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kbrosnan
11y ago
The safe browsing cookie is in its own networking sandbox. https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/netwerk/base/... https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit
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12y ago
Before you download it is really hard to prove that the bits have not been tampered with. Once you download the installer you can verify the hash for the installer via md5, sha1, or sha512 by checking against the file listing the hashes at
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12y ago
This is surprising I just watched the CCC "Ask the EFF" ~36:00 at Shmoocon https://archive.org/details/shmoocon-2015-videos-playlist The EFF representatives (Kurt Opsahl & Nate Cardozo) discuss that warra
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12y ago
This has worked on Firefox since the beginning of time. One could use the DOM inspector and venkman JS debugger, then Firebug chrome inspector and more recently the Firefox developer tools to inspect Firefox's XUL. https://d
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12y ago
No. iOS would require a jailbroken phone from the initial investigation. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.geolocat...
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12y ago
On Firefox for Android Beta, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi... the feature has yet to go to release.
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12y ago
If you have a Roku there is an Air Mozilla channel. Direct link to the channel https://owner.roku.com/add/VMFAG and details about what has been tested at https://air.mozilla.org/roku/
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12y ago
That bug is intractable with the current NPAPI and plugin vendor landscape. Slowly plugins are being replaced by web accessible technology. That is the way forward. There are some things a user can do to avoid the issue as much as possible.
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12y ago
OS X and Mozilla Linux builds.
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12y ago
Non-Windows still has modal update dialog. On startup for non-Windows you are blocked from using the browser until the update is complete. There is a dialog if you run out of date extensions. There is a nag dialog if you have an update pend
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12y ago
How in the world am I going to know that. Please provide a legend or use words.
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12y ago
It puts 120 AC volts into a system that is designed for 5 DC volts. Unless your ethernet port has a fuse between it and the circuitry it will burn the traces off the board, blow capacitors and other components and possibly start a fire.
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12y ago
Which lives on as part of Cloud 9. https://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9
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12y ago
This is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027997 'workaround…is to click the value to edit it and then copy and paste somewhere else'
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12y ago
Ubuntu controls the PPA. Ubuntu has reassigned the developer that largely lead the Ubuntu Mozilla integration. There is little we as Mozilla can do to control this. If you need this resolved complain to Canonical management or find someone
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12y ago
Chrome had full time engineers fairly quickly. Externally I saw Google pull back resources that were working full time on Firefox and hired several engineers that were Mozilla experts Ben G., Doron, WTC.
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12y ago
Firefox GTK3 builds are still pre-nightly. We won't uplift such major work, current nightly is 34 with the uplift to 35 on the day after labor day. I would say that 36 would be possible but obviously depends on the work load of Glandiu
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12y ago
There is a non-about:config process to choose the PDF viewing method. See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/view-pdf-files-firefox-...
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12y ago
I saw a demo from http://www.codenomicon.com fuzzing bluetooth. They were able to crash the bluetooth stack on an HTC Android 2.3 phone that I provided, resulted in a crash on start up until the battery was pulled.
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12y ago
It is the entrance exam. It seems to track back to http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/remembering-wh... where a PDF of the exam was posted. Latin translation, Latin grammar, Greek grammar, Greek co
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12y ago
The Bay Bridge will have a bike bridge to Treasure Island. The old span needs to be removed before it can be completed. Currently one can ride part of the path as an out and back route. http://baybridgeinfo.org/path
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12y ago
Inspect the Firefox chrome and set the class of the folder to display: none using userChrome.css chrome://browser/content/browser.xul http://kb.mozillazine.org/UserChrome.css
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12y ago
This really is not trivial. Firefox OS runs on the same fork of Linux as Android but does not have any of the Dalvik bits. There is Firefox for Android, you can go to https://marketplace.firefox.com to test most apps. There are
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13y ago
The async pan zoom controller (APZ/APZC) is only used on Firefox OS and the former Firefox for Metro. The graphics team wrote something similar for Firefox for Android (JPZC). At some point the plan is to use the APZ in other products.
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13y ago
Why exclude mobile browsers? Both Chrome and Firefox on Android support webGL.
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13y ago
Why not link the press release directly? The content is quite a bit better. http://www.thestrong.org/press/releases/2014/03/4721-br-derb... Where I found a link to a brief summary of each item donated h
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13y ago
It is open source. We don't get to have it both ways. Reporters see a slide deck from FOSDEM [1] and decide to report on it. [1] http://video.fosdem.org/2014/UD2218A/Saturday/Servo_building...
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13y ago
WebKit does not work for your analogy. WebKit and Gecko are two completely separate HTML parsing engines. Maybe you ment neo-kHTML.
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13y ago
CanIuse is incorrect. Firefox on Android has supported it for years. Chrome added support recently. That being said it is easy to OOM mobile browsers with textures.
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13y ago
New Sync has been development for about a quarter. Right now all effort on the Sync project is to get the basic workflows finished and testing the various Sync clients (Fx Desktop/Fx Android). The team is looking to have a more underst
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