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Yesterday I've updates for Nightly and Aurora as well, I've one day break for Aurora updates when 5 hit beta stage, but Mozilla inform about this break, so maybe You should download regular full installer for latest Nightly and make manual update ;)

New Download Manager getting better on implementation

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Try the builds here

PS : If you have seen same thing in Safari on Lion , note that this was in works before Firefox 4 also! It was in the mockups last year , and Mozilla is open source , anyone can take its ideas , so please no Copying Shoot here in this forum

New Download Manager getting better on implementation

post-293012-0-45900700-1308029688.png

Try the builds here

PS : If you have seen same thing in Safari on Lion , note that this was in works before Firefox 4 also! It was in the mockups last year , and Mozilla is open source , anyone can take its ideas , so please no Copying Shoot here in this forum

So this new download manager isn't implemented into the nightly or aurora builds yet? Haven't used either build in a long while.

Well, I think Nightly meant to be pre alpha developers variants testing for people, they should add features so that we can fill new bugs if find problems and they can fix them much rapidly. Also some fine tuning in Javascript in today`s update.

Well, I think Nightly meant to be pre alpha developers variants testing for people, they should add features so that we can fill new bugs if find problems and they can fix them much rapidly. Also some fine tuning in Javascript in today`s update.

they do add , although it takes long to make them ready

What have they added to Aurora in the past few weeks since they've jumped to build 6? All change logs showed "None" for Aurora. I'm still finding it odd that we're getting daily updates for Aurora, even though there's nothing being updated :s

What have they added to Aurora in the past few weeks since they've jumped to build 6? All change logs showed "None" for Aurora. I'm still finding it odd that we're getting daily updates for Aurora, even though there's nothing being updated :s

There are updates to Aurora - they're just not always reported.

Last seven days of Aurora updates: http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/pushloghtml?startdate=7+day+ago&enddate=now (and I don't believe that includes locale updates).

Communication is something they're working on. Daily updates are still automatic afaik, though I believe they do still plan to go to 'build only when necessary'. So far, it wouldn't change much.

I think they're looking at making any font under a certain size render using GDI measuring, which will make some people happy but decrease quality (GDI sucks at all sizes, but it's especially noticeable at smaller sizes)

You can say it sucks all you want, but at small sizes the gdi style rendering is far more readable.

I do think DW rendering looks far better at larger sizes.

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