{"id":1064,"date":"2010-06-28T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2010-06-28T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T19:00:27","slug":"new-version-of-firefox-due-to-farmville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2010\/06\/28\/new-version-of-firefox-due-to-farmville\/","title":{"rendered":"New version of Firefox due to FarmVille"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are using Firefox, you have probably been asked to upgrade to 3.6.6 over the weekend. You may notice that the <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL%20status1.9.2%3A.6-fixed\">list of fixed bugs<\/a> only has <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=574905\">one item<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the primary motivation behind Firefox 3.6.6 is that 3.6.4 introduced problems for FarmVille players. (A new 10-second timeout for Flash sometimes prevented FarmVille from loading.)<\/p>\n<p>From this we can learn that Firefox developers are not (willing to admit that they are) playing FarmVille. Obligatory critical comment in the bug report:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/firefoxfarmville.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1065 alignnone\" title=\"firefoxfarmville\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/firefoxfarmville-450x37.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/firefoxfarmville-450x37.png 450w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/firefoxfarmville.png 647w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(I have a few comments about the prevalent anti-FarmVille sentiment, but more about that later.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are using Firefox, you have probably been asked to upgrade to 3.6.6 over the weekend. You may notice that the list of fixed bugs only has one item. Yes, the primary motivation behind Firefox 3.6.6 is that 3.6.4 introduced problems for FarmVille players. (A new 10-second timeout for Flash sometimes prevented FarmVille from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2010\/06\/28\/new-version-of-firefox-due-to-farmville\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New version of Firefox due to FarmVille&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}