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by kbrosnan 9y ago
> I'm not sure how easy this is to resolve in Appveyor, but I would also prefer to have Windows binaries compiled statically. I'm much less familiar with compiling Rust binaries on Windows and don't have a Windows machine
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
Nothing specific. It is being used to convey that the code was written at an emotional high or low maybe when the author was tired or under time pressure to get something that worked.
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
Summer Fridays tend to have an earlier rush hour than other days of the week and other times of the year. People try to get a jump start on their weekend.
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
You can self host a signed extension in minutes. Just upload it and then download the signed extension from the developer portal and add it to the github releases for the project. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Ad
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
Did you submit a webextension or a legacy extension?
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
One of the big differences is that Firefox and Edge do not support any of the deprecated APIs.
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
Privatization of the Bonneville dam's power distribution network will affect major tech companies such as Amazon, Google, Facebook and others with data centers in the PNW. The dams currently sell power at the cost of generation.
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Down the Mighty Columbia River, Where a Power Struggle Looms(nytimes.com)
1 points by kbrosnan 9y ago|1 comments
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
Yes it is the same awful bike. Kent International owns the brand it does some assembly in South Carolina, the parts and frames come mainly from China and Taiwan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_International
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
"% foo" will search your open tabs for foo. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-fire... for other characters that will filter the search results for other data such as bookmarks,
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
It most certainly does say that this only applies to private windows, "Use Tracking Protection in Private Windows" [1]. If you want the always using tracking protection you can set privacy.trackingprotection.enabled to true in abo
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by kbrosnan 9y ago
Servo is not rewriting the JavaScript engine. Spidermonkey will continue to be C++ for the foreseeable future.
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Fewer mallocs in curl(daniel.haxx.se)
7 points by kbrosnan 10y ago|1 comments
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by kbrosnan 10y ago
Glandium is a trusted source of Mozilla command line information. https://glandium.org/about/
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by kbrosnan 10y ago
Written by Luis Villa [1] a lawyer with 15+ years of experience working with opens source communities. [1] https://mobile.twitter.com/luis_in_140/status/84107363612766...
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by kbrosnan 10y ago
Google hangouts in Chrome uses Native Client. Which no other browser vendor has any interest in supporting. Webassembly is the path forward for such code as it is supported/planned support in Firefox, Edge, Chrome and Safari. They have
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by kbrosnan 10y ago
The security patches are largely from Mozilla's Gecko/SpiderMonkey/Toolkit work. The people who create the patches tend to be Mozilla employees. Looking over the 45.x Thunderbird releases I don't see a single Thunderbird
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by kbrosnan 10y ago
> Pay Equity, which will go into effect on July 1, 2018 for Commonwealth employers and employees. A year and 3 months to go before it is illegal.
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by kbrosnan 10y ago
Firefox for Android is the exact same codebase as desktop Firefox. Many Gecko features are turned on for Firefox for Android at the same time as desktop. In other cases either Firefox for Android or desktop will have features before the oth
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by kbrosnan 10y ago
Their security story is laughable. It won't be multiprocess. It won't have sandboxing. They deleted every test directory from the source tree.
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by kbrosnan 10y ago
Adobe reversed its NPAPI support instead of being stuck on the 12.x branch Adobe now ships the current version of Flash to Firefox on Linux. https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/
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by kbrosnan 10y ago
Mozilla is a non-profit. Mozilla has been publicly committed to an open and free internet since 2007 when the Mozilla Manifesto was introduced. Here is the earliest version captured by Archive.org https://web.archive.org/web
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by kbrosnan 10y ago
Via userChrome.css @namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul); #urlbar-zoom-button { display: none !important;}
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by kbrosnan 10y ago
Localization is done by volunteers. If the team that is providing the translations does not complete the translations then the localization is dropped > This locale hasn't seen any activity in almost 2 years, and we failed to revive
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by kbrosnan 10y ago
Your donations were not used by Mozilla to develop Firefox OS or otherwise fund it. Donations go to the Mozilla Foundation which solely focuses on education and advocacy for an open internet. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US&#x
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by kbrosnan 10y ago
Yahoo is only the default for users in North America. Bidau for China and Yandex for Russia. In most other cases Google is the default as their search service produces good results for the user. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog
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by kbrosnan 10y ago
Archive.org has the home page since 2012 http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://theWirecutter.com
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by kbrosnan 10y ago
Firefox generates a random number on first run. Users who are selected for the experiment are sent a signed extension from Mozilla that makes browser.tabs.remote.autostart preference return true if they are on the correct release of Firefox
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by kbrosnan 10y ago
The location on Google Maps is https://goo.gl/maps/1YNoyQPAKmy Roughly 58 Boulevards des Maréchaux, 75015 Paris, France
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by kbrosnan 10y ago
The ones up and down Castro St. in Mountain View don't do anything.

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