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Prism 1.0b3pre Available for Testing

January 11, 2010 – 5:07 pm

Quite a few bugs have been fixed since Prism 1.0b2, so I’ve made new builds for Mac and Windows. Please take a look and let me know if you have any problems. Once they’ve been tested a bit, I’ll put them up on the Prism website as 1.0b3.

Download Prism Standalone Version for Mac or Windows

Download Prism for Firefox extension for Mac or Windows

The following bugs have been fixed:

494133 Set As Desktop Background not available when Prism extension is installed
506886 Check override.ini for environment variables if not found in application.ini
508019 Update version numbers for 1.0b2
508575 Click handler is not attached when login manager is disabled
509021 Make notification API more flexible by allowing optional arguments and an onclick handler
509294 Prism fails when web app URI does not have a base domain
517892 Provide platform glue with access to the associated window object
527260 Patch to add restore minimized window functionality to JS-API
527827 Build fails because prism/Makefile is missing in makefiles.sh
528903 Stub reports missing Microsoft CRT DLL
535194 Crash on Mac when registering unknown protocol handler
535197 Enable maximize on first run

  1. 16 Responses to “Prism 1.0b3pre Available for Testing”

  2. Visible bug : Prism on Linux is still locked on Fx3.0 renderer

    By Da Scritch on Jan 11, 2010

  3. My system is Win XP SP3.
    Iinstalled 1.0b3pre(Prism Standalone Version) as overwriting in C:\Program Files\Prism.
    I have used perhaps gecko 1.9.0 one same as Firefox 3.0.
    When I clicked short cut icons, it displayed an error message;
    “Runtime Error!
    Prpgram: \Program Files\Prism\prosm.exe
    P6034
    An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly.Please contact the applications support team for more information.”

    So I deleted all files under Prism folder, and reinstalled there. But the same error displayed.
    do I need some settings?

    By beaumale on Jan 11, 2010

  4. Hi Matt

    Will there be a build for Linux. I’d like to see if it works on Ubuntu 8.04.

    Thanks!

    By Murray Fraser on Jan 12, 2010

  5. 3.6a1pre

    isn’t Firefox 3.6 at RC stage by now?

    By Jens on Jan 12, 2010

  6. Linux version – yes, I need to fire up Linux and build it. Will do so over the next couple of days.

    Firefox 3.6 – good point, I’ll update my tree before I make the final 1.0b3 builds.

    By Matthew Gertner on Jan 12, 2010

  7. Hmm… Version for Firefox identified as 1.0b2… What’s the problem?

    By Troy on Jan 12, 2010

  8. Ah, I didn’t update the extension version. I’ll see if I can get it to use the version number from the main app to avoid problems in the future.

    By Matthew Gertner on Jan 12, 2010

  9. Linux build, please! I write about browsers for Linux Magazine, would love to be able to feature Prism this week…

    By Joe Brockmeier on Jan 12, 2010

  10. Is prism available for 64 bit linux, fedora 12?

    By john b spence on Jan 12, 2010

  11. Now longer works on Snow Leopard Firefox 3.6 RC1

    13/01/2010 11:04:09 [0x0-0x3f33f3].org.mozilla.prism.inbox[21123] Couldn’t load XPCOM.
    13/01/2010 11:04:09 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[1470] ([0x0-0x3f33f3].org.mozilla.prism.inbox[21123]) Exited with exit code: 1

    By Matt on Jan 13, 2010

  12. This looks shady. Why don’t you just link to the download on the official Mozilla server?

    By stgiz on Jan 16, 2010

  13. Is there any updated interface documentation available (for nsIPlatformGlue.idl etc.)?

    By Mario Rasch on Jan 19, 2010

  14. Not at present. If anyone wants to take a crack at it, I’m happy to review.

    By Matthew Gertner on Jan 20, 2010

  15. O.K., no problem – i.e. learning by doing. :) Perhaps I’ll have a documentation after that.

    I just adapted our website to run with Prism 1.0b3pre standalone and I am really impressed so far. The problems I had with 1.0b2 are all resolved so far – many thanks for this!

    Yet, I discovered a problem: while our app runs well using Prism 1.0b3 standalone Windows version, the same app crashes using Prism 1.0b3 standalone on a Mac. I can post a crashlog somewhere if you are interested?

    By Mario Rasch on Jan 20, 2010

  16. Definitely! If you can provide any info about where it is crashing and/or how to reproduce the problem, that would be very helpful. I have to admit shamefacedly that I haven’t moved over my own Prism apps (on Mac) to 1.0b3pre yet, but I will do so tomorrow, and perhaps I’ll be able to reproduce any issues myself.

    By Matthew Gertner on Jan 21, 2010

  17. After upgrade, minimize, maximize and close buttons stopped working (Windows Vista, Firefox 3.5.7).

    By Kanaan on Jan 30, 2010

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