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by mccr8 14y ago
Roughly speaking, search engines pay browser vendors (including even Apple) for traffic. See for instance some analyst's speculation about a Google-Apple deal here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5206764
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by mccr8 14y ago
> Why this great resistance to moving away from javascript? To what? What scenario do you envision where Apple, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla are all willing to implement a single new language for the web?
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by mccr8 14y ago
A drawback of standard weak references is that it exposes garbage collector scheduling to the program, which would make JS programs more nondeterministic. I believe that historically nondeterminism like this has been a source of incompatibi
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by mccr8 14y ago
As a practical matter, the more releases that have to be supported with security fixes, the less secure each will end up being, as there is less testing of each individual version, and divergent code bases may need different security fixes.
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by mccr8 14y ago
I believe that Chrome caps the number of processes that it uses, so you wouldn't actually be using 101 processes. I think it caps at something like 8, or did when Chrome first came out.
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by mccr8 14y ago
Yeah, from the "related" links at the bottom you can see this article from January 2011 entitled "Google Dropping H.264 Codec from Chrome Browser" ( http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/01/google-dropping-h-264-codec... ), which has still yet to
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by mccr8 14y ago
Of course, but surely this really cool project that Google has been working on for years and years deserves a bigger announcement than an aside in a netbook preview. Hopefully one will be coming along soon.
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by mccr8 14y ago
Brendan Eich posted some thoughts on Pepper recently in this comment and many followups: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4632410
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by mccr8 14y ago
"Mozilla doesn't like Pepper" is a bit of an unfair characterization. A better description would be "only Google likes Pepper", because as far as I am aware Microsoft, Apple and Opera have not expressed any interest in implementing Pepper e
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by mccr8 14y ago
That's neat, but an odd thing to incidentally mention.
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by mccr8 14y ago
Can you be more specific about the kinds of problems you are seeing? Can you reproduce these problems in safe mode? You should file a bug at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ and put [MemShrink] in the whiteboard.
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by mccr8 14y ago
They aren't claiming that four days is typical, rather that one time it happened that quickly.
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by mccr8 14y ago
DXR is similar, and is open source: https://github.com/mozilla/dxr/tree/testing
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by mccr8 14y ago
I think that Junior is just an experiment, not a forthcoming product.
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by mccr8 14y ago
It is just a bit of a pun, as the movie Marathon Man has a dentist in a key role.
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by mccr8 14y ago
Getting paid improves my life...
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by mccr8 14y ago
It is unfortunate that nuance can be lost as the description of improvements moves from bugs, to technical blogs, to release notes, to the press, and finally to the reader, but I assure you that there are a number of memory-related improvem
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by mccr8 14y ago
Here's some detailed information about the addon leak fix from the developer who fixed it: http://blog.kylehuey.com/post/21892343371/fixing-the-memory-...
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by mccr8 14y ago
Good point about security confirmations, but it isn't as simple as users versus app publishers. Leading users down the garden path like this helps users who don't care about app privacy, or who already have a default understanding that apps
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by mccr8 14y ago
Mozilla is actually looking to hire somebody to work on platform integration on OSX: http://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/oBuTVfwD
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by mccr8 14y ago
Addons have to copy out the data they want before the page closes. It isn't acceptable to keep around all data on a page just to keep a few little bits of information.
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by mccr8 14y ago
Courgette is very cool, but all it does is make updates smaller, which is only one part of making updates less annoying. Also, Google was sued in 2009 for patent infringement for the algorithm, which likely makes other people nervous about
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by mccr8 14y ago
I believe that background updates are coming in Firefox 15.
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by mccr8 14y ago
Interesting. My only source for this is the book "How to Get a PhD" by Phillips and Pugh.
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by mccr8 14y ago
I believe that in the UK students have a master's degree before starting a PhD program (whereas in the US they usually don't), so it isn't quite comparable.
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by mccr8 14y ago
Native Client Flash isn't available for Chromium, which obviously implements NaCl, so I don't see why other browser makes implementing NaCl would let them use NaCl Flash.
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by mccr8 14y ago
You can easily disable those emails by changing around your Facebook settings.
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by mccr8 14y ago
I work on the cycle collector. The basic idea of a cycle collector is to trace through suspicious objects to find ones that can be freed. If you can tell that an object is alive, then you don't need to trace through it. There was already
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by mccr8 14y ago
In fact, we have recently fixed a common source of addon memory leaks: http://blog.kylehuey.com/post/21892343371/fixing-the-memory-... The version containing this fix is scheduled to be released in August, I believe.
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by mccr8 14y ago
There is a tradeoff between how powerful addons can be and how much they are sandboxed. Firefox errs on the side of letting the user control their browsing experience. This patch reins in addons a tiny amount to eliminate a very common so

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