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by callahad 7y ago
We might be resolving symlinks to their physical paths, making each download look like a new install. If so, the nixpkgs issue I mentioned above is probably more relevant than expected. I'm not entirely certain, but if you want to sour
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by callahad 7y ago
More Android than ChromeOS, but the source is https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.platform/q...
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by callahad 7y ago
That should be markedly better in Firefox 67, since we've just now switched to dav1d, a much more efficient decoder by the VideoLAN folks. Prior to that, we were using the reference implementation from libaom.
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by callahad 7y ago
That actually is possible, but you have to manually create the shortcuts. Check out https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-... for docs on the profile manager. Once you've set up the pr
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by callahad 7y ago
It should. To confirm it's working, visit about:support and look for "WebRender" in the "Compositing" field.
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by callahad 7y ago
There are two sides to that coin: 1. People do genuinely seem to find it useful (it's been a feature in Developer Edition for years), so that's cool, but also... 2. Sharing a profile between different versions of Firefox can cause
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by callahad 7y ago
Thanks for the heads up! We'll get that fixed.
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by callahad 7y ago
> if your driver has issues with any of those calls (e.g. bad application auto-detection) it can cause things to crash or have undefined behavior. If I understand it correctly, that's one of the perks of WebRender: by using the GP
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by callahad 7y ago
It's not perfect, but there are prominent prompts about this when you install an add-on for the first time and when you open a private window. Screenshots at https://imgur.com/a/d4ZnAHI
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by callahad 7y ago
We're defaulting to profile-per-install to make it easier to run different versions side-by-side, but you can still manually specify your original profile. Docs on the profile manager are at https://support.mozilla.org/
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by callahad 7y ago
Looks likely to ship with Chrome 76, which I believe is the current dev channel: https://www.chromestatus.com/features/5109758977638400
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by callahad 7y ago
I'd expect controls for this to improve in the future (e.g., https://bugzil.la/1547818 ), but for now you can use this add-on to force a dark scheme: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/da
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by callahad 7y ago
Aurora does not require using your own credentials; there's an "anonymous" button on the login page. It does support split APKs, and has completely replaced Yalp for my uses. https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/
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by callahad 7y ago
Gotcha. Manually installing the hotfix XPI makes cleanup a bit harder now that we have a proper fix. E.g., without coming from Studies, there's no study to ever end . Direct installation also makes it harder to quickly respond to any
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by callahad 7y ago
> The notion that this was a deliberate ploy to get more people to turn on Studies is surely conspiracy-theorist mumbo-jumbo, but nonsense like this makes me wonder. This is not the case. Please see my response downthread: https:&#x2F
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by callahad 7y ago
We do not take an editorial stance on add-on content with regard to signing, but we do have the ability to block add-ons that are malicious or which violate user privacy and security. We hope those choices will be few and far between, and t
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by callahad 7y ago
I'm sorry that you felt like you were held hostage by Telemetry/Studies. With the exception of the hotfix, we disabled rolling out new Studies during the incident, and will not be re-enabling them until some time after Monday next
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by callahad 7y ago
That's covered at https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/04/15/the-case-for-exte... , which is linked from ekr's post. I encourage you to read the rationale as a whole, but the specific question y
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by callahad 7y ago
I expect the full postmortem will dive into this in more detail, but one reason mentioned in ekr's post is that many add-ons are distributed independently, outside of AMO. So while we could re-sign those, we're not in a place to
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by callahad 8y ago
I've been perfectly happy with with the Free Software offerings from NGINX, HAProxy, Redis, and GitLab, despite all of those operating what sounds likely to be a similar business model for enterprise customers. Probably best to withhol
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by callahad 8y ago
I've been using it on my personal laptop for the past two months. There are a lot of rough edges to the desktop experience, but it generally works. And while that's faint praise, I have no current plans to switch back to Fedora
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by callahad 8y ago
This site claims to have photos, GPS coordinates, and hiking directions to Hyperion: http://famousredwoods.com/hyperion/ ...is that the correct tree?
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by callahad 8y ago
The Hacks blog is powered by WordPress.
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by callahad 8y ago
A big difference is where Python runs. With Pyodide, everything runs entirely in your browser, and the server side can be completely static. With Jupyter, you need a separate copy of Python running on a server somewhere to actually perfor
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by callahad 8y ago
I gave a keynote at PyCon last year that touched on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITksU31c1WY#t=32 For me, the most important aspect of Pyodide is that it allows the scientific Python stack to go everywhere the Web
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by callahad 8y ago
Do we even have that data?
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by callahad 8y ago
I've been extremely happy with The Lounge ( https://thelounge.chat/ ) as a modern, web-based IRC client. It's successfully replaced a decade of ZNC and WeeChat acting as bouncers for irssi, Textual, and X-Chat. - It
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by callahad 8y ago
That's incorrect. See clarification at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19604145
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by callahad 8y ago
That's not this. Bug 1535749 is about lazy-loading images on the new tab page, not about implementing native support for the "loading" attribute on img tags.
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by callahad 8y ago
> what does lockbox bring to the table because my passwords I already shared between mobile and desktop through sync ? Lockbox makes those passwords accessible outside of Firefox. It implements Android's autofill API, so you can,

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