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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Fixed, thanks.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Note: nnethercote is a Mozilla employee (as am I). These details are straight from the horse's mouth (dino's mouth?).
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Compared to the previous deal (where Google was the global default), the new deal also leaves Mozilla more free to pursue different partnerships worldwide. For example, Yandex is now the default Firefox search engine in Russia (as it was t
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
This is true for most sites now, but is being solved gradually, with hard-coded certificate pinning already shipping in Firefox and Chrome, and the HTTP Public Key Pinning extension coming soon.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
The Readme file at https://github.com/mcsoto/cosmos is a nice concise introduction to the language. The blog post is more of a manifesto.
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The Top Ten (Percent) Tech Rules(modelviewculture.com)
1 points by mbrubeck 12y ago|0 comments
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The Theoretical Minimum(theoreticalminimum.com)
1 points by mbrubeck 12y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
1/4955 means your fingerprint is shared by fewer browsers than the other commenter's 1/2915. If your fingerprint is totally unique (like mine, with 22.16 bits of information) then it is shared by only 1 in 4,697,672 browser
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Try it and see! Tor Browser contains modifications specifically to make fingerprinting harder. Panopticlick gets 11.36 bits of information from Tor Browser on my computer, compared to 22.16 bits from unmodified Firefox on the same machine
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
html5test.com doesn't include generators or other JS language features. Instead, see http://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/
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Distrusting Our Own Infrastructure for Safer Software Releases [video](air.mozilla.org)
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Yeah, pretty much. "Developer Edition" is the new name for the Aurora channel. There is no more "Aurora." (Well, almost. The "Developer Edition" stuff is desktop-only for now, so the alpha-branch builds for A
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
We've done that frequently with the Aurora channel too, so in terms of release management rules, it's just a new name and focus for an existing channel.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Yup. To time the release with the tenth anniversary, it had to go around some of the normal release engineering and localization processes.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Yes.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
These aren't new rules; this has been the Firefox release process since Firefox 5 was released (3.5 years ago).
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Since last week, Firefox Nightly has process separation enabled by default: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform... A patch to enable the content process sandbox by default was posted for r
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
The DuckDuckGo addition hasn't landed in Nightly yet. It has rolled out to the release channel, and should be in all channels shortly.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
This is very similar to Mozilla's proposal to the FCC last spring: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/mozilla-offers-fc... Mozilla: "The petition calls on the FCC to designate last-mile d
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
It blocks all network requests to URLs on the blocklist. This can include ads, if those ads are listed as known tracking resources. I believe there'll eventually be a mechanism for publishers to declare DNT-compliance or something, t
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
There are "light" and "dark" themes in the Developer Tools options pane. Click the "gear" icon near the top right of the toolbox: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2Fj8vbCUAMfjwj.png
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Here's a direct link to the docs on enabling the experimental tracking blocker in Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-fir...
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
For reference, here the starting point of the Servo implementation: https://github.com/servo/servo/pull/3590
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
I think I'll discuss some "advanced topics" like this in a separate post near the end of the series.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
I doubt that I'll manage to implement incremental layout or display-list invalidation in robinson. If you're curious about how it works other browsers, though, check out http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
You're welcome! :D
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Let's build a browser engine, part 7: Intro to Painting(limpet.net)
90 points by mbrubeck 12y ago|9 comments
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EPIC 2014: recalling a decade-old imagining of the media’s future(arstechnica.com)
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
This thread on the Rust subreddit compares Blow's language ideas to Rust: http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2gwi11/jonathan_blow_i... He specifically says that Rust "cares too much about sa
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
So you also need to make sure that your phone's browser doesn't have your Google password stored, and/or your phone's storage is encrypted with a strong-enough key.

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