Classilla 9.2.1 is released.

This is primarily a bug fix release for the browser; there are no specific

layout or JavaScript changes, so if a site did not work with 9.2 it will

probably still not work with 9.2.1, and there are relatively few new features

this go-around.

That said, there is a big one, and that is Script-B-Gone. While I could never

confirm these myself, I got enough complaints about the whitelist getting

zapped, or not keeping up, or missing entries, that I hatched a scheme for a

more reliable way of tracking sites (and at the same time improve the rather

primitive interface for this older version of NoScript, specific for the

limited XUL controls in this version of Classilla).

Because this solution is intended to mitigate the problem with corrupted

whitelists, YOUR WHITE LIST IS NOT COPIED TO THE NEW FORMAT: YOU START FROM

SCRATCH WHEN YOU UPDATE TO 9.2.1. You might want to note the important sites

you need JavaScript for so you can transfer them over by hand. You can switch

back and forth from 9.2 to 9.2.1 (I don't recommend this, but you can), but

any changes you make in 9.2 are not seen by 9.2.1.

When you visit a site, click on the S as usual. Instead of NoScript, however,

Script-B-Gone appears and offers to add frames from the same domain (the

default), the URL site only, or all frames, or let you visit the manual

options window so you can add and delete sites as usual. For most sites,

enabling JavaScript is two clicks: one on the S, one on OK. The page will

automatically reload with JS on. That's it.

SBG keeps your whitelist in two places: the active whitelist used by the

browser to block scripts, and a shadow whitelist that SBG and NoScript

modify, and which SBG keeps in sync. SBG will adjust the active whitelist

and log errors if the active list does not match the shadow list, which

will help if there are deeper errors afoot.

If you activate SBG on a permanently whitelisted page like about:, it won't

let you delete it, and if you activate SBG on a page you have already

enabled scripts on, it will tell you and let you go to the options window

if you still want.

There are various other sundry small new features and bug fixes, such as

better tab management (open in background tab; Cmd-Shift-T to open the

last tab closed), more user agents, smoother socket timeouts, better

support for Unicode and updated libpng; see the releases page for all

the issues that have been fixed or mitigated. This version also adds the

MRJ Plugin -- MAKE SURE YOU MERGE YOUR CURRENT PLUGINS FOLDER WITH THIS ONE

if you have any special plugins you are using. The MRJ Plugin requires

MRJ 2.2.4 or higher (2.2.6 is recommended). You only need it if you need

to run Java applets, which is still discouraged.

With this release, 9.2.1 is now localization-ready: all the strings are

now frozen and will remain frozen through 9.3.1. If you want to work on

localizing Classilla for your home language (Etienne?), look at

http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/mlp_howto.html

If this seems doable to you, I want to sign up people for this project.

There is already a Japanese locale and I will integrate that into this

release; Mathias W is working on German, and I particularly would like

Spanish.

9.2.2 will mostly just be language packs except for any key regressions,

which I will fix in that release -- it will have no new features. I am

internally forking the codebase into the 9.3 branch so I can work on it

in parallel while the translators do their thing. I have not yet decided

if the packs will be separate or integrated into 9.2.2.

9.3.0 will be a lot of work, as it will involve hand-rewriting layout and

DOM. I don't expect to have this done for several months, but I am

committed to doing it.

Enjoy.

http://www.classilla.org/releases/

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