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by callahad 11y ago
> because of how they're created (i.e. you generate the keyset yourself locally, they sign the public part), it should be secure. Note that if the CA has the authority to sign certificates, they don't need your private key.
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by callahad 11y ago
Firefox has offered the same in the Aurora / Developer Edition channel since July 2014: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/07/event-listeners-popup-medi... More docs on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.o
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by callahad 11y ago
If you primarily care more about responsive images than about lazy loading, the Picturefill polyfill ( https://github.com/scottjehl/picturefill ) is a great option. It's a strict polyfill of the picture / srcse
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by callahad 11y ago
The specific numbers were shared during a keynote at Mozilla's June 2015 all-hands, but I can't seem to find a public recording or data from that session. My apologies. Mozilla employees and vouched volunteers can view the recordi
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by callahad 11y ago
> There's been tons of people asking for the removal of Pocket from Firefox That's true. However, we have surveyed large swaths of our users and found that for all the people that dislike the Pocket integration, several times
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by callahad 11y ago
When we decided to add a reading list to Firefox, we had two options: build and maintain our own service and integrations, or partner with an established player who had sane privacy and data access policies. We chose the latter. Pocket bega
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by callahad 11y ago
Oh, hey, yep. Tripping over my own ignorance there. I didn't realize that latest-mozilla-central-l10n/ subdirectory existed; I've always gone straight for latest-trunk/, which it turns out is a symlink to latest-mozilla-
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by callahad 11y ago
I apologize for the disparagement; I was miffed at your statement that "only US English speakers will be allowed to disable this requirement," which completely misrepresents the situation, followed by doubt about Firefox's st
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by callahad 11y ago
> The point of free software is that users, individually and collectively, are free to modify it as they wish, without requiring approval from third parties. You've been on HN for over six and a half years. Surely you can't b
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by callahad 11y ago
> features that undeniably belong in extensions At least in the case of Pocket, the current browser marketplace seems to disagree: Chrome is the only major browser without a built-in reading list. When it came time to add similar funct
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by callahad 11y ago
> tracker blocking Try opening a private browsing window in Nightly and see what you get... ;-) Edit: Here's a screenshot for folks without Nightly handy. http://imgur.com/5khKObb . This is still a work in progress
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by callahad 11y ago
There will also be automated, unbranded builds of Firefox Stable that allow you to disable the signing requirement, but are otherwise bit identical.
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by callahad 11y ago
> Is there an easy way for users like me to simply pay Mozilla for the product? I'd much prefer that than being made the subject of a tug-of-war between internet giants. You can always donate to the non-profit Mozilla Foundation a
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by callahad 11y ago
That's fair; the intent was to only change the search setting for users who had not changed their default. I don't know the specifics around that decision, but it seems like a reasonable position; I'm not sure anything furthe
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by callahad 11y ago
We had multiple offers on the table, all of which had improved finances compared to the previous contract. Yahoo's offer was focused on the US, which allowed us to partner with Yandex and Baidu in other regions of the world. All else b
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by callahad 11y ago
> Also, it's kind of embarrassing that Mozilla's official video for this shows an unactivated version of Windows 10. All pre-release builds of Windows 10 have that watermark. Why is that embarrassing? Edit: I stand corrected;
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by callahad 11y ago
Are you sure? I'd quite like to walk up to my bus stop and have my phone provide me a link to a stop-specific schedule, among other uses.
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by callahad 11y ago
I'm surprised there isn't a bulk database available from the FDA or USDA. http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ is in the public domain and looks like a good start. Do you know of all of its entries are in the Open Food Facts
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by callahad 11y ago
I haven't used it, but https://floobits.com might scratch some of that itch?
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by callahad 11y ago
To allow all of the involved parties to save face? In this case, no one is acquiescing to anyone else, and AppC can get presented as a great Coming Together by the tech press. Everyone wins.
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by callahad 11y ago
This is definitely a common flaw. If I recall correctly, he gives up on endings altogether in Anathem, with the narrator literally writing something along the lines of "there's much more left to tell, but this is enough."
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by callahad 11y ago
The latest release of Firefox added support for Reader View :)
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by callahad 11y ago
On Windows 8.1, I also get offered 38.0.5, and its checksum matches that of the normal 38.0.5 en-US installer from https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/
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by callahad 11y ago
And yet, in a competitive marketplace for servers, the BSDs and closed source operating systems have not succeeded to nearly the same degree as Linux, despite predating Linux by many years. Why do you think that is? (I'm not trying to
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by callahad 11y ago
> "Free" software that I can't sell, is of almost no use to me or any other entrepreneur. The Linux kernel is a strong counterexample to that claim.
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by callahad 11y ago
> It is their code with their choice of license chosen for their reasons. Respect that. If I may offer one addition to this: if you intend for your software to be open source, please use a recognized open source license, rather than
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by callahad 11y ago
This works wonderfully on Firefox OS. Hooray for open standards!
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by callahad 11y ago
It's in the mainline B2G repo, so you should be able to follow the instructions at https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/b2g to get a build. Use `./configure.sh aries` to configure for the Z3C. Other supported devic
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by callahad 11y ago
I'm using an Xperia Z3 Compact flashed with Firefox OS and can report that the 4G radios work perfectly. :)
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by callahad 11y ago
As far as I can tell, T-Mobile in the US provisions handsets with IPv6 by default.

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