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by kbrosnan 7y ago
Does the current user have rights to write to the Firefox install location? If not then elevation is required to overwrite the files.
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by kbrosnan 7y ago
I believe that this is the same app I encountered on my mother's phone. She got it from Verizon and got a discount on either mobile service or the phone. It has a bluetooth dongle that plugs into the cars OBDII port. I tried talking to
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by kbrosnan 8y ago
Shumway is in a spot where they need ActionScript 3 support to play more complex content. ActionScript 3 is based on ECMAscript 3. ES3 has support for some depreciated features such as E4X. To do this someone would need to compile the Tamri
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by kbrosnan 8y ago
The palemoon author threatened to sue OpenBSD 3 hours after a trademark violation request was submitted. https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86
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by kbrosnan 8y ago
A corruption of "but i am le tired." A line from a flash video from a site called Albino Blacksheep. Called 'THE END OF ZE WORLD' by Jason Windsor in 2003. ABS was known for flash videos/animations (occasional theft
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by kbrosnan 8y ago
That is resolved with 60.x ESR. First released in the early summer and has been the default since September. 52 had no support for webextensions
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by kbrosnan 8y ago
This was the old model and it put a lot of pressure on the volunteer add-on reviewers and their were times where the delays stretched out to several months.
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by kbrosnan 8y ago
It is about reach, a leaflet would reach one person. That person might talk to a person or two about the information in the leaflet. One person with a fan could be seen by many thousands of people on their daily commute.
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by kbrosnan 8y ago
There are a couple fixes in 63 beta specifically about OS X performance. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/63.0beta/releasenotes/ > On macOS, WebGL power preferences allow non-performance-critical
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by kbrosnan 8y ago
I ran into it in Japan. Found it an interesting way to be clear that the restaurant was open past midnight.
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by kbrosnan 8y ago
Worth checking out Haven Bros. in Providence, RI for an example of this still in operation. Open from ~16:30 to ~27:00. It is driven in to down city every evening. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haven_Brothers_Diner
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by kbrosnan 8y ago
1. Nightly has some profile incompatible database changes 2. That bug is OS X only. The parent is on Windows 10.
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by kbrosnan 8y ago
Tab hiding is part of 61. > More customization for tab management: added support to allow WebExtensions to hide tabs
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by kbrosnan 8y ago
browser.ctrlTab.previews in about:conifg though the feature may be in various states of broken as it is not exposed anywhere
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by kbrosnan 8y ago
An advantage of flathead is that it is easy to unfoul the screw head. A minute with a utility knife or a flathead screwdriver will clear the channel of dirt or paint. I would not want to deal with a torx that has several layers of paint dri
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by kbrosnan 8y ago
Google's actions made it clear that Google Finance has been an unowned or skeleton project for several years. Google never made a Google Finance app for Android. Just because there is a vocal audience that likes the old product does no
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by kbrosnan 8y ago
Note that all the great features were implemented in Flash. The cost of documenting the behaviors and building a team to reimplement was deemed non-essential.
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
The problem is that the reddit culture is that upvotes/downvotes solve all and that moderators should be invisible.
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
The problem is that it is not a fast freeze. It goes through the full W3C process[1] WD > CR > PR > recommendation. When I looked at W3C html 5.2 there had been 10k changes to the WHATWG spec from the date of the 5.2 branch to the
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
Unless you follow browser or specification development you are unlikely to know about WHATWG. In talking to teachers and web developers few know about the difference between the W3C and WHATWG. The W3C still has the mindshare lead.
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
Most likely the site is sending a content-disposition: attachment which forces Firefox to show the save file dialog. This is a very old bug.
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
For Android Simulate color space is the option in the Developer options. If you don't have developer options enabled you need to tap on the "Build number" 10 times in the "About phone" settings to enable it on Andro
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
Parent is suggesting combining 650b/27.5" wheel sets with large volume 27.5" tires. This gives you an outer wheel diameter near a 700c wheel. Something like this Durano 27.5 x 1.10 tire [1] and sealant would make for a bomb p
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
Gwern edits articles as new information arrives. The links were added after the initial article was written. Gwern rarely submits their own content. [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=gwern
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
You have a naive understanding of human behavior. This would make the motorcyclist a target of rage by some subset of camping drivers. The camping driver may decide to intentionally inhibit traffic by pacing a large truck.
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
How about reaching to GPS? You both are employed by Mozilla.
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
> This document was on the W3C Recommendation track but specification work has stopped. The specification reached an impasse: all interested implementors have used the same SQL backend (Sqlite), but we need multiple independent implement
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
While it is clear why hn folks would love those prefs. They break websites far too often to be defaults.
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
Using your browser's responsive design tools should be able to display the problem.
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
If "Firefox will Never remember history" is set in the settings then the icon will not be present.

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