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by mbrubeck 14y ago
You're right about the bias. If you use the filters to view only data from self-identified "Beginner" users, then the address bar usage is significantly lower and the search bar usage is higher (but still not as high as the address bar).
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
The default location of the reload button changed in Firefox 4 beta a couple months after this study: http://mozillalinks.org/2010/09/unified-stop-reload-go-butto...
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
This was based on an old study from Firefox 4 Beta when the status bar was still on by default. (The study was in July 2010, when Firefox 4.0b1 was out; the status bar was replaced about four months later in Firefox 4.0b7.) The "Customizat
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
You can find results from the more recent 2012 heatmap study here: https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2012/06/firefox-heatmap-study-20...
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
The Firefox button is shown when the menubar is hidden (View: Toolbars: Menu Bar, on Linux). The menubar is hidden by default on Windows Vista and Windows 7. On Windows the Firefox button is orange and is integrated into the window's title
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Yes, those are all valid and important points -- as I said above, mobile operating systems have taken the browser's conceptual model and improved it. They've made technical improvements (using the kernel's security policies and mechanisms)
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
> Modern smartphones have it right -- the user downloads an application, typically written in native code (or pseudo-native, for Android), and that application has only very limited access to the system. But those access limits are en
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The Evolution of Fail Pets: Strategic Whimsy in Error Messages(uxmag.com)
4 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
"I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world." "And you wrote the software." "Yeah. That, too," Hiro says. ―Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
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Turning Patrons into Producers: Fan-Commissioned Art on Kickstarter(waxy.org)
1 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
The problem is that DNT is not a technical measure like pop-up blocking, where enabling it by default is guaranteed to have an effect. Instead, it's a voluntary measure whose implementation depends mainly on the advertising networks rath
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Or if a large portion of the industry decides to voluntarily adopt the standard, to counter the threat of legislation. A number of large ad networks have already announced support for DNT. Sure, there will always be sites that ignore the
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Belshe left Google to co-found http://www.twist.com/
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
The option was disabled by default in Firefox 12 and earlier; it is enabled by default starting with Firefox 13.
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
You can also just click on the icon in the top right corner of the page to disable it.
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Lion full-screen ( http://bugzil.la/639705 ) is coming in Firefox 14, which will be released six weeks from today ( https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar ). You can use it now on the Aurora channel ( https://mozilla.org/firefox/au
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Umm, I can't speak for Google, because I work for Mozilla. I can't speak for Mozilla's networking team either, since I'm a UI developer on the mobile team. But I feel safe saying that Mozilla is (a) committed to the standards process and
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Yes, that would be great!
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
SPDY is not something that Google just implemented and froze as a standard. Mozilla and others are still working on the SPDY spec in the IETF, and we're happy to see improvements. Mike Belshe continues to work on evolving the SPDY protoco
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
It's already an option in the Firefox options/preferences UI. In the "General" preferences in Firefox 13, if you have "Show my tabs from last time" selected, there's a checkbox for "Don't load tabs until selected". In Firefox 15 and later,
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
This isn't true. If you had the pref set to the default value before, it should change to the new default value when you upgrade. [Note: I am a Firefox developer.]
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Well, about 12% of Chrome page views are from old versions so "almost no users" is a bit of a myth or exaggeration. But it's definitely a smaller proportion than other browsers. Firefox also auto-updates, but has a longer tail of users fro
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Chrome has had SPDY enabled for at least a year now -- since around Chrome 10, I think? And according to Statcounter measurements for this month to date [1], 28.75% of all page views currently come from Chrome 19. From the same Statcounter
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
This is the first release with SPDY enabled by default. Once most Firefox users have updated, about half of all web traffic will be from SPDY-enabled browsers.
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Stuxnet admission likely to have foreign policy consequences(arstechnica.com)
3 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|0 comments
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Internet 'beer muscles' - why we use fighting words when we talk online(hutchnews.com)
2 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|0 comments
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Rest arguments and default arguments in JavaScript(blog.mozilla.org)
2 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Flash is click-to-play by default in Firefox for Android, using the same code that is now an option in Firefox Nightly on desktop [1]. Flash actually performs quite well on Android 4.0, but it can definitely cause problems on all earlier v
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New Firefox Beta for Android with Flash support(blog.mozilla.org)
37 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|15 comments
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
In Ruby those statements are the same when foo is bound to an array, but they are different when foo is bound to a function...

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