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by Sylos 9y ago
What do you mean with "more robust"? You are talking about the actual Firefox Profiles and not about Container Tabs, right? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-... You can also ge
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by Sylos 9y ago
So, look at this graph: http://netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=1&qpaf=&qpcustom... Notice that major bump in August 2016 and after? Firefox 48 was released on the 2nd August 2016. This was the first release to
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by Sylos 9y ago
All new APIs taken together, no, won't be stable for at least half a year still, very likely longer. They're still very much in the process of designing and implementing new APIs. But the core APIs are the same as Chrome's. T
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by Sylos 9y ago
Mozilla is a non-profit organization. Any money that they make, they have to reinvest into Firefox or other Mozilla projects. There's not some guy getting rich from you helping them out. All the help that you invest will eventually fal
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by Sylos 9y ago
The hope of the day in this space seems to be Plasma Mobile: https://plasma-mobile.org/
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by Sylos 9y ago
Right, but they're not here to improve the web. If anything, these efforts are just to delay getting the next billion-dollar fee.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Yeah, I can't even imagine there being 8 billion apps in total. Like, that's more than there are humans on Earth. If every 50th person would be an app developer, then every app developer would still have to publish 50 apps all by
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by Sylos 9y ago
This ranks highly on the worst webpages that I've ever been to. Shows off nicely that it takes a lot of effort not just to make good webpages, but also to make the truly atrocious ones.
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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, it's not Chrome which needed the RAM, nor is it Safari that only needs to support the Mac-ecosystem, nor is it Edge that doesn't need to support anything prior to Windows 10. They only just dropped support for XP and Vista i
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by Sylos 9y ago
Windows 7 is still the most popular OS, but the adoption of 64-bit OSs is nowadays at around 78%. https://hardware.metrics.mozilla.com/#goto-os-and-architectu...
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by Sylos 9y ago
There's some criteria by which it just goes through without human code review. I don't know what the exact criteria are, but I imagine it's something like if your extension never connects to the internet and doesn't inte
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by Sylos 9y ago
>Chrome's reviewal process is really nice. It usually takes <30 minutes. Nice for the extension developer, but there's a reason for Mozilla's longer review process. They actually sit down human beings to look over the c
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by Sylos 9y ago
Personally, I don't think that they'll keep it. It is specifically in the Test Pilot program which is for trying out and seeing the response for things, even if they are not necessarily realistically going to be put into the brows
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by Sylos 9y ago
They have these Test Pilot things specifically to gather feedback, so the best place to have this heard, is by putting it into the feedback-form.
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by Sylos 9y ago
I generally also think that it's a bad idea to do, but I feel like it's a discussion that needs to be had with governments around the world wanting to backdoor everything. It means that normal citizens won't be completely hel
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by Sylos 9y ago
Obligatory plug for the same thing in big: https://www.redox-os.org/
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by Sylos 9y ago
Customer trust is one of the most valuable metrics for a VPN provider, so this is extremely good PR for them.
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by Sylos 9y ago
These Test Pilot experiments usually last for a few months, but there's no fixed end date, I don't think. It's mostly just a matter of having gathered enough feedback. But well, if it seems like a feature that people want, th
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by Sylos 9y ago
If with experimental home page you're referring to Activity Stream [1], something similar cropped up in Firefox Nightly around a week ago. Looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/nhGpHYt.png Each section can be hidden indi
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by Sylos 9y ago
They've launched these specifically to gather feedback, so do put that into the feedback form. These are in no way finalized and it's definitely possible that they'll take that into account. I believe the initial inspiration
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by Sylos 9y ago
https://www.reddit.com/comments/6qwf3s/comment/dl0hrsi
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by Sylos 9y ago
> Are Mozilla paying for people to do these experiments or is it people sending patches? I don't know but I'd imagine a lot of it is the latter. As far as I'm aware, it is mostly developed by Mozilla employees, but heavily
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by Sylos 9y ago
No, not at all. These are in the Test Pilot program, which is specifically for trying new things and getting feedback if and how they should be included in Firefox. So, most of these are not here to stay for the long term. They might be inc
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by Sylos 9y ago
Yeah, a lot has happened in the past few months. And there's still more things scheduled for the next few versions...
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by Sylos 9y ago
Go into about:config and set "privacy.trackingprotection.enabled" to true. This is default-enabled in Private Browsing. Also, uBlock Origin and similar are perfectly functional extensions. Takes just three clicks to install uBlock
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by Sylos 9y ago
Well, the APIs that make sense for various browsers can be shared by those browsers. The APIs that are specific won't be. For example, Chrome doesn't support sidebars. Opera does. So, Opera constructed a sidebar API. Then came alo
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by Sylos 9y ago
Mozilla is pretty much pioneering this effort. They've been looking to replace the current extension model for years, as it's not even really an API, it's mostly just a way for people to fuck around with Firefox's source
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by Sylos 9y ago
In case you're not aware, NoScript also exists for Android: https://noscript.net/nsa/ Not quite as functional as its bigger brother, but an option nonetheless.
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by Sylos 9y ago
GNU/NT...
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by Sylos 9y ago
Yeah, at the time I could still understand them calling the original Creators Update that way, just to have some marketing buzzword to throw at people, but "Fall Creators Update" is really just the dumbest thing I've seen in

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