It seems like it this is only going to be used by OEMs for now (not the default install). And no user specific data is sent, not even a random id. Doesn't seem like they can do any more tracking then what they can now looking at IP address of people who update, seems like it only helps them judge the number of users.

What about APNG, also not very well supported (yet?), but much more so then MNG. Yeah I know it's also basically unusable because of the lack of support, but just had to mention it.

for vacations, tow a trailer and turn it into a hybrid: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genset_trailer

I have root own my .profile, and only let my user account have read access to it. same with .bashrc, .bash_profile, etc.

Having the same problem, thought my firefox profile was mucked up, took a while to worked it was the low-bandwidth option mucked up.

Not complete, but getting there:
https://launchpad.net/chromium-project
https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa
Not sure if it will run on debian but

http://www.teslamotors.com/models/index.php

Couldn't agree more. use it on all my machines, great for low end machines too, as it saves alot of cpu. Find it makes youtube more useful as I can open a few movies in new tabs and not have them play all at once, or have them play again when I reopen firefox. most of the other uses of flash seem to just be ads, so it works well for any flash ads that adblock misses.