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Firefox 3 Alpha 6 Test Results

Contact Info

Build: Jon Duinn (joduinn)
QA: Tony (tchung)

Schedule

Code Freeze

Wed, 6/26 @ midnight

Code Build

Thurs, 6/27 @ morning to Fri, 6/28 9am Fri, 6/28 @ morning to Monday, 7/2 9am

QA test signoff

Fri, 6/28 @ 9am-5pm Monday, 7/2 9am-5pm

Release Notes

Alpha 6 Release Notes

Builds

• http://stage.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/1.9a6-candidates/rc1/
• http://stage.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/1.9a6-candidates/rc2/

Features landed

• Updated SQLite engine to version 3.3.17
• Improved cookie performance
• Support for site-specific preferences - text size
• A new Quit dialog box that resolves termination errors
• Added permanent 'Restart Firefox' button to Add-Ons Manager
• Miscellaneous fixes to download manager including correctly displaying large file sizes
• Various Places fixes
• Miscellaneous Gecko 1.9 bug fixes

Strategy

1. Run Smoketests. Results will be logged at: http://people.mozilla.com/~twalker/trunkresultslinks.html
2. Run individual tests for Focused Testing section landed in this release. If none, skip this step.
3. Run standard spotchecks against builds.

• Areas Not Covered:
  • BFTs
  • FFTs

Tests are ran against en-US locale only.

Test Results

Notes from results:

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386603 - Reload Live Bookmark does not show the feed being refreshed
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380921 - Filed in Alpha 5, still present in A6 on Mac.
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386616 - Small artifact under tabbed browsing scroll arrow
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383760 - Menus are transparent to many mouse events (was: When I click a bookmark in a toolbar folder, a different bookmark opens) [reported by jesse]
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385562 - Alt+Right moves through blobs of punctuation one character at a time [reported by jesse]

Blocker Bugs for A6

• A6 Blockers