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Mozilla has issued a new update to its web browser Firefox because of errors caused by FarmVille, the wildly popular Facebook game.

Last week, Mozilla released Firefox 3.6.4. It included dozens of bug fixes, but it also added one new feature: plugin browser crash protection. In the past, when Flash or Quicktime crashed in the browser, it would take the entire browser down with it. Firefox 3.6.4 changed it so that non-responsive plugins crash the plugin, not the browser, after 10 seconds.

The update had an unanticipated side effect, however. Many users found that they couldn’t play FarmVille, which runs on Adobe Flash. Because FarmVille was crashing so often for so many users, Mozilla released Firefox 3.6.6 and installed one small change: The timeout for unresponsive plugins was increased from 10 seconds to 45 seconds, giving the hefty Flash-based game enough time to properly load.

FROM TIME MAGAZINE:

This blog delivers daily dispatches from one of the few places where it’s still dangerous to be a blogger: Cuba. Yoani Sánchez, a 38-year-old Havana webmaster and editor, launched Generacion Y as what she calls “an exercise in cowardice,” because it lets her say things she can’t say out loud in Cuba. Sánchez documents the prevailing sense of “endophobia” in Cuba — fear of what will happen after Castro’s reign ends — as well as the discontent of young Cubans eager for change.

There are also oddly wistful reminisces of her youth, like receiving free candy and soda at school thanks to Soviet Union subsidies. Sánchez’s own photos accompany many of the entries, which offer a fascinating and brave peek behind the curtain of a still-closed society.

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(CNN) — Hours after its iPhone 4 went on sale to excited crowds Thursday, Apple found itself responding to complaints that holding the phone by its metal edge causes mobile reception to suffer.

The company’s response, in a nutshell? You’re holding it wrong.

“Just avoid holding it in that way,” Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrote in an e-mail that was making the rounds on the Web on Friday morning.

An official statement from Apple expanded in less pointed language than Jobs, who is known to occasionally answer e-mails from customers himself. READ MORE

SWITCHED.COM – In theory, it’s a noble public initiative to provide every high school student with the latest, high-tech laptops. What’s not so noble, though, is to make every kid pay for it themselves.

As of September 2011, every student attending Beverly High School in Massachusetts will be required to have their own MacBook as part of a district-wide campaign to modernize classroom technology. According to the Salem News, though, parents will be forced to fork out the money from their own wallets. Even if a student already has her own laptop, she’ll have to get a new one unless she already has a Mac. As superintendent James Hayes says, “We have one platform. And that’s going to be the Mac.”

CNN – Last week, Eatocracy shared a compilation of restaurant pet peeves from friends and colleagues. In turn, we asked “What should we add to the menu of complaints?”

Over 1,500 responses later, and there are clearly two sides to every story. For every customer complaint, there wasn’t a waitstaff counterpoint far behind.

So, we decided to turn the tables: diners, you’re about to get served. Turns out industry folks have just as many grievances as customers do.  MORE

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Social-networking powerhouse Facebook saw its revenue climb as high as $800 million in 2009, $100 million more than previously estimated, according to a media report.

The Reuters news agency reported the higher revenue, citing unnamed sources. One of those same sources told the agency Facebook had also seen net profits in the tens of millions of dollars last year, Reuters said. MORE

Logomyway asks participants to communicate three concepts through their designs: the oil spill disaster, death of wildlife and incompetence. Deadline is June 26 and there is a $200 prize for the winning design, which will be chosen by votes from designers and the public.  View Em’

Admit it. There’s one movie (at least one) that you’ve never seen, that’s part of the popular culture, that you keep meaning to see and really should have seen — but for whatever reason, you haven’t.  VIEW EM’