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-| valign="top" | Fix firefox flash issues
-| valign="top" |This has been a bug in firefox for a long while. When the browser is handling flash the ui seems to become completely unresponsive. An example is watching a youtube video (wish obviously uses flash) and then trying to use keyboard shortcuts, which none of work!
 | valign="top" | Implement link fingerprints
 | valign="top" | Link fingerprints are a method of making an HTTP or HTTPS URL reference not only a particular resource, but a particular version of that resource, in a way that the fetching client can validate. This would make it harder (not impossible) for crackers to change downloadable software packages without any user (and the site owner) noticing it. Further details can be found in [http://www.gerv.net/security/link-fingerprints/ the proposal by Gervase Markham], Gerv's [http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2007/03/wordpress_download_tarball_com.html blog post about the recent Wordpress tarball attack] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292481 bug 292481]