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So, Australis theme will be part of Firefox 19. That means we will see the first bits in Nightly 19 on October 9, hopefully...

Australis theme is already part of the current stable Firefox. Not sure if your referring to the new tab shape + styling.

So, Australis theme will be part of Firefox 19. That means we will see the first bits in Nightly 19 on October 9, hopefully...

Just coz it got bumped to FF 19 doesn't mean it WILL be a part of it, tab animations were supposed to be part of Firefox 8 just for an example ...

Update on Bug fixes landed:

Cleanup: https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=788914

One more Patch from it (SVG Capabilities enhancement): https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=655877

Canvas 2D bug: https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=767931

Minor refactoring with name changes: https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=788956

Editor Bug fix: https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=785131

Cleanup: https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=788398

Preparation for Ion Monkey: https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=789319

Refactoring of GFX code: https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=714937

Social API: https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=766616 , https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=787272 , https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=786207 , https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=789308

Crash with Private flag bug fix: https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=786897

Bug fix for Mozilla Maintenance Service: https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=788430

Old bug: https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=433129

JS bug: https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=788261 , https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=788227 , https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=788222 , https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=788220 , https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=786743

Old File Handling bug fix: https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=254139

Tabbed Browsing bug fix: https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=789032 , https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=789010

Cleanup: https://bugzilla.moz...g.cgi?id=405407

JS Cleanup: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788096 , https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784619

Networking: HTTP - Connection increase: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648603

SVG Glyphs embed support in Opentype fonts: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719286

Regression: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786817

Cleanup in Graphics: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722217

The support for SVG glyphs in OpenType fonts is quite cool, and it's the replacement Mozilla came up with for SVG Fonts (where the entire font was specified in an .svg file)

The only reason people wanted SVG fonts was because Acid3 tested for them, and WebKit implemented just enough to pass Acid3 (And then Apple blocked OpenType fonts on iOS for a couple of versions a while ago). SVG Glyphs in an OpenType font can do everything SVG Fonts can do, as well as being able to do everything OpenType fonts can do (apart from hinting)

There are two things that are bugging me and they are related to the download manager. One is a padding issue once a download has been started or the download icon has been clicked and the other is the popup once a download has started. I have 'Show the Downloads window when downloading a file' unchecked and it still pops up. Is there an about:config option to stop this?

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Just tried UX just for the heck of it and noticed the Options page? Is that what they really intend to do? Instead of tabs, we have to press back every time we need to go to a different section?

Also, I don't have Australis on my UX or did they remove it for some reason?

Some bug fixes:

Silent update regression fix: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789958

Crash on Win7 only: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607075 , https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789960

MemShrink P2 (Export about:memory result in JSON): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768470

Crash fix on WinXP: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591358

Graphics:Layers related bug fix: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780792

Removal of GCC4.2 compiler for OS X builds: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787931 , https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786019

Snappy bug related to New Tab Page file check mechanism: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762094

Click to Play issue fix related to blocklist: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789620

"Select a word at point" text selection: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783531

Regression fix: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786650

JS Engine - GC - For movingGC in future: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780309

JS Engine - GC : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789633

Theme issue of pinned tabs on WinXP: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789833

Theme issue of pinned tab and navigation toolbar on Linux: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789007

Crash fix: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789741

BlobPropertyBag issue fix in Workers: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789691

Websockets to WebIDL: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775368

QuerySelector fix: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789904

Image Error theme issue fix: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788418

Tabbed Browsing "Drag n Drop" fix: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789079

SVG <animate> in <view> element: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783995

Make Timestamp faster on Windows: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784859

Just tried UX just for the heck of it and noticed the Options page? Is that what they really intend to do? Instead of tabs, we have to press back every time we need to go to a different section?

That's just a port of old interface to in-content UI and they ensured that the backed works. I remember seeing some mockups of preference page designed like the addon page (with tabs on the left).

Any news on Gecko? Because it doesn't matter how fast IonMonkey can crunch when Gecko can't keep up to render it.

I shared several updates in past that Gecko got support for this and that.

Actually Firefox now ditched the numbering thing of Gecko, After Gecko 2 for Firefox 4, Gecko 5 directly comes with FF5, Gecko 10 with FF10. So now you can say that each version updates brings several Gecko enhancements.

For example, if you are using latest Nightly, it has several patches for Display list based Invalidation mechansim, which significantly makes it faster on "IE Maze Solver", it now behind IE and Chrome from few seconds, next set of patches and we are all set. Like this many other stuff also landed, like DHTML reflow fix etc.

Some updates:

Usage of libjpeg's color coversion code to speedup since it uses SSE2 instruction set - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791305

Regression since FF14 fix - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787624

SQLite Update - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789645

RegExp speedup for Ion Monkey (speedup v8-Regexp benchmark) - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=764743

Regression since FF15 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786172

Output directory showcase in Error console of about:memory - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790947

ECMA Internationalization API support increase - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784300

JS Engine:GC - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782802

Blacklisting all AMD drivers released for Windows 8 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783517

Linux GTK3 related - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=627699

Windows 7 related input method - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790561 , https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789703

JS Engine regression fix (FF17 affected) - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791146

Crash fix due to Ion Monkey - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790921

pdf.js Update - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789615

Remove Redundant Text in Tabs title (Safari feature) - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583890

JS Engine:GC - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790782

JS Engine:Cleanup - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788359

localStorage Code cleanup - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781866

localStorage Quote removal (SNAPPY:P3) - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776416

Differentiate between Metro and Desktop browser (Windows 8 related) - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784165

JS Engine: Method to turn off typed arrays - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786386

about:home related bug fix - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749477

JS Engine: ES6 draft Harmony related - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779789

Networking related (small startup win might be) - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704848

Graphics:Layers Windows XP (SNAPPY) - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788794

Download File Handling regression - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787820

Startup hang fix regression since FF16 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787757

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