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kbrosnan
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For a user to be affected by this they woul need to: * They would need to visit a website using webrtc * Grant Firefox the Android camera/microphone permissions * They would then be prompted to allow the website access to the camera an
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There has been a bypassable error for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for several months. There have been error messages in devtools. In October of 2018 the browser vendors jointly announced that this change was coming. [1][2] This is happening in coordina
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The simplest way is to click the gear on the new tab page and uncheck items you don't want. If you uncheck everything you will still have the gear icon present. If you want to hide that then your are in userChrome.css territory.
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You are describing the Fission project [1]. You can enable it in nightly builds. It does break some things, crash a bit more often etc. [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Project_Fission
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GeckoView is fairly tightly focused on Java/Kotlin API. While work in the past allowed Gecko to run on iOS [1] this was not maintained. [1] https://imgur.com/r8Qti and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_
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Mark Surman is the Executive Director (CEO)[1] of the Mozilla Foundation. [1] - An executive director is a chief executive officer (CEO) or managing director of an organization, company, or corporation. The title is widely used in North Ame
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That data is getting close to a year old at this point. "Each snapshot of data represents all of the active devices during a 7-day period ending on May 7, 2019"
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Are you running Wayland? Make sure Firefox was running in Wayland mode. Fedora had a separate package for Wayland Firefox for some time, though it might be the default in 31. XWayland can result in a performance hit. https://fedo
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The hard part about this model is that I might only need this service once a year or less. If this service did not exist I would just try the tip the bellhop option.
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I used a similar service in NYC in December. My partner and I were in the city for a half day. We got into the Port Authority around noon and dropped our bags at a Best Western near Penn Station. It allowed us to spend a day visiting with f
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The 2016 and earlier models had a fn based page up/down keyboard format. https://i.imgur.com/zTRSKXR.jpg They chose to move to the dedicated page up/down buttons by the '18 refresh I assume there was a bit of
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It would not make any sense to Port Firefox Preview to RPi as the project is built around the Android API and widgets. Some of the Gecko work to support Firefox Preview could help performance on low spec hardware.
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Not any more than desktop Firefox. GeckoView is mostly a Java API for interfacing with Gecko, https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/mobile/andro...
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1) GA was removed from the first run page https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/7621
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Below the video at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/opinion/nike-running-mary...
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In the dial-up days I remember turning on ask to set cookies. It was fairly common to need to deny 10-20 cookie requests even back then. Now there are extensions to manage website trackers that deal with more than just cookies. Extensions a
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The food computer idea was one that industry had working a decade before under the name growth chambers. https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/117189568344985600... https://www.google.com/searc
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You can add a keyword for known search engines in the settings as well. Double click on the search engine keyword area, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-your-default-sea...
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GA was removed from the first run page https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/7621
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GA was removed from that page https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/7621
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This is is the Thunderbird Project's announcement. That group did the work, Mozilla provides a legal and financial framework for Thunderbird. Mozilla's work for Thunderbird is similar to projects like the Software Freedom Conserva
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The US has a 25% tariff on light trucks and 2d SUVs since 1964. As manufacturers tried different ways to circumvent the US government has closed these loopholes. The most famous is Ford Transit vans were shipped to the US with seats in an e
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Just about all certificate authorities are trusted by billions of people a day to encrypt their data. Almost all of CAs are privately held companies, the only way they are trusted is by being audited by a third party. For info about the inc
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With the current equipment and spectrum assigned it does have that problem. MKBHD goes over this is a video. It is awesome if you stand right underneath a 5g site, 1-2 gbps. If you head down the road a hundred feet/30 meters the signal
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Firefox has not removed support for ftp. I just browsed to ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/ in Firefox 68 just before submitting this comment. Mozilla stopped running ftp://ftp.mozilla.org quite a while ago. Maybe that is what
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You are not currently able to Sync to a custom server in Firefox Preview. Doing that requires access to about:config which is not set up in the release version.
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The list is at https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-release/file/tip/too... looking at the blame view will usually lead to the bug that introduced the probe. Short of the file being refactored, which
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Firefox add-ons have a different namespace and some additional APIs that Blink does not support. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web... and https://developer.mozil
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It was through Verizon. The insurance does not offer such a discount in their traditional offerings. https://www.amica.com/en/products/auto-insurance/discounts.h... you need to get Amica Flexmile to have ODBI
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Complexity of test scenarios. There were already ~6 user states on ~20 supported operating systems with ~10 add-on types. There has already been public announcement of a solution for older versions of Firefox without studies including a man
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