Osmose

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by Osmose 12y ago
The original link is now redirecting to the better link anyway, so I've changed the title to match the new article.
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by Osmose 12y ago
FYI blog.mozilla.org is down, IT people are working on it.
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by Osmose 12y ago
They're separate posts, I hadn't seen that one until you shared it. I think it's a better article than this one, and would be happy if a mod changed the link and title. :D
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by Osmose 12y ago
You're assuming that Yahoo is paying more, assuming that money was the motivation for making the deal, and assuming that Mozilla employees believe that partnering with Google is better for the open web than partnering with Yahoo.
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New Search Strategy for Firefox(blog.mozilla.org)
430 points by Osmose 12y ago|344 comments
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The Open Standard, a news site about open, transparent, collaborative systems(openstandard.mozilla.org)
7 points by Osmose 12y ago|1 comments
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by Osmose 12y ago
There's a repo where I drop the source code to about:home snippets: https://github.com/mozilla/snippets This one in particular is at https://github.com/mozilla/snippets/blob/master&#
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by Osmose 12y ago
It won't 404, but that page was made by copy-pasting the source code of about:home from Firefox, including some image paths that are only valid on Firefox. I was too lazy to make it better since it's not _really_ meant for public
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by Osmose 12y ago
Nope! Sheer coincidence that my username is similar.
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by Osmose 12y ago
If you're using Firefox and can't see the promotional game for this on about:home yet, go to about:home and open up the Web Console. Run "gSnippetsMap.clear()" and then clear your cache. When you refresh about:home, you
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Humble Mozilla Bundle(humblebundle.com)
517 points by Osmose 12y ago|117 comments
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by Osmose 12y ago
My senior project was a Super Nintendo emulator. It worked out well because 1) there's a decent amount of documentation out there on sites like romhacking.net, 2) there's usually at least one open-source emulator that you can use
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by Osmose 12y ago
hurley got confirmation from Google that they're working on a fix: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1059074#c22
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by Osmose 12y ago
Google is currently working on a fix: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1059074#c22
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by Osmose 12y ago
That would be awesome! I filed a bug to ask how plausible it is: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1048033 Perhaps they could make it ignore blackboxed scripts by emitting a fake event and waiting until a non-bla
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Chris Beard Named CEO of Mozilla(blog.mozilla.org)
162 points by Osmose 12y ago|141 comments
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by Osmose 12y ago
In the same way I go to McDonalds for quick mediocre food, I hit the frontpage for quick mediocre posts. It's not good discussion, but I still enjoy it for what it is.
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by Osmose 12y ago
The mentor part is _huge_. Navigating the Mozilla world (Is that info in a wiki? Where are the docs for this? How do you know who to ask questions to?) is a learned skill, and at the beginning it's a big deal to have someone who, even
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by Osmose 12y ago
There's a stigma against mental illness in the US, and while I don't have solid statistics for it, I think it's reasonable to say that there are many, many people who hide their mental illnesses because of that stigma. These
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by Osmose 12y ago
So my statement was a bit too short and not quite accurate. For a reference, the closest thing I could find within 10 minutes was this mailing list thread: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.governance/fl
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by Osmose 12y ago
> I don't know if this is better or worse than average at Mozilla, It's less about contradiction (which implies a final decision was made and then reversed) and more about being painfully open. Other companies may also have lot
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by Osmose 12y ago
This article is an interpretation of https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/05/09/new-tab-e... and I'm not sure it's the correct interpretation. My personal opinion (which might be wrong!
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by Osmose 12y ago
I just installed JS Switch on Nightly and clicked the Menu(burger) icon, then Customize, and was able to drag the JS Switch button into my toolbar. (This does not address that it's crappy that icons that were in the addon bar don'
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by Osmose 12y ago
There might be other reasons, but a big one is that having search and address bar in one box means that normal URLs you type into the address bar will get sent to the search engine for autocomplete by default. Since that's a major priv
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by Osmose 13y ago
I love that sheppy didn't tiptoe around how infuriating this whole thing has been, regardless of whether you thought Brendan should step down or not, what with the sensationalist media and misinformed public. I haven't been able t
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by Osmose 13y ago
> Mozilla reserves the right to hire and fire (which would have been Eich's fate > had he not resigned) While I agree that Scalzi's post is a much more objective take on the events, you're false on this point
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by Osmose 13y ago
That's a fair point, although there's a few caveats (HN uses CloudFlare I think, and replace "database" with "filesystem" and it's still another component to deal with). My counter-argument would be that H
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by Osmose 13y ago
Just to clarify, by "stupid amount of different components" I meant more that a typical visit to website can involve tons of different, standalone components: Database, application server, cache, load balancer, CDN, browser, etc.
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by Osmose 13y ago
I'm not quite in the same boat, but everything I do these days is related to webdev, and pretty much all of the sites I work on are not technically difficult (data is in the hundreds of thousands of database rows, tasks are straightfor
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by Osmose 13y ago
He did not tie it to Mozilla; rather, as part of California's laws for political donations, you must state who your employer is. His blog post on the matter ( https://brendaneich.com/2012/04/community-and-diver

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