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by rockdoe 11y ago
Because the other browsers don't include ad-blockers by default. You can get them as addons, but they're not included by default. I'm sure for many people this makes a difference. Is that enough to switch? Ehhh...
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Venturebeat claims it's based on Chromium, but they also seem to be pretty confused because they're calling it "a brand new browser, because (builing on top of existing browsers) would imply limited functionality by virtue of
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by rockdoe 11y ago
https://github.com/brave/browser-ios "Firefox for iOS" They forgot to remove the branding from their "new" browser.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Gal's post is full of mistakes, so he deserves all the criticism.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
"former" being a key word. Again, no idea why "Mozilla" is in the title here. They're not involved at all.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Autotools works for Windows and Android NDK builds. No idea about iOS.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Some simple things like compiling a single file with specific options quickly get needlessly complex, IIRC.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
A native app is already lost at the start because it requires the user to install it. Also at least on Android I don't buy the efficiency argument at all, Java and JavaScript are both JITed. You think Java JITs better than asm.js? The
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by rockdoe 11y ago
XUL sits on top of a toolkit like Qt or GTK. There's Qt ports of Firefox FWIW (which are still XUL based), or at least there were when Nokia was still a thing.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
What would be the point of doing that? They just ported it to GTK3, which is what the major distros actually ship.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
The internet is pretty fine, except for a prevalence of webkit only sites on mobile.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
It's self-destructive because users who don't block ads are keeping sites alive for the users that do block them. If all the users block the ads, the site will need to scramble for a new income model, and for some the new model mi
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Data capture including things like telemetry or monitoring user adoption (does everyone on a specific HW config suddenly stop using the product?) is essential in being able to develop a product on a large scale that Actually Works. All of t
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by rockdoe 11y ago
That's what happened? This is the new Tracking Protection feature. By default it's only in private tabs but you can just enable it globally in about:config.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Lots of headlines at HN from Mozilla these days. They're having a developer conference so big announcements are concentrated.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Because the apps ecosystem is getting more and more locked into Play Services, which are not part of AOSP.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Firefox on Windows respects the DPI settings (unlike Chrome!). So if you enable the relevant options in Windows' display settings, everything in the Firefox UI and webpages, including icons gets scaled up appropriately. So it actually
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Firefox OS was a hedge against the situation where the dominant mobile platform didn't allow competing web engines, the other one was run by a competitor, and mobile was far outpacing desktop in amount of users. The hedge failed, so Mo
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by rockdoe 11y ago
What's left besides Firefox? You state that as if it's a bad thing. It's the best news I heard in years! Firefox could certainly use more engineering resources especially with the recently extended platform coverage (iOS).
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Users want to have their cake and eat it too. Following the users wishes when they're self-destructive is bad, and you should feel bad. Ads are enormously important for a lot of quality content out there to exist. Destroying them now,
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Completely and utterly irrelevant to the issue at hand.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Microsoft has about 120 times the number of employees that Mozilla has. That's an insane number. If they consider the browser remotely important, they can put much more resources behind it than Mozilla ever can. Only things like the
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by rockdoe 11y ago
SSL Labs claims there's no CT support, but I must admit I'm at a loss if this is a server configuration issue or not.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
You should do your own research rather than believing their nonsense claims. Start by diffing their code against various Firefox releases.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
The (old, "radeon") open source AMD drivers are good enough for a bunch of Steam games, including popular ones like CS:GO or Dota2. Unfortunately they don't scale with higher end cards having the same performance as old ones.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Good point about laptops, I didn't consider the Optimus mess. That said, when we're talking about gaming cards I'm not sure that desktop is a niche compared to laptops.
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by rockdoe 11y ago
Can't say I expected to see Nvidia fanboys There are plenty of benchmarks to support my claim, no need to resort to name calling, just show evidence that you are right. You'll see that the majority of objective evidence disagree
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by rockdoe 11y ago
>AMD has better open source drivers than Nvidia. Yes, but Nvidia has working proprietary drivers that put anything AMD to shame on Linux. The difference is so big its outright ludicrous, and it gets worse the higher end the card. I have
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by rockdoe 11y ago
>Such as? Looks for .js and .jsm in the source tree. Bookmarks, Tab management, all UX, PDF viewer, Search, Prefs, Sync, parts of SafeBrowsing, WebRTC, Update Handling, Login and Form manager, Devtools, Reader Mode, and uh I think I&#x27
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by rockdoe 11y ago
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ Extended Support Release They're released on a much slower schedule (once a year) and get security fixes backported. They're intended for big org

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