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by joewalker 1y ago
It's used for things like pop-up menus, (i.e. things that can't be done with HTML) and was recently used in some obscure parts of the UI e.g. certificate viewer (however I'm not even sure that's still XUL any more) I thi
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by joewalker 3y ago
When the decision was made to use Mercurial, Git for Windows wasn't a viable option. If you wanted to develop on Windows, the choices were Mercurial or SVN. Edit: I work for Mozilla, although I didn't in 2006 when I think the deci
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by joewalker 4y ago
Firefox, Chrome and Safari all dropped support for FTP. I suspect the Register is referring to the domain name of the server rather than the protocol: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/108.0/
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The Firefox UI Is Now Built with Web Components(briangrinstead.com)
587 points by joewalker 7y ago|253 comments
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by joewalker 9y ago
I don't know if http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/j... is representative of all the implementations of bitCount in Java, but it's probably obvious that it's not go
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Creator of Bitcoin digital cash reveals identity(bbc.com)
105 points by joewalker 10y ago|22 comments
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by joewalker 11y ago
WeakReferences are elsewhere e.g. [1] My understanding of SoftReferences is that they sound like they're going to be useful in implementing caches, but then cacheing is hard, and generic solutions like a SoftHashMap end up being toys.
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by joewalker 11y ago
In Our Time (BBC R4) did a recent episode called "P vs NP" [1] which talked about graph isomorphism, and might serve as an introduction to this. There's an MP3 download at the link. I don't think it's UK only. [1]:
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by joewalker 11y ago
Copyright law with fonts is strange. 'Looking like' isn't a copyright vilation, but if you take copy a font and tweak it slightly then it probably is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Systems,_Inc._v._
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by joewalker 11y ago
To be fair on NICE, from the same page: "NICE currently does not recommend that homeopathy should be used in the treatment of any health condition" "Some homeopathic remedies may contain substances that are not safe, or that
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by joewalker 11y ago
I'm the author of the blog post. I've updated it to add that Mihai died recently.
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by joewalker 12y ago
We moved the button and a number of the tabs in Firefox devtools to be more like the order in Firebug and Chrome devtools. Here's a screenshot from current Nightly: https://i.imgur.com/EmVIZYO.png
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by joewalker 14y ago
Can you explain how we're doing that? I'm not aware of any of our tools that are Mac only.
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Combating Self-XSS(incompleteness.me)
1 points by joewalker 15y ago|0 comments
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by joewalker 15y ago
I'm not sure that anyone has a definative answer to that question right now. The new tools are interesting because they do things in a different way, but there is a lot they don't do, so we're supporting both. It's possible that one day Fir
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by joewalker 15y ago
Firebug isn't 'owned' by Mozilla, and hasn't ever been, however Mozilla has contributed financially to it's development for some years, and still is. In addition to supporting Firebug, we're also experimenting with alternative developer too