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Bug 292658

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

If you start to downlaod anything this is wot happens… wen u start to download
the file the speed is correct but wen you, use a bandwidth limiter it stays
corect.. but when u take off the bandwidth limiter the speed thingy does not
update like it should do it stays at wot ever u limited it too

Reproducible: Always

Expected Results:
Update Speed On DL Manager External Program Shows Correct Speed DL Manager Does Not

Some folk (Tristor) have said this was rude. However, he did not know what Chav Scum is, so for those others who don’t, read this helpful spreadfirefox post.

So today I visited weather.com because of Bug 292623, and saw my lovely adblock tab for EMBEDs in the top left, as usual for a flash that launches popups. When I checked it, I got something a lot more surprising than I thought I would.

http://ima.weather.com/web/common/flash/flookie.swf?flcommoption=flget

You may have seen on slashdot, New Technique for Tracking Web Site Visitors. I highly reccomend all users boycott Weather.com for using such an insidious technique, and use something else instead. If you want just a quick forcast, go to google and search for something like “weather 10101″, which will give you the weather for zip code 10101.

Flookies are not cool.

Very weird, but very cool site. You can submit pictures of you and your friend walkin’ freestyle. Click on “Pictures and Videos” to see what I’m talking about…

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I edit articles at the English Wikinews. I caught another one about Firefox, Firefox browser reaches fifty million downloads. The external link, “Get free Firefox Browser”, didn’t sound professional at all. Sounds like www.free-mozillafirefox.com or www.freefirefox.com, or any of the other trickery google ads. So, waving over the link, I see that it’s an SFX link for our good friend HiFlyer1. The diff page reveals this is the work of Alan J Franklin.

I have updated the link with a more professional title, and removed Alan’s credit (he didn’t write any of the nes article, just put his link in there) link.

Frank Manno put up a great article explaining how to put together CSS image maps. The effect is similar to Flickr’s notes, only using CSS and XHTML instead of Flash. Very useful!

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A highly configurable program that allows you to catch any change to your system. Filtering lets you zoom down to the details that are most important to you.
Track any and all changes to the registry and file system, and also record all shell notification events (more)…

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The Time Traveler Convention aims to become the defacto meeting place for all time travelers. Help them spread the word!

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