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philikon
15y ago
I'm curious how you would come to that conclusion. The problem is, OpenID will still require you to remember your OpenID provider's URL. (You could also be with one of the half a dozen or so big identity providers, and then every site gets
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philikon
15y ago
Yes, I already spoke to the team and they're going to put up a FAQ. Thanks!
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philikon
15y ago
A lot of questions here revolve around how this is different from OpenID and single sign-on solutions like Google Accounts or Facebook Connect. Here's a rough list (may be incomplete or inaccurate by now; while I work for Mozilla, I'm not i
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philikon
15y ago
Is it just me or does it not work at all in Firefox? My keyboard inputs don't have any effect.
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philikon
15y ago
Because when Microsoft was the only browser vendor, the web evolved really quickly... OWAIT
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philikon
15y ago
Much like with other features we've added recently (Sync, Panorama, etc.), these features won't impact you at all if you don't use them.
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philikon
15y ago
Yup, we do (I work for Mozilla). We're glad that have this strong competition, it makes for a better market and better products for the users to choose from. Note that Firefox nightlies are already ~10% faster than Firefox 4. Performance co
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philikon
16y ago
http://zodb.ws is one of the more impressive April Fools hacks I've seen this year. It runs the ZODB, a pure Python NoSQL database that's been around for a while and originated in the Zope project, on top of CPython -- in the browser! Use
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philikon
16y ago
For a fast and simple vertical tabs implementation, see https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/vertical-tabs/
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philikon
16y ago
The idea of Sync is that it Just Works(tm) in the background. Creating lots of UI noise as you browse the web (history, tabs, etc. are all synced!) doesn't seem very helpful nor useful.
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philikon
16y ago
If anything it's the other way around. Mozilla works out in the open and the designs of the new UI had been released long before Opera released its software, as Alex Limi points out: http://limi.net/articles/firefox-4/ . That said, what's
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philikon
16y ago
I first was excited by title "Don't waste your time by cd-ing in the terminal", but then it just turned out to be a blog post about making cd'ing quicker. If you want to boost your productivity, my advice is to stop cd'ing altogether. I see
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16y ago
Mozilla
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16y ago
Mozilla will also be expanding its Services efforts in 2011. Firefox Sync will be integrated into Firefox 4 and ship to millions of users. Help us make it scale on desktop, mobile and the server. Help us design new and exciting services at