http://www.squarefree.com Jesse Ruderman on Firefox, security, and more Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:23:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Finally, a bug-tracking system for everything. The priorities, severities, products, and components are great. http://www.squarefree.com/2008/04/23/earth-complaint-department/ The Firefox Tinderbox has been unmanageably wide lately. I wrote a Greasemonkey script, TidyBox, to fix it by moving build results from the table cells to popups that appear when hovering the table cells. Looking at a screenshot with TidyBox, it's easy to see that exactly one box is orange ... http://www.squarefree.com/2008/02/23/tidybox/ Mike Shaver and Johnny Stenback are doing their part. Are you? http://www.squarefree.com/2008/02/12/help-combat-global-warming/ Crashtest is Mozilla's newest test suite. It provides a very simple way to make sure a page doesn't cause Gecko to crash (or hang or assert or leak). Since I report a lot of crash and assertion and leak bugs, I've been looking forward to being able to ... http://www.squarefree.com/2007/12/27/crashtests/ Lately, I've been running debug builds of Firefox with trace-refcnt summaries enabled and reporting any leaks I can reproduce. Frequently, someone else quickly attaches a patch, but in the case of bug 401393, nobody else could reproduce the leak I was seeing. For me, simply loading a page ... http://www.squarefree.com/2007/12/27/fixing-leaks/ There's an interesting thread on mozilla.dev.planning about the scope and schedule of Mozilla 2. http://www.squarefree.com/2007/12/19/mozilla-2-thread/