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by callahad 9y ago
Like any large company, your experience will vary depending on your manager. I've been with Mozilla for five and a half years. It's not all been roses--I've weathered a team disbanding and a bad manager--but in the aftermath
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by callahad 9y ago
You seem to have copied much of my earlier comment verbatim from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14983976 Also, the Tab Groups add-on you've linked still uses legacy APIs, and will not work as-is in Firefox 57, th
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by callahad 9y ago
Please do not do that. Browsers have a massive attack surface, and you absolutely want to ensure that you're up to date with security patches. If you want to slow down the rate of UI / UX / product changes, consider trying Fi
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by callahad 9y ago
It will stop working in Firefox Nightly tomorrow. It will continue working in normal Firefox until November, and in Firefox ESR until June next year. Tree Style Tabs itself will need to be redeveloped, but the necessary APIs are more or les
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by callahad 9y ago
That was supposed to be "Try out." :( I blame Android.
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by callahad 9y ago
The out Firefox Nightly! https://nightly.mozilla.org/ -- we've made huge improvements to the Grid tool. Details in Jen's video at https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/07/tour-the-latest-feature
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by callahad 9y ago
With my Macbook Air, I needed a Mini-DisplayPort to HDMI adapter. With my Retina Macbook Pro I also picked up a Nexus 5X, so I needed a USB-C to USB-A adapter. With my wife's Touchbar Macbook Pro I need a USB-C to USB-A adapter and a
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by callahad 9y ago
Have you tried keeping your left hand stationary and clicking with your left thumb, while mousing with your right hand? I find that position to be equally convenient for both the trackpad and the trackpoint. Or setting the entire trackpad t
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by callahad 9y ago
Extremely happy with my current generation X1C running Fedora. The selection of ports hit a sweet spot for me: two full-size USB, two Thunderbolt 3, and full-size HDMI. After years with Macs, it's wonderful to finally be free from dong
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by callahad 9y ago
Can't speak for Perth, but flights into Tasmania absolutely go through another round of biosecurity screening.
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by callahad 9y ago
In most cases, you can bring in a guest as long as they're also traveling on the same day, on the same alliance. The FlyerTalk forums have reasonably active threads to arrange this sort of thing on an ad-hoc basis. To wit: If anyone&#x
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by callahad 9y ago
For the most part, Western lounges just feel like hotel lobbies, but with free booze and buffets. Significantly quieter than the main terminals, genuinely helpful staff, clean bathrooms, etc. Great if you have access, but nothing I'd g
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by callahad 9y ago
> we've marked Ghost 0.11 as a Long Term Support (LTS) release. We will continue to provide maintenance and security updates for Ghost 0.11 for the next 6 months. What's the lower bound on labeling something "long term s
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by callahad 9y ago
It's real. We've landed enormous performance improvements this year, including migrating most Firefox users to a full multi-process architecture, as well as integrating parts of the Servo parallel browser engine project into Fir
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by callahad 9y ago
WebExtension Experiments ( https://webextensions-experiments.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ ) allow you to create your own APIs that are equivalently powerful. You're just restricted to Nightly and Developer Edition
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by callahad 9y ago
Lanyrd is a dead site walking. They were acquired by Eventbrite ~4 years ago, and haven't seen any meaningful updates since May 2014. Their social media accounts have been completely dead for two years. The site has frequent uptime and
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by callahad 9y ago
Check back in November. Literally all of those things are in progress and scheduled for Firefox 57.
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by callahad 9y ago
This has been fixed. Firefox is now fully multi-process on all release channels.
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by callahad 9y ago
Sorry that didn't work out :(
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by callahad 9y ago
It's browser specific. Most use a heuristic along the lines of allowing browser storage (inclusive of IndexedDB, etc.) to use a combined 50% of the device's otherwise free space. Usually each origin is limited to around 20% of tha
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by callahad 9y ago
I wouldn't let that stop you: adding a service work won't in any way degrade the experience of Safari users. When used for caching, it's pure progressive enhancement. Sure, some browsers will have a more robust experience i
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by callahad 9y ago
We're working on refreshing the UI this November: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1355774
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by callahad 9y ago
The underlying engine is the same as in Beta, but the product itself is built with different flags, default settings, and other features. For example, add-on signing is optional in Developer Edition, so it's better suited for developin
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by callahad 9y ago
You're right. They've been deprecated for a while, now, and will be removed with 57.
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by callahad 9y ago
Mozilla's recent rebranding has stirred up more discussions about redrawing or refining the Firefox logo, but that's a perennial topic of discussion. If it happens, I'd expect it to be coordinated with 57's release, bu
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by callahad 9y ago
Apparently not on the release channel, according to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1317856 and https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/07/20/reducing-... . I'd ver
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by callahad 9y ago
Not exactly sure why this is here, but for context, Firefox 54 shipped this week, and 55 was promoted to Beta. As part of our effort to eliminate the pre-beta ("aurora") channel, 55 spent twice as long in development: instead of p
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by callahad 9y ago
We're still nearly half a year away from Firefox 57's release, so many add-ons, like Foxy Gestures, are still going to be a bit rough. There's no harm in sticking with FireGestures for now, knowing that replacements are in th
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by callahad 9y ago
There are already several gesture add-ons that are compatible with Firefox 57 and beyond: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/search/?q=mouse+gestures&... Foxy Gestures in particular claims to be deeply inspire
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by callahad 9y ago
Try out Firefox 55 (Beta or Developer Edition). It puts a big "Legacy" badge next to each add-on that is not a WebExtension in about:addons.

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