Yay, openssl 1.0 has been released!

openssl 1.0

I did some research on my prolonged firefox startup time and alas I found something cool:

Vacuum your Firefox databases

Basically you have to do the following:

• Install sqlite3:

  sudo apt-get install sqlite3



• Vacuum your Firefox DBs:

  find ~/.mozilla/firefox -name "*.sqlite" -exec echo sqlite3 \{\} VACUUM \;



• Reindex your Firefox DBs:

  find ~/.mozilla/firefox -name "*.sqlite" -exec echo sqlite3 \{\} REINDEX \;

I stumbled over a bug in hsolinkcontrol, which
also seems to be reported in this pharscape forum post

Bug description:

• Ubuntu 9.04, with NO(!) resolvconf package installed


• hsolink 1.0.118 package


• HSOconnect 1.2.18 beta


• /etc/resolv.conf is saved to /etc/resolv.conf.hsoc%s.tmp


• the permissions of the created /etc/resolv.conf.hsoc%s.tmp file are
  660 and root:root


• when the saved /etc/resolv.conf.hsoc%s.tmp is moved back to /etc/resolv.conf, this file also gets the 660 permissions


• after that, only root can read /etc/resolv.conf


• the effect is, that DNS resolution does not work except when you are root


• installing resolvconf will work around this issue

This can probably be easily fixed, by making sure that the
/etc/resolv.conf.hsoc%s.tmp has the same permissions as the original
/etc/resolv.conf file. Since installing the resolvconf package makes the bug go away, I did not fix the source, but just sent a notice to the author.