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by dblohm7 11y ago
> a browser that survives primarily based on the addon ecosystem Citation needed.
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by dblohm7 11y ago
Developer Edition should not be considered stable, by any means. It is still roughly equivalent to the Aurora (ie, alpha) channel.
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by dblohm7 11y ago
Mozilla performance dev here: Our data backs this up. 4 out of 10 of our top most frequent janks are due to Flash initialization. I'm working to make that all work asynchronously until the time comes when we can kill NPAPI altogether.
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by dblohm7 11y ago
That's referring to contributions by paid staff. It's still an ongoing open-source project that may be contributed to by the community.
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by dblohm7 11y ago
The Thunderbird version numbers follow the Firefox ESR version numbers.
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by dblohm7 11y ago
> Because they're looking for new revenue streams outside of the Google agreement, which stops paying out quite soon. The Google agreement is already gone. Mozilla partnered with Yahoo in the US starting in December 2014. And again,
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by dblohm7 11y ago
As repeatedly said elsewhere in this thread, Pocket is not paying Mozilla for this integration.
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by dblohm7 11y ago
> I suspect a lot of people are wary of "signing in" to browsers..... Nobody's being held at gunpoint.
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by dblohm7 11y ago
> Can we get a public statement from Mozilla describing its deal with Pocket? I've been pleading internally for an official public response. Nothing. The only other source I've seen is an email reply from Mark Mayo at http:&#x
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by dblohm7 11y ago
Not really. Hello was added in order to offer an alternative to Skype/FaceTime that uses open Web technologies and does not require you to create accounts or upload contacts. The partnership with Telefonica made it more convenient sinc
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by dblohm7 11y ago
Mozilla's mission is to promote openness, innovation & opportunity on the Web. There's nothing specific about browsers in the mission, though it is used to help further the mission. If you take that into context when you look
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by dblohm7 11y ago
https://github.com/mozilla-services/loop-server
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by dblohm7 11y ago
It's useful to Gecko engineers, ie. the people who actually have to fix it.
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by dblohm7 11y ago
Mozilla wanted users to be able to use Pocket without needing to create an additional account.
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by dblohm7 11y ago
or somebody on a reddit thread tells them to do it.
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by dblohm7 11y ago
WebRTC is now a web standard and ships in multiple browsers. If you consider such technology to be outside the scope of a browser, then you're going to need to convince a whole lot of people.
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by dblohm7 11y ago
What's your beef with Hello, exactly? The whole point of Hello is to offer an alternative to Skype/FaceTime that uses open Web technologies and does not require you to create accounts or upload contacts. How does that not appeal t
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by dblohm7 11y ago
Mailing lists are essential forums for a huge number of open source projects. We're not the first to use them and we aren't going to be the last. I agree that it's perhaps not "webby" enough but that's what we&
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by dblohm7 11y ago
I agree, it was very well written. I wish all requests from users were this respectful.
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by dblohm7 11y ago
Hello snooping on your contact information? Where on earth did you get that idea from?
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by dblohm7 11y ago
Umm, it has always part of the general Bugzilla etiquette guidelines. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html
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by dblohm7 11y ago
I know for a fact that Pale Moon stripped all test suites from their fork of the code. Any modifications that they have made to the browser are not fully tested. Caveat emptor.
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by dblohm7 11y ago
I answered this on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/388ryl/pocket_and_h...
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by dblohm7 11y ago
Firefox makes extensive use of lazy initialization for a lot of its code. You typically don't pay the price for those features unless you actually use them.
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by dblohm7 11y ago
Hello is just a thin wrapper around WebRTC. That's why Chrome can receive Hello calls without an extension. There's barely anything to add on in that case.
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by dblohm7 11y ago
Actually the "vote" link should be used for endorsement.
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by dblohm7 11y ago
Mozilla employee here: That is incorrect. There is limited public information available about this deal, but the best quote so far is in this article: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2930532/reading-service-pocke...
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by dblohm7 11y ago
Couldn't having an account be construed as having used their service, though?
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by dblohm7 11y ago
Yes. Developer edition by default uses a separate user profile.
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by dblohm7 11y ago
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