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by mccr8 12y ago
What do you mean by "as yet non-existent"? I believe Chrome, IE and Safari are all shipping it. It sounds like you can even use Netflix with it, as of last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8159110
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by mccr8 12y ago
I believe that the YouTube HTML5 video rollout depends on parts of the Media Source Extensions, which are only available in Firefox starting in beta.
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by mccr8 12y ago
That doesn't help with apps that use WebView to render web content.
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by mccr8 12y ago
Flash is also sandboxed in Firefox and maybe IE. Different sandboxes, of course, but it is no panacea.
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by mccr8 12y ago
"new" is already infallible by default in Firefox. Most places outside of the JS engine are using infallible allocation, and have been for a number of years. The basic problem is that error handling for tiny allocations is unlike
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by mccr8 12y ago
Kind of odd seeing a company that charges $3 a month per user being too cheap to pay $6 a month per user. If everybody has their attitude, their business model is in trouble.
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by mccr8 12y ago
It seems like a kind of tragedy of the commons. There are many people involved, and each one can reap some personal reward by cutting corners just a little bit ("I should get a raise because I saved the company X dollars in Q3 by reus
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by mccr8 12y ago
It is a bit of a pain to get everything all set up, but once you do, you can use moz-git-tools [1] to just do: git bz attach -e HEAD ...and then it will figure out which bug to attach it to, bring up a little file to edit so you can change
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by mccr8 12y ago
This is a cool article (from last year, FWIW). In particular, I like how Google uses Chrome browser improvements (the performance.memory API) to fix bugs in Gmail, and then in turn are able to reflect this back to use Gmail to notice bugs
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by mccr8 12y ago
There is http://arewemetayet.com/ but it is probably incomplete.
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by mccr8 12y ago
The advantage of the modern approach is that anybody using Twitter or Facebook almost by definition is not in the middle of doing anything useful.
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by mccr8 12y ago
As hackuser says elsewhere, Tor is not really a fire-and-forget security solution. My understanding is that in order to use it without compromising yourself you need to have a fairly sophisticated understanding of its limitations.
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by mccr8 12y ago
We're still working just as hard on improving the memory usage of Firefox. We have MemShrink meetings every other week. Our focus on FirefoxOS has made improving memory usage more important than ever.
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by mccr8 12y ago
If you go to about:memory, you can get a better breakdown of how memory is being used. If you see something that looks out of the ordinary, please file a bug in Bugzilla and add [MemShrink] to the whiteboard!
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by mccr8 12y ago
Yeah, maybe I'm paranoid, but this story sounds like an event organized by some anti-Lyft group for the purpose of press coverage. Most people when they are fed up with a job just quit, they don't hold a photo-op-worthy beach bon
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by mccr8 12y ago
This isn't really journalists, this is Yahoo reposting Business Insider reposting some people's claims from Quora.
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by mccr8 12y ago
The work to get the picture element implemented in Firefox is going on in the bugs in the "Depends on" field in this bug, if people are interested: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1017875
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by mccr8 12y ago
It looks like they are tracking ESR releases, which get security fixes and not much else, so keeping it updated is probably not too difficult, in the scheme of things. I think they don't have a JIT yet, so that also helps. When they
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by mccr8 12y ago
You should check out TenFourFox. Some heroic developers have ported the latest versions of Firefox to old versions of OSX, including, it looks like, 10.4. http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
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by mccr8 12y ago
DOM workers in Gecko also used to use this approach, but it was a bit ad hoc so eventually it was abandoned in favor of using the cycle collector.
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by mccr8 12y ago
This article is pretty bad. "Japan is weird! Some weird and horrible stuff happened... or did it?"
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by mccr8 12y ago
There are many of us are Mozilla who focus primarily on performance improvement. The fact is, though, that performance improvements usually are not splashy enough individually to be added to release notes. "Improved performance measur
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by mccr8 12y ago
I always just prime factorize and then repeatedly multiply. So 7 * 8 becomes 7 * 2 * 2 * 2 becomes 14 * 2 * 2 becomes 28 * 2 becomes 56.
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by mccr8 12y ago
Put down your Google pitchfork. The article is clearly not placing the blame on Google: "As for Google itself, it's clearly a reluctant participant in what effectively amounts to censorship." The second paragraph says this
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by mccr8 12y ago
They are now listed as unavailable on Amazon in the US. When I looked, the lenses were only about 8 Euros in Europe, so presumably the $250 was some scalliwag attempting to cash in on the Google Cardboard hype.
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by mccr8 12y ago
Compiler optimizations are never perfect. In this case, a compiler would just assume that push could be called and not hoist the length calculation.
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by mccr8 12y ago
For programming, in the same way as computer science education works right now: people write programs that are useless to anybody else, but teach the person writing the program. You can see a hint of how this might work on a large scale wi
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by mccr8 12y ago
For those not hip to the lingo, "premium video" means DRM.
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by mccr8 12y ago
FWIW, Firefox has supported something along those lines for a long time, through XPCOM. A little over a year ago, I implemented something slightly more modern for WebIDL in Firefox. Our approach, and I believe the approach described in the
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by mccr8 12y ago
Users like to watch Hollywood content in their browsers. That has nothing to do with Google.

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