Merged revisions 66928,66936,66939-66940 via svnmerge from

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  r66928 | georg.brandl | 2008-10-16 20:20:56 +0000 (Thu, 16 Oct 2008) | 2 lines

  Add more TOC to the whatsnew index page.
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  r66936 | georg.brandl | 2008-10-16 21:20:15 +0000 (Thu, 16 Oct 2008) | 2 lines

  #4131: FF3 doesn't write cookies.txt files.
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  r66939 | georg.brandl | 2008-10-16 21:36:39 +0000 (Thu, 16 Oct 2008) | 2 lines

  part of #4012: kill off old name "processing".
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  r66940 | georg.brandl | 2008-10-16 21:38:48 +0000 (Thu, 16 Oct 2008) | 2 lines

  #4083: add "as" to except handler grammar as per PEP 3110.
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