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by dao- 10y ago
> Disqus being one of the few exceptions that don't work (because it's embedded as a third-party on first-party sites), Just like e.g. Facebook Login and github accounts, right? > personally, I can live with that. Everybody
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by dao- 10y ago
> If you feel uncomfortable in that section, feel free to avoid touching it. I feel very comfortable touching hidden prefs in Firefox. That's not my point. My point is that random users stumbling upon your github page may not know w
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by dao- 10y ago
Hidden prefs are hidden for a reason and can be a foot-gun. The warning when opening about:config is no exaggeration, and copying-and-pasting a bunch of hidden prefs from an untrusted source is not a good idea. For instance: > user_pref(
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by dao- 10y ago
> There comes a time when the software exceeds the capabilities of the hardware, and this is no exception. Are you saying that Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 exceed the capabilities of latest Intel and AMD chips?
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by dao- 10y ago
> No one liked Win 98, As I recall Win 98 and 98SE were hugely popular. People may not have loved them, but I don't think it was generally disputed that they were a huge improvement over Win 95. In fact, hardly anyone liked Win ME,
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by dao- 10y ago
See also this comment further up in the bug: "Mozilla leadership has already decided to help Tor move toward being able to build off a Release Firefox rather than an ESR--it's safer for our users. I don't know if we'll g
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“Our primary goal is to un-fork the Tor Browser”(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
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by dao- 10y ago
It will be interesting to see what the deal will mean for the privacy policy of Yahoo search, and whether that will be acceptable for Mozilla.
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by dao- 10y ago
http://turkey-coup-2016.tr.tn/
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by dao- 10y ago
It wouldn't violate the rules at all, that's the trick... at least according to my layman interpretation of the rule. Of course, Hamas is run by crazy people; who knows if and how they'd react. I didn't mean to say that
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by dao- 10y ago
You seem to have misunderstood what I said. This wasn't at all me being sexist or asking others to be sexist. It was meant to get people to question those rules and motivate men to practice solidarity with women without directly violat
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by dao- 10y ago
Here's an idea: the next time someone asks women to leave because they're not allowed to hang out with men, respectfully suggest that all men leave instead.
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by dao- 10y ago
By giving up your citizenship.
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by dao- 10y ago
That's a pretty short answer, and it sounds wrong to me. Are you implying that browser version, OS type and version, and system architecture are all factors that matter for audio fingerprinting? If so, what would be the point of audio
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by dao- 10y ago
That doesn't really answer the question, because most of the factors you listed should be irrelevant for _audio_ fingerprinting.
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by dao- 10y ago
Flash provides an API for that. Edit: Disable Flash or make it click-to-activate and https://panopticlick.eff.org/ shouldn't list your fonts anymore.
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by dao- 11y ago
You can enable it for non-private windows by setting privacy.trackingprotection.enabled to true in about:config.
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by dao- 11y ago
Brave is no major browser. Then again, if you look at the market share and depending on where you draw the line, Opera isn't a major browser either (1.68% according to netmarketshare.com).
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by dao- 11y ago
It would have surprised me but it also isn't something I would absolutely rule out a priori :) Also, it's a pretty bad headline from what I (non-native speaker) can tell. You have a point, not quite sure why you're being down
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by dao- 11y ago
> Does this not basically say that javascript is still being used but people are opting to use transpiled siblings? It sounds like it. So in the grand scheme I guess JS is still growing, except that it's increasingly not written dir
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by dao- 11y ago
Hmm, he wrote neither "instead" nor "wouldn't have been", so I'm having a hard time reading that sentence this way. I'm not a native speaker, though.
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by dao- 11y ago
Microsoft only sold 4.5 million Lumia devices in the recent quarter, compared to 10.5 million at the same time last year. That's a massive 57 percent drop. Even a 57 percent increase wouldn't be enough to save Windows Phone right
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by dao- 11y ago
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1188121 appears to be the main tracking bug for this feature. It says "... for developers" in its summary.
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by dao- 11y ago
This is usually true but not in this case. Or if you want to put it this way, the anticipated critical problem is that this UI would confuse average end users and thus we won't enable it for them.
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by dao- 11y ago
It's in dev edition / aurora because those aren't "release" builds, and the security.insecure_password.ui.enabled default value depends on a RELEASE_BUILD ifdef. So no, it won't automatically be enabled when cu
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by dao- 11y ago
AFAIK and contrary to what others have said, there's no plan to enable this in a release version of Firefox anytime soon. There are too many affected sites and most average users would probably just start ignoring the crossed out lock
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by dao- 11y ago
Web tech > pnacl Using Firefox on Android right now, so the pnacl thing is just completely useless to me. With the JS emulator I can at least play the demos :)
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by dao- 11y ago
Another more realistic potential threat is police relying too much on automated crime prediction. They are already embracing it: http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/news/crime/2015/10/19/po...
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by dao- 11y ago
> (For me) it's mostly a transparency and trust issue. People widely suspected that it was Mozilla looking for another revenue source, they aggressively denied that money is involved. And we still don't know that money is invol
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by dao- 11y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10681622

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