kbrosnan

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   by kbrosnan 10y ago

   Any modern browser visiting imgur gets H.264/WebM instead of the uncompressed gif. They introduced this 2.5 years ago. After a couple smaller gif only sites made the practice popular. https://blog.imgur.com/2014/10
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   by kbrosnan 11y ago

   Lest you think that this is some oddity that does not happen in the US it is an issue in Portland, OR. The Portlandia statue [1] sitting in public display and on a public building. The artist retains copyright. Raymond Kaskey, the sculptor,
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   by kbrosnan 11y ago

   When people come across such things please report them to https://webcompat.com/ There are some Firefox, IE and webdevs that work on understanding what is broken and trying to get sites to work cross browser.
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   by kbrosnan 11y ago

   dom.ipc.processCount does not do any load balancing. It just does one tab one process until the number of tabs is greater than dom.ipc.processCount when that happens every new tab ends up in the last process. For right now any settings othe
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   by kbrosnan 11y ago

   Firefox does not come with Flash preinstalled.
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   by kbrosnan 11y ago

   Every DA and police department will show up with a stack of phones after the first unlock. Apple would now be responsible for decrypting phones day and night. This has already happened with a department in NYC that wants 100+ iPhones unlock
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   by kbrosnan 11y ago

   How does one protect the majority of users in the wide open case? For example see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1251911 where the extension downloaded another extension and disabled the signing pref.
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   by kbrosnan 11y ago

   On Fx Android you can use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/always-reader...
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   by kbrosnan 11y ago

   On Fx this feature is not in the code any more. It would be a large investment of resources to implement it.
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    If you want to use a non-English interface you would install the langpack for example https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/44.0/win32/xpi/ you would need to navigate the ftp to match yo
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    Here is an example of a Google maps route from Providence to Boston for bicycling, https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?hl=en-US&mid=zH358fz1z920...
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    I remember this day which was fairly close to when I was hired at Mozilla. What this looked like from the Mozilla side several bugs filed [1]. Support forums had hundreds of questions about this [2][3]. The data from input.mozilla.org is go
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    It is not clear from the article or its online references. I suspect that it is not fermentation. It sounds like the stew is kept at a simmer. Extra water is added to prevent burnt food and is sterilized for drinking. New ingredients are ad
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    By raising the price of coal will allow for seams of coal that are less economically viable to be mined. These unviable seams are likely more environmentally damaging to mine. I had a family member that owned property in WV. They looked int
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    Part of the blame is outdated train safety requirements from the Federal Railroad Administration. They like big heavy trains even for commuter rail. https://bikeeastbay.org/rail/fra.html https://nextcity.org
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    Wayback has the "e-pistle" link saved https://web.archive.org/web/20070715184101/http://www.maltma...
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    Wayback has it http://web.archive.org/web/20020223144052/http://www.hardocp... along with a link to a German site that points out some of the quality loss in the ATI driver. http://alt.3dcente
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    This is a really fun. Been playing around with this on Firefox on Android an Chrome on Android. Great to see a game that transitions smoothly from desktop to mobile. Noticed that on mobile once you exit fullscreen by pressing the Android ba
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    Firefox's reader mode is JS library that parses the page. It does not share any code with Pocket. https://github.com/mozilla/readability
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    Crash IDs? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozillacrashreporter or email at HN username at mozilla dot com
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    XUL will be around for a while. Porting the browser UI to HTML is not trivial. There is a proof of concept on github but it is just that. The performance tuning that has been done over the years for XUL desktop applications is not matched b
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    Direct links to the tweets that prompted this article. Github - https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/633411771617832961 Ars - https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/631961638304804864
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    Mozilla does this from time to time for really egregious cases [1]. There is a high cost to staging the block. If the author is known there is a delay to try to get the author to ship a fix [2]. If it is unknown then the block can proceed r
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    I have heard that Vancouver was overflow office for large growing tech companies on the west coast. When they could not get the candidates H-1B status in the US they placed them in YVR. I know of a couple companies that had/have office
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    This is a handful of GET requests for images. You would need a page to fingerprint. The site could get an IP, likely the user agent. Safe browsing requests are sandboxed from all the other Google cookies.
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    Firefox for Android is Gecko. Firefox for iOS which is in the works is playing inside the Apple ecosystem, using WebKit.
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    Your browser may have a bad ICC profile. See http://www.color.org/version4html.xalter and http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/png-colortest.html
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    Highlights * sec-medium bugs can optionally receive payout now * The $3000 cap has been removed, 3000 is now the floor for sec-high and sec-critical * Sliding scale for payouts based on the quality of the information * Hall of fame - https
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    8 to 12+ months for it to be in a release version of Firefox. https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:How_to_apply#Timeline and https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA document the process in great detail.
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    by kbrosnan 11y ago

    Keepass uses them for downloads, forums and issue tracking. It is often in the sf.net top 10 projects. http://keepass.info