Sylos

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by Sylos 8y ago
The problem is that WebKit isn't really a competitor to Blink: 1) It holds this marketshare mostly because of the forced monopoly on iOS. It's not technologically particularly far ahead or even has a browser implementing it with g
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by Sylos 8y ago
> sneaking extensions into updates that users didn't opt for. If you have auto-updates enabled, Mozilla, like Google, has complete control over the source code that runs on your system. Had they wanted to sneak new source code in, t
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by Sylos 8y ago
The Mozilla Corporation is a 100% subsidiary of the legally non-profit Mozilla Foundation. They can't pay out their profit to their stake holders. So, the only profit motive comes from Mozilla employees wanting to keep their jobs.
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by Sylos 8y ago
So, this was a known exploit before Chrome even existed...
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by Sylos 8y ago
That delay should always be there, even when the window regains focus after being out of focus. You just usually don't notice it, because it's usually already done until you have your mouse on the button.
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by Sylos 8y ago
It wasn't ever an actual problem there? It has the countdown before you can click OK, so with the user holding down Enter for 5 seconds, you'd not even get a handful of files, and it blocks the file dialog from "untrusted&quo
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by Sylos 8y ago
Put this into userChrome.css to have tabs at the bottom: @namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); #TabsToolbar { -moz-box-ordinal-group: 2; } If
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by Sylos 8y ago
Yeah, even if officially deprecate it, this thing is going to live on for a few years still.
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by Sylos 8y ago
Mozilla is by the way also of the opinion that a monoculture would be horrible for the web. Arguments that I've heard from Mozilla employees: - Without competitors, innovation is dead. If there was only one web-engine, why bother impro
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by Sylos 8y ago
You did not say much about your methodology, so just general things that I imagine played into this: - What is a "user"? Is it someone who downloaded it once? Is it just straight up the number of installs that ever happened? Or is
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by Sylos 8y ago
It was within a month or so after the official release of Firefox's new theme that it became publicly known that Chrome was working on a new theme, too. So, there was no way they could have adequately responded to that. You just can&#x
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by Sylos 8y ago
Servo is nowhere near ready. It's been a few months since I've seen actual results, but I'd be surprised, if it nowadays completed ACID3 (which was state of the art for browsers in 2009). The thing is that rewriting a browser
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by Sylos 8y ago
More technical article: https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/how-safe-browsing-works-...
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by Sylos 8y ago
They should also investigate Amazon's treatment of their suppliers. I've worked in two supplier companies that would have preferred to not sell to Amazon, but essentially had no other choice. In both of them, when sending somethin
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by Sylos 8y ago
The German cartel office also investigates general abuse of dominant market positions, including monopolies (where one could say that the market doesn't exist anymore). This double-role of the cartel office makes sense, because the who
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by Sylos 8y ago
They were told to not anymore host the extension on AMO, but it's still signed by Mozilla (and I doubt they would stop signing future versions), so you can still download and install the extension from elsewhere. Also, Mozilla themselv
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by Sylos 8y ago
Correlation != causation. And even if that was the reason, your response didn't make anyone any smarter. How is it bad? Which you can't answer, because your only line of reasoning is that it has to be bad, because it's not as
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by Sylos 8y ago
The entire genre of roguelikes might fit that. Because they generally have this permadeath mechanic, every step in the game is meaningful to not losing, and the game developers are also kind of forced to make every part of the game fun and
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by Sylos 8y ago
Why is Google, a company with gross revenue of much more than that, not doing it at all? Obviously, the Mozilla Corporation's only stake holder is the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, so they can't pay out much of their revenue to a
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by Sylos 8y ago
You can use the Developer Edition, Nightly or Unbranded Builds: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#Unbranded...
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by Sylos 8y ago
For context, this is the OSM decision that they're offended by: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Working_Group_Minutes/DW... TL;DR: OSM has marked Crimea as Russian territory with the reasoning that on the
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by Sylos 8y ago
Considering that they worked for $ beforehand and will likely not get more than $ at other places, there is at least the theoretical possibility that it didn't all turn to shit and that they would choose to continue working at the comp
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by Sylos 8y ago
As you might guess, the legal interpretation of "not being forced" will be more nuanced than "theoretically the guy could abandon a normal life in society to not have to use this". For example, not being able to use a sm
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by Sylos 8y ago
And to expand on this: Assuming that they properly stop personalizing ads, there should be little reason for them to continue collecting as much data. It would especially also be a very clear violation of the law in many countries, if they
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by Sylos 8y ago
> BTW, while Gimp is not a photoshop replacement (please fix the window behaviour, guys) If you mean the multi-window behaviour, as of 2.10 the default is now set to single-window. If you don't have 2.10 in your distro yet, you can
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by Sylos 8y ago
The use in government would mean running it in centrally administered form. The end user would just as well just click on the icon on their desktop and the application opens where they do their work. There may obviously be other problems, l
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by Sylos 8y ago
> Either the software would get less invasive, or we'd see Linux everywhere, wins all around. The unfortunate part is that this is just one department in our government that sort of independently does these investigations. Whether a
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by Sylos 8y ago
> What Google needs to do is lock information for verified businesses or businesses they’re directly scraping from the Corp location pages. If they do that and the correct information changes without them updating, they're (rightful
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by Sylos 8y ago
I think, the reality is that lots of people just downvote, because they disagree with an opinion and don't feel like arguing their position. So, if this explanation would only be visible to you, I imagine you'd get lots of "e
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by Sylos 8y ago
I especially enjoy it when I catch myself trying to reinvent that wheel the one millionth time. Just today I was thinking to myself "All these music player apps (of which I tried five) are really convoluted, I should do my own." S

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