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9y ago
Nope: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1440461
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9y ago
No, it wasn't ready: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1440461 Should be part of Firefox 60.
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9y ago
It works if I disable tracking protection in Firefox...
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9y ago
A million pretty shitty jobs by Western standards. China is an advanced developing country with low wages. Foxconn will have to pay higher wages in the US, and thus the pressure for automation will be even higher. The US, an industrial coun
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9y ago
> You're making the mistake of equating the law with morality. Greatly simplified, the a law is just an attempt to roughly codify some moral principles and give them some teeth. I didn't mean to equate them and I don't thi
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There are in fact laws for that. Soros' investments were perfectly legal from what I know. We could change this if we wanted to, Capitalism is a man-made system after all. Demonizing successful players is just pointless.
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9y ago
What are "these people" though? Successful investors? The "East Coast establishment"? Jewish investors? I believe the point your parent post was making is that these distinctions are bogus. The entire investment business
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9y ago
Because there's still the privacy problem that many don't fully understand. That's why Mozilla's approach is tracking protection which also happens to block annoying ads. But yes, if the concern is only bringing in line
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9y ago
According to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=967895 it's in 58 but wasn't added to release notes because it's disabled by default via the privacy.resistFingerprinting about:config setting.
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Not yet. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1432531 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1430793
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Like I said, it wasn't supposed to be directly convertible. The point of these sentences was that the UK and the US produce gigantic amounts of waste. That's it. Who of the two is worse is besides the point, and absolute numbers w
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Trash has both volume and weight. It's not either-or in the cited sentences, and the two numbers aren't supposed to be directly comparable nor convertible.
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> no one would like the US to constrain wheat or corn exports for example. Are you sure? I don't know much about US agriculture exports, but the aggressively subsidised exports from the EU are known to cripple agriculture in Africa.
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Loaded is implied, loading is not. I'm not speculating here; I'm a front-end engineer for Firefox and have seen the patches in question.
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Because we develop in the open and the blog post gives an extra glimpse behind the curtain. Call it code name rather than internal name if that makes more sense to you. Bottom line is, the term isn't expected to make sense to end users
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9y ago
This is an internal name for a feature that works transparently. No end user needs to know about this.
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This is all about rendering already loaded pages. Nothing will be prefetched for this.
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Tab warming is only about rendering. A tab that hasn't loaded won't be "warmed".
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'Everyone will have 5 years to get their car off the road or sell it for scrap' http://www.autonews.com/article/20171105/INDUSTRY_REDESIGNED...
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9y ago
Firefox for Android has built-in tracking protection, which also boosts performance. You can enable it in the privacy preferences.
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> Users can install ad blockers or tracking protection extensions to prevent tracking by invasive third-party scripts. The domains used to serve the two scripts (behavioralengine.com and audienceinsights.net) are blocked by the EasyPriva
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9y ago
Firefox has built-in tracking protection. Enable it in about:preferences#privacy.
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At some point lawn care firms will start to automate and the costs will come down. The idea that every landowner should own those devices that sit idle most of the time is a bit crazy if you think about it. By the way, why do you /have
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"If support was provided by the vendor" is a big if... Google was well aware of this inherent flaw but pushed NaCl regardless while at the same time promising for years that PNaCl would eventually solve all problems. PNaCl never r
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Firefox ESR 60 Enterprise Policies
(wiki.mozilla.org)
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NaCl was as bad as ActiveX but less successful, thank God.
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Firefox for Amazon Fire TV debuts with ‘full web’ browsing and YouTube support
(venturebeat.com)
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Firefox does on Android, not on iOS. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-firefox-ios
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> Looks like it's a promo for Mr Robot, which is really not ok. From what I've heard (I work for Mozilla), this is promo for Firefox. As I just wrote elsewhere in this thread: I believe the idea is that Mr. Robot fans use Fire
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I believe the idea is that Mr. Robot fans use Firefox to participate in the ARG, not that Firefox users suddenly start watching Mr. Robot. So if anything I'd expect that Mozilla pays Mr. Robot for this.
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