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The internet is always angry.
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On the receiving end, yes. PSA: You have to pay taxes. And in Belgium, you have to pay A LOT of taxes. It's one of the most taxed countries in the world: http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/20
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That's what the developer gets, net. Multiply by 2.5x for what the employer actually has to pay. 72k USD will get you one senior developer for one year.
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They sell the metrics they collect back to the advertising networks. They're public about this, it's not a secret.
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* Support for the 1024-bit diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 key exchange is disabled by default at run-time. It may be re-enabled using the instructions at http://www.openssh.com/legacy.html * Support for ssh-dss, ssh-dss-
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You can in about:config, just Google for it.
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The problem is what consequences those mistakes have for other people. Yay more botnets.
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Their users? I'm not sure what you're asking. It's trivial to remove the block for open source contributors, and in fact Iceweasel etc likely won't have it. But for people who download Windows binaries (or get automatica
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Individuals aren't in control over their on-line experience if their browser settings (search etc) are taken over by malware. I think the average HN reader should go out there once and look at the typical household PC. Bring eye bleach
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Yes. The Firefox viewer sits on top of the JavaScript sandbox, which is the same sandbox that has to withstand attacks from pretty much everything on the internet and has been very hardened over the years (same for other browsers). Ironical
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Signing != Reviewing.
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Mozilla provides Aurora and Nightly for Android. They're just not on the Play Store, but you can download them from their website. https://nightly.mozilla.org/ not really an issue on Android due to Android's own
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It's trivial.
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building Firefox is not trivial ./mach bootstrap ./mach build
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If you enable e10s in Nightlies you will get sandboxing.
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It is? Same FAQ page you listed: "When you download an application file, Firefox will verify the signature. If it is signed, Firefox then compares the signature with a list of known safe publishers. For files that are not identified by
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The memory use at the "link step" is so high because due to whole-program optimization, that's the point where everything actually compiles. It used to be fairly typical for large C++ applications. Chromium and Firefox had pr
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Check the previous articles that are linked in the header, it's explained at length!
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IIRC the ones working on it were some leftover Nokia people. Nokia...I guess that answers your question, right?
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Why not link to the actual statement? https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3dautm/conte... The tears from all the haters will be delicious.
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False. It's allowed as long as Mozilla approves the changes. This is how Ubuntu ships Firefox.
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EME is there, but you don't have the CDM. Outside HTML5 scope, though.
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Yes, Twitch is using HLS, which is patented. The rest of the industry is moving to DASH-via-JS-and-MSE. Even Steam Broadcasts use MSE now.
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If you're on Windows and are not careful you risk ending up with McAffee as a drive-by!
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Mozilla seems to take anywhere from 1 to 3 months to fix these severe bugs. Adobe takes days. Source for this complete and utter FUD? Certainly not the links you gave: Jan 11, 2015: Originally reported to Mozilla as a low-severity DoS, wh
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Didn't they ditch that in favor of full HTML5?
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AddOns->Plugins->Ask to Activate
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Actually, Firefox uses the platform decoders to decode patented codecs like H264 or AAC. So the operating system does play a role. I also think it's not unreasonable to believe that hardware accelerated H264 decoding works less well on
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At least it's being served over HTTPS :-)
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Seems like only a temporary block. Mozilla isn't brave enough to put it out of its misery like it belongs. Still some big sites using it though, like Twitch.

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