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Comment Firefox bug 487638, fixed for Firefox 3.6 (Score 1) 387

by jdennett on Monday November 30, 2009 @05:55PM (#30275402) Attached to: Are Ad Servers Bogging Down the Web?

(Reposting, logged in this time.)

If you're using Firefox then this bug is/will be fixed in Firefox 3.6, so that it will report the correct website when things are slow instead of saying "Waiting for *.google-analytics.com. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487638 for the details; "status bar blames wrong resource when downloading slow responding resource" is the title of that bug.

If you're using other browser(s), let me know which.

Full disclosure: Google is my employer (and I care about making sure Google Analytics isn't slow).

Submission + - TiVo as a s/w download for generic Comcast HD DVR

Submitted by evw on Thursday January 11, 2007 @02:47AM

evw writes: TiVo and Comcast announced at CES that they would make TiVo software available for the generic Comcast HD DVR. "Working in concert with Comcast, TiVo has developed a software application that will enable Comcast to deploy the service for a modest monthly fee to existing set-top boxes without an additional in-home visit by a technician." The extra monthly cost has not been announced. Apparently they started doing trials of this at the end of 2006. This is great news because I love my TiVos but I'm fed up with DirecTV and was ready to look at a Series3 but it was going to be tough to justify the steep price vs. the generic cable company box.

Submission + - Nice List of iPhone Problems

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11, 2007 @02:38AM

An anonymous reader writes: The Mac fanboy site roughlydrafted.com has just released a post listing ten of the iPhones biggest problems (referred to as "myths"). It has the usual anti-microsoft, anti-palm and anti-cisco comments, but seems to be quite an accurate and complete list of how the iPhone is broken and what ridiculous explanation one might think of to defend it.

Myth Eight: An integrated battery is a significant problem for users
[...]
Having an extra battery to swap in makes sense on a laptop, but does not make sense for a phone, particularly one that has standard external battery packs that can be used via its dock connector.

Submission + - How can we convert the US to the metric system?

Submitted by

thesolo

on Wednesday January 10, 2007 @10:43PM

thesolo writes: "Despite past efforts of the 1970s and 1980s, the United States remains one of only three countries (others are Liberia and Myanmar) that does not use the metric system. Staying with imperial measurements has only served to handicap American industry and economy. Attempts to get Americans using the Celsius scale or putting up speed limits in kilometers per hour have been squashed dead. Not only that, but some Americans actually see metrication efforts as an assault on "our way" of measuring.

I personally deal with European scientists on a daily basis, and find our lack of common measurement to be extremely frustrating. Are we so entrenched with imperial units that we cannot get our fellow citizens to simply learn something new? What are those of us who wish to finally see America catch up to the rest of the world supposed to do? Are there any organizations that we may back, or any pro-metric legislators who we can support?"

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