release of an updated browser engine. Please keep filing bug reports in bugs.maemo.org. If you don't file them there, there's very little chance we'll notice in time for the next update. We want to thank all of our users for giving us a chance. Hopefully in the future we'll be able to show even more gratitude. In the interim, I'm listing user reports before internal reports.

This article is summary based on debian change logs. Ideally I would have been able to just paste the entire changelog here, or point to a bugs.maemo.org query showing all of our fixes, and people would be able to read svn to see exactly what we've done and the changes would make sense. We're of course working on improving the process, and each update shows us additional things we need to improve.

User reported bugs

• Fixed proxy error in localizations (everything except en-US and en-GB is affected) fr-FR and es_ES undefined entity proxyResolveFailure.longDesc / Invalid syntax error when connection is lost
• Changed microb-engine, libgtkmozembed, microb-eal section name (user/libs to libs) installing browser-eal or tablet-browser-controls (which depends on browser-eal) without installing tablet-browser-ui and friends breaks the browser
• Fixed about:config about:config search button is broken and setting preferences doesn't work either
• Included entirely inappropriate hack to work around Internet Connectivity Daemon APIs aren't usable. This is reported as Browser will not open HTML files or localhost server when offline/unconnected (microb-eal requires an Internet connection for accessing localhost)
• Change code to only trigger vkb/fkb for hardware select key up instead of any key up (from any source, including bluetooth, random hardware keys, terminals in emulators, ...) when focus ends on an text input. Also make sure not to randomly close the vkb if you press a key on a bluetooth keyboard pressing any key will trigger vkb if at keyup the focus is a text input
• Fix browser ui to allow the vkb to remain open if the toolbars are hidden vkb Keyboard will not stay open/up with toolbar hidden

Crashes

• Avoid crash in GetRootScrollFrame
• Fixed crash triggered by accessing frame specific context sensitive menu (CSM)
• Fixed crash relating to zooming pages with framesets
• Fixed some startup crashes in browser ui

Bookmarks

• Add bookmark dialog should initially focus the Name field
• After trying to add a bookmark without a url, the url field should now be focussed.

Web Applications

• Fixed CSS3 opacity spreadsheets.google.com
• Improved support for zooming out
• Fixed Authentication dialog to stored password corrections. EmbedPasswordMgr::AddUser didn't call WritePasswords
• Trying to select all in an empty field should now display a localized error message
• Web pages without title tags will have their URL shown in the window title, note that the page details should say Untitled (or some localized equivalent)
• Untitled in page details should really use the localized equivalent
• Moved the Feed indicator between the bookmarks widget and lock widget on the toolbar

Theming

• Fixed broken rendering of styled button with empty title (background-image + value = "") this can be seen at imdb.com
• Fix alignment for radio/check widgets
• Small fix to improve drawing of gtk toggle buttons
• Switching back from css style focus rules (which sometimes resulted in zero or two focus rings) to gecko's default focus rings

Spatial Naviation

• Fixed bug with complicated links with no width (<a><div>...)
• Fixed Scroll and setup first focus
• Fixed some problems with spatial direction
• Fixed eal to hide vkb when loading a new page

Networking

• Resuming paused downloads should now work
• Fixed handling of external/unsupported protocol (e.g. foopy:). It used to get stuck in "Connecting"
• File upload start/finished implemented -> - microb-eal part
• Stop waiting for a connection When connectivity indicates it has connected
• Only show connecting status when a connection is initiated if the browser is waiting for a load
• Download manager should appear even if download is triggered by opening a new window and then closing it.
• Deleting an item from download manager should focus the first download item if there is one
• Browser should close imperceptibly faster because we no longer call gnome_vfs_shutdown.

Packaging and Building

• Corrected libnss3-dev package to place headers in /usr/include/microb-engine/nss and list that as the pkgconfig include directory
• Add support for building Mozilla trunk with thebes GFX: use DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=config=thebestrunk dpkg-buildpackages -us -uc ....)
• Improved support for building in different configurations
• Added thebestrunk, and clean xulrunner configuration
• Added helper script for preparing mozilla build tree in NON debian env
• Adding support for non microb consumers
• Build spellcheck extension by default (it is not packaged)
• Added compatibility with microb ~ mozilla depends
• Made start page logo bigger (bigger is better, right?)
• Hildon finger include not available in hildon2006 environment