Sylos

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by Sylos 9y ago
So, if you've ever gone onto the Google Play Store and saw some Minecraft clone that worked far too well for what anyone could possible hope to invest and make money off, that's almost certainly a rebranded Minetest-version. And t
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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, as it says in the article, Firefox and Chrome on iOS are both just WebKit wrappers, because Apple doesn't allow other browser engines into their store, so I don't know what kind of black magic or bias or whatnot your users a
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by Sylos 9y ago
Not to mention that many users will very much be a fan of having recognizable scrollbars everywhere.
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by Sylos 9y ago
DuckDuckGo is at least one magnitude smaller than Google. Not to mention that people who use DuckDuckGo probably also use Firefox. And Mozilla has(/had?) a deal with Yahoo! to advertise Firefox there.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Yeah, I do think your view is a bit skewed. There's an ever-growing number of users that grew up with computers, who know at least how to install a different program on their own, despite most definitely not being a techie either. And
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by Sylos 9y ago
It would have to be opt-in or the user would have to be clearly informed, if it actually collected personally identifiable information. That's German law. But it doesn't.
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by Sylos 9y ago
It will not store "your browsing history". It will store the webpages that you've browsed to, without identifying information about you associated with it and the entries will be intermixed with all other users' browsing
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by Sylos 9y ago
Microsoft did recently move their German headquarters from slightly outside of Munich's tax area to inside of Munich's tax area...
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by Sylos 9y ago
That is what they're wanting to move to. They asked the Microsoft partner Accenture, who could sell a lot of Windows clients here, to evaluate their IT situation and not even they dared to throw their reputation away and somehow sugges
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by Sylos 9y ago
> ...will also reduce costs by not having to run a Windows and LiMux client side-by-side. Mind that this means "reduce costs in comparison to moving to another non-Windows OS". They still do not have a cost calculation that wou
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by Sylos 9y ago
Is a violation with the Play Store ToS really necessary for Google to be allowed to throw you out? Last year, they did a witchhunt on third-party YouTube-apps capable of background playback on the basis of those supposedly violating the You
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by Sylos 9y ago
He probably means Accenture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture
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by Sylos 9y ago
Besides what the other commenters already responded, APIs don't just fall from the sky over night. And especially the APIs that you refer to, are just not trivial to write at all. Just because add-on developers yearn for super powers,
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by Sylos 9y ago
It doesn't for me...
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by Sylos 9y ago
Huh, except for the quip with calling it "Lite" and the simply factually wrong bullshit in the footnote that there would be no technical reasons, this surprises me. He was the only bigger extension dev that threw a complete tantru
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by Sylos 9y ago
I tested it on a fresh profile on Firefox Nightly 59.0a1 (2017-11-21), using https://panopticlick.eff.org/ . And well, apparently it has a pretty bad bug. It spoofs my screen size from previously 1366x768, which 1 in 9.43 br
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by Sylos 9y ago
> It's controversial because some people believe, reasonably, that opt-in is the only ethical model for collecting potentially sensitive information like browsing history, "anonymized" or not. You presuppose that it's
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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, it's not just to be faster. 57 is also quite a bit more secure and extensions will break far less often in the future. It also means a lot less maintenance work for Mozilla. It's mainly more secure by having most things sand
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by Sylos 9y ago
Tab groups were apparently a huge mess in the backend side of things, which is why they removed it. And Tree Tabs [1] seems to be doing something functional into the direction of tab groups. Maybe that works for you... [1]: https:/&#x
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by Sylos 9y ago
> What happened to the controversial cliqz program that they were testing? Last I checked, Mozilla did not respond to the privacy concerns of the integration. Mozilla owns parts of Cliqz, so they have insight into the business process, a
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by Sylos 9y ago
TL;DR: Trump. The US fell from first to sixth place in their study, since last year.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Your link 1 is from 2015/08/21. Electrolysis was rolled out with Firefox 48 on 2016/08/02. The respective Developer Edition build was released on 2016/04/25.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Which are the type of extensions that change so much about the browser that average users just won't use them. When I discovered Classic Theme Restorer, Tab Mix Plus and similar, I was already a semi-pro user and I still found them int
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by Sylos 9y ago
What uglycoyote commented is the stopgap solution for now, but an API for doing that is in the works, so in a few versions from now, you shouldn't need that more-or-less hack anymore.
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by Sylos 9y ago
1) Mozilla isn't retarded. They've done market research on this. For example, in Sep. 2015 around 40% of users did not use any extensions at all. Another sizeable number of users is going to have their ad blocker and nothing else.
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by Sylos 9y ago
On the desktop (in Firefox 57), you can find your tabs under Library->Synced Tabs. On the Android version, they appear on the homepage->History->Synced Devices. Mind that they don't sync immediately. There's an interval f
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by Sylos 9y ago
They own Pocket. This is just their own content recommendation engine. No payments involved. An attempt to make the web rely less on search engines.
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by Sylos 9y ago
You can disable "toolkit.cosmeticAnimations.enabled" in about:config. This affects more than just the pulse, but you'll probably actually be happy about that...
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by Sylos 9y ago
Mind though, that this effort will almost certainly die off after June 26, 2018. That's the EOL date of Firefox 52 ESR, meaning the actual end of Mozilla supporting legacy extensions. This sort of cynic statement is based on this legac
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by Sylos 9y ago
I'm not entirely sure what you mean with that, so I can't test it, but have you tried about:blank? So, just give it "about:blank" as URL in New Tab Override. That's a blank page, as you might have guessed, but it&#x

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