updating javadoc, changelog for java, bumping version numbers to 2.44.0
Bumping Python to 2.44
Bump JS to 2.44.0
Updating tests for .NET
Updating IE prebuilts for 2.44 release
Updating .NET assembly version resources for 2.44 release
Update JS docs for 2.44.0
Fixing null pointer exception if a stacktrace frame does not match the expected format. Fixes issue 7977
Fixing progress listener detaching if the window was autoclosed. Fixes issue 8093
Fixing platform autocoversion. Fixes issue 8083
Fixing platform conversion, step 2 (also more tests to be added on step 3)
Adding tests for platform autoconversion
Force promise rejection values to be Error objects.
Move towards the standard promise API

Promise is no longer an abstract class and its constructor takes a
resolver function. Deferred is no longer an instanceof Promise, but it
still (temporarily) implements Thenable for API backwards compatibility.
Fix a few js compile errors

* Document optional parameter
* Remove no-op if statement
* Remove use of deprecated function
Fixing stack frame parser for Firefox new stack trace format (with column numbers and more allowed symbols in function names). Fixes issue 8093
Converting preferences loaded from json file from Long to Integer. Becasuse in Java a Long value is not equal to a similar Integer value. Who could imagine this...
Fix up JS types
Update test instructions in webdriverjs readme.

The npm test command no longer accepts a target package name, it only
runs tests for the current package.

Fixes issue 8106.
Adding more tests for FirefoxProfile