Post preliminary bugs & requests in this thread.

- Links to download can be found here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kmeleon/files/k-meleon-dev/1.7.0a2/

- More info about KM 1.7 development and download links:
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/wiki/kmeleon17

Would like to see this type of subject line made a sticky as it was for Km 1.6.

Anyone care to list bugs? fixes? improvements?

<VBG>

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/30/2010 12:15PM by ndebord.

Good idea to have thread for KM 1.7 a2 development issues.

I had issue with Policy Manager. see http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/forum/read.php?8,113496,113553#msg-113553

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I had issue with Policy Manager. see http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/forum/read.php?8,113496,113553#msg-113553

Not all Chrome seems identical. If You copy a unaltered 1.6 chrome to 1.7 You find a number of css errors.

Can someone activate "Display Toolband Background". I have had some bad crashes with ones of the supplied exes and wonder whether it can be replicated.

All wallet items are missing - so no password saving...
I tried with with wallet files from 1.7.a but no luck.

No idea what is planed but until the devs say otherwise IMHO the few that test should concentrate on 1.6.

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Can someone activate "Display Toolband Background". I have had some bad crashes with ones of the supplied exes and wonder whether it can be replicated.

Is 'Toolband' the same as Toolbar background? If so, then it works for me. I use a modified Klassic skin with a different background from the one shipped with KM.

If 'Toolband' is different, then I need more explanation in order to test.

K-Meleon1.7a2.7z (8,127,205 bytes)

My personal skin looks exactly the same as in KM154 + 16
The timing for this version was very cool, exactly when I needed a KM1.7 to test and play a bit with some cool new gecko1.9.2 settings, it came along
First it looked a bit like a miracle, running fine as if it were a snap to just exchange the gecko version in KM16beta and all is fine, but that would have been to good to be true Quickly noticed there's the wrong context menu for about:config, so cannot add new prefs, and so was quickly back to 16beta ;-)

JS macros (Links, Linked Images, Images, Feed Subscribe, Readable, Readability etc...) don't work for some reason. They work in v1.7a1
*Update: The problem is injectJS. Using open works.

From the Wiki page:

• Bookmarks plugins doesn't yet support alpha transparency, and I don't think it will in this release.

Alpha-transparent bookmarks.bmp & favorites.bmp are both recognized and appear correctly for me.

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Can someone activate "Display Toolband Background". I have had some bad crashes with ones of the supplied exes and wonder whether it can be replicated.

Is 'Toolband' the same as Toolbar background? If so, then it works for me. I use a modified Klassic skin with a different background from the one shipped with KM.

If 'Toolband' is different, then I need more explanation in order to test.

K-Meleon1.7a2.7z (8,127,205 bytes)

Yes My typo. Sorry.

Here all works for Klassic (which is with magic pink) , and 16pxAura skin but not for the 24pix Aura skin that is default.

With that skin I have either crashes or weird optical effects, when I use a custom or the default back.bmp.

p.s. With the exe called "k-meleon_original.exe" all is normal=no problems.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/31/2010 06:42PM by guenter.

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Can someone activate "Display Toolband Background". I have had some bad crashes with ones of the supplied exes and wonder whether it can be replicated.

Is 'Toolband' the same as Toolbar background? If so, then it works for me. I use a modified Klassic skin with a different background from the one shipped with KM.

If 'Toolband' is different, then I need more explanation in order to test.

K-Meleon1.7a2.7z (8,127,205 bytes)

Yes My typo. Sorry.

Here all works for Klassic (which is with magic pink) , and 16pxAura skin but not for the 24pix Aura skin that is default.

With that skin I have either crashes or weird optical effects, when I use a custom or the default back.bmp.

p.s. With the exe called "k-meleon_original.exe" all is normal=no problems.

Guenter,

It seems the transparent thing is a problem with KM 1.7... perhaps we could go to a default of either the Klassic or even the old Phoenity skins until things get sorted out.

On some sites, KM 1.7a2 has problems with scrolling. You can use the bar with your mouse or touchpad, but page up and page down don't always work. I'll try to find a test site to post.

P.S. OK, then, this is a minor issue that has been around for just about forever, in KM 1.5, 1.6, 1.7.

Sometimes when you go to a page, in this case http://www.abcnewsgo.com page up, page down, mouse doesn't work UNTIL you manually do a Ctrl End. What this seems to do is finish loading the entire page and then you can do page up, page down, etc. It is as though something is not loaded completely, even though the status line says ready.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/01/2011 12:03AM by ndebord.

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Here all works for Klassic (which is with magic pink) , and 16pxAura skin but not for the 24pix Aura skin that is default.

With that skin I have either crashes or weird optical effects, when I use a custom or the default back.bmp.

I am not sure how much I must do to cause a problem. I have put my custom background in the large Aura skin, and opened KM with it. I went to several sites, used tabs, but did not have a failure. I am running on Win 7.

Mine looks like this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1522294/A_lg_A.jpg

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Sometimes when you go to a page, in this case http://www.abcnewsgo.com page up, page down, mouse doesn't work UNTIL you manually do a Ctrl End. What this seems to do is finish loading the entire page and then you can do page up, page down, etc. It is as though something is not loaded completely, even though the status line says ready.

I don't understand. The page does not require scrollbars and seems to complete. Did I have to pick one of the stories and go to that page?

Happy New Year!

Sorry for the two exes includes in 1.7 alpha2, _original.exe is the KM 1.7.a1 exe file, the other k-meleon.exe have the icons updated with Reshacker (like 1.6 Beta2).
Only chage icons, no other differences in functionality or way to work, only I forget delete k-meleon_original.exe file before package it.

Remember this is an experimental alpha version based in Firefox 3.6 components.
I only like to show that KM can be 80% functional with Firefox 3.6 components (and Gecko 1.9.2).

K-Meleon in Spanish
The worst day of my life.
I feel like a GIF archive.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/02/2011 12:29AM by desga2.

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Here all works for Klassic (which is with magic pink) , and 16pxAura skin but not for the 24pix Aura skin that is default.

With that skin I have either crashes or weird optical effects, when I use a custom or the default back.bmp.

I am not sure how much I must do to cause a problem. I have put my custom background in the large Aura skin, and opened KM with it. I went to several sites, used tabs, but did not have a failure. I am running on Win 7.

Mine looks like this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1522294/A_lg_A.jpg

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ndebord
Sometimes when you go to a page, in this case http://www.abcnewsgo.com page up, page down, mouse doesn't work UNTIL you manually do a Ctrl End. What this seems to do is finish loading the entire page and then you can do page up, page down, etc. It is as though something is not loaded completely, even though the status line says ready.

I don't understand. The page does not require scrollbars and seems to complete. Did I have to pick one of the stories and go to that page?

Just use back.bmp of default skin to crash.
Else back.bmp of custom skin to get weird effects.

Only the resource hacked exe does it on my PC. So... best forget it.



I think ndebord has a small laptop/netbook?

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Happy 2011 - 80% or more work is quite good for a mere test with Firefox GRE.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/02/2011 01:03AM by guenter.

@ ndebord

I see what you mean. I used a smaller screensize to force scrollbars. At first the pageup and pagedown keys did nothing. After I looked at the source and opened some part of that in a new window, the pageup and pagedown keys worked. I do not have an explanation for why the keys do not work when first opened.

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@ ndebord

I see what you mean. I used a smaller screensize to force scrollbars. At first the pageup and pagedown keys did nothing. After I looked at the source and opened some part of that in a new window, the pageup and pagedown keys worked. I do not have an explanation for why the keys do not work when first opened.

JamesD,

I do not have any explanation on why this behavior happens, all I can say is that in some cases (not all by any means) when the status bar says "ready" the page is not truly ready for scrolling using page up, page down and similar keystrokes. However in every case, when you do a Ctrl End, mouse, keyboard and touchpad commands work as they should for scrolling up and down a page. Not a big problem, just weird. However, in all cases, when you click on the scrollbar, it will go up and down, for example, when you are reading a long story.

XP PRO SP3 12.1" Thinkpad, 8megs memory cache, 8megs ramdrive (disk cache).

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Theres a problem with History heres the error.

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...in some cases (not all by any means) when the status bar says "ready" the page is not truly ready for scrolling...

That's already quite usual in my KM16beta. I have enabled favicons in tabs and checked that they show a special icon when loading. They often show that symbol long since after the statusbar displays "ready". Have the impression that this happens mostly when images are still loading, but no idea about details.

Under the 'mail' button, the item 'Send page as a link' seems to do nothing.

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@ nabino

There is no history.dat file. It is not being created. That is why you are getting the error.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/02/2011 07:10PM by JamesD.

Started with a new profile it should generate the history.dat right? Anyway have generated a new 373 bytes history.dat from the previous version still the same.

The history plugin is loaded and have tried the history.dll from previous builds. Btw on Win XP.

JS macros are not working. That means the following don't work.

Mail_SendPageURL{
macroinfo=_("Send a link to the current page by mail");
$JS_doit="location='mailto:?subject='+encodeURIComponent(title)+'&body='+encodeURIComponent(URL)"; &JS_hndlTop;
}
Mail_SendLinkURL{
macroinfo=_("Send the current link by mail");
$JS_doitLink="j=a.length;location='mailto:?body='+encodeURIComponent(href)"; &JS_hndlLink;
}
Mail_SendImageURL{
macroinfo=_("Send a link to the current image by mail");
$JS_doitImage="a=false;location='mailto:?subject='+encodeURIComponent((title)?title(alt)?alt:document.title))+'&body='+encodeURIComponent(src)"; $JS_doitInput=$JS_doitImage; &JS_hndlImage;
}
Mail_SendFrameURL{
macroinfo=_("Send a link to the current frame by mail");
$JS_doit="location='mailto:?subject='+encodeURIComponent(title)+'&body='+encodeURIComponent(URL)"; &JS_hndlDoc;
}
Mail_SendSelection{
macroinfo=_("Send the selected text by mail");
$JS_doit="if(window.getSelection())location='mailto:?subject='+encodeURIComponent(title)+'&body='+encodeURIComponent(window.getSelection())"; $SelectedText==""?0:&JS_hndlDoc;
}

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...in some cases (not all by any means) when the status bar says "ready" the page is not truly ready for scrolling...

That's already quite usual in my KM16beta. I have enabled favicons in tabs and checked that they show a special icon when loading. They often show that symbol long since after the statusbar displays "ready". Have the impression that this happens mostly when images are still loading, but no idea about details.

Siria,

Yes, I only have a 12.1 screen, so scrollbars are there all the time...Thanks for the info on actual loading time vs what shows up in the statusbar. Didn't think to ask if the status bar info was totally correct or not.

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@JamesD

See my post in this thread on the 30th.

This 1.7.a2 and the previous a1 are IMHO just to give us a preview / feasibility study with a current FireFox GRE.

If You add js_bridge.xpt to either You will see that more privacy and security items
are functional via Preferences Panel.

Non working items are IMHO only those that neither work with a1 nor a2.

For me that is: Typeaheadfind and passwords preview?



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/03/2011 04:43AM by guenter.

Related to the scrolling problem -- Because I need to zoom font size everywhere, all the time, I notice erratic behavior here. When K-M first opens, Ctrl+mousewheel works fine. Open another tab, and in the new tab it usually doesn't. In each new tab I was forced to use Ctrl+ +, until I realized that switching to a zoomed/zoomable tab and back again makes Ctrl+mousewheel work in the new tab.

A.K.A. Arual the Wyrd



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...Because I need to zoom font size everywhere, all the time...

Why not: Preferences - Page Display - Default Zoom?

Because, my fine-eyed friend, not all webpages are created with the same friggin font size. I'd still have to adjust them. *rolls eyes*

A.K.A. Arual the Wyrd

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Because, my fine-eyed friend, not all webpages are created with the same friggin font size. I'd still have to adjust them. *rolls eyes*

Page Display - Fonts

1.choose your minimum font size along with your preferred font.

2.uncheck allow documents to use other fonts.

Font Toggler extension is a good accompaniment to those settings for the few times you need to see the intended fonts & size.

This setup works well for me and is easier than having to adjust zoom on each page.

jsnj,

<<Font Toggler extension is a good accompaniment to those settings for the few times you need to see the intended fonts & size.>>

I see the specs are for beta 1, does it work with beta2 also?

Tks.

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jsnj,

<<Font Toggler extension is a good accompaniment to those settings for the few times you need to see the intended fonts & size.>>

I see the specs are for beta 1, does it work with beta2 also?

Tks.

Yes. I don't know of any extensions that would work with one and not the other.

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jsnj,

<<Font Toggler extension is a good accompaniment to those settings for the few times you need to see the intended fonts & size.>>

I see the specs are for beta 1, does it work with beta2 also?

Tks.

Yes. I don't know of any extensions that would work with one and not the other.

jsnj,

Thanks, all I need to know!

<g>

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Because, my fine-eyed friend, not all webpages are created with the same friggin font size. I'd still have to adjust them. *rolls eyes*

Page Display - Fonts

1.choose your minimum font size along with your preferred font.

2.uncheck allow documents to use other fonts.

Font Toggler extension is a good accompaniment to those settings for the few times you need to see the intended fonts & size.

This setup works well for me and is easier than having to adjust zoom on each page.

I look that dumb.... *shrug*

ETA: Here is an interesting example of what can happen with those "perfect" settings:


A.K.A. Arual the Wyrd



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/20/2011 09:02PM by Matera the Mad.