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{ Monthly Archives } February 2009

How addons.mozilla.org defends against XSS attacks

One of the things that gets a lot of news time these days is XSS. There are a lot of places that explain what it is and how to prevent it but most are oversimplified or don’t provide real world examples. I thought I’d explain a couple of the ways AMO attempts to [...]

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Verbatim Server Downtime

Translate Toolkit 1.3.0 was released a few days ago. I was following along with trunk on my development box and I wanted to upgrade our alpha install to take advantage of the new features (namely, speed improvements) and the django framework.
I attempted this tonight and it was not a pretty upgrade (or install, for [...]

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Add-on Statistics Status (part 2)

This is the second update about add-ons’ statistics. Read part one.
Statistics for both update pings and download counts have been updated beginning with February 1 through today, February 6th. Some notes:

New statistics are stored in UTC and data processing happens shortly after the logs close. This means you can expect new data [...]

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