dblohm7

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   by dblohm7 8y ago

   One of my pet peeves when engaging in technical discussions!
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   by dblohm7 8y ago

   I strongly agree that networking should not be in there either.
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   by dblohm7 8y ago

   They do, but donations are not put toward Firefox development.
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   by dblohm7 8y ago

   It might be worth contacting the author of the Chrome extension and asking them if they'd be interested in porting; since Firefox's WebExtensions API is a superset of the Chrome extension API, it should hopefully not require too m
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   by dblohm7 8y ago

   Only if you accept that premise to begin with...
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   by dblohm7 8y ago

   > HTTP2 and HTTP3 are decided by committees and it isnt Google who controls it. That was then, this is now. What happens when Google implements its next protocol in Chromium? With Blink's market share, would they even bother with co
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   by dblohm7 8y ago

   UW grad here, I was suffering through undiagnosed depression and adult-onset ADHD. One of my biggest regrets is that I was not properly diagnosed until my thirties. GP, do follow Waterluvian's advice and seek help. Now is the time!
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   Firefox Coming to the Windows 10 on Qualcomm Snapdragon Devices Ecosystem(blog.mozilla.org)

   1 points by dblohm7 8y ago|0 comments
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   by dblohm7 8y ago

   3. Ugly spacing left and right of the adress bar Those spacers are easily removed via customize mode.
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    I thought that young people were just smarter? /s
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    I have successfully reinitialized enough Win32 in a forked process to be able to throw up a MessageBox, but without source I'd never be able to confidently state that every Win32 call would work correctly.
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    Here is the archived piece from their old ntinternals.com site: https://web.archive.org/web/19970605083609/http://www.ntinte...
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    > Hackers eventually found out how to tell a client NT kernel to behave exactly like Server It was Mark Russinovich who did it with a utility called NTTune. Now he's the CTO of Azure!
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    Yep. The only time the camera was stable was on the lunar surface itself.
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    Where is the latest ELF spec hosted these days? IIRC it used to be hosted by SCO shudder .
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    Anymore? They never did that in the first place.
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    Lifelong Albertan here, sans a 5 year stint in Ontario for uni. Stop shitting on a place that you clearly haven't spent any time in.
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    Yes. Some employees have said that they get blank stares when they say they work for Mozilla, but recognition when they say Firefox.
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    Market research has shown that "Firefox" has much better brand recognition than "Mozilla."
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    You're repeating a lot of misinformation. Here's a better reference: https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-under-fire-inside-the-9-da...
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    Has this been reported to the BC privacy commissioner?
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    > Everybody wanted to move in. It was a gigantic shift in the way we worked, because we went from being in cubes to, all of a sudden, literally every person had an office. And now they've regressed.
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    Old news. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/14/firefox-features-go...
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    > Mozilla's big and I think they need to offer something unique compared to Chrome and Safari Mozilla is tiny compared to the size of the Chrome team.
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    I'd suggest that you read my colleague's comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15696184 to understand just how much friction the legacy addon ecosystem was creating. It just wasn't sustainable.
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    This being HN, I'm operating under the assumption that most readers are developers. I'd suggest that you read my colleague's comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15696184 to understand just how muc
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    Mozilla employee here. > There have been people within Mozilla who just want to abandon their own code and simply release a re-branded Chromium. Citation needed. Here's my quote: we're committed to Gecko.
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    Nightly is based off of mozilla-central, our trunk. When Nightly switches, that means that the version currently being developed (64), is the first version that has been switched.
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    Here is the source blog post (and a better link imho): https://glandium.org/blog/?p=3888
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    by dblohm7 8y ago

    I'm saying that it's unsustainable to maintain a hundreds of features for the benefit of different slices of 1% use.