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There is a nasty bug in qcms component of Firefox 3.5 (Shiretoko). This manifested itself on my desktop computer running Ubuntu 9.04 with fglrx 8.63.2. Images appear corrupted using the fglrx ATI binary driver (proprietary). After quite a bit of digging I found this:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497363

This will hopefully be fixed in 3.5.2. Please create a bugzilla account and vote on this issue if it is affecting you. In the meantime, this will get you going again. Enter about:config into the browser bar.

gfx.color_management.mode => 2

In case you've hit a roadblock with this like I did, the answer lies here, courtesy of Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/746173/form-with-checkboxselectmultiple-doesnt-validate

Can't connect to Yahoo IM using Pidgin suddenly this morning? Here's why.

http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/8853

It seems that Yahoo has decided to slowly retire the protocol version used by Pidgin. There is also a bug in libpurple causing it only uses the first login server returned by the query. Some time yesterday evening Yahoo deprecated the old login protocols on that first server returned.

As a workaround, you can change the "pager server" field under your Yahoo account's advanced tab to 66.163.181.179, which is a known working server at this time. It seems they upgraded that server too. Go to http://pidgin.im to get the latest version that fixes this ...