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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Yes, these stats are from May 2012 and they were first published on June 1 (29 days ago).
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Adblock Plus 2.1 released, compatible with the new Firefox for Android(addons.mozilla.org)
1 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|0 comments
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Yet another Chrome release(chrome.blogspot.com)
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
The restriction on executable pages is enforced by the kernel at the process level. This particular mechanism won't allow for enforcing diffeerent policiees for UIWebView code running in the same process as app code. If UIWebView could run
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Nope. iOS 5 enabled the JIT for web apps saved to the home screen from Safari (which then open in a full-screen browser app), but not for third-party native apps that use UIWebView: "One caveat, though, is that third-party apps that load
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Correction: Another comment here says that Chrome is using its own networking stack on iOS, so SPDY is working. However, there are still other differences between Chrome and Safari WebKit, like the Audio API.
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Doesn't Safari on iOS 6 include tab sync? http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/11/safari-on-ios-6-to-feature-...
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
No, Apple's iOS developer agreements do not allow browsers with their own JavaScript engines: "Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not downloaded. Th
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Third-party processes on iOS cannot mark data pages as executable, which is a great security feature but it prevents JIT compilers or any other technology that dynamically generates machine code. Apple's built-in apps have an exception to
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
True, though that may change soon. And other features like SPDY are already working on Android but presumably not in Chrome for iOS.
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
I think this is exactly how Apple sees it. Look at the specific language from the SDK agreement: "Interpreted code may only be used in an Application if all scripts, code and interpreters are packaged in the Application and not downloaded
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Note: I am that Mozilla developer, which is why I remembered that press coverage in particular. For a less personal example, see comments to the press in 2009 by John Lilly (then CEO of Mozilla Corporation): "Given the choice, would we
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Here's one that I was personally involved in: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/will-firefox-mobile-ever-... Honestly, we are just as upset about Apple's restrictions on iOS, but we the Windows 8 case may prove different because of Micro
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Vivian Li Cromwell from the Chrome team confirms that it uses the system rendering engine (presumably via UIWebView) and does not include the V8 JIT: https://twitter.com/viviancromwell/status/218402587760795648
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What happened to the Android Update Alliance?(arstechnica.com)
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
It's not the users, it's the manufacturers and carriers. Updates aren't available for most devices.
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
http://embed.cs.utah.edu/ioc/ will detect one common cause of undefined behavior (integer overflow), which is useful and can catch a lot of exploitable security bugs, but of course it's far from complete.
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Myth Dispensing: The Whole 'Spotify Barely Pays Artists' Story Is Bunk(techdirt.com)
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
WebKit vendors also continue to support prefixed properties after the official process says they were supposed to drop them (while also arguing against other vendors supporting the same properties): http://kevinjohngallagher.com/articles/o
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
The patch to fix that is awaiting review and should land in nightly builds soon: http://bugzil.la/653833
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
The "Junior" browser in that talk is a prototype built recently by the design team; it does not share any code with Firefox for Android.
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
This is very much a "1.0" release of the new UI; we definitely have a lot of polish and features to add still. For the first release our focus was on getting the fundamental UI and performance work done. The nightly builds from http://ni
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Firefox reformats text by enlarging it based on the width (like mobile Safari) rather than by re-wrapping it as you zoom (like Android or Opera Mobile). This means that when you double-tap on some text, it should zoom to the width of the te
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Also leap seconds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
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Product Design at Mozilla(air.mozilla.org)
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
CloudFlare's server acts as a proxy. It downloads each resource over HTTP from its original location and caches it, then delivers all the resources to the client over SPDY. The preceding paragraph explains it: "For SPDY support, CloudFla
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Why Is The US So Hostile To Foreign Entrepreneurs Building Businesses Here?(techdirt.com)
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CSS border-image changes and unprefixing(dbaron.org)
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Inside Flash Player Protected Mode for Firefox(blogs.adobe.com)
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Chrome's sandbox is not equivalent to having a separate jail for every web site. It is designed to prevent web content from attacking non-browser apps and data, not to prevent one web page from attacking another (though Chrome, like all br

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