Bug fixes between Firefox Deer Park Alpha 1 and Alpha 2

Last Updated July 6th 2005

SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENTS

179656 Allow drag-and-drop reordering of tabs
216466 conversion Modal Network Error Dialogs Suck (default browser.xul.err...
176079 popup blocking does not stop Flash from opening windows (shockwave)
298293 turn on fastback by default in ff 1.1a2 / gecko 1.8b3
        Numerous fastback bugs have been fixed, making it a very usable feature
290390 Deer Park - Software Update
        Tracking bug for the software update work going on…

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

76831 Slow startup after long periods of inactivity (minimized ...
123315 Search plugins [engines] should be installed in the user'...
125998 use images thumbnails as tab-icons or url-icons
179845 Support dragging a link onto the New Tab / New Window too...
217967 Very significant crash fixer (esp. for users of NoScript extension) BRANCH ALSO
227826 URL of current tab incorrectly changed when Alt+Enter ope...
230401 Focus not in address bar after opening new Tab by DoubleClick
230693 View Sou 4 Missing reload within view source window
231048 download manager poorly renames existing files by increme...
235203 Download Manager doesnt scroll with keypress (but focus c...
241282 When choosing an alternative location via "Browse...", th...
242273 Toolbars 2 Support Mail button for OS X
247065 Scrolling in extension manager with up/down keys do not m...
251625.part files not removed when cancelling or removing downl...
252412 livemark in bookmarks folder causes the folder to collapse the 1st time it's opened
253742 No way of installing platform specific XPCOM components (...
255619 Ability to restrict to compatible operating systems
259454 IME input (e.g., Chinese, Japanese and Korean) cannot be ...
260054 add context sensitive Help
263698 Eliminate use of HEAD in "save as" [Port fix of bug 16045...
264562 Find As You Type / FastFind opens unexpectedly when
265460 Make XPath evaluation rapid... use context size and position
266737 Bookmarks Toolbar is blank/empty only showing chevron/">>..
281988 Stop sharing DOM object wrappers between content and chrome
283730 "Save As" dialog tries to overwrite link/shortcut (.lnk) ...  BRANCH ALSO
284089 Settings in "Download Folder" section of pref completely ignored
284245 Richedit/designMode not working anymore at blogger.com  REGRESSION
284515 Viewing the options of an extension that has just been en...  REGRESSION
289864 Page crashes system (blue screen) with oversized image BRANCH ALSO
290793 bookmarks menu doesn't scroll with the keyboard  REGRESSION
291183 [FIXr]FCKeditor crashes when clicking on "Source" button ...   REGRESSION
293353 Canvas - alpha transparency renders wrong colors
293761 Layout screw-up after clicking on "Attach a file" at gmail   REGRESSION
294195 Special regular expression (regexp) crashes browser  
294357 Firefox and Thunderbird load a lot of trash in the regist...

BRANCH ALSO - This indicates the fix was also made on the current Firefox security/stability branch and will be availalable in the next (1.0.5) release

REGRESSION - This bug occurred sometime since the release of Firefox 1.0.

MAC SPECIFIC

236300 Safari Profile Migrator
233871 No "Set Default Browser" option in Mac OS X
203734 xul buttons no longer display focus in aqua/classic...
271496 both delete and del keys should delete bookmarks an...
274036 Scrollbars should look disabled when there's nowher...
274374 Mac OS X Shell Service ("Set default browser" support, etc.)
275519 Support Command+Option+Arrows for tab switching (li...
291516 Command-Arrow navigation shortcuts should be reenabled  
292530 Build on Mac OS X "Tiger" (10.4) (don't ask about gcc 4 h...
292690 <marquee> regression causes unwanted horizontal page-wide...
298799 Browser tab titles move and flicker when changing tabs

As an example of the stability improvements between Deer Park Alpha1 and Alpha2, 61 crash bugs have been fixed in the time between these two releases.  See the detailed list here

In total 693 bugs have been marked fixed since Deer Park Alpha 1 was released on June 2nd..  Here is the bugzilla query listing all of them