Iceweasel 3.6 approching

Work on Iceweasel 3.6 is approaching an end, but there are still issues with it and with 3.5 that I want to tackle before officially pushing to experimental.

In the meanwhile, you can already try a preview package:

The amd64 binary has the JIT compiler enabled by default (contrary to upstream default, and I guess most if not all other distros), so if you have issues with it, you’ll need to disable javascript.options.jit.content from about:config. It passes the testsuite, so I expect it to be fairly stable.

2010-03-05 18:12:19+0000

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14 Responses to “Iceweasel 3.6 approching”

  1. Anonymous Says:
    2010-03-05 20:47:13+0000

    As an x86-64 user, I eagerly await having the JIT available, but not at the cost of diverging from upstream. This makes it much less likely that someone will find and fix a security bug in the x86-64 JIT, for instance.

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    2010-03-05 23:04:34+0000

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  3. Patrick Says:
    2010-03-06 12:54:21+0000

    The i386 packages works great on my system, I’m writing this post with iceweasel 3.6. I really like the new fullscreen feature of html 5 videos.

    Thanks for your great work!

  4. Kai Says:
    2010-03-06 14:46:00+0000

    Thank you so much. I have been waiting for 64bit-JIT like forever.

  5. netanel_h Says:
    2010-03-07 10:56:35+0000

    Thank you very much! I run it now, and although it’s only pre-experimental it looks very stable on i386, and much faster.

  6. shiba87 Says:
    2010-03-07 16:55:44+0000

    Thank you, I have been waiting for iceweasel 3.6, and it’s better than was thinking.

  7. Frankie Says:
    2010-03-08 00:10:56+0000

    Hi,
    I can’t start iceweasel 3.6 for the second time (it starts only the first time after installation) with the extension downthemall installed from debian repository (package iceweasel-downthemall), same version of that present in the mozilla website that supports 3.6
    This happens in both i386 and amd64.
    Not a big problem, is just to let you know..
    Thank for your work!

  8. arno Says:
    2010-03-08 10:53:21+0000

    Hi, this soon available xulrunner-1.9.2 package is great news \o/

    I tried the package, and I noticed a small bug when launching a xulrunner application with it: I get following exception in javascript console:

    Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520001 (NS_ERROR_FILE_UNRECOGNIZED_PATH) [nsILocalFile.initWithPath]” nsresult: “0×80520001 (NS_ERROR_FILE_UNRECOGNIZED_PATH)” location: “JS frame :: file:///usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/distribution/bundles/debian/components/debUpdateNotifier.js :: monitoredList :: line 97″ data: no]
    Source File: file:///usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.2/distribution/bundles/debian/components/debUpdateNotifier.js
    Line: 97

    in:
    var plugins = phs.getPluginTags({ });
    …
    plugins[i].filename

    the filename property is just the basename; that’s why plugin.initWithPath fails

    If I comment those lines, application and extensions directory are correctly monitored.

    Except that, I didn’t notice any other glitch

  9. glandium Says:
    2010-03-08 12:04:47+0000

    arno: this problem is notified when you start iceweasel 3.6 ;)
    It is already fixed in my local branch.

    frankie: This may be an issue with symbolic links, that has been introduced upstream somewhen during gecko 1.9.2 development.

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  12. Rollopack Says:
    2010-03-12 22:13:25+0000

    Thanks for the package, works great on Debian Sid 64

  13. Vinz Says:
    2010-03-17 15:52:03+0000

    Had some issues with iceweasel 3.5.8 (in testing) so upgraded to these i386 packages. Works like a dream!

  14. Alex Says:
    2010-03-26 20:03:45+0000

    Is there a 3.6.2 build?

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