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This is the second time I noticed, I forgot it before when I saw the Updates tabs were gone. This time, I missed the timing for resolving some issues of a project which I have commit permission.

I relied on the feed of projects I stared. Google Code provided such feed before, but it has gone for two months at least. For now, I subscribed to 4 project feeds: Issues, Downloads, Source changes, and Wiki updates.

I didn't check the starred projects feed because that feed was only return no entries, not a 404, it should be, even the updates function is disabled. So, it never occurred to me that the feed was essentially rendered useless when Google Code disabled Updates function.

There is an issue opened and a discussion thread. They have grown too long, didn't read much of them. But I feel Google developers and other developers are two different species.

Please star that issue if you had also used Project Updates, hopefully they can finally understand some of developers rely on that very much.

Just after I posted about Firefox 4 new features, a popup notification showed up telling me about new update 4.0b5pre for my current version 4.0b5pre.



I am using nightly build as I mentioned before. I clicked on that Restart Minefield button with doubt, I didn't believe it would work or really get an update.

It turned out, it's really an update, Gecko/20100826. I was stunned for few things.

First, I never thought auto-update would work on Linux since I always use distro's distribution of browsers. Distro always installs browsers in system directories. But I installed FF4 on my own, well, that's an overstatement, just unpacked it to ~/var/bin/firefox.

Second, even it could do auto-update, I didn't think that would also apply on nightly build, not to mention the official branding release (using Firefox not other Foobar name) don't have 64-bit build for Linux (maybe it has just I could find it). But it works smoothly for 64-bit nightly build.

I checked out the installed directory, all dates are now 5:15 8/27, it did update for sure. And this was taken from Update History:



Amazing... and I probably wouldn't want to install Firefox through Portage tree. In face, I have already unemerged it. Sooner, I would unemerged Chromium, too, after I felt it's safe to have Firefox only.

However, I think once FF4 hit Portage stable, I might emerge it again. I am still obsessed with the mythical compiler flags.