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Comment Re:No speed improvement for those on x86_64 (Score 3, Informative) 338

It's not in trunk yet, but we want to get it in as soon as possible. It's not trivial, but not terribly difficult either - someone just has to take the time to do it. Unfortunately getting 3.5 out in time was a much higher priority, we just couldn't block on x64. If you're interested, a tracking bug is here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugzilla.mozilla.org%2Fshow_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D489146
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AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet 928

Slimy anti-virus provider AVG is spamming the internet with deceptive traffic pretending to be Internet Explorer. Essentially, users of the software automatically pre-crawl search results, which is bad, but they do so with an intentionally generic user agent. This is flooding websites with meaningless traffic (on Slashdot, we're seeing them as like 6% of our page traffic now). Best of all, they change their UA to avoid being filtered by websites who are seeing massive increases in bandwidth from worthless robots.

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