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by evilpie 5y ago
Congrats to the team on shipping site isolation. This required a lot of work on very fundamental parts like frame/page loading.
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by evilpie 5y ago
All the bugs you linked are marked as fixed, so unless you open a new bug with clear steps of reproducing your specific issue, it's probably never going to happen.
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by evilpie 5y ago
It's a classic performance/memory tradeoff. There are caches that aren't strictly necessary for the page to work, but throwing them away causes slowdowns.
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by evilpie 5y ago
I have been using the similar site https://www.ventusky.com for a few years now.
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by evilpie 5y ago
The memo starts with something like "123-0000000-1234567 Amazon.de". The corresponding link would be https://www.amazon.de/gp/css/summary/edit.html?orderID=123-0...
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by evilpie 5y ago
At least the bank statement for an Amazon purchase contains an ID that can easily be linked to a purchase on the website. I have also seen the behaviour of multiple items in the same purchase being split across different transactions. I thi
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by evilpie 5y ago
I really liked that infographic when I first saw it on twitter a while ago. I found it again at https://accessibility.asu.edu/wa-helps-everyone-large-versio... , which specifies Microsoft's Inclusive Toolkit Manual as
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by evilpie 5y ago
The Santizer constructor can take a list of allowed elements etc.: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Sanitizer/S...
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by evilpie 6y ago
Good timing! I actually fixed this 21 year old feature request: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821 You can set browser.quitShortcut.disabled=true in about config starting with Firefox 87.
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by evilpie 6y ago
- impossible to put an image into a clipboard (e.g. to paste it outside a browser) I literally implemented support for the navigator.clipboard.write API, with image/png support included, in today's Firefox Nightly version: https:
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by evilpie 6y ago
Okay, but that requires installing a native code module.
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by evilpie 6y ago
> Browser extensions have exactly as much power as the browser itself I would say this is false. Browsers can run arbitrary code on your machine. Extensions can't even access local files. If we are just talking about site informatio
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by evilpie 6y ago
Youtube video of urban explorers in the subway tunnels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY6A0_uxyvs
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by evilpie 6y ago
Chrome open sourced Foxit as Pdfium: https://www.foxitsoftware.com/blog/?p=641
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by evilpie 6y ago
JavaScript also has newish BigInt support: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... . It even has syntax: 42n.
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by evilpie 7y ago
WebExtension in Firefox get access to open and closed shadow roots: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/ope... . I think there are open bugs for some further improvements.
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by evilpie 7y ago
Since Firefox 72, the built-in certificate viewer actual reuses most of the JavaScript code from "Certainly Something". So the extension isn't strictly necessary anymore.
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by evilpie 7y ago
For some reason the author truncated the error messages reported by Chrome and Firefox to not include the line/column. The message in Firefox is: JSON.parse: expected ',' or ']' after array element at line 1 column
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by evilpie 7y ago
For intranet/companies you should use Group Policies to install extensions: https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates#extensions
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by evilpie 7y ago
Is there some common protocol that is used for binary communication, or is it all custom? Something like hexview or xxd would probably help generally.
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by evilpie 7y ago
As mentioned in the blog-post, the Basline Interpreter uses the JitScript structure containing type and IC information. Allocating this additional struct is a waste of memory for a function that is only executed a handful of times, without
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by evilpie 7y ago
I wrote a simple Firefox extension mostly for personal use that finds bookmarks that point to unreachable pages. After publishing it on addons.mozilla.org, I almost immediately got messages that it marked reachable websites as expired. So i
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by evilpie 8y ago
I've heard "hamburger menu", but never just "the hamburger".
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by evilpie 8y ago
Firefox doesn't work without a JavaScript engine.
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by evilpie 8y ago
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Trusted_Recursive_Resolver >Set `network.trr.mode` to 2 to make DNS Over HTTPS the browser's first choice but use regular DNS as a fallback So regular DNS entries will still resolve after th
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by evilpie 8y ago
You probably have the privacy.resistFingerprinting preference set to true. This spoofs your browser version.
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by evilpie 9y ago
You can still install the github version in addition to that, which should give you that feature again! https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot-containers#readme
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by evilpie 9y ago
Here is a comment describing strings in SpiderMonkey: http://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/999385a5e8c2d360cc3... . If you scroll down there is ASCII art showing the different string sub-classes.
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by evilpie 9y ago
I think you have to read it like "executed on >all paths to the function exit< as early as possible". As in, if you have an expression that is always executed regardless which path you take before returning. It's useful
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by evilpie 10y ago
Might be a reference to Netscape Enterprise Server[1], which had server-side JS in 1995? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Enterprise_Server

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