http://www.squarefree.com Jesse Ruderman on Firefox, security, and more Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:48:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I updated Tidybox today. The most requested change I made: fix it to work on static Tinderbox pages, such as http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/Firefox, in addition to the showbuilds.cgi URLs. Install the new version http://www.squarefree.com/2008/11/23/tidybox-update/ I joined yesterday's protest in San Francisco against the passage of proposition 8. I'd like to be able to say that I went only because I am outraged about counterproductive discrimination based on superstition. But the truth is I also had a selfish reason to be there: I ... http://www.squarefree.com/2008/11/17/protest/ I created a page called Reducing testcases to replace the old Gecko BugAThon page. Now I have something modern to point bug reporters at when I'm too lazy to make a reduced testcase myself :) The page is on the developer.mozilla.org wiki, so you're welcome to help improve it. http://www.squarefree.com/2008/08/02/reducing-testcases-on-devmo/ I made this using the On Notice Board Generator. Despite all the problems, the summit in Whistler has been worth it: I finally got to meet Mozilla security contributor Paul Nickerson. He had interesting ideas about how to find and prevent JavaScript privilege escalation bugs, which we discussed with Blake Kaplan. Firebug ... http://www.squarefree.com/2008/08/01/whistler-youre-on-notice/ I avoid Keynote and PowerPoint to ensure that I will be able to refer to my presentations three years from now. Until last week, I thought that using the HTML-based S5 format meant compromising the style of my presentations. While preparing a presentation for the Mozilla summit, I found a ... http://www.squarefree.com/2008/07/29/presentations-with-opera-and-s5/ In 2006, Mike Beltzner filed a bug saying that Firefox's about:config should have a warning. Chris Thomas wrote a patch adding a warning page, and it was checked in with a playful title suggested by the same Mike Beltzner: "Be careful, this gun is loaded!". Some people thought the reference ... http://www.squarefree.com/2008/07/23/the-bikeshedding-continues/