Sylos

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by Sylos 10y ago
Chrome is closed-source, so being specific isn't going to be possible. There are several specific privacy complaints about Chromium, though: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/
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by Sylos 10y ago
I think, he was mostly joking, but it might actually be the case. Sounds like they want to keep the Pocket company intact as it is, just as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Corporation and with everything open-sourced. So, Pocket as
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by Sylos 10y ago
I disagree. People wanted to get rid of it, because they viewed it as an untrustworthy component, which it now is not anymore. The few kB that it takes up are really not a problem that anyone could rationally complain about.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Mozilla releases their financial reports about two years after any given financial year, so we should soon know for sure and I also just really can't imagine them having lied as a result of that.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Yeah, but there's for example also a Pocket Android app and iOS app. Those should get open-sourced now, too, and I heavily doubt that they were before.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Reportedly, they haven't even looked at the costs of moving back to Windows yet, nor is there any indication of this actually saving money in the long run.
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by Sylos 10y ago
This is mostly a political thing, rather than them having any real problems.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Yeah, this is actually distinctly different from Chrome's profiles. Firefox does already have an equivalent to Chrome's profiles [0], so it wouldn't make a whole lot of sense to implement this, if it wasn't different. [0
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by Sylos 10y ago
Do you mean officially considered beta/stable quality or just that it's there in the Beta or Stable version, so that you don't have to migrate to a less stable version of Firefox in order to use it? If it's the latter,
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by Sylos 10y ago
Well, that's not really the idea behind the feature. If you want that, you should work with different Firefox Profiles: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...
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by Sylos 10y ago
The foundational work is there, it's currently still going through testing, although you can already manually enable it and it works rather well, but as of right now it's not planned to have complete separation for each individual
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by Sylos 10y ago
Yet another potential solution, if you're on Linux. This is more on the accessible side of things, it doesn't do separation as much as you would like it: KDE Plasma has what they call "Activities". In its basic idea, it&
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by Sylos 10y ago
The vulnerability described in your second link doesn't actually work in Firefox...
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by Sylos 10y ago
Yeah, it's already in Firefox Stable. It's not yet fit to be used as an actual security feature, especially not the outdated version of it in Stable, but just for separating logins, I'd assume it's perfectly fine.
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by Sylos 10y ago
I actually have a use-case for this. I have a "webdev"-profile where I've got none of my usual webpage-breaking privacy extensions, I do have Tree Style Tabs there, because when coding I tend to open a ton of tabs, and well,
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by Sylos 10y ago
You can also type "about:profiles" into the URL-bar, but yeah, that's a rather recent addition.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Firefox also has these kind of profiles, but he wrote restricted by site, so they'd have to transparently switch as you're using the browser.
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by Sylos 10y ago
You'd think so, yeah, but I'm sure there's going to be some people who just want to be negative about it, and I'm glad that I have a link that I can smack those people with.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Well, no, the old logo was practically not usable in marketing. There was nothing really recognizable about the dinosaur, nothing which people would connect to Mozilla, if they didn't already know the dinosaur anyways.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Yeah, that's something that I absolutely hate about journalism, or well, rather our culture in general. If for example Google does something bad, then that's no news worth reporting about. It's just business as usual. And peo
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by Sylos 10y ago
NoScript is also available for Android Firefox: https://noscript.net/nsa/
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by Sylos 10y ago
As far as I understand it, both of the above. AMP apparently doesn't work on Firefox and AMP-pages are only linked to by Google. Obviously, some people might copy the AMP-link themselves and post it somewhere, but if you're not mu
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by Sylos 10y ago
It wasn't looked at, because no one paid a bounty for it. And they stated as reason for that, that Firefox simply didn't have any major architectural changes since the last pwn2own, i.e. they probably wouldn't find anything n
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by Sylos 10y ago
The classics are a lot more intricate and thought out. You'd break a 7th grader's neck, if you wanted them to interpret that correctly on their own.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Ellipsis will take up less space from Firefox 53 onwards: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2016/12/20/these-weeks-in-f... As for the CSS-file, you have to create a folder called "chrome" in your pro
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by Sylos 10y ago
I mean, there's plenty of add-ons to make Firefox's UI slimmer. Including a setting won't do much else than that.
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by Sylos 10y ago
I don't know what the current state of the implementation is, but Mozilla definitely does have plans to add APIs to the WebExtensions-standard to allow the implementation of add-ons like Vimperator.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Yeah, you still regularly see people claiming that Chrome's JavaScript engine is so much better than the competition, when in reality things have been neck-on-neck for years already. I think last time Chrome really had a major advantag
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by Sylos 10y ago
Might be that it falls back to software rendering on your system and therefore stresses out the CPU. Try updating your graphics card driver, if it's not up-to-date.
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by Sylos 10y ago
Similarly when they actually get interested in something and want to play around with it at home. It's just kind of shit when students are pretty much forced to piracy, if they want to learn more about something than is taught in their

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