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# What's New in [% rnote.name %]

This document outlines a few of the new features implemented in [% rnote.name %], important bugfixes and any new problems. See the SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker for a more comprehensive list of fixes. Please note that these changes are relative to [% rnote.relativeto.stable.name %].

## New Features and Fixes

Major Changes

- OpenSearch plugins are now supported and the default for web search. (bug 410613)
- Data Manager now unifies cookie, permission, password, and form data management. (bug 569341)
- Plugins now run in their own processes and don't take down the browser any more if they crash. (bug 545716)
- The context menu of the location bar now has a "Paste and Go" option. (bug 599833)
- The location bar now features a fast bookmarking button. (bug 589601)
- SeaMonkey now builds most of the application into a single library ("libxul"). (bug 394502)
- JavaScript is faster than ever with the new JägerMonkey engine.
- Direct2D Hardware Acceleration is now on by default for Windows 7 users, hardware accelerated layers are available on all platforms with know-to-work video drivers.
- XUL in web pages is not allowed any more. (bug 546857)
- The proposed Audio Data API is available.
- The HSTS security protocol is available
- Absolute length units in CSS are not physical, but relative to CSS pixels now (on the basis of 96dpi). (bug 537890).
- The bookmarks system has been reworked to use the Places framework shared with Firefox (bug 498596), which will allow enabling Bookmarks with the Sync add-on (bug 585845).
- Several methods of the Firefox TabBrowser API (bug 558614, bug 558673, bug 579845) were implemented in SeaMonkey, which will allow to enable Tabs with the Sync add-on (bug 567583).
- The tab bar received a visual refresh. (bug 579732)
- Gopher support has been removed. (bug 572389)
- Web developers can animate content using CSS Transitions.
- SeaMonkey now defaults to tabbed browsing instead of opening new windows. (bug 505311)
- Address book toolbars can now be customized. (bug 575956)
- Find in Page now works with a toolbar instead of a modal window. (bug 97023)
- The browser can now be themed with Personas (lightweight themes). (bug 563261)
- The upcoming Gecko release has been renamed from 1.9.3 to 2.0. (bug 570022)
- The User-Agent (UA) string now exposes less information. (bug 572668: Crypto token, bug 572656: UI language, bug 581783: "Windows;")
- SeaMonkey now supports the HTML5 video "buffered" property.
- XPCOM registration has been changed. (bug 568691)
- Archiving can now keep the folder structure intact (no configuration UI yet). (bug 573392)
- The W3C Indexed Database API is now available to websites. (bug 553412)
- New Add-ons manager. (Bug 561600)
- Drag URL/file to/from SeaMonkey's Download Manager. (copy/move to desktop/folder) (Bug 192728)
- Save multiple messages as individual files in directory. (Bug 555972)
- Make Search, Folder Location and Views widgets for MailNews customizable toolbars. (Bug 521927)
- WebM video is now supported for HTML5 <video> tag. (Bug 566245)
- View source is now consistently taken from the platform and appearing in a SeaMonkey look and feel across all invocations. (Bug 411754)
- Loading the URL `about:memory` now shows how much memory is used by different parts of SeaMonkey.
- SeaMonkey now supports a lot of the same tabbrowser API as Firefox. (Bug 467867)
- Search and Go buttons widgets for Browser are now customizable. (Bug 529647)
- The feed preview UI and the Helper Applications preferences can now detect the system's default feed reader and use it. (Bug 471346)
- HTML5 Websockets are now available to website authors. (Bug 472529)
- WOFF format for website fonts (bug 507970).
- Resizeable text areas in web forms (bug 442228).
- Fullscreen video (bug 453063).
- JIT tracing for x86_64 (bug 489146).
- async places history expiration.
- Expiration and frecency-ordered form field autocomplete.
- Improved js-ctypes support.
- Better performance on startup and shutdown.
- SVG attributes which are mapped to CSS properties can now be animated using SMIL (bug 534028). Support for SMIL Animation in SVG.
- Core Animation rendering model for plugins on Mac OS X has been implemented. Plugins which also support this rendering model can now draw faster and more efficiently.
- Support for new CSS attributes such as gradients, background sizing, and pointer events.
- Support for new DOM and HTML5 specifications including the Drag & Drop API and the File API, which allow for more interactive web pages. (bug 500328, bug 457800, bug 356295, bug 523771, bug 503943, bug 396392, and more)
- Protection from out-of-date plugins
- CSS :visited selectors have been changed to block ways that websites can quickly check a user's browsing history.
- The SSL security system has been changed to fix a renegotiation flaw.
- Support for CSS Transitions.
- Support for WebGL, for Direct2D acceleration on Windows (all disabled by default).
- A new HTML5 parser.
- New Troubleshooting Information page (about:support, bug 545110).
- Notification bars for MailNews return receipts (MDN, bug 539066)
- Support for libnotify-based Desktop Notifications on Linux (e.g. mail alerts, finished downloads)
- Support for using system proxy settings on Windows (bug 485764).

Browser

- SeaMonkey should support "OpenSearch" (Bug 410613)
- navigatorOverlay.xul still has a reference to BrowserSearchInternet (Tools > Search the Web doesn't work) (Bug 601466)
- [SeaMonkey 2.1] mochitest-plain-1: it seems test_bug457672.html "leaks the world" (Bug 557120)
- [SeaMonkey 2.1, mochitest-browser-chrome] browser_522545.js | sessionstore got correct userTypedValue - Got example.org, expected mozilla.org (Bug 589618)
- Port duplicateTabIn introduced in bug 448546 (Bug 595483)
- Convert suite/ files for content XUL being killed (Bug 590725)
- test_docload.xul reports "JavaScript error: chrome://navigator/content/tabbrowser.xml, line 919: nsIInterfaceRequestor is not defined" (Bug 591550)

MailNews

- "Move to Trash" now marks as read (Bug 465116)
- Implement getBrowser() in MailNews windows (Bug 588895)
- Warning: assignment to undeclared variable index (in msgHdrViewOverlay.js) (Bug 595738)
- "Check online presence (AOL)" should be removed from address book tools menu (Bug 594081)
- Move abCardViewOverlay.xul from mailnews/ to suite/ (Bug 599726)

General

- Alt+Home Keyboard Shortcut Broken; Key Event Modifier navigator.xul (Bug 587398)
- port bug 581076 | add missing pref to browser-prefs.js (Bug 594425)
- Package nsInputListAutoComplete.js (Bug 595381)
- [seamonkey] mochi-browser failures due to indexedDB issues: browser_permissionsPromptAllow.js and others (Bug 600364)
- Placeholder (emptytext) styling on Modern broken by bug 547224 (Bug 551545)
- nsILeakDetector leftovers in the c-c tree (Bug 597403)
- Support signed updates in SeaMonkey (Bug 593135)
- Port bug 433860 and bug 570321 spell check context menu tests and bug 585841 - Right click, 'copy link location' no longer works to SM (Bug 593575)
- Port to SeaMonkey changes to test_contextmenu.html from bug 558072 Allow getting of popup position and size from popupshowing event (Bug 593884)
- Unsorted Bookmarks entry in menu of Bookmarks button in Personal Toolbar has no special icon (Bug 586056)
- Update SeaMonkey to newer AUS URL scheme (Bug 557583)
- Implement a Data Manager unifying cookie, permission, password, and form data management (Bug 569341)
- Persona doesn't apply to sidebar (Bug 581382)
- Address Neil's post-landing comments on places bookmarks (Bug 585601)
- [SeaMonkey 2.1, mochitest-browser-chrome] Double id='addBookmarkKb' detected in navigator.xul (Bug 589592)
- Provide a fast bookmarking button in the urlbar (Bug 589601)
- SeaMonkey 2.1b1pre French and Russian builds are missing (Bug 590635)
- Move Bookmarks dialog broken (Bug 590714)
- Remove .extra UA pref, possibly add UI for .compatMode.firefox (Bug 591327)
- Add YASM to Windows slaves, upgrade Linux/Mac slaves to YASM 1.1 (Bug 594468)
- Add SeaMonkey 2.1b2pre and 2.1b2 to AMO (Bug 602630)
- GUI needed to toggle browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent (Bug 588122)
- After doorhangers land cant type in textbox (Bug 602150)
- [SeaMonkey] Replace "emptytext" in abCardOverlay with "placeholder" (Bug 590932)
- Make drop down menus for back and forward buttons middle/Ctrl-clickable (Bug 529240)
- Port Bug 562649 set and correctly handle userTypedValue when loading external URIs. (Bug 586340)
- Change -moz-border-radius* properties to css3-background names in suite/ (Bug 594988)
- Port front end of Bug 594261 |Factor out geolocation prompt into something that can be reused|. (Bug 595442)
- Change "-moz-box-shadow" to "box-shadow" in suite/ (Bug 595630)
- Add alive ping counter to the blocklist url (Bug 598977)
- Correct typo and adjust spacing for new Firefox compatibility UI in the HTTP preference pane (Bug 597051)
- Remove nsILeakDetector leftovers in SeaMonkey (Bug 597694)
- Some css rules in existing css files doesn't apply anymore (bookmarks-ptf gone, structure have changed) (Bug 586415)
- No icons in alltabs menuitems (Bug 593944)
- [SeaMonkey 2.1, mochitest-browser-chrome] Lots of mozapps/extensions/test/ failures (Bug 589659)
- port ui parts of bug 561636 to support invalidformsubmit (Bug 599745)
- [SeaMonkey] mochitest-5: numerous failures in test_contextmenu.html media related. (Bug 593655)
- Privacy options are not cleared on closing SeaMonkey and instead cleared when SeaMonkey is reopened (Bug 588651)
- [SeaMonkey 2.1, mochitest-chrome] Exception in test_pm.xul (Bug 589627)
- xpcshell: test_clearHistory_shutdown.js fails due to "ReferenceError: TOPIC_GLOBAL_SHUTDOWN is not defined", after bug 580892 (Bug 595633)
- Package dom_notification.xpt (Bug 595273)
- Error: formatURL: Couldn't find value for key: SIDEBAR_VERSION (Bug 595394)

Windows

- SeaMonkey part of |Bug 495115 - Implement Strict-Transport-Security| to prevent overrides on certError.xhtml (Bug 590825)
- Windows nightly L10n repacks failing for SeaMonkey in creating installer (Bug 591091)
- [SeaMonkey 2.1, mochitest-browser-chrome] TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | chrome://mochikit/content/browser/suite/common/tests/browser/browser_346337.js and browser_466937.js (Bug 594687)

Linux

- [SeaMonkey, Linux] mochitest-browser-chrome: intermittent ".../suite/browser/test/browser_bug462289.js | tab key to tab activeElement - Got [object HTMLInputElement], expected [object XULElement]" (Bug 491624)
- Port bug 506175 to SM and fix an intermittent orange on linux for download manager tests (Bug 592438)
- Port changes from toolkit's browser_354894.js to SeaMonkey's browser_bug515006.js (Bug 592560)
- browser_pluginnotification.js time out (Bug 592846)
- Install patched gcc 4.5.1 on Linux slaves and enable it for trunk builds (Bug 599530)
- Middle-clicking to stop autoscroll may activate contentLoadURL (deactivate,clipboard,paste) (Bug 534248)
- [Non-static SeaMonkey] "Warning: package error or possible missing or unnecessary file: bin/libgfxpsshar.so (package-manifest, 54)." (Bug 586822)
- [SeaMonkey 2.1] TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | chrome://mochikit/content/browser/content/html/document/test/browser_bug592641.js (Bug 596237)
- [SeaMonkey 2.1, mochitest-plain-4, Linux] test_invalidate_during_plugin_paint.html crashing (Bug 585438)

Mac OS X

- Add-ons manager doesn't open if all windows are closed (Bug 586360)
- Bookmark Manager doesn't open if all windows are closed (Bug 586363)
- Mac universal builds now marked as "mac64" when they are PPC/i386 actually (Bug 600223)
- Remove all updates on SeaMonkey 2.1* for PPC (Bug 601919)
- Mac release repackaging breaks with release file names (Bug 602907)
- TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | chrome://mochikit/content/browser/suite/common/dataman/tests/browser_dataman_basics.js | Test timed out (Bug 600229)
- Mac builds broken by default architecture switch in gecko (Bug 599796)
- [Non-static SeaMonkey] "Warning: package error or possible missing or unnecessary file: SeaMonkeyDebug.app/Contents/MacOS/components/libaccessibility.dylib (package-manifest, 63)." (Bug 586854)
- [Mac default] hover:active style rules applies on disabled linkToolbar items (Bug 582372)
- New places ui lacks mac css and certain icons doesn't blend in with existing (Bug 586026)
- unsortedBookmarks.png ought to have equal amount of transparency at top/bottom (Bug 593838)
- bookmarks-chevron doesn't display in mac classic (Bug 594127)
- Need to switch border-radius: 100% to 10000px (Bug 595378)
- [Mac default] move some style rules in mailWindow1.css (Bug 595724)
- Need to rename 'menu_HelpUpdatesSeparator' to 'updateSeparator' (Bug 596758)
- Update Help for the new location of the 'Check for Updates' menuitem (Bug 597172)
- Fix some reminding/missed issues regarding personas and sidebar (Bug 599621)
- [SeaMonkey] OSX, Perma-Orange in test_GCrace.html (Bug 600378)
- Mac universal build fails unifying architectures after IPC/OOPP landing (Bug 598916)

Compiling

- remove nsAboutAbout.js (Bug 538419)
- Use out-of-process-plugins (OOPP) framework in SeaMonkey (Bug 545716)
- Fix issues brought up by package-compare (Bug 589637)
- Remove reporter from SeaMonkey (Bug 590102)
- Add new Addon Repository prefs (Bug 591037)
- Clean up SeaMonkey packaging files post libxul switch (Bug 598644)
- Port |Bug 384179 - crash on startup| to SeaMonkey (Bug 534689)
- Package message wakeup service (Bug 594430)
- Full update for nightly builds doesn't work, removes xul.dll (Bug 599605)
- --enable-tests on all our Builders by default (Bug 545172)
- xpcshell: new test_componentsRegistered.js fails (Bug 595620)