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  • Manhunt for groom charged in Ill. bride's slaying Police and FBI officials were poring over more than 100 tips as they hunted for a man accused of stabbing his new wife to death and leaving her body in her bathtub, still clad in her silver-sequined wedding dress. 2012-05-17T07:12:28Z
  • The Kennedy curse lives on The Death of RFK Jr.'s wife is the Latest Tragedy for the Kennedy Family. 2012-05-16T21:01:01Z
  • Census: Minorities surpass whites in U.S.births For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing. 2012-05-17T07:18:30Z
  • Report: Fewer US homes foreclosed upon in April National foreclosure trends took a positive turn in April, as the number of homes seized by banks declined and fewer properties entered into the foreclosure process. 2012-05-17T06:56:15Z
  • Closing arguments to begin in John Edwards case With only two hours each to make their closing arguments, prosecutors and defense lawyers neared the end of a month-long trial into whether former presidential hopeful John Edwards violated campaign finance laws. 2012-05-17T08:01:37Z
  • GOP Senate hopes once again rest on insurgents For Senate Republicans, 2012 is starting a lot like 2010. They have a shot at taking control from Democrats as long as insurgent conservatives don't frighten independent voters like they did two years ago. 2012-05-17T07:32:46Z
  • No tears as woman sees bacteria-ravaged hands A Georgia graduate student fighting a rare flesh-eating infection has been looking at her ravaged hands and asking about the damage, all without tears, her father said. 2012-05-16T22:54:52Z
  • Leading insurer pays $109M for dog bite claims Dog bites man does not get a lot of attention in the news, but it costs insurance companies hundreds of millions in claims every year. 2012-05-17T06:17:55Z
  • Biden lays into Romney, GOP: 'They don't get who we are!' At a campaign stop in Youngstown, Ohio, Vice President Joe Biden lit into Republicans and their presumed  presidential nominee for what he described as a failure to understand the plight of the middle class. 2012-05-16T21:47:46Z
  • 2 US Navy ships collide in Pacific; no injuries An 844-foot-long U.S. Navy assault ship collided with a refueling tanker Wednesday in the Pacific Ocean, causing damage to both ships, but there were no injuries or fuel spills, military officials said. 2012-05-17T01:07:41Z
  • New U.S.-Russian crew arrives at space station An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station early Thursday, kicking off a four-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory. 2012-05-17T04:45:47Z
  • Chuck Brown, pioneer of 'go-go' funk music, dies Chuck Brown, who styled a unique mix of funk, soul and Latin party sounds to create go-go music in the nation's capital, has died after suffering from pneumonia. He was 75. 2012-05-17T00:33:14Z
  • Is the Fed to blame for JPMorgan's $2 billion blowup? The JPMorgan $2-billion-trading-loss story is nearly a week old, and the news has predictably gone through the various spin cycles of the political right and left. Initially, progressives pounced on the loss as reason to strengthen the yet-to-be-fully-implemented Dodd-Frank financial reform law. Conservatives then pushed back on that conclusion arguing that the loss was not a disaster for shareholders given the size and profitability of the bank overall, and that therefore policy makers shouldn't overreact with more stringent regulation. 2012-05-16T20:52:06Z
  • Russia's chess game 'without any rules' Grandmaster-turned-activist Garry Kasparov says Russian President Vladimir Putin does whatever he wants to stay in power. 2012-05-17T00:10:15Z
  • White House denies arming Syrian rebels President Barack Obama's administration has repeatedly said over the past few months that it won't ship arms to Syria's outgunned opposition, warning that doing so will only escalate the bloody conflict there. But the Washington Post reported Wednesday that the U.S. has been helping to coordinate shipments [...] 2012-05-16T23:21:12Z
  • Mladic instigated ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, U.N. court told Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic went on trial accused of carrying out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and Europe's worst massacre since World War II. 2012-05-17T04:08:26Z
  • Greece gets caretaker PM until new vote in June A senior judge has been sworn in to head Greece's caretaker government for a month as the debt-crippled country lurches through a political crisis that threatens its membership in the 17-nation eurozone. 2012-05-17T01:14:51Z
  • Manny Pacquiao denounces anti-gay allegations Manny Pacquiao says he loves and supports gays and lesbians, even though he does not approve of gay marriage. 2012-05-17T01:45:20Z
  • Verizon Wireless to scrap unlimited plans for 4G users NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Wireless is planning to force customers to give up their unlimited data plans when they move to its high-speed wireless service, a top executive for parent company Verizon Communications Inc said on Wednesday. For now, Verizon Wireless customers who move to the company's highest-speed fourth generation (4G) network from its older network can still use the company's unlimited wireless data plan for a flat monthly fee. But that will change after Verizon Wireless launches a new shared data plan offering this summer, according to Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo. ... 2012-05-16T21:59:55Z
  • Coffee buzz: Study finds java drinkers live longer One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. Regular or decaf doesn't matter. 2012-05-16T23:31:33Z
  • Romney calls attacks over Bain ‘really off-target’ Mitt Romney called Democratic criticism over his record at Bain Capital "misguided" and chided President Barack Obama for approving the attacks while at the same time raising cash from other members of the private equity industry. In an interview with Hot Air's Ed Morrissey, the presumptive Republican nominee denounced an ad launched this week by [...] 2012-05-16T19:45:27Z
  • ‘Haunted’ L.A. hospital being converted into senior living home Would you want your grandma living in an abandoned hospital so well known for its creepy atmosphere and alleged hauntings that it has been used in various Hollywood productions by folks like Rob Zombie and the makers of the horror film "Se7en"? The L.A. Times says the 107-year-old Linda Vista Community Hospital may soon earn [...] 2012-05-16T19:29:11Z
  • 2012-04-28 Trunk builds

    Notable fixes:

    • Fixed: 422540 - GStreamer backend for HTML5 video element.
    • Fixed: 695480 - Remove support for Chrome -> Content leaks. (khuey’s blog post)
    • Fixed: 742419 - Implement new identity block design (lighter weight with a generic icon).
    • Fixed: 711618 - Implement basic click-to-play permission model for plugins.
    • Fixed: 718539 - Update syntax used for -moz-font-feature-settings.
    • Fixed: 735898 - BuildDisplayList takes too long on CNN.com.
    • Fixed: 735543 - Overlap TCP/SSL handshake with typing in search box. (Patrick's blog post)
    • Fixed: 729133 - Preconnect http sessions before cache lookup.
    • Fixed: 732820 - Cap to the amount of memory used by decoded images.
    • Fixed: 743590 - [Azure] League Of Legends website has big black bars on either side.
    • Fixed: 578771 - Contenteditable element breaks word selection on all other input elements of the page.
    • Fixed: 720641 - Dev tools: Integrate GCLI into developer tools global toolbar.
    • Fixed: 683954 - Dev tools: Implement an abstract view of the layout of the selected node.
    • Fixed: 278860 - Show the correct error message when the profile is missing.

    Backouts:

    • Backed out: 673470 - Replace the sqlite safeb store with a flat file.

    All 698 changes between 2012-04-19 nightly and 2012-04-28 nightly

    Nightly builds (discussion)

  • 2012-04-19 Trunk builds

    Notable fixes:

    • Fixed: 633602 - Implement Pointer Lock API.
    • Fixed: 641821 - Implement mutation observers, a replacement for mutation events.
    • Fixed: 726444 - Implement the Downloads Panel.
    • Fixed: 711552 - Create click to play UI for plugins on desktop.
    • Fixed: 632634 - Use longer hover link popup for long URLs.
    • Fixed: 482057 - When the Find bar is focused, keyboard scrolling is not smooth.
    • Fixed: 740069 - Land Paris Bindings and use them for XMLHttpRequest.
    • Fixed: 710259 - New Safari migrator (OS X & Windows).
    • Fixed: 710727 - Share character map between fonts with identical coverage.
    • Fixed: 716142 - GC: Allow multi-compartment GCs.
    • Fixed: 724352 - Extra scrollbar on overflow:auto blog post.

    All 1303 changes between 2012-03-30 nightly and 2012-04-19 nightly

    Nightly builds (discussion)

  • 2012-03-30 Trunk builds

    Notable fixes:

    • Fixed: 639705 - [Mac] Integrate with Lion's fullscreen features.
    • Fixed: 482057 - When the Ctrl+F Find bar is enabled and the Find text box is focused, smooth scrolling does not work.
    • Fixed: 714712 - Add built-in PDF support to Firefox with PDF.js.
    • Fixed: 231162 - Text-transform is not using language dependent casing rules.
    • Fixed: 726734 - Flash video does not play when flashblock is installed.
    • Fixed: 599164 - Pipeline according to transaction type and known server state.
    • Fixed: 720126 - Find in Page: always centering highlighted result makes it hard to see relative positions of multiple results.
    • Fixed: 734079 - Update SVG frame bounds asynchronously, and get rid of the suspendRedraw code.
    • Fixed: 714302 - Add support for HTTP status code 308.

    Backouts:

    • Fixed: 738804 - Back out keyword.URL prompting changes.

    All 939 changes between 2012-03-18 nightly and 2012-03-30 nightly

    Nightly builds (discussion)

  • 2012-03-18 Trunk builds

    Notable fixes:

    • Fixed: 735187 - Re-enable inline autocomplete.
    • Fixed: 206438 - Smooth scrolling should use the 'smoothwheel' algorithm.
    • Fixed: 633773 - Use Google's HTTPS search by default.
    • Fixed: 711193 - Turn on "don't load tabs until selected" by default (for session restore).
    • Fixed: 697006 - Add desktop support for the Open Web Apps API.
    • Fixed: 720023 - Context menus for selected URLs should be the identical as for links.
    • Fixed: 713052 - Add preference for disabling alt+click or alt+enter to save links, and disable it by default.
    • Fixed: 618876 - Support internationalized <input type="email">.
    • Fixed: 711157 - about:home - Visual Refresh & Launcher.
    • Fixed: 729878 - about:newtab - new layout.
    • Fixed: 627616 - Font-face fonts not loaded over authenticating proxy.
    • Fixed: 651192 - Implement new AsyncDrawing model for plugins.
    • Fixed: 729009 - Send plugin src as plugin sub-request's referer.
    • Fixed: 699014 - Toolkit alerts shouldn't be displayed if the user's in a fullscreen app or presentation mode.
    • Fixed: 637099 - Remove JS_ClearScope calls on windows.
    • Fixed: 728686 - Perf: JS_NewPropertyIterator disables IGC.
    • Fixed: 705594 - Perf: Optimize system font fallback.
    • Fixed: 705877 - Perf: Implement short-circuiting of some sort for descendant selectors.
    • Fixed: 729940 - Perf: Stop using crappy hashing functions in Gecko.
    • Fixed: 732820 - Mem: Cap to the amount of memory used by decoded images.
    • Fixed: 731419 - Mem: Discard image data immediately when a tab is closed.
    • Fixed: 713799 - Support: Rearrange the "window-objects" sub-tree in about:memory to make per-tab memory usage more obvious.
    • Fixed: 718088 - Support: Offer to re-set keyword.URL if it has a non-default value.
    • Fixed: 717070 - Support: Create button to initiate migration to a clean Firefox profile.
    • Fixed: 452393 - [Linux] Accelerators should not be affected by keyboard layout Part Deux.

    Backouts:

    • Fixed: 734946 - Disable incremental GC for Firefox 13. (See bug 735099 for re-enabling IGC.)

    All 1964 changes between 2012-02-26 nightly and 2012-03-18 nightly

    Nightly builds (discussion)

  • 2012-02-26 Trunk builds

    Notable fixes:

    • Fixed: 641025 - Incremental GC.
    • Fixed: 469434 - Links in "view source" should have "copy link location" in context menu.
    • Fixed: 669845 - The quick find bar causes a zombie compartment that lives until the next search (only on pages with onclick handlers).
    • Fixed: 633427 - Clearing cookies launches instance of plugin-container for each plugin installed.
    • Fixed: 613588 - Make livemarks asynchronous and load-on-demand.
    • Fixed: 725700 - Keyboard arrow keys and scrollbar buttons should have consistent scrolling distances.
    • Fixed: 724476 - WebGL noticeably slower recently on Firefox 12 & 13.
    • Fixed: 585813 - Script Timeout at tabbrowser.xml:1457 when closing tabs.
    • Fixed: 699974 - Scripts evaluated from plugins may prevent the slow script dialog from ever appearing.
    • Fixed: 522607 - Accept CSS3 background-position values like "bottom 10px right 10px".
    • Fixed: 720208 - Implement DOM4 DOMException types and codes.
    • Fixed: 721319 - PlacesUtils.removeLazyBookmarkObserver() doesn't always remove observers, causes browser window to leak.
    • Fixed: 728230 - Adding a bookmark and opening a new window and closing the old one causes runtime leaks.
    • Fixed: 702300 - Add about:compartments page that just lists live JS compartments.
    • Fixed: 728429 - [Windows] Mandatory ASLR for binary components. (kyle's blog post)
    • Fixed: 702225 - [Windows] Implement revised nav bar button appearance.
    • Fixed: 674370 - [Mac] Support animation when opening windows in Lion.

    All 732 changes between 2012-02-17 nightly and 2012-02-26 nightly

    Nightly builds (discussion)

  • 2012-02-17 Trunk builds

    Notable fixes:

    • Fixed: 697762 - Land the JavaScript debugger. (past's blog post)
    • Fixed: 724563 - Enable SPDY by default. (patrick's blog post)
    • Fixed: 716538 - Enable the New Tab Page by default.
    • Fixed: 235853 - Defer proxy resolution for HTTP and HTTPS PAC to avoid blocking main thread during DNS resolution.
    • Fixed: 90268 - Move plugins to content - plugins should withstand a reframe of the object frame.
    • Fixed: 698519 - Update to libjpeg-turbo 1.2.
    • Fixed: 718939 - Java applet causes text entry fields to become semi-unresponsive.
    • Fixed: 715308 - Decode ::Draw()'n images before other images.
    • Fixed: 627616 - @font-face fonts not loaded over authenticating proxy.
    • Fixed: 631250 - Status overlay switches to right side of window when find bar is open.
    • Fixed: 629200 - Redesign how we send change notifications from SVG types.
    • Fixed: 695482 - "Search Google for <selection>" should open in the foreground, not be governed by loadInBackground preference.
    • Fixed: 727131 - Add hidden pref to allow "Search Google for" tabs to open in background.
    • Fixed: 542938 - Add hidden pref to disable oncopy, oncut & onpaste event handling.
    • Fixed: 673470 - Replace the sqlite safeb store with a flat file.
    • Fixed: 294260 - Auto detect previous start-up failure and offer to start in safe mode.
    • Fixed: 394769 - JS: setTimeout/setInterval "lateness" argument breaks expected behavior.
    • Fixed: 700822 - JS: JIT hardening option and win32 ExecutableAllocator randomization.
    • Fixed: 699565 - JS: Implement Harmony for-of loops.
    • Fixed: 563318 - [Windows] Switch to Visual C++ 2010.

    All 1244 changes between 2012-01-31 nightly and 2012-02-17 nightly

    Nightly builds (discussion)