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by dblohm7 6y ago
> Firefox does not support some standard APIs that even Safari supports. Such as?
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by dblohm7 6y ago
> It not longer forces to restart my entire browser for an update, where every new tab I open says "restart before you can use your browser." Are you on Linux? My understanding is that the distro packages exacerbate this proble
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by dblohm7 6y ago
I LOL’d, at least...
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Sheesh, somebody has a chip on their shoulder...
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by dblohm7 6y ago
It’s more like people use those words without understanding their correct definitions.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
One thing we do in the Firefox codebase is build using a clang plugin that we wrote to statically enforce additional rules. It’s not a perfect solution , and obviously not built in, but it is a big help for avoiding footguns.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/09/03/mozillas-manifest...
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Okay, but how much of that translates into partnership revenue? Again, we're all just making a bunch of assumptions in an effort to cast Mozilla's press release as false.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
There might be more ads, but that doesn't mean that they're converting into sales. Iain and I are both Mozilla employees, and terms of search deals are very much NDA-covered things -- we can say very little about our limited knowl
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Contrary to Twitter speculation, we never had just one single security team, nor did we eliminate it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24659174
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by dblohm7 6y ago
During the pandemic, fewer people have been searching for (and more importantly, purchasing) niceties. They're buying things like toilet paper. That's going to directly affect ad revenue.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
(I am a Mozilla employee) Unfortunately that tweet has been misinterpreted and has grown into a false narrative. This is what I know about what happened there: There were two enterprise IT teams with similar duties but different purviews. W
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by dblohm7 6y ago
It baffles me that you make such a big deal out of this. You’re making it sound like it took hundreds of person-hours to make that change that could have been allocated elsewhere.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
> I've also stopped using FF because I've lost confidence in the team managing security of it. Would you care to elaborate?
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Agreed. It should be required reading for anybody making heavy use of UUIDs.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
The two major Servo components are the style system and WebRender. But I wouldn't say that it is "largely" Servo by any means.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
(I work on GeckoView at Mozilla.) about:config prefs are not "broken," but many of them work much differently in GeckoView than they work in desktop. Setting some prefs to the wrong value could completely disconnect Gecko from the
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by dblohm7 6y ago
There was one for Windows that was Servo-based. But both the Android and Windows projects were shut down by the layoffs.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
It is only enabled on Nightly and Beta.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
How hard will it be to find a replacement who will be willing to make 80% less?
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by dblohm7 6y ago
The Mozilla Foundation is the sole shareholder of the Mozilla Corporation.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
And in this scenario you expect Mozilla to be able to influence web standards how, exactly?
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Chromium-based browsers are actually the odd ones out here.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
IE greatly benefitted Microsoft: My holding the web back, it ensured the continued dominance of desktop applications.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Mozilla developer here. The Gecko team was mostly spared from the layoffs. There is no intention to cease Gecko development.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Here’s a 1981 documentary about Terry Fox: https://youtu.be/xtrUHkACvO4
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Considering that nnethercote is still with us at Mozilla, I sure hope that he doesn’t get hired away! :-)
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by dblohm7 6y ago
> what is left Most of the Gecko, Firefox Desktop, and Mobile teams?
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by dblohm7 6y ago
I heard that it was done that way during a leveling revamp to avoid confusion with the previous scheme.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Fenix embeds Gecko via GeckoView, which resides in mozilla-central.

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