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by mncolinlee 7y ago
Extensions can be a good thing for sure. But they need to be done right. Hacking out some hurried implementation of extensions is how malware and security advisories happen. It is elitist to suggest that the desires of the 3% trump building
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
Most users will only use an ad blocker that is built-in. You should consider how elitist it is to confine ad blockers to users who know and trust certain extensions vetted by their community, but not the remaining extensions which have been
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
Fenix a.k.a Firefox Preview will not be Fennec 69. There are a lot of decisions the project hasn't made yet, but that one's official. It's an easy decision, too, given that Fenix won't have full feature-parity in three m
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
That's upsetting. Please do report bugs. We do fix them. Bookmark sync had been working in Nightly for weeks, so I'm really surprised. I imagine it's hitting some kind of exception on your bookmarks.
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
It's coming very soon. The feature almost made this version except for a late bug.
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
You can grab APKs on GitHub, but you'll need to update manually if you do so. https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/releases/tag/v1.0.0
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
I didn't know about that feature. Feel free to request it on GitHub.
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
This release is what they termed MVP. Everything after it is post-MVP. It means minimum viable product. In my personal opinion, a lot more functionality was included than what most would call an MVP.
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
Safe Browsing in Firefox is nothing more than a flat list of malware-laden sites your browser downloads. It compares your current site against the list to warn you if a match occurs. It does nothing else whatsoever. Even the most basic sear
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
We're certainly aware of how significant ad blocking extensions are. This release required a great quantity of features with only a six month timeline until now. We already support a very limited set of the WebExtensions API to offer f
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
> Only thing I miss is the ability to open tabs in background. Long press the link.
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
It's a preview release. Addons are coming as well as ad blocking. It's not the same thing, but the built-in tracking protection incidentally blocks a portion of ads.
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
We had many discussions around this. The Firefox for Android code base was not in a great condition to maintain backwards compatibility as well as accept a new rendering engine and all of the new Android Components we wanted to introduce to
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Reinventing Firefox for Android(blog.mozilla.org)
721 points by mncolinlee 7y ago|387 comments
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Mozilla Launches GeckoView-Powered Firefox Preview for Android, Pauses Focus(venturebeat.com)
2 points by mncolinlee 7y ago|0 comments
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Mozilla's new mobile Firefox browser pushes speed, privacy on Android phones(cnet.com)
2 points by mncolinlee 7y ago|0 comments
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Firefox revamp for Android promises privacy without losing features(engadget.com)
2 points by mncolinlee 7y ago|0 comments
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
I do hate playing devil's advocate because I totally disagree with the position of the devil in this case. Keep in mind that it's possible to be technically correct and also completely misleading. In this case, she's arguing
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
GeckoView is substantially faster than the old Gecko mobile engine, just like Quantum/Servo did for desktop. I don't know what web standards you think are missing.
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
A total rewrite of Firefox for Android with the new GeckoView engine is going live soon. We have close to 1,000 engineers doing impactful work on things like engine development, Rust, WebAssembly, AV1, etc. Our designers are busy because de
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
No amount of Trump insisting on saving coal will save it at this point. We've hit an inflection point where wind and solar are getting to be cheaper and it's less risk to place a turbine or panel. Barring new coal subsidies or tax
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
Investors at large aren't phased by things like the environment. There's too many who would invest either way if the profit potential was clear. So far, all nuclear plants have required large subsides, taken over a decade to build
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
Both coal and nuclear have potentially killed millions. Just because it can take decades for Chernobyl, Fukushima, and coal air pollution to result in some cancers, that does not mean they aren't primarily responsible for those deaths.
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by mncolinlee 7y ago
A lot of news pieces about nuclear are unrealistically rosy. Waste reprocessing isn't really all that new and it doesn't really get rid of waste. It replaces much of the solid waste with even more liquid waste. The problem with ha
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by mncolinlee 8y ago
When I used to teach AP Computer Science, I'd have my students make paper airplanes on the first day. I'd have them write down the instructions to make their airplanes. Then I'd follow their instructions in the strictest, mos
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by mncolinlee 8y ago
How long until they kill off Android, like they did with TestFlight and Buddybuild?
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by mncolinlee 8y ago
Firefox Focus developer here. Recent improvements in Geckoview (the componentized version of Gecko) mean that it will be much easier to integrate into your own browser projects. We have a whole suite of Android components being developed ju
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by mncolinlee 8y ago
There's always Kotlin, which adds a lot of the niceties of Swift when writing Android code. Kotlin also works on iOS through AppCode and Kotlin/Native, but that integration is still very young. I can't promise you won't
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by mncolinlee 8y ago
2500 commits seems shockingly low for all of Facebook. Doesn't that seem like there's some hardcore users and a lot of tepid users just kicking the tires? My "pizza" team at Amazon did almost that many commits in a year
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by mncolinlee 8y ago
That's precisely the point. Airbnb decided they were now maintaining web, iOS, Android, AND THEN React Native instead of only web and React Native. Their costs went up, not down. I've found far too often over the years that compan

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