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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Actually, the answer is probably "it's complicated". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_between_magnets#Force_be... gives an approximation in the x >> R case, but in the pogo stick situation we&#
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
It depends. Browsers that care about user privacy and tracking are moving to first-party-isolated caching. So GA will be cached for a user on your site only if the user has visited _your_ site before.
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
I am quite aware of what Brave's value proposition is. Generally when people are only talking about pageload performance they say so, because there are many other performance metrics relevant to web browsers, some of which are arguabl
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> The same person who managed to make the text and background color not clash Just to check, is that sarcasm? Because having those end up the same for users who use non-default colors is a _very_ common webdev mistake...
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
If Brave is running circles around Chrome for you in general, that's likely a result of cognitive bias, since last I checked it's the same rendering engine. For pageloads Brave might do better if it blocks various stuff by default
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
This is talking about webrender's on-disk shader cache for the shaders it itself is deciding to cache, not your GPU driver's shader cache. Looking at https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/adcc169dcf58
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1513256 to track that drop-down issue, which is quite easily reproducible.
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Market share is important for two reasons: 1) If your market share is too low, sites don't bother testing in your browser. Since most sites are not written based on standards but rather by trying things until they work [1], this means
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Firefox persists which tabs are in which window across restarts, if you have it set to restore your session.
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> DOM manipulation and queries will always be far far slower than the logical equivalent in JavaScript. That really depends on what you're doing. Reimplementing querySelector in JavaScript (even if you do it on top of JS-only node r
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> What's wrong with this one? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70315#c8 Like the comment says: it makes things better with some themes but worse with others. Incidentally, the author of that patch is a
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
I totally believe you that you saw what you saw! Just trying to pin it down.
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> AFAIK themes still don't exist in Windows and OSX. They exist just fine on Windows. See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13768/desktop-theme... for example, and there's a number of the
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
I just tried this in Firefox, and it seems to be working ok for me. Are you still seeing the problem? If so, and if you have some time to help diagnose what's going on here, I would really appreciate it...
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
There were lots of requests to have form controls "look native", which is why they were changed to use the desktop theme... One problem with that, as you note, is web pages that are setting a color but not a background color on el
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Ah, I had misunderstood the issue; thank you for clarifying. It looks like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1405827 tracks WebExternsion API that would make it easy to create extensions that address this use cas
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Just FYI, audio autoplay is being actively worked on in the current Firefox development version, precisely to solve the problem you describe. There are some issues with coming up with a UX that doesn't privilege a small set of sites o
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
I don't know the legal details, but I think there are constraints on how much revenue a nonprofit can receive from non-donation sources. So back when the initial search deal with Google was signed that created the initial funding stre
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
I think it's a lot better than not having a process, for sure! The hearts of most of the people involved are in the right place, as far as I can tell, and they do listen to feedback some of the time. That said, they feel that if they
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
The Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit. It is involved in a number of efforts, including policy advocacy, but does not itself develop a web browser. When people make donations to "Mozilla", those go to the Foundation. The Mozilla
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Per https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2017/mozilla-fdn-201... the breakdown seems to be as follows, rounding to the nearest percentage point: 50% directly spent on Firefox development. 12% spent on marketing
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
As far as I can tell, people at Chrome have _very_ strong incentives to propose new standards and ship implementations of them in the browser. Incentives around then responding to feedback on those standards and getting them into a state w
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Firefox Coming to the Windows 10 on Qualcomm Snapdragon Devices Ecosystem(blog.mozilla.org)
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The kids are very happy to _go_ to school once they've woken up enough. It's that first 20 minutes after we start trying to wake them up that are miserable.
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There's definitely no screen time involved anywhere near bedtime. But yes, I'm pretty sure it would not help if there were!
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
One is of reading age, one is just about there. The one of reading age is already reading after he's in bed. The hard part is getting him to stop and actually go to sleep. I will look into the podcasts; thank you for the suggestion!
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Where did I suggest starting "from the WORST principles"? What I would suggest is that there is not a Pareto-optimal solution here short of redesigning how schooling works entirely...
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
It's possible. They are generally in bed by 8:30. We have tried experimenting with pushing it back to 8 and that did not have an obvious effect on their mornings and did make evenings a lot more miserable. Going even earlier than 8
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
As a counter-anecdote, we have to get our kids up by 7:30 to get them to their elementary school on time, and it's a battle every single morning. Left to their own devices, they would sleep to at least 8:30. Kids are different, and we
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Various other sites can get added to the whitelist if their videos are big enough and the user plays them often enough. But YouTube starts out on the whitelist. It's possible that dailymotion does too. The BBC, doesn't seem to b

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