# Newsletter 73

DevFeed: [Newsletter 73](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/newsletter-73-32939.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/newsletter-73/>)

Published: 2010-06-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [Firefox](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/firefox.md>), [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bug.md>), [Kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kernel.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/win32.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>)

Tags: [bug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bug.md>), [firefox](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firefox.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [kernel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kernel.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>)

## AI overview

ReactOS Newsletter 73 discusses a ReactOS timer bug exposed by Firefox downloads and describes a kernel-timer-based fix. It also reports problems with console screen-buffer bookkeeping, including cleanup issues that could cause a resource leak and create a potential security problem.

## Source excerpt

A word of advice to everyone, traveling through six different cities in the span of two weeks requires a careful balance between changes of clothes brought and lightness of luggage, though a willingness to hand wash will also go a long way. Timers and Messages Several years back when I first joined the ReactOS team as a release engineer, which I technically still am, the team ran into an odd bug where when downloading something in Firefox they needed to move the mouse to see any progress.