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by rhelmer 9y ago
I don't see the nuance. You're giving me your conclusion ("men are now by definition guilty") without supporting evidence. Could you give more concrete examples?
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by rhelmer 9y ago
I'm not sure why this is hard... why is any amount of flirting, or innuendo etc. at work OK? I do realize that people spend much of their time at work, and it's a place people meet. Personally, now that we have dating sites and su
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Flight rules for git(github.com)
3 points by rhelmer 9y ago|0 comments
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by rhelmer 9y ago
While you can certainly turn off these sorts of features, I just want to emphasize that these are intended to make the product better, and Mozilla abides by a fairly strict privacy policy (when comparing to most tech companies at least): h
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Etherpad – self-hosted, collaborative editing(etherpad.org)
3 points by rhelmer 9y ago|0 comments
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by rhelmer 9y ago
That sounds pretty odd... if you've used previous versions of Firefox on this device you might try refreshing: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-a... If it still happens and you wan
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by rhelmer 9y ago
Per https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox/Specifics "The core of the Windows sandbox is Google's chromium sandbox" so I'd expect it to compare favorably.
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by rhelmer 9y ago
Donations go to the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, not to the Mozilla Corporation, and are used for many worthy (non-Firefox) endeavors: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/ The Corporation (which is a wholly
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by rhelmer 9y ago
The first Quantum release (57) is now on Beta, so if you want something a little more stable than Nightly it's a solid choice. It's always a good idea to back up your profile first (where your bookmarks/passwords/etc. li
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by rhelmer 9y ago
Well on second thought I guess qbrt is more or less trying to solve the same problem as Electron, without being compatible as it is "simplifying the process of developing and packaging a desktop app using web technologies."
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by rhelmer 9y ago
Not exactly, but there was an Electron-compatible prototype for a bit, called Positron. Myk wrote about taht as well: https://mykzilla.org/2017/03/08/positron-discontinued/
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by rhelmer 9y ago
Servo source is also on DXR, which is a lot nicer than the github source viewer since it understands Rust (and other) languages (using an LLVM compiler plugin): https://dxr.mozilla.org/servo/source/
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by rhelmer 9y ago
Legacy Firefox extensions still work in this release, it is 57 that will be WebExtension-only.
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by rhelmer 10y ago
I use the Mozilla DXR project (or the searchfox.org fork) every day, which is pretty great for code. Not only can it quickly search across large codebases, it parses JS/Python and the output of clang (for C/C++) to allow quickly f
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by rhelmer 10y ago
Does Java Web Start support applets? I haven't had to use it in years but I seem to recall that it does.
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by rhelmer 10y ago
I agree!
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by rhelmer 10y ago
The Pocket integration in Firefox is very simple and is in fact a built-in add-on. I think it's a failure of imagination to assume that this is going to be the extent of what Pocket will be able to contribute... they have a lot of user
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by rhelmer 10y ago
The reason I bring up Servo is that parts of it are already starting to land in Gecko and will ship with Firefox soon - do you think making Servo support XUL is a good use of anyone's time?
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by rhelmer 10y ago
It's more a question of "won't" rather than "can't". Why do you think XUL and Thunderbird are good investments vs. things like Servo or the context graph initiative (which the Pocket team is going to accel
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by rhelmer 10y ago
I'm not sure which ad network you mean - there was an effort to serve ads on the new-tab "tiles" page but that was shut down a little over a year ago: https://blog.mozilla.org/advancingcontent/2015/1
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by rhelmer 10y ago
The built-in version is too: https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/exten...
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by rhelmer 10y ago
I agree in principle, although in practice allowing Firefox add-ons to be fully equivalent to other features has been a detriment to security, stability and performance - hence the switch to WebExtensions (which rely on stable APIs purposel
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by rhelmer 10y ago
The built-in Pocket feature is an addon that is pre-installed into Firefox: https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/exten...
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by rhelmer 10y ago
I disagree. Mozilla doesn't have a table at standards bodies or any sort of lever to make positive change on the internet without a healthy marketshare for its products.
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by rhelmer 10y ago
Aside from technical issues, native mail clients are shrinking in use over time, not growing. It does not seem like the right place to invest to continue having relevance in the marketplace.
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by rhelmer 10y ago
Product managers and hierarchical reporting structures are nothing new to Mozilla, quite the contrary.
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by rhelmer 10y ago
Mozilla needs products that are relevant in the marketplace, to exist. Revenue is part but not all of this. I don't think Mozilla can make meaningful impact in a world where it doesn't make products that internet users want to use
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by rhelmer 10y ago
One person's bloat is another person's critical feature. Are you thinking of install size, runtime cost, all of the above? Firefox is open-source and (fairly) easy to build - if you really want the utmost control then I'd sug
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by rhelmer 10y ago
The client-side portion of Pocket has always been open-source. If you mean the server-side then fair enough, maybe this acquisition will help with that.
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by rhelmer 10y ago
> ...by buying a crappy citation needed > proprietary app? fixable

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