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by dblohm7 5y ago
Mozilla doesn't collect browsing history, period.
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by dblohm7 5y ago
What about it? How you probably think it works in Firefox and how it actually works in Firefox are two different things, by the way: https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/how-safe-browsing-works-...
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by dblohm7 5y ago
In Firefox: point your url bar to about:telemetry It shows you all the data that has been gathered. (Though IIRC it might still show stuff even when you've disabled telemetry -- in that case the data is being aggregated locally but not
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by dblohm7 5y ago
So, `about:telemetry`, https://telemetry.mozilla.org
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by dblohm7 5y ago
A lot of those forks don't even bother with CI: Some of them, one of their first commits is to remove all the tests.
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by dblohm7 5y ago
I used to work at Mozilla and periodically checked the status of the "add API to hide the tab bar" bug. I don't think anybody was directly opposed, but there were a lot of hidden edge cases that needed to be dealt with. Even
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by dblohm7 5y ago
> Do you see any hope for a fork of modern Firefox that start with just the tiniest stuff, maybe adding back a simple tab strip api Why bother with the overhead of a fork? Perhaps a team of volunteers could put together a good enough pro
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by dblohm7 5y ago
This is not 100% fair. A lot of web APIs are rolled out by Google without sufficient standardization or agreement from the other organizations that ship engines. So Google is being a poor citizen here, but because of their dominance, everyb
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by dblohm7 5y ago
You mean the same board that appointed him? This whole "the board all resigned because they were so upset about their own appointment" narrative is mostly nonsense. AIUI (I was an employee at the time), there was one resignation b
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by dblohm7 5y ago
(I used to work on the team that owned this) The maintenance service is used to prevent the need for UAC prompts during upgrades. That's it. No background update functionality.
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by dblohm7 5y ago
Actually way the background updater is done is much better than most. eg Instead of running its own downloader process, it uses the Windows BITS service to download updates. People often confuse this feature with the Mozilla Maintenance Ser
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by dblohm7 5y ago
Why is this Chromium-only?
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by dblohm7 5y ago
DOS programs were run in V86 mode.
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by dblohm7 5y ago
No, the things they post on their own forum! https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=17442#p12769... https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=15168#p109681
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by dblohm7 5y ago
Palemoon, the same guys who mock sandboxing and multiprocess browsing? No thanks.
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by dblohm7 5y ago
Oh come on, let’s not pretend that the only expenses a software company has are developer salaries. Especially for something like a browser that has significant security requirements. Do you have any idea how many tests are run across all p
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by dblohm7 5y ago
No, it’s the log for transactional NTFS and transactional registry.
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by dblohm7 5y ago
That’s a gross oversimplification of an org’s budgetary needs, even by back-of-the-napkin standards.
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by dblohm7 5y ago
> Mozilla doesn’t need donations. The $450 million it gets from Google each year is enough for a browser. It really isn’t when you factor in Gecko and SpiderMonkey. cue the armchair quarterbacks who think you can do all of this with 20
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by dblohm7 5y ago
You couldn't pay me to use Pale Moon. They have continuously demonstrated a poor understanding of web browser security. Take this thread, for example: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=15168#p109681
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by dblohm7 5y ago
Pocket Premium and Mozilla VPN are about the closest you can get to money that goes into the coffers of Mozilla Corporation (instead of the Foundation).
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by dblohm7 5y ago
It's not true. See my reply to their comment.
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by dblohm7 5y ago
This is false. (I am a former Mozilla employee who was there when the layoffs happened) This is what I know about what happened there: There were two enterprise IT teams with similar duties but different purviews. When management was decidi
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by dblohm7 5y ago
Any chance you could add a link for SpiderMonkey? It has its own site now: https://spidermonkey.dev/
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by dblohm7 5y ago
Thanks for writing this. 100%
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by dblohm7 5y ago
No interest in landing those APIs upstream?
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by dblohm7 5y ago
That’s essentially because the leg work hasn’t been done to make it embeddable on most platforms, with the exception of Android ( https://GeckoView.dev )
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by dblohm7 5y ago
Me three!
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by dblohm7 5y ago
I agree. Windows 9x's reliance on internal MS-DOS data structures was not done for "artificial" reasons: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/?p=24063
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by dblohm7 5y ago
That was not for Windows 9x.

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