Some of you might remember reading my blog post on my experience about porting the Bugzilla Tweaks jetpack to the Jetpack SDK.  I talked about almost everything in that post except where you can find the actual extension!  That was intentional, because there were quite a few bugs in the early versions, and I didn't want to release something which is basically broken.  But those issues have been mostly solved now, and I'm releasing the jetpack as a Firefox extension.

One of the things that we at Mozilla would like to do better at is the amount of time it takes between when you launch Firefox, and when it starts up and is usable.  We've been tackling this problem for quite a while, and have already made tremendous improvements.  But we think we can still do better.

I just landed a set of patches on mozilla-central which makes the initialization of the editor for text fields (input type="text" and input type="password" in HTML terms) lazy.  What we used to do was to initialize the editor component for text fields as soon as we created frames for those elements.  This was not ideal, because users don't usually use all of those fields on web pages (think about the "search" text fields you see on every website nowadays, for example.)  It also made Gecko significantly slow for pages which included a lot of those elements.

I just uploaded a new version of the Force RTL extension, which finally fixes the extension to work on recent Firefox and Thunderbird versions (Firefox 3.6 and Thunderbird 3 betas and above).  This new version of the extension adds support for the new intl.uidirection.ab-CD preference added in bug 478416 by Neil Deakin.

Ever since bug 404536 has landed, a number of users have been angry.  What that bug did was removing the context menu for HTML form elements.  This change annoyed mainly two classes of users: those who were accustomed to those context menus, and those who used extensions which add menu items to the context menus for form elements (along with other elements, possibly), most notably, Firebug.