kbrosnan

8 ms·

31.
by kbrosnan 3y ago
Try opening help or press F1 with the desktop in focus. This normally opens Edge.
32.
by kbrosnan 3y ago
I ran without an adblocker for a long time with a similar sort of reasoning. What got me to finally install an adblocker is an increase in malvertising. Going to legitimate sites with third party ads resulted in drive by downloads, fake upd
33.
by kbrosnan 3y ago
Integration of a new decoder is not all that complicated code wise. What is complicated is the effects of the change and ongoing support. 1. Binary size cost, in my experience working on Firefox this is in the 100s of KiB range when adding
34.
by kbrosnan 3y ago
In the search settings disable "Show search suggestions ahead of browsing history in address bar results"
35.
by kbrosnan 3y ago
You can use F6 to focus the address bar. With it focused F6 will return focus to web content.
36.
by kbrosnan 3y ago
Happens with some frequency with building Gecko. You can see documented instances of it for the CLOBBER file. It allows the person building to optionally have the build system force a clean rebuild. https://hg.mozilla.org/mo
37.
by kbrosnan 3y ago
Valley talk is generational it was at its peak from 82-90ish with Clueless.
38.
by kbrosnan 4y ago
Igalia is working on it. It is unclear if they are doing it speculatively or on contract. https://www.igalia.com/technology/browsers
39.
by kbrosnan 4y ago
This was done with the HTML (5) parser. https://hsivonen.fi/html5-gecko-build/ There is the standards based code path and the quirks path.
40.
by kbrosnan 4y ago
AHK brings back memories. The campus I was working at had the dorm network saturated by Sasser and variants. Networking turned off the dorm network. I used AHK to automate Windows patch installers, installing Norton Corporate AV and grabbin
41.
by kbrosnan 4y ago
That would mean the web is dead. The things you mention would result in more app only experiences.
42.
by kbrosnan 4y ago
They are using the legal definition of assault. The hose is a tool not much different than anything else that would extend your reach.
43.
by kbrosnan 4y ago
That can profile the whole browser as a unit. It does try to record only active threads. There are ways to set it to record everything. https://chat.mozilla.org/?#/room/#perfteam:mozilla.org is good place to acces
44.
by kbrosnan 4y ago
Try the profiler. https://profiler.firefox.com/docs/#/./guide-getting-started?...
45.
by kbrosnan 4y ago
Teams should be working in Firefox around now. https://www.onmsft.com/news/teams-meetings-set-to-support-2x...
46.
by kbrosnan 4y ago
The restart message is due to the interaction of Linux package updaters and Firefox's process spawning. You can avoid it by using Mozilla's tar.gz, the Snap or Flatpack builds.
47.
by kbrosnan 4y ago
The crash reports at https://crash-stats.mozilla.org are a separate opt in bit of telemetry which is a dialog that is shown when Firefox crashes. You can opt into automatically sending them by setting browser.crashReports.unsubm
48.
by kbrosnan 4y ago
All through the 80s and 90s there were people asking for a la carte cable service so that way they could get only the channels that they cared about. That time is now and I hear a lot more people complaining about how many subscription serv
49.
by kbrosnan 4y ago
On Windows/Mac OS/Linux you can drag the lock icon to the desktop to create a desktop launcher/shortcut.
50.
by kbrosnan 4y ago
The goal is to provide a testbed of Tor features so that Tor is not broken when they update their Firefox ESR version. It has a secondary behavior of making Firefox roughly look like a Tor user thus slightly increasing the population of pos
51.
by kbrosnan 4y ago
The pref makes you look like a Tor user, mostly. So yes that population of users is pretty small. The Firefox/Tor privacy protections favor uniformity over randomizing everything.
52.
by kbrosnan 4y ago
Supported since v92 https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/19785
53.
by kbrosnan 4y ago
That pref is not present because it does not apply to distro updated Firefox such as a .deb.
54.
by kbrosnan 5y ago
Sega is selling the consumer arcade stores. Yes, there are communities that work to preserve arcade machine ROMs and other media.
55.
by kbrosnan 5y ago
When the distro updates Firefox out from underneath it Firefox's options are; crash because API call does not match, detect the API incompatibility and prompt the user to do a clean restart, or spend a monumental amount of engineering
56.
by kbrosnan 5y ago
If you had restore tabs on restart then tabs that were in the background and not pinned would not be loaded until focused. Tabs would not be unloaded unless you restart the browser. The first implementations were in the Fx 20 range and some
57.
by kbrosnan 5y ago
Depends on the shoe. I have definitely marred wood floors with SPDs and Shimano lace up CX shoes. Looked like someone took a hammer and smacked it at an angle in random places on the floor. I thought much like you that SPDs were recessed en
58.
by kbrosnan 5y ago
The provision in the privacy policy likely comes from a overly cautious interpretation of COPA. The Childrens Online Privacy Act (COPA) Requires companies doing business in the US to get parental consent before creating an account for a chi
59.
by kbrosnan 5y ago
It is supported on desktop for North American users since 81.
60.
by kbrosnan 5y ago
Firefox has never had a 3d tab view on Android. It has had a grid or list view. Pretty sure the same is true on iOS but I don't use it as often as Android.

More ›