Sylos

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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, privacy is not binary. Nothing is ever fully public or fully private. Something being more or less private just describes how hard it is for someone to get this information. The inertia of this information. Do they have to drive to yo
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by Sylos 9y ago
Just go into Private Browsing in Android Firefox and you have essentially the same thing as Firefox Focus, except with Gecko underneath it and all the usual amenities of a full-featured browser. Focus is meant for average users, who don&#x2
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by Sylos 9y ago
You're asking for a completely new browser engine to be written. A browser with a completely new browser engine isn't going to be "good" for a long time, because most webpages will just be broken on it, until they'v
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by Sylos 9y ago
Servo is not a major browser engine. It's a small research project. And Firefox continues to use Gecko. It has some bits and pieces from Servo in it and the Mozilla marketing team has dubbed everything "Quantum" for the Fir
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by Sylos 9y ago
With Firefox 57, they're now essentially equivalent in terms of the security architecture. There's a small architectural difference with how tabs are sandboxed against one another. That is, Chrome starts a new process for every ta
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by Sylos 9y ago
It's because there's so much competition for experienced people in Silicon Valley. If Mozilla wouldn't pay her that much, another company would.
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by Sylos 9y ago
> The chairwoman takes over $1M year? Why would an open source project need anyone who would be so unethical? This is like a city councilperson paying themselves $1M/year. The Mozilla Corporation is 100% owned by the Mozilla Foundat
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by Sylos 9y ago
I'm not happy either with this surveillance freak in a position with publicity. No matter how sure I am that his political attempts will fail again and again, with him repeating this bullshit over and over people are actually starting
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by Sylos 9y ago
Of course, it's not always healthy, but what are you gonna do about it?
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by Sylos 9y ago
And you take this wisdom from where? They tried to build an entire mobile operating system before. Clearly they do care.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Yes, the Android-version is also just a Blink wrapper. It's almost impossible for Microsoft to port Trident/EdgeHTML to other operating systems, because it's so deeply integrated into Windows.
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by Sylos 9y ago
He's not directly elected. Merkel appointed him.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Thomas de Maizière wants that. The guy says unconstitutional shit like this every other week. It'll be shot down by our supreme court for sure, if it's even taken into consideration in the first place.
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by Sylos 9y ago
I've never used the Microsoft fonts on Linux, so maybe I'm completely misinterpreting your question, but if it's just a case of you wanting to know names of Microsoft fonts: The classics: - Times New Roman (Serif) - Arial (Sa
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by Sylos 9y ago
You can also download Simple Menu [1] and Tiled Menu [2] with a right-click on the panel, then Add Widgets -> Get New Widgets. I think, they'll be available in that Alternatives-menu then. If not, you can add them through Add Widget
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by Sylos 9y ago
Firefox 52 ESR would probably be the safer alternative. It will receive security updates until June 26, 2018. And I honestly just can't imagine Waterfox or other forks trying to keep XUL compatibility to stay secure long after that, as
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by Sylos 9y ago
Have you tried this and it worked well for you? Mozilla has shifted around and swapped out tons of code in Firefox since the official deprecation of XUL extensions. So, I imagine most XUL extensions will be broken by now just on that accoun
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by Sylos 9y ago
With him wanting to keep compatibility with XUL, that's basically impossible. Mozilla didn't just deprecate XUL for fun, compatibility with most XUL extensions is now already broken, just because they moved around so much stuff in
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by Sylos 9y ago
The Dash Online Search has been off by default since Ubuntu 16.04. The "Dash" is also specifically a UI element in Unity and not part of GNOME. I imagine, they keep these parts of the Privacy Policy around for people still using U
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by Sylos 9y ago
In my country, it's illegal to not disclose a hack that you know of. So, bigger fines would be one way to incentivize them.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Maybe see what memory usage is like in a new Firefox profile. That'll be essentially like a factory-reset Firefox, but you can always switch back to your old profile, if it does not change anything. Type "about:profiles" into
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by Sylos 9y ago
I think, there's still some bug that's draining abnormal amounts of battery on macOS for some people, so maybe do check back in a few months or so.
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by Sylos 9y ago
I think, it should be Configurable under Customize and then one of the checkboxes at the bottom.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Ubuntu ships Firefox updates independent of its normal release schedule, so you should always have the latest version there, shortly after the official Firefox release. But you might want to consider a different distro with more up-to-date
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by Sylos 9y ago
In a lot of ways, yes, Firefox had a lot of technical cruft that they got rid of with this release and in those respects have now mainly just caught up with Chrome. But Mozilla has been optimizing around this technical cruft for so long now
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by Sylos 9y ago
Personally, I don't think there's ever been a better time to start building an extension for Firefox. Some might disagree with me here. So, Mozilla did drop old extension APIs, but I think you're misunderstanding things here.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Sending data by itself isn't commonly seen as an attack vector with things like TLS in place and working, as far as we know. At least, Google has been sending browsing history with no additional encryption as part of Chrome Sync since
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by Sylos 9y ago
Funnily enough, in German we do sometimes spell it "Tschau".
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by Sylos 9y ago
Right, but does a monoculture actually help that in any way? It's not like Apple is always at the forefront of innovation with WebKit.
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by Sylos 9y ago
I think, that's rather an argument in favor of Minetest. It's true that Java (which the original and mainly modded version of Minecraft is written in), is widely known and generally allows to write functionality relatively quickly

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