callahad

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541.
by callahad 9y ago
We tried, in part, with Firefox OS. We failed.
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by callahad 9y ago
The change in that benchmark was from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1369140 , as part of the Quantum Flow ( https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum/Flow ) effort.
543.
by callahad 9y ago
Huh, maybe only the unprefixed version was rolled back. This is why I don't do frontend work. ...let me go ask my colleagues about this...
544.
by callahad 9y ago
Welcome back! Fair warning, legacy add-ons can perform worse under multi-process Firefox, since any synchronous APIs now require cross-process locking. To the greatest extent possible, try to limit yourself to add-ons badged with "Co
545.
by callahad 9y ago
I'm not familiar enough with our in-process isolation to summarize it, but https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox is an good trailhead for the process-level sandboxing in Firefox.
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by callahad 9y ago
Here's a whole article on the new process model: https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/the-search-for-the-goldilock... The overhead is minimal since we're not doing process-per-tab: we cap the number of processes t
547.
by callahad 9y ago
Edit: I believe my comment here was incorrect. Apparently we only rolled back support for `appearance` and `-webkit-appearance` (and a few associated changes), but `-moz-appearance` does still work as described above. Original comment fol
548.
by callahad 9y ago
> Otherwise, you get to irritate 40-60% of your users. The survey says nothing about how strongly folks hold that preference. I may prefer Schwepps Ginger Ale, but I'm not going to be irritated when offered Canada Dry instead.
549.
by callahad 9y ago
That's because Google sniffs Firefox's user agent and serves it an older, less featureful version of Google Search. One that doesn't support AMP. Spoofing Firefox's ua-string to appear as Chrome will get you the full Sea
550.
by callahad 9y ago
MDN is a wiki. If something is wrong or could be improved, you're empowered to fix it directly. :)
551.
by callahad 9y ago
You're right, I was imprecise in my brevity. Speed is definitely a signal in ranking. I'm mainly grousing at classes of results -- like the "Top Stories" carousel -- that are only available to AMP pages, and rather diffi
552.
by callahad 9y ago
If AMP is "Accelerated Mobile Pages," maybe the resistance could build OHM: Optimized HTML for Mobile?
553.
by callahad 9y ago
There's a lot of doublespeak around this. 1. You can (and must) host AMP content on servers of your own choosing. 2. Google's crawlers ingest your AMP content, validate it, and re-host it in Google's AMP Cache. Bing and other
554.
by callahad 9y ago
Building fast webpages won't get you preferential placement in Google search results.
555.
by callahad 9y ago
AFAIK, only the stock and Asuswrt-Merlin firmware builds support Broadcom's proprietary acceleration (ctf.ko). On my RT-N66U, WAN throughput can hit 870 Mbps. Without it, I max out around 170 Mbps. If there's a way to run OpenWRT
556.
by callahad 9y ago
If you're using Asuswrt-Merlin, looks like these fixes are only available in the current 380.66 Beta builds: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin/blob/0e15da3404ccabb...
557.
by callahad 9y ago
Her term is up in November of next year. Time to start prepping a suitable challenger.
558.
by callahad 10y ago
The median salary for a software developer in the United States is six figures: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/Computer-and-Information-Technology/...
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by callahad 10y ago
Elm ( http://elm-lang.org/ ) is a particularly elegant language for front-end web development that compiles to JavaScript, but includes things like immutability and strong, static typing right out of the box. Other languages
560.
by callahad 10y ago
You can automatically sign your add-on by calling `jpm sign` (SDK add-ons), `web-ext sign` (WebExtensions), or by manually hitting our API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Distribution#Sig...
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by callahad 10y ago
Many AMO Editors are volunteers, and all are human. We've significantly adjusted the AMO review guidelines and processes to avoid that sort of mishap in the future, as acknowledged at the end of that post. We're working hard on fu
562.
by callahad 10y ago
We're not breaking legacy add-ons for shits and giggles, or in some misguided attempt at "turning Firefox into Chrome." We're breaking them so we can finally land the architectural changes necessary to make Firefox compe
563.
by callahad 10y ago
The main bug is at https://bugzil.la/1308154 . Looks like it's scheduled for Firefox 54 and was accidentally included in the 53 relnotes.
564.
by callahad 10y ago
Oh no! That actually should've worked as described (not auto-playing until you switch tabs), but it looks like auto-play suppression is in 54, not 53. Sorry :( https://bugzil.la/1308154
565.
by callahad 10y ago
Hey, you're right! Editing the above comment. Thanks :)
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by callahad 10y ago
We're still defaulting to 32-bit on systems where both are supported, but we hope to default to 64-bit around Firefox 55. We had to delay this due to issues with Flash, sandboxing, and Farmville 2: https://bugzil.la/131
567.
by callahad 10y ago
Firefox and Chrome shipped it today: http://caniuse.com/#feat=flow-root ...and now begins the indeterminate wait for Edge and Safari :)
568.
by callahad 10y ago
The bitness choice (and that entire screenshotted dialog) is only present if you select "Advanced Options" in the bottom left of the installer's first screen, it's not something that we force every user through.
569.
by callahad 10y ago
Google already serves a degraded Google Search UI (the "heirloom" interface) to Firefox on Android. You have to spoof your UA string to get the modern UI: http://imgur.com/a/cIH7T
570.
by callahad 10y ago
Either the polyfills aren't being shipped or their feature detection is broken, because I get "document.registerElement is not a function" in Firefox Nightly with a spoofed UA string, and I get marginally further if I turn on

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