rockdoe

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   by rockdoe 10y ago

   Excellent question. If they buyer is interested in maintaining a search presence, they'll almost have to negotiate an extension right away?
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   by rockdoe 10y ago

   Whoosh!
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   by rockdoe 10y ago

   Pay about 1000 employees and host a ton of infrastructure for a bunch of open source projects (including of course Firefox, but also things like Rust, Valgrind, Opus, etc.).
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   by rockdoe 10y ago

   They could try new revenue streams such as entering the phone market with a fully open OS based on Gecko.
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   by rockdoe 11y ago

   Easy money if it were true, as there's both official bug bounty programs and a black market. Unfortunately for you, it isn't.
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   by rockdoe 11y ago

   for a browser that hasn't been hardened much This claim is oft repeated, but the only reasons people seem to say it is that multiprocess + sandbox is not in release Firefox (it's in Nightly/Aurora/Beta). That doesn&#x2
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   by rockdoe 11y ago

   They lost a lot of funding and VM escapes are a bit hotter than browser exploits. Also, Firefox installs generally still come with Flash which is easier to exploit than the browser itself, and reaches a broader audience. Officially, they cl
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   by rockdoe 11y ago

   Yeah, they lost funding etc.
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   by rockdoe 11y ago

   Firefox already has tracking protection, which also blocks ads (because they almost universally track you). It's Opera that is following suit, probably as a reaction to the publicity Brave is getting.
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    "We are the first major browser vendor to integrate an ad-blocking feature" Firefox had it first. Enabling it's tracking protection makes almost all ads go away (because ads track you). They're also forgetting Brave.
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    They kept Thunderbird underfunded for a while before pulling the plug via an internal mail. Not sure what "underfunded" means here. Thunderbird works. Email isn't evolving like the web is, so what point is there for Mozilla
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    Panorama, Thunderbird and FirefoxOS were an important part of my technological ecosystem They weren't an important part, or achieving being a part at all, of the ecosystem of the rest of the world, though. Not sure why you think cont
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    An untrusted certificate is a clearer sign of an ongoing attack (or server admin incompetence).
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    I'm not sure. I have the impression some larger organizations that are moving or using monolithic repos are now aligning more strongly towards hg, because it's easier to extend and optimize than Git. If you look at the outside con
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    Let me rephrase that: "with crap speakers to make them seem less crap".
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    And I'm explaining you why that is difficult and what the alternative is.
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    IIRC Chrome uses or at least used to use the Windows certificate store. So will it trust these automatically?
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    QWERTZ is a German layout. Try Dutch stores.
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    Firefox gained marketshare 10 years ago b/c most internet users were still early adopters. There people were more tech savvy and into open source. That's a really interesting point. Makes it clear how high the bar is for new ent
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    We've always been paid to watch advertising. By free websites, free browsers, free content... This just makes it more explicit, which may have appeal.
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    Is it the browsers that are getting slower, or the websites that you visit?
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    You could also have gotten VBScript in IE6 and more strict licensing terms for H264 and AAC streaming. I also don't think WebKit (let alone Blink) are poster childs of "true open source community development".
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    Workfront's trademark doesn't seem to be an issue for Brave due to different use fields. Looks like Eich can't make a calendaring app though :-)
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    No, it's using Chrome, Firefox for iOS and LinkBubble.
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    I'm not sure replacing a site's ads with your own is beating "freeloading".
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    Hell, advertisements for candy or drinks. I wasn't aware that I was hungry or thirsty but that sure looks tasty!
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    I think you just described why Mozilla was pushing for Tracking Protection (blocking only "bad" ads) and didn't do Brave.
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    However, this conversation is about a new company he created, where employees are free to make decisions about whether to join it fully cognizant of any personal issues Eich has with them, unlike the Mozilla position where a homophobe was
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    JavaScript engines have to run untrusted code from the web 24/7. They're some of the most secured software in existance.
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    by rockdoe 11y ago

    I'm doubtful of this taking off. People stick with the default apps and settings. Firefox overcame that disadvantage about 10 years ago. You could say Chrome did too (though nowadays Chrome is bundled so much it no longer applies).