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1. 91.▲
   by rebelwebmaster 9y ago

   Fellow HTC M8 owner here. I've been running LineageOS for awhile now, and while it hasn't been entirely painless along the way, it's at least running 7.1.2 and has the August security patches. Worth considering, anyway.
2. 92.▲
   by rebelwebmaster 9y ago

   Facebook and Google have been pretty high-priority targets for improvement as part of the Quantum Flow project, so don't be surprised to see them get better in 56/57. As a Firefox nightly user, Google Docs/Sheets is night and
3. 93.▲
   by rebelwebmaster 9y ago

   I've been a subscriber for about 2 months now and so far have been exceedingly happy with their level of coverage. Substantially better than what any of the other major sites are offering right now (especially as a hockey fan where cov
4. 94.▲
   by rebelwebmaster 9y ago

   I had figured that once organ replacement becomes a more viable action to take, it could be done much earlier before the patient's health has had a chance to deteriorate as significantly.
5. 95.▲
   by rebelwebmaster 10y ago

   Note that Mozilla is already working with Tor developers to get more of their patches upstreamed into Firefox to ease their maintenance burden. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-heart-firefox
6. 96.▲
   by rebelwebmaster 10y ago

   As long as PGO (profile guided optimization) is still a thing that yields a significant speed boost, a lot.
7. 97.▲
   by rebelwebmaster 10y ago

   One of the key points in the article was that confidence isn't the whole story. > According to the self-report of the respondents, the barrier to applying was not lack of confidence. In fact, for both men and women, “I didn’t think
8. 98.▲
   by rebelwebmaster 10y ago

   If you want to hire the best person for the job, why wouldn't you want to do what you can to avoid discouraging good candidates from even applying in the first place?
9. 99.▲
   by rebelwebmaster 10y ago

   Here's Google's official post about the Hangouts issue: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2017/02/google-hangouts...
10. 100.▲
    by rebelwebmaster 10y ago

    ESR52 also maintains support for NPAPI plugins for those who depend on that.
11. 101.▲
    by rebelwebmaster 10y ago

    Getting these issues fixed in the drivers is great, no doubt. But it's moot if nobody actually updates to those fixed versions. How hard are nVidia/Microsoft trying to actually push these out over Windows Update so that end users
12. 102.▲
    Reid Hoffman leaves the Mozilla board(blog.lizardwrangler.com)

    2 points by rebelwebmaster 10y ago|0 comments
13. 103.▲
    by rebelwebmaster 10y ago

    "It's just so convenient to be able to pull up on my phone the tab I had open on my browser when I'm in the kitchen cooking, or whatever." FWIW, Firefox supports syncing tabs between devices as well.
14. 104.▲
    by rebelwebmaster 10y ago

    ESR38 stopped getting upstream security updates from Mozilla in April of 2016. But I'm sure the Palemoon folks have stayed on top of things since.
15. 105.▲
    by rebelwebmaster 10y ago

    I don't think there's much else the FSF could say here without treading into legally dubious territory either.
16. 106.▲
    by rebelwebmaster 10y ago

    IIRC, Pale Moon is based off a fork of ESR24, so they're already on their own for any security fix backports at this point.
17. 107.▲
    by rebelwebmaster 10y ago

    All telemetry probes have to go through a Data Review which includes Mozilla's Legal team vetting it. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection There's also a Medium post that went out with the Hardwar
18. 108.▲
    by rebelwebmaster 10y ago

    I never understood the logic behind trying to charge for the upgrade after giving it away for a year. Who was seriously going to pay for it after clearly going out of their way to avoid updating prior to that?
19. 109.▲
    by rebelwebmaster 10y ago

    Shipping Win64 builds by default to a wider group of users is a high priority in 2017 (stability being a big driver of it), but there's still some bugs blocking it. The work is being tracked at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org&#
20. 110.▲
    by rebelwebmaster 10y ago

    This. Various distros ship with different defaults.
21. 111.▲
    by rebelwebmaster 10y ago

    Distros have control over the defaults for telemetry collection, so it's likely that Linux usage is under-reported.
22. 112.▲
    by rebelwebmaster 10y ago

    FWIW, XP will still be supported on ESR52 for another year or so afterwards.
23. 113.▲
    by rebelwebmaster 10y ago

    Funny enough, this is fixed in Firefox 51 already (shipping in January). https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1288361