http://www.squarefree.com Jesse Ruderman on Firefox, security, and more Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:19:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last night I posted a new guide to triaging crash bugs. Reports of crash bugs require a variety of skills to turn into useful bugs: knowing common support issues, tactfully interacting with bug reporters, reducing testcases, finding regression ranges, and knowing how to get each bug to the correct developer(s). ... http://www.squarefree.com/2009/06/29/new-guide-to-triaging-crash-bugs/ Looks like Firefox 3.5's support for open video has already inspired: Dailymotion to add Ogg support, The Pirate Bay to create a new site, The Video Bay, which features Ogg-only video, and Wikimedia to accelerate the addition of videos to Wikipedia articles. (Articles that already have videos include Geyser and Flywheel.) And Firefox ... http://www.squarefree.com/2009/06/29/opening-video/ The top crash signature for Firefox 3.5 Beta 99 and last Friday's Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate is "js_MonitorLoopEdge". This signature indicates a crash within code generated by the TraceMonkey JIT compiler. Bug 499169 tracks this topcrash. The scariest part is that we don't know whether the large number of ... http://www.squarefree.com/2009/06/23/need-help-reproducing-a-jit-crash/ Shortly after returning from their DC wedding, Mildred and Richard Loving were arrested at their home in Virginia. Their crime? He was white and she was not. Virginia's courts found that since the Racial Integrity Act punished the two Lovings equally, it did not discriminate against any race. ... http://www.squarefree.com/2009/06/11/happy-loving-day/ I'd like to see more software nudge people in the direction of GTD's low-stress productivity. Quests World of Warcraft organizes your quests according to where you discovered them, not according to where you can make progress on them. You can easily have your character in the right town but forget to ... http://www.squarefree.com/2009/04/26/of-quests-and-bookmarks/ Alice suggested that instead of asking for the graph links to be maintained, I could instead file bugs for making the graph server not suck so much that we need the graph links. I filed four bugs, but I'm not one of the main consumers of performance graphs, so ... http://www.squarefree.com/2009/04/23/performance-graphs/