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by mnoorenberghe 3y ago
Google announced on December 9 that this timeline was paused: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensio...
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by mnoorenberghe 4y ago
The functionality is (mostly) built into Firefox now so there’s little need for a separate app. You can enable native app autofill for both Android and iOS. There are a few things that should still be done to improve the experience but it d
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by mnoorenberghe 4y ago
It uses a PRNG with no site-specific seed, it just stores that result temporarily so it can be filled it password confirmation fields or login forms during the same session to ensure the user can complete their password change process. Code
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by mnoorenberghe 4y ago
I believe you can right click in any type=password field to bring it up with the heuristics didn’t detect it as a new password field.
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by mnoorenberghe 4y ago
Firefox and Safari are continuing to support HTML pages to run the background code in rather than forcing developers to use service workers with no DOM access.
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by mnoorenberghe 7y ago
> You can use more than one autocomplete value at a time too. If your username is also an email address you can give the browser and any associated password managers a hint with ‘autocomplete="username email"’. This whole parag
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by mnoorenberghe 7y ago
This is incorrect AFAIK. The sync toggle for a data type is for the whole account, not per-device.
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by mnoorenberghe 7y ago
Yes, it can now import logins/passwords from Chrome/Chromium on macOS, Windows support already existed for some years. > Passwords can now be imported from Chrome on macOS in addition to existing support for Windows https:&#x2
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by mnoorenberghe 7y ago
There are more than 20 different valid field name tokens in the spec, not just “on” and “off”[1]. If web developers actually used the other values correctly then user agents wouldn’t need to use heuristics to figure out the correct data to
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by mnoorenberghe 7y ago
If you’re suggesting each subscriber gets a static IP then that’s much worse for privacy.
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by mnoorenberghe 7y ago
> Now they write this. This page was written Apr 11, 2011
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by mnoorenberghe 7y ago
Are you on macOS or Linux? Passwords can be imported from Chrome/IE/Edge on Windows.
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by mnoorenberghe 7y ago
Press reports that this is shipping in Fx69 were incorrect.
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by mnoorenberghe 8y ago
Reinstalling Firefox on a Mac is not the same as doing a Firefox Refresh. The former only touches the executable while the latter cleans up cruft in your Firefox data (potentially lingering around from legacy extensions).
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by mnoorenberghe 9y ago
The after action report (AAR) can be found at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Persona_AAR
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by mnoorenberghe 10y ago
It's linked right in the article: http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/05/26/055699.f...
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by mnoorenberghe 12y ago
Actually the page can only be notified when you type a certain message in the address bar and it's limited to ONE message in a browser window so it can't try to watch for a list of strings. When there is a match a new tab will ope
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by mnoorenberghe 12y ago
Hello, I'm one of the developers of the tour module on the Firefox team. The whitelist preference adds the whitelisted domains to the permission database when the application is upgrade to today's released (version 29) so changing