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by dao- 7y ago
On focus you can only copy or replace the URL, not edit it. You need to click a second time to edit.
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by dao- 7y ago
> Of course, in both cases I am assuming that putting focus on the URL bar will display the full URL. It won't. From the issue tracker: "The full URL is also revealed by clicking twice in the URL bar on desktop," in other
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by dao- 7y ago
Also, private browsing in Firefox blocks known trackers by default.
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by dao- 7y ago
No, it's broken code and doesn't effectively do anything.
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by dao- 7y ago
> One could say they’re “cursed” to be given that sexual preference they were born with. Were they, though? I did some light research for a university course many years ago and from what I understand/remember, many pedophiles were t
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by dao- 7y ago
Ah, fair enough. I thought it could be possible but all your actual examples were from the 20th century.
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by dao- 7y ago
> basic keyboard designed in the 19th century You seem to mean the 20th century.
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by dao- 7y ago
> If they don't see a referer, then they can assume that you typed in the URL or bookmarked the page. ... or followed a link from an IM or some other source outside of the browser. Too many possibilities to really assume anything an
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by dao- 7y ago
No.
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by dao- 7y ago
Well... https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-28/air-co... I imagine maintaining a lower temperature in a house needs a lot more energy compared to a car, unless maybe you have a tiny well-isolat
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by dao- 7y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19454469
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by dao- 7y ago
GP said "You should also take political action", so this doesn't rule out individual action. GP's key point is that individual action would not be enough and you're not actually addressing that argument by just sayi
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by dao- 7y ago
The new Firefox for Android should eventually have roughly the same feature set as the old one. It's faster because it uses a whole new technology stack, not because they decided not to add unneeded cruft, whatever that means.
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by dao- 7y ago
> “Google is so deeply integrated with the internet,” Khormaee says. “We want to do anything we can to protect it.” This is outright creepy.
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by dao- 7y ago
I'm not sure there's a significant legal difference in the end. If someone could demonstrate that alternative browsers regularly get a lower score than Chrome, that seems like a pretty good antitrust case. Or were you referring to
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by dao- 7y ago
Also, does this script even load with tracking protection enabled, which is now the default in Firefox for new users? It probably shouldn't? Which would mean GA and by extension Mozilla will catch less and less users here compared to f
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by dao- 7y ago
I helped out with UI related security bugs (e.g. address bar spoofing) which we had a bunch of at the time.
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by dao- 7y ago
As a Mozilla employee I can say that I was in the security group but lost access at some point since I wasn't very active.
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by dao- 7y ago
Avoiding unnecessary suffering is sometimes used as the basis for whole ethics systems. It's inherently good and doesn't need to be deduced from anything.
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by dao- 7y ago
Lions have no concept of morality either. We should care about unnecessary suffering because we can.
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by dao- 7y ago
We have both remote and office employees. We have offices around the world and it's very common for people who formally work there to mostly work from home anyway, because we're so remote-friendly that it doesn't matter. So i
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by dao- 7y ago
> The three biggest companies as far as I know are Wordpress, InVision, and GitLab. Mozilla is another one, should be bigger than any of the above.
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by dao- 7y ago
No, that would conflate socioeconomic factors with race and be unconstitutional, for good reasons. I would get rid of the second amendment. There may have been good reasons to introduce it back in the day, but at some point it's time
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by dao- 7y ago
I'm not sure what freedom in the more general sense means here. When focusing on a specific freedom, you'll often find that it's at odds with somebody else's freedom. E.g. I'd say being able to roam public spaces wi
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by dao- 7y ago
So just because riding in a car with friends is a fine tradeoff to make, gun violence must be too? How exactly is it a necessary risk? Most other civilized countries seem to do fine without it.
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by dao- 7y ago
Not gonna get into discussing the objective worth of a human life, but I'll note that the entire population cares about their kids, not so much about their freedom to carry guns. Those caring about the latter are a vocal minority (or a
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by dao- 7y ago
TOS are written for lawyers and courts. For bilateral contracts like this there's no overarching law and legal authority, so they're more like a protocol of a verbal contract.
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by dao- 7y ago
That nobody would do that is contradicted by the fact that Google did it for years, for instance. But Google ended up doing what most for-profit corporations would do. I'm not saying it's particularly immoral. It's pretty nor
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by dao- 7y ago
Reality was a bit different from what you describe. Firefox was a thing. Its market share was rising slowly but steadily. Google paid leading Firefox engineers such as Ben Goodger and Darin Fisher. It could have doubled down, improved Firef
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by dao- 7y ago
We (Mozilla) are planning to enable tracking protection by default. It's a relatively slow process, developed and rolled out incrementally, since we have a larger user base than Brave and need to make sure not to break the Web.

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