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by dbaron 11y ago
Multi-process is happening just fine with Gecko, XPCOM, and XUL. It's the extension ecosystem (the do-whatever-with-the-internals nature of the extensions API, and getting all the extensions to upgrade) that's the obstacle. Nigh
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by dbaron 13y ago
So we (Mozilla) are following the spec, which says what it does as the result of discussion/negotiation over a period of at least 4 years (roughly 2007-2011) involving browser makers and font foundries, both in terms of what browsers w
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by dbaron 14y ago
My understanding (and while I've talked to people who are in the working group, I'm not in the working group or following the discussions closely) is that this was already (prior to the spec being modified) the common understanding of the p
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Hands on with Firefox’s Developer Tools(andismith.com)
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by dbaron 15y ago
Now that I'm home: the scan is from page 508; the relevant bits are from the end of page 504 through page 508, or perhaps all of Chapter 67 (502-509). Personally, I'm stumped by the "without anything passing in writing" part, which seems t
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by dbaron 15y ago
Having read the book in the past (though I don't have it in front of me right now), I think what it means is that he has to give Menaleus a way to identify himself in encrypted radio communications, such that if Menaleus is captured by the
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by dbaron 16y ago
Even worse, the buttons hosted on wd.sharethis.com set frequent timeouts that use up a measurable amount CPU (and laptop battery life). (This is particularly bad when I open a large number of articles in tabs, to read later.)
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by dbaron 16y ago
Interesting to see this on HN a little over 2 years after I wrote it. My main point wasn't so much about the magnitude of the taxes, but about the shape of the graph. Most of what gives this graph its bizarre shape is a result of the feder
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by dbaron 17y ago
This is more the architecture that the W3C TAG would like the Web to have rather than the one that it has in reality. (There are substantial differences of the "no piece of software would actually do it that way because it wouldn't be able