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Just a note: totem-pl-parser has moved out of the totem product in GNOME Bugzilla and into its own totem-pl-parser product. Sorry for all the bugspam moving the old bugs generated.

You may wonder what’s been keeping me busy for the past few weeks…but that’s irrelevant, as the Firefox Cairo patches have, in the past few weeks, started to land.

This is a major step in a new direction for Firefox, with a change of rendering backend, and it certainly looks good. Although it’s not up to speed yet (it’s actually quite slow and jerky, but by no means intolerable), it already has support for native GTK widgets.

In related Firefox news, I have taken up bug triaging as a hobby, and I’m working through a (long) list of Firefox bug reports on Linux. It’s now down to below 1000.

Most bug reports (about 70%) are complete rubbish, half of the remaining reports are duplicates, and the rest are real reports. I’m hoping to get around to helping fix some of them soon instead of just triaging; it’s a goal of mine to submit a patch for Firefox.