Sylos

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by Sylos 9y ago
"Sign in" as in into Chrome Sync?
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by Sylos 9y ago
> Someone installed software on their systems without their knowledge or explicit consent. Auto-updating software has been the norm for a while. This is nothing new, just because it was put into an extension instead.
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by Sylos 9y ago
The Mozilla Corporation is 100% owned by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, so any earnings that the Corporation makes, they either have to reinvest, put it to the side to reinvest it later or pay it out to the Foundation, where it's a
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by Sylos 9y ago
It pays off for Google to develop Chrome, because: * they can feed Chrome Sync data into their advertising databases. * it means that they don't have to pay other browser vendors quite so much to make them the default search engine. *
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by Sylos 9y ago
Mozilla could have just as well pushed this as part of the binary via auto-update.
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by Sylos 9y ago
> This would be a major blunder and showing that the merge into production process is lacking a lot. It's one flag, an entirely non-critical one at that, to either install this add-on hidden or not. It's not a major blunder to
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by Sylos 9y ago
Christ, are you seriously arguing that Apple, who does operate an ad network, is less driven by ad revenue than Mozilla, a non-profit, who at best will get to continue working on Firefox, if there continue to exist search engines that make
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by Sylos 9y ago
This is bullshit and you know it. If you want to shittalk Mozilla, then at least try to be honest.
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by Sylos 9y ago
How exactly? Whether they push out code to you by just changing the binary or by installing an extension makes no difference. In fact, pushing it out as an extension, means they actually have less control over your browser, because are boun
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by Sylos 9y ago
And he's saying that this occurence should have no effect on this decision, not in any rational mind.
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by Sylos 9y ago
I'm not saying that it shouldn't be tolerated. But other people don't want it to be tolerated, usually hardcore religious people. With Twitch officially prohibiting it and streamers doing it anyways, those people will be angr
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by Sylos 9y ago
Which does not slim the imbecility of this ban in any way.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Announcing moon missions and starting to ban reasoning with science within one week...
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by Sylos 9y ago
I mean, I find it annoying to get a nag screen when I can't even do anything about it, but repealing net neutrality in the US will have plenty negative effects on me either way, so I'm perfectly ok with it. It'll fuck competi
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by Sylos 9y ago
If you can do something better to protect Net Neutrality, do that, but it's not like bringing attention to an issue isn't going to make any difference. They'll think twice about enacting something like this when half the coun
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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, they can't do that, because it would give the impression that they're tolerating it. Which they are, but they can't leave that impression.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Hey now, they're "actively working to develop a solution that will enable Hangouts to work in Firefox without a [NPAPI] plugin" [0]. These things take time, you know. Especially with the limited resources of Google, Mozilla n
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by Sylos 9y ago
No one said that it's going to win a prize, but it's not like it's particularly terrible either. Also, it's the webpage of a game. You go to the webpage, you download it, and then you're probably not gonna see the w
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by Sylos 9y ago
W3Schools isn't a terribly reliable source for market share, since they only measure their visitors, which is primarily webdevs. And Mozilla offers a competing service, MDN, so webdevs primarily using Firefox probably also have a prefe
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by Sylos 9y ago
I know that people can be salty about open-source projects, because you sort of feel like you can get involved and they're supposed to be the good guys and then you notice that billions of other people just as well want to get involved
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by Sylos 9y ago
Maybe it's me having too high expectations with the amount of stuff Mozilla has been lining up and is releasing right now all within a short timeframe, but to me, it kind of already feels like Chrome is stagnating. There's for exa
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by Sylos 9y ago
Where are they advertising anything as progress in this interview? They're just trying to share experiences people had with WebExtensions, so others know what to expect and for Mozilla devs to know where things can still be improved.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Mozilla is still working on an actual API for hiding tabs, so presumably this should be possible in a few versions from now.
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by Sylos 9y ago
> I'm surprised there hasn't been more backlash about Quantum regarding specifically this. Tab Mix Plus doesn't work, so Quantum lacks the killer feature of multi-row tabs. Hardly anyone actually used this or even knew abo
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by Sylos 9y ago
No idea if this is intenional or if it was just for the drag space / design, but what it also does, is that it moves the start of the URL more into the middle of the viewing area. And the start of the URL contains security-critical inf
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by Sylos 9y ago
There is something to be said about people that use TripAdvisor going to a restaurant that exists and then posting non-5-star reviews. Also, TripAdvisor might actually employ undercover test eaters to check the quality of restaurants and th
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by Sylos 9y ago
Thanks for posting. I was already wondering, if SpiderMonkey didn't get the memo of Quantum coming or what, because I never heard much about it when seemingly every other team was touting their horn.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, and they're hardly "for-profit". The Mozilla Corporation technically is, but the Corporation is wholly owned by the Mozilla Foundation, which is legally a Non-Profit, so is forced to invest their money into their specif
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by Sylos 9y ago
1) Since they did not fire that founder, he retreated, 2) they broke those plugins to achieve significantly better performance, security, and an easier to work with, less often breaking extension API, 3) they need to bloat their browser to
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by Sylos 9y ago
Microsoft did recently increase system requirements quite a bit, I believe with the Anniversary Update. And well, he specifically said that operating systems go through bloat and debloat phases over and over. XP to Vista was quite a step to

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