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811.
by gcp 10y ago
Any other CA?
812.
by gcp 10y ago
It's pertinent in this matter that one of the authors of the report works on the Chromium TLS stack. But it's not clear to me whether Chrome has an independent CA program. They use the Microsoft CA store on Windows, and at some po
813.
by gcp 10y ago
The link was posted via mozilla.dev.security.policy
814.
by gcp 10y ago
There would be some truth to this if Chromium had a large non-Google developer community leading it along an independent course from Chrome. But that is, quite frankly, not the case.
815.
by gcp 10y ago
How can something that gets publicly exploited year after year by _teenagers_ (1)(2) be called "very secure" ? You're underestimating teenagers.
816.
by gcp 10y ago
If you read the bug discussion, you'll see this is one of the most problematic parts.
817.
by gcp 10y ago
Woosh :-)
818.
by gcp 10y ago
It won't write to disk with static pages. But most of the web doesn't fit that description, and you're bound to have a tab open that does something in the background. Yoric pointed out here that not being able to save tabs in
819.
by gcp 10y ago
Which warranty?
820.
by gcp 10y ago
SQLite is used exactly because it is so robust even on bad hardware. And you still need to check the data that SQLite is giving you.
821.
by gcp 10y ago
I do not think you want to be paying your bills on a browser that's been compromised, no.
822.
by gcp 10y ago
Smaller block sizes caused large performance issues. SQLite isn't very good at keeping its data unfragmented, and not everyone has SSDs.
823.
by gcp 10y ago
It needs to save enough state to give you the same view.
824.
by gcp 10y ago
Those applications have the benefit that they know exactly what the user data is, what their own state is, and how much of that is due to user input. The browser doesn't have that advantage. For one, state is coming off of the network
825.
by gcp 10y ago
it takes care of storing my data on the server infrastructure Do you manually hit the save button every 15 seconds? Some webapps do this for you. Some do not. Firefox has got your ass covered even for those that do not.
826.
by gcp 10y ago
That's what the interval config setting is for?
827.
by gcp 10y ago
You also need to handle all corner cases where one of the intermediary diffs gets corrupted (you can't generally assume in a program like Firefox that data you write out is going to be readable in the future because lol common hardware
828.
by gcp 10y ago
Why would it be unnecessary? The amount of data follows rather logically from the amount of website state it's capturing, and the interval seems totally like personal preference to me. Would you rather lose 60 seconds of work or 15? Uh
829.
by gcp 10y ago
Much of the recent breakage was to introduce essential features that users have been loudly asking for for years, such as multi-process support and content processes in a security sandbox. If you're intentionally running very old versi
830.
by gcp 10y ago
I dunno but I think plenty of people consider their web browser a pretty vital application.
831.
by gcp 10y ago
There's been some development the last 13 years. Chrome was also pretty crappy in 2003. /s
832.
by gcp 10y ago
Why would you not want to use your SSD for what it's meant for?
833.
by gcp 10y ago
Maybe I am not understanding this right, but is this saying that Firefox will continually keep writing to the disk while idle? Does anyone know more about this? Why would this be needed to restore session/tabs? This is very much the
834.
by gcp 10y ago
If it's not, using incremental deltas is surely a no-brainer here? Might be surprisingly hard or inefficient given that you're trying to capture "webpage state". Think about React sites etc.
835.
by gcp 10y ago
And what if the server sends something different back when you visit the URL again? The internet allows it to do that.
836.
by gcp 10y ago
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1304389
837.
by gcp 10y ago
So even with a cheap drive, if you leave your browser open with tons of tabs, and the PC on 24/7, it'll still easily handle it? Real lifetimes are often a multitude of the endurance rating, BTW.
838.
by gcp 10y ago
Firefox's session restore code was recently rewritten. Given that Pale Moon is based on an outdated fork, it's not clear the behavior is comparable, or that the setting means the same.
839.
by gcp 10y ago
Android suspends backgrounded applications, and will kill them at will, so that actually makes a lot of sense: you have less risk of data loss, and the write issue doesn't exist unless you leave the browser in the foreground 24/7
840.
by gcp 10y ago
Nightly Portable might have this particular setting changed, because the lifetime of random USB sticks is surely going to be much less than a real SSD.

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