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by Osmose 11y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla, I maintain django-browserid (and StravosK is a valued contributor <3), and I have implemented Persona on many sites. This is all just my own personal opinion. I was very bullish on Persona early on, but
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by Osmose 11y ago
It's not intentional. Granted, it's not like Mozilla itself decided that fmarier's blog was the best place to put this, he just posted it because it's his blog and he's a smart person. :D It's actually conseque
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JSON Inspector in Firefox Developer Edition(twitter.com)
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by Osmose 11y ago
For years Mozilla agreed with you and took that stand. Nothing happened. Nothing changed. Continuing to take that stand won't suddenly make change happen. It hasn't worked and it won't work. Mozilla still agrees that it'
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by Osmose 11y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that even if we can't use Gecko on iOS, having _something_ on iOS rather than nothing means that people who use Firefox on Desktop or other platforms will be less likely to switch away due to issues like th
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by Osmose 11y ago
Which add-ons are you referring to? AFAIK the big 3 are AdBlock (Plus? There's so many jeez), uBlock (and Origin), and, in a distant third, Privacy Badger.
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by Osmose 11y ago
The list is on the wiki and everyone was encouraged to add stuff without a whole lot of guidance as to what in particular qualifies, so take that list with a grain of salt. For the record, Bugzilla and PDF.js are both Mozilla projects.
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by Osmose 11y ago
Well, in this case it's being used with derision; it's deriding clipboard libraries that rely on hidden Flash players to get access to the clipboard.
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by Osmose 11y ago
I once worked on a website that analyzed Python code in order to index it into elasticsearch for structural search queries (things like "find me all classes that inherit from SomeBaseClass"). Python's built-in ast library out
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by Osmose 11y ago
> On one hand, that link provides pretty strong (implicit) evidence that plenty of stuff won't be possible after the switch away from XUL, whether or not Tree Style Tabs is possible. From the FAQ, there's a proposal for a way t
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by Osmose 11y ago
I agree that the timeline is rather short. I think it's totally possible for the Firefox team to achieve their goals within that time period, but whether addon authors can keep up is not as clear to me. We'll just have to see how
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by Osmose 11y ago
See https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions#Additional_APIs There's valid criticisms against WebExtensions, but the biggest misconception is that the capabilities of WebExtensions are set in stone and that X or Y addon
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by Osmose 11y ago
Well, personally I think that no one should be treated as damaged goods for the rest of their career, but before we go all kneejerk on ekr, let's make sure we understand how things work at Mozilla. Mozilla separates our codebase for Fi
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by Osmose 11y ago
Really neat game, and I actually appreciate it when a JS game doesn't obfuscate it's code, partially for learning and partially for cheating. :D
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by Osmose 11y ago
Honestly, what made me switch to Atom from Sublime was how easy making a package is compared to Sublime. For years I used Sublime with a customized fork of some emacs-like package that mimicked emacs' open-file behavior. However, becau
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by Osmose 11y ago
I believe it's because this is the first piece of Rust code landing in Firefox.
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by Osmose 11y ago
Off the top of my head, based off things we normally look for in our analytics: - See how people get to the privacy page from where they enter the site. Useful to see if some categories are getting more traffic than others, so that we can r
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by Osmose 11y ago
As a Mozilla Web Developer who has worked on several of our websites, including this one, this is exactly the thought process behind this kind of choice. It's the same thought process behind 90% of the things we do that people hate Moz
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Refract – Turn any website into an installable application(refract.mkelly.me)
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by Osmose 12y ago
Just a reminder that MDN is a wiki and thus a collaborative effort. Check out https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Doc_status/Lear... if you want to help make the Learn section of MDN better!
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by Osmose 12y ago
You're assuming that the time/money spent working on web literacy at Mozilla can just be taken and thrown at Firefox to make it better. I disagree, and think that web literacy is a good direction to put some effort towards as it r
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by Osmose 12y ago
> a lot of people who understand why "positive growth" is not only wrong, but a load of brainwashed crap I mean it's sort've a redundant term, but in context (positive growth of Firefox users, something that has been
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by Osmose 12y ago
Also important to note that sponsored tiles disappear once you have enough history for the new tab page to fill with your favorite sites. I mean it's still ads (And I don't like them personally) but it's ads in a space that w
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by Osmose 12y ago
All I was trying to clear up was that mozilla.org is our standard domain regardless of what's being posted, and thus there was no conscious decision to put "corporate speak" on a .org domain. I dunno exactly why this decision
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by Osmose 12y ago
There's currently no meaningful distinction between the two domains. mozilla.org is the standard domain for all mozilla sites (developer.mozilla.org, addons.mozilla.org, or, in this case, blog.mozilla.org). I think we maybe use mozilla
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Panasonic Making Firefox OS Smart TVs(blog.mozilla.org)
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by Osmose 12y ago
Repo for the server-side element: https://github.com/mozilla-services/loop-server
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by Osmose 12y ago
True! It requires some skill to write concise code that can be understood easily. I think that the required verboseness of Java makes things worse than the potential for excessively-short code does in Python, though.
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(1) isn't really something that's terribly arguable one way or another (In my experience Python is plenty fast for most tasks, but my tasks differ from your tasks). I question (2) though. Why do you think that a Python program wil
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by Osmose 12y ago
A significant amount of the article is arguing that Java for everything is better because the author and his coworkers already knows it. I can make the same argument for Python _for me_. And for my company too; we have a ton of Python devel

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