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It seems to have disappeared from about:addons because the "study" has ended. In about:studies I see: > pug-experience > Complete • My reality is different than yours
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There was no search engine willing to pay that would deliver good enough search results in those markets...
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9y ago
Google stopped paying Mozilla for that as their global deal expired and Mozilla signed with Yahoo.
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9y ago
No, you're still missing most of the picture. Mozilla didn't get paid for Google being the default outside of the US, China and Russia when it made Yahoo the default in the US. Mozilla had a global deal with Google and that expire
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Except that the question that the experiment wants to answer isn't what happens when you present users with the option. That would only become relevant later. The question right now is whether Cliqz' address bar autocomplete resul
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> But that is Mozilla's problem, not their users'. Sure, I'm just telling you how we arrived at the current situation and why your proposed alternative is a nonstarter for an experiment that tries to figure out if this fea
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9y ago
Well, maybe it already was 2 by default (-1.0 means auto-detect). Maybe try different values.
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Try setting layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to e.g. 2 in about:config?
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> Do users who receive browsers with Cliqz get a clear, effective opt-out warning? Really, it should be opt-in Either way would render the experiment useless (self-selection bias). Obviously if something like this should make it into Fir
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9y ago
Maybe it's just me but the scrollbar thing doesn't look like a game changer to me. Could you be overestimating the severity of a personal pet peeve?
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Let me paste my answer to another user reporting (seemingly) the same issue: Are you using scaled resolution? Then it's a known issue that is being investigated and will hopefully be fixed soon: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org&
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Are you using scaled resolution? Then it's a known issue that is being investigated and will hopefully be fixed soon: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042
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9y ago
The headline is clickbait. The town has a population of 1,100, so it's not a ghost town, and the article mentions Tesla exactly once, in what's basically a side note.
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So someone speaking English is "a much smarter or knowledgeable person" than someone who may have immigrated recently. Yeah, makes perfect sense. > I'm sorry but if you want to keep working at Walmart, time to step up your
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We're aware that there seems to be a problem, but we can't reproduce it yet: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042 Any additional data points, test cases etc. are appreciated.
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> The reason you teach a toddler this should be blindingly obvious. Not at all. People should help out others out of altruism, because they understand that society is cooperative, or because they value other people. "Be helpful or b
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It's in Kreuzberg, close to Schlesisches Tor. We just moved there from the old Berlin office, which was an interim solution and too small.
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Come help us prevent the ship from sinking. :) I've been at Mozilla for ~11 years, worked from home for many years, now splitting my time between the Berlin office and home. I feel good about the work I do and don't intend to chan
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"performing at the highest level" http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Killing+It
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Dunno, can you make sense of the jargon I pasted? This site really isn't useful to the outside and probably shouldn't have been public in the first place. It would _never_ have been public at Apple or Microsoft or Google. But Mozi
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https://www.arewestableyet.com/ is for internal tracking and rather hard to make sense of externally. It's cluttered with jargon and abbreviations and raw numbers. (I can tell because I just logged in. I work for Mozil
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The system is Capitalism and the markets exist within it. It makes no sense to claim that some of those markets aren't capitalist for lacking competition. In other words, while competitive markets are a characteristic of Capitalism, no
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And it is possible to be far from a free market economy and still be capitalist, because Capitalism and "free market economy" aren't synonymous. Let me cite Wikipedia since it's good enough here: "Capitalism is an e
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Construction started in 1970 and it's been running since 1979. That's nine years, with ancient tech and the GDR's limited resources. There's no reason to believe a similar project should take nine years today in Australi
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100 MW. For comparison, here's a >30 years old pumped storage power plant with a capacity of 1,045 MW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markersbach_Pumped_Storage_Pow...
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Firefox Photon Design System (Beta v0.3.1)
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I guess you could damage your skin via direct contact if you're not careful and use them a lot, but the alcohol and acetic acid will dissolve in the ground in reasonable time. Using such herbicides should be way less harmful than drink
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1356681 Support headless flag on Linux, RESOLVED FIXED in Firefox 55
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> Yeah, the telcos have already found a way out What are "the telcos"? I just got an SMS from Vodafone announcing that from now on, I won't pay roaming fees in EU countries.
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10y ago
Also, for the time being we have browsers that aren't Chrome...
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