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  • Round Robin Scheduling Not Power-Efficient Via_Patrino writes "While having to distribute load between several servers, round robin, or any other technique that balances load equally, is the most common approach because of its simplicity... 2008-05-09T15:01:00+00:00
  • London Lawyers Demand £600 For One Game Barence writes "A PC Pro reader has received a demand for a £600 out-of-court settlement from lawyers claiming to have forensic evidence that he illegally downloaded a PC game on BitTorrent. The... 2008-05-09T14:21:00+00:00
  • Windows XP SP3 Creating Havoc ozmanjusri writes "According to Information Week, within hours of its wide availability Windows XP SP3 had drawn hundreds of complaints from users who claim the update is wreaking havoc on their... 2008-05-09T13:40:00+00:00
  • Skype Gives Up Anti-GPL Appeal l2718 writes "Yesterday we discussed Skype's appeal of a German court's ruling against them regarding a violation of the GPL. Harald Welte (the plaintiff) now reports in his blog that following oral... 2008-05-09T13:01:00+00:00
  • US Lawmakers Propose New Net Neutrality Bill An anonymous reader brings news that Net Neutrality legislation is making another comeback. A new bill, sponsored by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), would make ISPs who fail to provide service in a... 2008-05-09T12:21:00+00:00
  • Facebook Agrees To User Safety Plan Facebook has reached an agreement with the attorneys general of 49 states and the District of Columbia to develop and enhance controls to protect minors from inappropriate content. This follows a... 2008-05-09T09:18:00+00:00
  • NASA Planning Mission To 40-Meter-Wide Asteroid FudRucker points out a story from The Guardian about NASA's plans to visit 2000SG344, an asteroid 40 meters wide and weighing roughly 71 million kilograms. The manned mission would take three to six... 2008-05-09T06:15:00+00:00
  • Infringement 'Detrimental To the Public Health, Safety' I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has declared that copyright infringement 'substantially interferes with the interest of the public in the... 2008-05-09T04:14:00+00:00
  • Have You Changed Your Opinion On eBook Readers? An anonymous reader writes "The Kindle made waves when it came out, but they've now had the chance to calm. How many of you have been using your eBook readers since you've received them? How many of... 2008-05-09T02:11:00+00:00
  • Nathan Myhrvold and the Business Of Invention elwinc writes "There's a great New Yorker story about Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures company, whose business model is to nurture ideas, write patents, and sell them. Apparently they're filing... 2008-05-09T00:10:00+00:00
  • Data Mining In Law Enforcement jcatcw points out a blog entry by Scott McPherson, CIO for the Florida House of Representatives. McPherson condemns the state of data sharing and data mining in law enforcement, saying that the US... 2008-05-08T23:05:00+00:00
  • Introducing Classical Guitar Hero Alex writes "I've just uploaded the video of a piece of classical electronic music I wrote for 2 Guitar Hero controllers and software (which I created). More information about this piece, its... 2008-05-08T22:15:00+00:00
  • Folding@Home 2.0 - An Online Protein Folding Game a boy named woo writes "Tired of justifying your gaming addiction? Now you can really help accomplish something while you play... thanks to Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher David Baker at... 2008-05-08T21:37:00+00:00
  • Make Your Own Fonts, In a Web Browser Dekortage writes "Although it's been up for a few weeks, today is the official launch of FontStruct, a web-based font creation tool. That's right: in your web browser, you can build your own typeface... 2008-05-08T20:49:00+00:00
  • After 3 Years, Freenet 0.7 Released evanbd writes "After over 3 years of work, the Freenet Project has announced the release of Freenet 0.7. 'Freenet is software designed to allow the free exchange of information over the Internet... 2008-05-08T20:02:00+00:00
  • 2008-04-28 Trunk builds

    Fixes:

    • Fixed: 417844 - SSL appearance for site identity button and location bar should be consistent across platforms.
    • Fixed: 412770 - Add ability to monitor plug-ins at run-time.
    • Fixed: 364536 - [Mac] Mac theme does not support RTL.
    • Fixed: 429531 - Location bar should show non-word-boundary matches below word-boundary matches.
    • Fixed: 423718 - Use native platform colors for URLs in the location bar autocomplete, make the line between rows lighter.
    • Fixed: 429614 - Add select all keyboard shortcut and context menu item to download manager.
    • Fixed: 251337 - Download manager history should have "aging" option, just like the browser history.
    • Fixed: 240463 - We need up-to-date artwork for the icons of loading-images and broken-images.
    • Fixed: 429697 - Change "Why was this site blocked" to use more detailed report page. (Changed for malware sites only, not for phishing sites.)
    • Fixed: 430202 - [Mac] Theme changes (Proto .17).
    • Fixed: 277067 - [Mac] Mozilla mistimes changing QuickDraw plugin visibility when switching tabs.
    • Fixed: 429689, 430759 - [Windows] New icons.

    Fixes for recent regressions:

    • Fixed: 429903 - Hang with Flash and nsIContentPolicy (Adblock, NoScript, ...).
    • Fixed: 400495 - Add "Clear List" button to download manager.
    • Fixed: 393791 - While hovering over menu, popup shows briefly as 2px*2px on first load.
    • Fixed: 429110 - [Windows] Random crashing [@ PR_AtomicIncrement] [@ nsIOService::NewURI].
    • Fixed: 429180 - [Windows] Hotkeys/keyboard shortcuts (eg. Ctrl-C) broken in Russian locale after bug 359638 landed.
    • Fixed: 398928#c33 - [Mac] Can't right-click to customize toolbars.
    • Fixed: 424266 - [Mac] "Default browser" or proxy auth dialog (sheet) appears mostly off-screen.
    • Fixed: 426499 - [Mac] Crash opening Help menu [@ DrawTheMenu].

    Trunk regressions:

    • Since Apr 24: 430723 - Arrow keys stop working after going back one page.
    • Since Apr 26: 430948 - Drag & Drop a Favicon or a Link to Bookmarks Toolbar, Bookmarks Menu or Sidebar Bookmarks does not work.
    • Since Apr 26: 431081 - [Windows] Native selection box contents missing in Firefox 3 - Vista only?.

    Trunk checkins between 2008-04-18 04:00 and 2008-04-28 06:00

    The links below are for the second set of morning builds. The first set of morning builds suffered from a crash when closing tabs with Ctrl+W.

    Windows builds: Windows nightly (discussion)

    Mac builds: Mac nightly

    Linux builds: Linux nightly

  • 2008-04-18 Trunk builds

    Fixes:

    • Fixed: 421640 - contentEditable elements should remember text selection onblur.
    • Fixed: 406596 - Link/anchor elements are focused within an contentEditable element.
    • Fixed: 407872 - Deleting items from "most visited" smart bookmark folders on the toolbar doesn't work (using the context menu).
    • Fixed: 429282 - [Windows] Land new Windows icons (20080416).
    • Fixed: 420236 - [Windows] Update Vista's main window appearance.
    • Fixed: 398928 - [Mac] Allow moving a unified window by dragging its toolbox. [Backed out a few days later]
    • Fixed: 387018 - [Linux] Improve autoscroll icon.

    Fixes for recent regressions:

    • Fixed: 422978 - Disable pipelining (for https) by default again, because some servers can't deal.
    • Fixed: 359638 - Accesskeys are incorrectly shifted again (i.e. accesskey="." is broken).

    Trunk regressions:

    • Since ~April 12: 429110 - [Windows] Random crashing [@ PR_AtomicIncrement] [@ nsIOService::NewURI].
    • Since April 17: 398928#c33 - [Mac] Can't right-click to customize toolbars.

    Trunk checkins between 2008-04-13 04:00 and 2008-04-18 04:00

    Windows builds: Windows nightly (discussion)

    Mac builds: Mac nightly

    Linux builds: Linux nightly

  • 2008-04-13 Trunk builds

    Fixes:

    • Fixed: 292789 - SCRIPT tags can access chrome.
    • Fixed: 418257 - Show what part of which tags match for urlbar autocomplete.
    • Fixed: 427935 - [Mac] Small theme changes (Proto 0.16).

    Fixes for recent regressions:

    • Fixed: 428001 - Whole UI flashes when autocomplete shows results after not showing results.
    • Fixed: 418243 - Removing active autocomplete textbox breaks all autocomplete functionality.
    • Fixed: 424915 - [Mac, Linux] Scrolling Gmail is much slower than on FF2.
    • Fixed: 426616 - [Windows] Acid2 chin is 1px too tall in FF3b5.

    Trunk checkins between 2008-04-10 04:00 and 2008-04-13 04:00

    Windows builds: Windows nightly (discussion)

    Mac builds: Mac nightly

    Linux builds: Linux nightly

  • 2008-04-10 Trunk builds

    Fixes:

    • Fixed: 421483 - Reorganize pre-populated smart bookmarks (add versioning).
    • Fixed: 228842 - Allow multiple selections in Download Manager.
    • Fixed: 231754 - [Mac] Pressing up/down arrow key does not move caret to beginning/end of url bar or text box.
    • Fixed: 419715 - Upgrade cairo to 1.6 final or as-close-as-possible.
    • Fixed: 426723 - Awesome bar needs a new throbber so it doesn't look like there is network activity.
    • Fixed: 422410 - Anti malware warning UI should allow pass through / show ignore link.
    • Fixed: 405887 - Library search should default to Selected Folder.
    • Fixed: 425518 - Enable multiple roots for EV (and remove 1): Geotrust, Thawte, Verisign, Trustwave, Comodo.
    • Fixed: 424960 - [Windows] Only enable crash reporting 25% of the time. (This change is intended for release builds, but it is present in this nightly in order to test the change.)
    • Fixed: 427555 - [Mac] Theme changes (Proto .15).
    • Fixed: 398514 - [Mac] Josh's cocoa widget key handling rewrite.
    • Fixed: 382138 - [Mac] Shortcut keys don't work until the appropriate menu was opened before.

    Fixes for recent regressions:

    • Fixed: 412646 - Dot under caret in find bar.
    • Fixed: 425079 - Multiple back/forward buttons in toolbar.
    • Fixed: 382392 - [Windows] Scrolling non-fixed-pos content when fixed-pos content present is extremely sluggish.
    • Fixed: 425336 - [Windows] Bit-mapped and vector fonts have character spacing problem.
    • Fixed: 403169 - [Mac] Enabling color management (cms) causes unified toolbar color mismatch.

    Trunk checkins between 2008-04-03 04:00 and 2008-04-10 04:00

    Windows builds: Windows nightly (discussion)

    Mac builds: Mac nightly

    Linux builds: Linux nightly

  • 2008-04-03 Trunk builds

    Fixes:

    • Fixed: 299372 - Content-Disposition headers no longer looked at for Save Link As filename, so it uses e.g. "attachment.cgi" in bugzilla instead of the name of the attachment; Save Page As works fine.
    • Fixed: 397935 - Download Manager ("Downloads") window doesn't stay open when clicking on download-complete alert notification with auto-close pref ("close when done").
    • Fixed: 404438 - Location bar drop-down does not collapse on second click on down-arrow.
    • Fixed: 424213 - URLs without corresponding title are displayed with a blank title (which isn't full-height).
    • Fixed: 417176 - [Mac] Add keyboard shortcuts Cmd+{ and Cmd+} for switching tabs.

    Fixes for recent regressions:

    • Fixed: 424631 - Inconsistent bidi layout.

    Trunk checkins between 2008-03-26 04:00 and 2008-04-03 04:00

    Windows builds: Windows nightly (discussion)

    Mac builds: Mac nightly

    Linux builds: Linux nightly

  • 2008-03-26 Trunk builds

    Fixes:

    • Fixed: 424923 - Remove Cross-Site XHR.
    • Fixed: 416683 - Binary downloads are deleted on completion when "Launch applications and unsafe files" is disabled.
    • Fixed: 402983 - file: protocol security checks that should be symmetric are now asymmetric.
    • Fixed: 423486 - Remove help viewer from Firefox and point to SUMO.
    • Fixed: 406257 - Reduce the number of rows in url bar autocomplete from 10 to 6.
    • Fixed: 424454 - Typed URLs (like domain roots) need more frecency bonus.

    Fixes for recent regressions:

    • Fixed: 417178 - Google reader does not show subscribed topics in ff3b3 at certain zoom levels.
    • Fixed: 392976 - Cancel / Done Buttons in the new add bookmark dialog are in a "mac like" order.
    • Fixed: 399636 - Font selection broken when symbol fonts are involved.
    • Fixed: 422177 - Awesome bar interrupts typing, so continue from where it left off.

    Trunk checkins between 2008-03-21 04:00 and 2008-03-26 04:00

    These nightly builds should be roughly equivalent to Firefox 3 Beta 5 candidates, except that these builds are branded as "Minefield" rather than "Firefox 3 Beta 5".

    Windows builds: Windows nightly (discussion)

    Mac builds: Mac nightly

    Linux builds: Linux nightly