Tweak: Disable Drag & Drop (Preview) Images

Note: This applies to Firefox 3 only.

One of the ‘new’ features in Firefox 3 is a graphical preview of the images, text, tabs, etc. your are dragging. This was suppose to make it easier for you to see where you were dragging the item. For text it is not too bad, but for images I found the preview makes it more difficult to properly drag and drop. Good news is you can easily turn off this feature and return to the familiar ‘box’ outline for drag and drop as in Firefox 2.  To turn off this feature:

1. In a new tab type about:config
2. In the filter field type nglayout.enable_drag_images
3. Double-click on the entry below so the value is false
4. Close the tab (no restart needed)

Tip Source: CyberNet News

Weekly Update 2008-07-07

FIREFOX/GECKO

Fx 2.0.0.15 - Status: Released July 1st

Fx 2.0.0.16 - Status: Pending Beta Channel Release

• Will be released same day as Firefox 3.0.1
• Current Schedule
  • Code freeze: July 1
  • Builds start: July 2
  • QA starts: July 3
  • Release to beta channel: July 8
  • Final Release: July 15

Fx 3.0.1 - Status: Pending Beta Channel Release

• Will be released same day as Firefox 2.0.0.16
• Current Schedule

  • Code freeze: June 30th
  • Bake time: July 1st
  • Builds start: July 2nd
  • QA starts: July 3rd
  • Release to beta channel: July 8th
    
  • Final Release: July 15

Fx 3.1a1 - Status: In Development

• Current Schedule

  • Code freeze: TBD
  • Builds start: TBD
  • QA starts: TBD
  • Release to beta channel: TBD
  • Final Release: Mid July

Gecko 1.9.1 - Status: In Progress

• • New video backends (working on them!).
  • More Acid3 tests passing.
  • SMIL
  • SVG CSS: SVG Gradients and Patterns as backgrounds for HTML elements, etc.
  • Worker Threads
  • Tons of JS performance improvements.
  • Offline versioned app caches.

• Look here for interesting queries related to Gecko 1.9.1.
• For a great update of what’s going on in Gecko, take a look at last week’s Gecko meeting notes. Highlights include:
• Tracking 17 1.9.1 blockers.
• 87 wanted bugs

  • 25 P1s. These are bugs we feel would really, really make a good release if we had a solid handful completed.
  • 23 P2s. These are medium complexity bugs/changes that are nice to have.
  • 20 P3s. The lowest priority bugs for this release. These are the ones that we will definitely take, but the others take priority.

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THUNDERBIRD/LIGHTNING

Lightning/Sunbird (Calendar Project) - No Report

TBird 2.0.0.15 - Status: ABANDONED

• Project scrapped due to upcoming Firefox 2.0.0.16 release

TBird 2.0.0.16 - Status: Pending Build

• Current Schedule (TENTATIVE)
  • Code freeze: July 1st
  • Builds start: July 9th
  • QA starts: July 10th
  • Release to beta channel: July 18th
  • Final Release: July 24th

TBird 3.0a2 - Status: Pending Code Freeze

• Proposal for shipping Thunderbird 3.
• Current Schedule

  • Code Freeze: July 8th
  • Builds start: TBD
  • QA starts: TBD
  • Release to beta channel: TBD
  • Final Release: TBD

Complete Meeting Notes