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by kbrosnan 5y ago
This pref will not work in future versions.
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
The last 10 years worth of CEOs for Mozilla Corp. 2008-2010 John Lilly 2010-2013 Gary Kovacs 2014 Brendan Eich 2014-2019 Chris Beard 2020-now Mitchel Baker [edit formatting]
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
Firefox on Amazon devices uses the Android Webview. Fire Sticks have specs that are comparable to several year old phones when they were released. This makes them poor targets for general use computing.
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
Reporters do and should use this technique to understand what their article is about and verify a base understanding. They should be careful when it becomes an awkward game of telephone. [1] As Joe Fitz and Joe Grand say in the panel it is
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
Joe Fitz does not think much of this article. https://twitter.com/securelyfitz/status/1360266293190873090 Worth reviewing the B-Sides PDX 2018 panel on the Supermicro "hack". The reporter was mirroring a
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
Not quite. It can be used when any app calls the Android custom tab API. It is not a drop in replacement for Android's Webview. See https://geckoview.dev
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
about:robots is from the early Firefox releases. Pretty sure it is from Firefox 3.0 development as you can find the same robot in images when searching for Firefox Gran Paridiso Robot. https://www.google.com/search?q=firefox
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
The Mozilla VPN uses an auth key generated from the Firefox Account. There is at least one 3rd party app https://github.com/NilsIrl/MozWire/ Though the official client support the major operating systems [Windows,
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
This would be even rarer but do you use Chocolatey and/or Brew or similar to install Firefox? That could put you back in the Linux package manger situation where a 3rd party application updates the Firefox binary out from underneath it
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
On Windows and MacOS this happens to users who launch multiple profiles from the same version at the same time via --no-remote and -P/--profile-manager or in multi user systems where one user updates Firefox and the other person is log
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
Long press on the tabs button will give you a new tab option which provides direct access to top sites.
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
They were not all exactly like Dutch bikes. Though they were inexpensive and fairly common through the mid 80s Stuff like the Breeze, Speedster, Suburban, etc. See https://bikehistory.org/ for a lot more examples.
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
Getting major UI added to a browser is not Igalia/Tidelift/etc. forte. They provide development for engine level features like supporting a new CSS element or ECMAscript function. SSB needs OS integration on Windows, MacOS and Lin
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
Might be worth contacting the BMO team at https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#bmo:mozilla.org
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
It was blocked because the standards bodies require two or more independent implementations. All Mozilla said was that if they were to implement WebSQL they would use SQLite and there would not be two different implementations. Why should h
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
Any website from mid 90s through early 2000s when popups were the dominate way to deliver ads to users. Want to say Yahoo services and just about any local news site were good examples but it has been 20 years. Browsers added popup/pop
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
Three clicks from the blogpost. First to the site https://www.smat-app.com . Then about https://www.smat-app.com/about and finally https://gitlab.com/smat-project
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
I recall reports of people dumpster diving for the tickets. They were bagged separate from the foodstuffs which made dumpster diving fairly effective. One 50 gallon trashbag full of tickets was probably enough to get some of the higher end
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
There was an onboarding screen when you first launched Firefox that offered several choices. One of them was address bar at top. Others include dark mode and strict tracking protection.
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
It collected a lot of garbage data and was quite the headache to manage. https://paste.mozilla.org/ is fairly similar but there is no longer an option to persist data for more than 21 days.
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
What did you think they did with the tickets after you redeemed them. They were always destined for the landfill. I worked at a Dave & Buster's as a tech. We were required by corporate to destroy any redeemed tickets, usually by sh
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
I was suggesting you post the urls here or email me at my username at mozilla . com
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
Provide some crash ID URLs? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozillacrashreporter
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
There are ways to write webapps that work offline. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web... and https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/codelabs/of
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
https://twitter.com/gcpascutto/status/1293519587967983616
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
Donations do not go to the CEOs salary or anything Mozilla Corporation related. They go to the Mozilla Foundation and are used to work on global internet policy and education.
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
No mention of Browsh yet. It is a neat hack bringing the capabilities of modern browsers to command line browsers. https://www.brow.sh/docs/introduction/ > Browsh is a purely text-based browser that can run in
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
There is a visual indicator Firefox provides an Android notification that appears when the camera and/or the mic is in use.
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
Yes this is ad network fingerpriting using navigator.mediaDevices.enumerateDevices(). [1] When called without permission it would return something like > videoinput: id = csO9c0YpAf274OuCPUA53CNE0YHlIr2yXCi+SqfBZZ8= > audioinput: id =
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by kbrosnan 6y ago
That is a separate issue which is fixed in Firefox Beta as part of bug 1578073.

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