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by dblohm7 9y ago
I'd like to see baseline Android block clipboard access from background apps a la Copperhead OS.
752.
by dblohm7 9y ago
Not true. Extensions are still subject to manual review, however they are permitted to be posted publically as soon as they pass a suite of automated checks.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
Civil forfeiture is already a huge controversy in BC. There's a big court case brewing on this topic.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
Anything larger than ~50 people and it becomes harder to maintain the company culture. Kudos to them for recognizing that they're happy where they're at.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
Nonetheless, humanity was not wiped out by the absence of phones.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
Is that really necessary? Our parents didn't have that luxury, and we turned out fine...
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by dblohm7 9y ago
No, we're doing it because of all the problems associated with injected DLLs. Source: I'm the dev who built the foundation for this transition in Gecko.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
We had a project going called Positron but I think it was mothballed.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
Mozilla never directly received money for the Pocket placement, however they did get a piece of any premium sign-ups made via the Firefox integration.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
Do "we" have the budget to do that?
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by dblohm7 9y ago
They use user agent detection to serve Gecko-based browsers a lesser version of their pages. Override your user agent to WebKit and you'll see what I mean.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
Google did not walk away from Mozilla in 2014. Mozilla walked away from Google.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
All you need to do is go to your awesome bar and type "%" as the first character, then space, then start typing the string you're looking for.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
What does your about:support say about accessibility?
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by dblohm7 9y ago
Legacy extensions were not an API: http://dblohm7.ca/blog/2015/08/30/on-webextensions/ Nor were they userspace: http://dblohm7.ca/blog/2017/11/16/legacy-firefox-e
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Legacy Firefox Extensions and “Userspace”(dblohm7.ca)
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by dblohm7 9y ago
"We exercised our contractual right to terminate our agreement with Yahoo! based on a number of factors including doing what’s best for our brand, our effort to provide quality web search, and the broader content experience for our use
768.
by dblohm7 9y ago
"We exercised our contractual right to terminate our agreement with Yahoo! based on a number of factors including doing what’s best for our brand, our effort to provide quality web search, and the broader content experience for our use
769.
by dblohm7 9y ago
>We've all known about this for months. Years, in fact.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
Have you engaged with the WebExtensions team to help develop a new API that would suit your use case?
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by dblohm7 9y ago
That day came a while back: Brave.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
>They don't share their reports since 2015 - basically when the contract with Google ended. That's not true at all. The 2015 report was published at the end of 2016. Likewise, the 2016 report should be out by the end of the yea
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by dblohm7 9y ago
Have you sent in the crash reports? Go to about:crashes and post some URLs of crash reports here.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
I am surprised that the Canadian English block is so large. Having lived in both places, there is a definite difference in accent between Western Canada and Southern Ontario. EDIT: The stereotypical "out" and "about" pro
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by dblohm7 9y ago
And regardless of the scope of the bubble, even if we conceded that it is all of BC and ON, the fact remains that the Bank of Canada has to act in the best interests (ha) of the country as a whole.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
> Which is fascinating to consider that the Bank of Canada, et al, have let this happen for so long and are only reacting now... In Canada this is because the real estate bubbles were confined to Vancouver and Toronto. Raising interest r
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by dblohm7 9y ago
It's usually not the market share itself that is the problem; it is when the company uses that market share to take anticompetitive actions in other markets that we have a problem.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
Joining Palemoon is highly unlikely - there's bad blood between the two communities.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
Quantum is the project, not the engine. The resulting product is still Gecko.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
Posting this in the hope that it might help some people grok what they are actually doing: When I first discovered what Yoric and syg were doing, the first thing that I thought of was old-school Visual Basic. IIRC when you saved your source

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