Don’t know much at this time other than Mozilla did not push out the expected Thunderbird 16 release today. I hopefully will get some more info later tonight or tomorrow.
October 9, 2012
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From the Firefox Add-ons Blog comes this alert: The problem is that the window load event handler that many add-ons depend on isn’t fired under some circumstances. So far it appears that this only happens when a popup window is opened, and only in cases where the domain in the new window is different from the one that opened the window. Since most add-on scripts rely on the load handler being called, many of them will not work in the newly opened popup window. There’s more information about this in bug 799348. Depending on the scale of this issue (how many…
Mozilla has released an update for Firefox on October 9, 2012 with Firefox 16 for desktop and Android users. There are several fixes and updates in this version. However, most notable for desktop users is improvements to JAVA Script related to incremental garbage collection. This should hep reduce (and possibly eliminate) the dreaded ‘unrepresentative script’ warning.Bill McCloskey wrote about this feature: The basic purpose of the garbage collector is to collect memory that JavaScript programs are no longer using. The space that is reclaimed can then be reused for new JavaScript objects. Garbage collections usually happen every five seconds or so. Prior to incremental GC landing,…