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I previously reported that we found a memory-related problem in the Fennec Windows Mobile pre-alpha release. Bug 477956 was the primary place to track our efforts to fix the problem. However, it became clear that porting jemalloc to WinCE was the best way to handle the situation, so bug 478044 became the bug to watch. As you can see, we are in the process of getting the fix reviewed and landed.

When we released the Fennec pre-Alpha for Windows Mobile, we hoped it would help us find bugs that didn’t show up on our test devices. We knew there would be problems lurking around so we wanted to get a preview version into the hands of more testers. The good news is we found a showstopper! The bad news is the browser is basically useless for many people.

The newest official XULRunner has been released. XULRunner 1.9.0.6 matches the Firefox 3.0.6 release. For XULRunner developers, most of the changes in 1.9.0.6 are related to security fixes. You can also look at the full list of fixed bugs.

Felipe Gomes has been busy. We talked on IRC a short time ago about adding a gesture engine to Fennec. He made a video of the current version. The results are very cool. His work is being tracked in bug 476425. The engine is currently packaged as an extension, so you can play with it yourself. Just pull from Felipe’s repository and put the code inside your extensions folder in your profile.

FOSDEM 2009 is over. Once again, there was a lot of great stuff happening. I managed to leave the Mozilla Room once or twice to see other sessions. The Mozilla Room sessions were very good and not just because I was in two of them. There were so many people trying to get into the Mozilla Room, we had to stop people from coming in.

DOM Inspector is a great tool for debugging XUL, HTML and CSS. DOM Inspector 2.0.3 now supports Fennec (1.0a1 - current). To install in Fennec:

I’ll be making my second trip to Brussels to take part in FOSDEM. I had a lot of fun last year and I’m looking forward to another great conference this year. I have two sessions in the Mozilla developer room this year: