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by dblohm7 3y ago
There are some pretty decent guides for VxD programming still floating around on the web that give a pretty good overview of how VMM32 worked.
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by dblohm7 3y ago
You're splitting hairs, here, but fine: I'm referring to browser engines .
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by dblohm7 3y ago
I don't think it's a good idea in general to install things that utilize unsupported functionality on other people's computers.
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by dblohm7 3y ago
Chrome's font rendering is the outlier among browsers. The author of the article is seeing that difference and they want Firefox to look like Chrome. I think the commentary is taking an issue with the suggestion that there's somet
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by dblohm7 3y ago
The fully-capable version is regular uBlock Origin.
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by dblohm7 3y ago
Optimizing for benchmarks tends to not work all that well for real-world sites. I wouldn't worry about it.
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by dblohm7 3y ago
The problem with this IMHO is that most users who are trying to do this do not understand a couple of things: * The NT kernel does not overcommit; and * As a closed-source OS, client and server editions of Windows do not use build configura
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by dblohm7 3y ago
> "Gamers" can be like audiophiles in the way the spread half-truths and even outright misinformation If I had a dime for every time people were being told to manually manage their Windows page file "for performance".
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by dblohm7 3y ago
The closest thing right now is to pay for one of the products. Pocket Premium, Firefox Relay, Mozilla VPN.
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by dblohm7 3y ago
> on behalf of the customer Not on behalf of the website.
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by dblohm7 3y ago
That’s indicative of poor bindings for those other languages. The nice thing about COM is that it provides a well-defined, C-based ABI for calling object-oriented interfaces; if your language has a FFI that supports C, then you can call COM
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by dblohm7 3y ago
Apollo 8 is not a very good example; it's not like the hardware pipeline wasn't well on its way to be ready to go by the time the decision was made. Don't get me wrong, Apollo 8 was an extremely risky and critical part of the
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by dblohm7 3y ago
(I worked on Firefox for 9 years) > Why is libxul a shared library? A lot of this is historical and is now very difficult to change without negatively impacting users. > It is not used by a bunch of other applications besides Firefox
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by dblohm7 3y ago
+1 - they're probably using the wrong compiler flags.
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by dblohm7 3y ago
You beat me to it: "Liar! There's no Chicken Cannon on the $5 note!" (there should be, though)
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by dblohm7 3y ago
x86 was not the original target processor for NT in the earlier stages of its development. This was intentionally done to ensure that x86-isms didn't weasel their way into the OS and harm portability.
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by dblohm7 3y ago
Yeah, no. To this day Firefox developers building Gecko need a beefy desktop machine to be able to do it in a reasonable amount of time. I could do a clean build in 6 minutes with a ThreadRipper whose cores were all pegged, but forget doing
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by dblohm7 3y ago
> I imagine Mozilla's thinking there was that they should position the feature so that people who already use Pocket will realize that Firefox isn't adding a separate reading list (like the Safari one nobody uses), but rather t
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by dblohm7 3y ago
> Meanwhile they have had consistently growing revenues and consistently declining number of developers. Citation needed? And no, the 2020 layoffs don't count: It's 2023.
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by dblohm7 3y ago
> Beats wasting time on an a commodity VPN service. That service is what earns them non-Google revenue.
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by dblohm7 3y ago
That's basically been the tone of every bit of Mozilla commentary for the past decade.
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by dblohm7 3y ago
Yes! A lot of people don't realize that Windows compatibility is not just about binary compatibility, but source compatibility.
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by dblohm7 3y ago
See also: SlySoft AnyDVD
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by dblohm7 3y ago
The major Servo components that made it into Gecko were the style subsystem (Stylo) and WebRender.
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by dblohm7 4y ago
Most arewe...yet sites are Mozilla sites. It's useful for Mozillians or other interested parties to be able to access a centralized list of all of them.
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by dblohm7 4y ago
That is waaaay out of date on the Desktop front.
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by dblohm7 4y ago
Over the past decade there has been a lot of half-baked Windows stuff that made it into production before needing a rethink. /me glares at "per-monitor v2" API awareness. I hate spreading rumours, but the one I heard about th
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by dblohm7 4y ago
You're fixating on very necessary changes to the addon ecosystem and selectively ignoring the huge underlying changes to Gecko that were made possible by doing so.
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by dblohm7 4y ago
> We can still debate as to why they have been in a death spiral for the last 10 years, and part of it was that they did pretty much everything to avoid making a better browser that could have actually been a competitor to Chrome. You cl
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by dblohm7 4y ago
Today's market share situation is mostly about the growth of mobile.

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