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by evilpie 10y ago
Preliminary modules supports can be enabled in Firefox Nightly by changing dom.moduleScripts.enabled to true in about:config. There are still some bugs ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=568953 ) to fix before we
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by evilpie 10y ago
There is a rough version [0] based on the sidebarAction API [1], this is probably going to improved when it actually lands in Firefox Nightly, which should hopefully be soon. [0] https://github.com/bwinton/TabCenter&#x2
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by evilpie 11y ago
https://letsencrypt.org/stats/
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by evilpie 11y ago
Jan also wrote about this http://jandemooij.nl/blog/2015/11/27/math-random-and-32-bit-... in the context of Spidermonkey.
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by evilpie 11y ago
>Firefox basically does nothing but copy Chrome anymore ;) Thanks If you can wait for the WebExtension API. If not use Jetpack. Don't write new extensions with XUL/XPCOM.
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by evilpie 11y ago
I made some fixes to the Qt backend a year ago, but gave up again rather quickly. There are some rather big chunck missing and as others have said it's actually getting worse. For example the Sailfish people removed the component that
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Octane-mandreel-latency inappropriately penalizes lazy parsing(github.com)
2 points by evilpie 11y ago|0 comments
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by evilpie 12y ago
SpiderMonkey has something that we call ExpressionDecompiler [1]. Basically it allows us to decompile some subset of the JS bytecode. Fun fact: At some point in time SpiderMonkey could actually decompile all bytecode and this is how we used
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by evilpie 12y ago
But most people already have IE installed!
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by evilpie 12y ago
As one of the biggest Firefox contributors, I am actually annoyed by how bad this decision is from a technical point of view as well. We have already seen malware that just replaces the Chrome binary to avoid add-on checks, but somehow this
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by evilpie 12y ago
For instance a while back Mozilla was giving away old Mac minis: http://armenzg.blogspot.de/2014/05/do-you-need-used-mac-mini...
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by evilpie 12y ago
Seems like they also deliver this with an HTTP 200 status. So Firefox actually tries to parse the error page as JavaScript.
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by evilpie 12y ago
Maybe Adobe Flash doesn't work with pure Wayland, but needs X? So with Shumway you wouldn't need an X compositor (at least for Flash)
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by evilpie 12y ago
Host and cert verification by default is good. You can use tls_config_set_ciphers to set a cipher string, but I don't see if they disable unsafe ciphers by default.
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Opportunistic Security for HTTP(greenbytes.de)
18 points by evilpie 12y ago|10 comments
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by evilpie 12y ago
HPKP has actually been implemented in Firefox as of a few days ago. [1] We also started on putting together a wiki page on MDN, feel free to help! [2] [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787133 [2] https:&#x2F
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by evilpie 12y ago
Sadly there are still some kinks to work out so it's going to stay on Nightly only. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1041631
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by evilpie 12y ago
Who is lost?
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by evilpie 12y ago
Here is a heatmap with data on how often these different buttons are clicked: http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2014/07/firefox-for-androi...
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Slimmer and faster JavaScript strings in Firefox(blog.mozilla.org)
191 points by evilpie 12y ago|66 comments
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by evilpie 12y ago
Chrome and Firefox both have a preloaded list of sites that should always use HSTS. https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2012/11/01/preloading-hsts...
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by evilpie 12y ago
Better yet, server admins could ask for screenshots of players. (I just don't know if it would refuse to take screenshots outside the game)
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by evilpie 12y ago
>Note that ES6 will have template string which can be multiline, but time... Firefox Nightly currently supports just enough of template strings to give you multiline strings.
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by evilpie 12y ago
No you can't. You can do something like function(undefined) {}, but the global 'undefined' is non-writable and non-configurable.
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by evilpie 12y ago
I actually have been looking into how hard it would be to get Firefox based on Qt useful again. Maybe someone would be interested in helping?
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by evilpie 12y ago
I don't find that very surprising. It's basically one of the basic compiler models.
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by evilpie 12y ago
Actually what happened to that Cisco h264 project?
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by evilpie 12y ago
Actually that's not true at least in Firefox and probably chrome. Take a look at http://jsfiddle.net/2LsSg/ . window.onload/g@http://fiddle.jshell.net/2LsSg/show/:23:5 window.o
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by evilpie 12y ago
No, see the spec: https://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-ar...
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Fast arrow functions in Firefox 31(jandemooij.nl)
22 points by evilpie 12y ago|8 comments

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