dblohm7

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by dblohm7 7y ago
A bunch of new stuff just landed on Nightly. I suggest you give it a try.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
This is correct. The best way to support Mozilla products is to use them.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
I did, and no, PlayProtect did nothing.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
> Most notoriously, COM STAs did, and all kinds of APIs would enter a COM "apartment" for you as part of their internal operation. You make that sound like that was some kind of accidental leaky abstraction, when in fact it was
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by dblohm7 7y ago
> The fundamental IPC primitive is window messages That is not remotely true. Windows GUI messages are implemented as part of the win32k.sys device driver via traditional IPC and synchronization mechanisms. > Other IPC systems you&#x2
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by dblohm7 7y ago
To understand this, you need to go back to the original release of Windows NT 3.1 in 1993. Most of the GUI was implemented in user mode. But again, this is 1993, and NT's most popular platform is the x86. Windows NT 3.5 was code-named
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Having a monopoly is not illegal. Abusing that monopoly power to take over other markets is .
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by dblohm7 7y ago
"Failure is not an option" is Gene Kranz's book.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
There are known issues with Catalina at the moment. After all, as you yourself said, that OS is still in Beta.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Firefox Preview ("Fenix") uses a different ID from Firefox for Android ("Fennec") in the play store.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Sync does have a log. Maybe that would help? https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices/Sync/File_a_desktop_b...
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by dblohm7 7y ago
That's placebo -- Nightly is built from our trunk. The only thing that changes between Nightly 69 and Nightly 70 is a version bump.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Probably best to refer to them as NT processes for the sake of clarity.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
In Fennec that feature is referred to as “Tab Queues.”
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by dblohm7 7y ago
This has been fixed.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
And Firefox has much higher brand recognition than Mozilla.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Sounds like an issue worth filing, then!
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Right, but existing Firefox for Android users aren't going to be switched over to Fenix until it does.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
"One of the most persistent misunderstandings about Safe Browsing is the idea that the browser needs to send all visited URLs to Google in order to verify whether or not they are safe." https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz&#x2
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by dblohm7 7y ago
> But I often think that as software engineers we fancy ourselves to have more insight into other fields than we really do. That hypothesis is easily confirmed simply by reading HN regularly!
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by dblohm7 7y ago
I am the developer who ported Gecko a11y to multiprocess on Windows. Some third-party software unnecessarily tries to use the Windows a11y API to do stuff with other programs, but in Firefox that may incur a performance penalty depending on
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Do you need accessibility services? If not, I would suggest that you disable it in about:preferences.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Telemetry probes in Firefox/Gecko go through a common telemetry core that contains a kill switch. That code is located at https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/compone... . Have fun.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Not all probes are active at all times. They are all defined in the descriptors that I’m including links for. [1][2] They all include expiry dates, and probes with perpetual lifetimes require devs to take responsibility for them. All probes
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by dblohm7 7y ago
A lot can change in three years. Firefox has been back on pwn2own for a couple of years now.
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Even more evidence that Firefox wants to be the anti-Chrome(fastcompany.com)
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by dblohm7 7y ago
First of all, I am a Mozilla Employee. Second, in that very github issue that you linked, look at this comment: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/574#issuecomm... . Also, transition from Fennec to
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by dblohm7 7y ago
That isn't true.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Fingerprinting works because the sites link that fingerprint back to an identifiable individual.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Note that donations are used exclusively for Foundation efforts; donation money is not put toward product development. (The Foundation is a great cause, obviously, but I want to ensure that you are aware of how your donation will be used.)

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