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Detailed list of issues/pull requests

Issue Third party Reason
tree.inputField’s type as autocomplete fails Mozilla Usable Clipboard And Indent
Selenium IDE chrome/content/formats/html.js has an incorrect regex Selenium Reliable export/import
Selenium IDE chrome/content/formats/html.js to preserve indented… Selenium Readable cases
Support ECMAScript 6 Template Literals Selenium Compact scripts
Base URL Should Allow Path Selenium Practicality and integration
Refactor TestCase.debugContext to have a class on its own Selenium Stable API of [SelBlocks Global]
Core extensions are loaded 2x - document this, or prevent it Selenium Robust core extensions
verify* should show the diff Selenium Robust cases.
See [Exit Confirmation Checker] > Details
Details of error reporting in user/plugin javascript Selenium Productive debugging
IDE: alert() fails in a modified test case Selenium Reliable automation
IDE: a subsequent call to open() fails with multiprocessed Firefox (e10s) Selenium Major Firefox Compatibility
Selecting a command or executing a command/case/suite… Selenium Intuitive navigation
Switching between Log/Reference/UI-element/Rollup to use native Firefox tabs Selenium Visual navigation
XPath 2.0 Mozilla Robust cases.
(For now see supported functions.)
expose EXSLT functions to DOM Level 3 XPath API Mozilla Using modern XPath in Javascript
Breakpoint triggers on code that doesn’t run… Mozilla Productive debugging
Sidebars (history, bookmarks) should not have maximum width Mozilla GUI usability
Allow sidebar to be selected and turned on/off independently Mozilla GUI usability
Support for( var value of array ) {…} loop NetBeans Cleaner code
ICU-based Intl.DateTimeFormat implementation… Mozilla Timestamps across timezones
Add support for IANA time zone names to internationalization API Mozilla Timestamps across timezones
Selblocks and SelBlocksGlobal Selblocks Joined effort
Report user extension/plugin error stack Selenium Robust debugging
safe_alert() fails at UI element startup in Selenium IDE Selenium Design of UI element locators
UI element test cases should be run even after Selenium IDE startup Selenium Design of UI element locators
Incorrect Error Reporting for Javascript 1.7 keywords NetBeans Simpler & robust code using ‘const’ keyword
Allow search minidialog and highlighting for multiple tabs/windows… NetBeans Code navigation
Code fold at indention level NetBeans Code navigation
Highlight NaN, Infinity and undefined NetBeans Editing
Show version awaiting review in detail page… Mozilla Distributing new versions
(Can’t be voted on yet)
Optionally wrap long lines in the debugger Mozilla Visual interface
Don’t collapse empty {} NetBeans Code navigation
JavaScript editor uses camelCase navigation even when disabled NetBeans Code navigation
<treechildren tooltip=”_child”> doesn’t work Mozilla Robust export/import
Allow sidebars to be different widths Mozilla Flexible usage
JavaScript Console reports exceptions as warnings when using “use strict” Mozilla Robust debugging
“use strict”; violations only logged at LOG level from AddonManager.jsm Mozilla Productive debugging
nsTreeView and TreeView.setCellText() is either badly… Mozilla Visual - SeLite Settings
Tree documentation: setCellText and redrawing Mozilla Visual - SeLite Settings
console reports syntax error for valid json fetched via jquery.ajax Mozilla Cleaner log in Browser Console
Support loading BOMless UTF-8 text/plain files from file: URLs Mozilla Cleaner log in Browser Console
Confusing text: Be careful with old versions!… Mozilla Clear download instructions
(Can’t be voted on yet)
Regex search in any folder tree with an empty file fails NetBeans Smooth customization
Documentation and handling of Selenium.prototype.getXYZ functions… Selenium Reliable API
Backslashes get reduced to half Selenium Usability
Support compound selectors and complex selectors… Mozilla Flexible usage