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Fix for increased file size when removing a PDF password on Mac OS

Over the last couple of months I received some password protected PDF files. While using this kind of protection is easy for casual users, I find it kinda annoying that it forces me to add a separate step to my process when storing these files without a password on my local disk. And here I noticed some quirks when doing that step on Mac OS. The easiest way to remove the password is clearly to use the Preview application, and to export / save the document as a new fileContinue readingFix for increased file size when removing a PDF password on Mac OS

How to solve Apple ID login failure: AMD-Action:downloadProduct:SP

Since I have upgraded OS X on my MacBook Pro to OS X El Capitan (10.11) and moved my users home folder to another partition as described in an earlier blog post, I was not able to sign into the Apple or iTunes store anymore via native applications. It was still working fine via the browser. The failure displayed was: “AMD-Action:downloadProduct:SP”. Yes, very helpful. No further link for help nor was I able to find anything about it on official support pages. Querying the web for a while I finallyContinue readingHow to solve Apple ID login failure: AMD-Action:downloadProduct:SP

Moving home folder to another encrypted volume on OS X

Over the last weekend I was reinstalling my older MacBookPro (late 2011 model) again after replacing its hard drive with a fresh and modern SSD drive from Crucial 512GB. That change was really necessary given that simple file operations took about a minute, and every system tools claimed that the HDD was fine. So after installing Mavericks I moved my home folder to another partition to make it easier later to reinstall OS X again. But as it turned out it is not that easy, especially not given that OSContinue readingMoving home folder to another encrypted volume on OS X

Crusial SSD bug and firmware fix

About 2.5 years ago I got a Thinkpad X230 as working machine. It’s quiet a decent one given the hardware specs and since then I was happy with it even I’m not able to use the touchpad at all. The quality is just so poor compared to an Apple Macbook which I owned before. But anyway that’s another topic… What I want to talk about here is more my experience with the hard drive. When I was asked what kind of drive I wanna have I told that it shouldContinue readingCrusial SSD bug and firmware fix

Memchaser 0.6 has been released

The Firefox Automation team would like to announce the release of memchaser 0.6. After nearly a year of no real feature updates, but also some weeks of not being able to run Memchaser in Firefox Aurora (34.0a2) at all (due to a regression), we decided to release the current state of development as a public release. We are aware that we still do not fully support the default Australis theme since Firefox 29.0, but that’s an issue, which takes some more time to finish up. Changes in 0.6 Upgrade toContinue readingMemchaser 0.6 has been released

mozdownload 1.12 has been released

The Firefox Automation team would like to announce the release of mozdownload 1.12. Without any other release of our universal download tool in the last 7 months, a couple of nice new features and bug fixes will make this release even more useful. You can upgrade your installation easily via pip, or by downloading it from PyPI. Changes in 1.12 Display selected build when downloading (#149) Add support for downloading B2G desktop builds (#104) Download candidate builds from candidates/ and not nightly/ (#218) Add Travis CI build status and PyPIContinue readingmozdownload 1.12 has been released

Mozmill 2.0.7 and 2.0.8 have been released

The Firefox Automation team would like to announce the release of Mozmill 2.0.7 and Mozmill 2.0.8. Both versions had to be released in such a short time frame to ensure continuing support for Firefox. Some latest changes done for Firefox Nightly broke Mozmill, or at least made it misbehaving. If you run tests with Mozmill ensure to upgrade to the latest version. You can do this via PyPI, or simply download the already pre-configured environment. Changes in 2.0.7 Bug 1066295 – testMultipleLoads.js is failing due to new HTTP Cache v2Continue readingMozmill 2.0.7 and 2.0.8 have been released

Mozdownload 1.10 released

As of now we have released a new version of mozdownload. The 1.10 release contains a couple of new features, bug fixes, and absolutely to mention a suite of tests. A big thank you goes here to Johannes and Jarek. Both spend a lot of time again, to make it a successful and lesser bug prone release. Here some major items to highlight: Addition of tests for all types of scrapers and a lot for command line options Output of all candidate builds founds if build number has been specifiedContinue readingMozdownload 1.10 released

Mozmill 1.5.12 released

Something we have learned over the weekend was: Never say never. After we have released the 1.5.11 release of Mozmill on April 19th, we were sure to not have to ship any other release off this branch. We want to concentrate our work on Mozmill 2.0 and get it out as soon as possible. But things can change, and sometimes faster as expected. So by last Friday (it was already late in the evening) Mike Conley contacted me on IRC and mentioned that Mozmill will be broken starting with tomorrowsContinue readingMozmill 1.5.12 released

Nightly Tester Tools 3.3 released

Having a good experience when testing Firefox Nightly builds should be self-evident. Therefor the QA Automation Services team is maintaining the Nightly Tester Tools extension, which brings a couple of useful features to ease the testing efforts. While the extension works fine most of the time, we unfortunately fail at times when a version bump for Firefox happens. Exactly this action repeats in a 6 week interval and is the release cycle of Firefox. So what happens here? The extension registers binary components for the crashme feature in the manifestContinue readingNightly Tester Tools 3.3 released

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