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by soapdog 11y ago
Does anyone know of an image of the oberon system that one could run on qemu, virtualbox or something similar? I understand it was a complete system from scratch including the hardware but I think I saw somewhere that the OS/Compiler&#
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by soapdog 11y ago
Thanks for keeping it civil. I will address some of your comments in the best way I can. >It wasn't always like that. We used to be able to download a sub-10 MB installer, run it, and have a usable installation of Firefox ready for
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by soapdog 11y ago
> I don't know about "dev edition", but wouldn't be surprised if it isn't kept up-to-date Dev Edition is kept up to date. If you check Firefox Versioning workflow, you will see that Firefox DevEdition replaced a
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by soapdog 11y ago
You understand that the addon signing process is automated right? Addon signing is not the same as AMO review. You can sign your addons and distribute them on other channels if they don't match AMO review criterias.
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by soapdog 11y ago
Do you understand that the Unbranded Stable version and Firefox Stable version have the same codebase? You can use that version for testing or if your users don't want signing they can move to that version. They lose the cute icon and
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by soapdog 11y ago
It has paid staff and volunteers. More volunteers than paid staff IIRC. Reviewing stuff correctly takes time :-( sorry. This can be mitigated by having more volunteers (or paid staff (or both)) to help though.
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by soapdog 11y ago
Not only you can download a new theme but you can also develop a whole new one if you'd like.
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by soapdog 11y ago
you will be able to run "random" extension if the developer care enough about it and about the new security procedures to sign it. After all, it takes only couple seconds for the signing to work. The versions I quoted are not non-
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by soapdog 11y ago
Folks, There are FOUR VERSIONS OF FIREFOX WITH A SWITCH TO DISABLE THIS if you're so inclined. You can use: Nightly, Dev Edition, Unbranded Stable and Unbranded Beta. All of which have a switch that you can set to disable addons signin
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by soapdog 11y ago
you don't need to fork. There are four versions without requirement: nightly, dev edition, unbranded stable and unbranded beta. What more do you want?
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by soapdog 11y ago
The review is mostly done by volunteers. Sorry for the delay, I feel your pain. Will check here if we can try to get more people onboard to help review stuff.
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by soapdog 11y ago
Dev Edition is not less customizable... its just Firefox with a new theme and more bleeding edge dev tools which you should be using to develop addons anyway.
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by soapdog 11y ago
In the article they say that Firefox DevEdition, Nightly and Unbranded will have a switch to turn this requirement off. Have you read the article? In the FAQ section they explain which versions of Firefox you can use if you don't want
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by soapdog 11y ago
Have you read the article? > Two details: the extensions need to be signed by Mozilla, and only US English speakers will be allowed to disable this requirement. This is not what is written there. The addons need to be signed by mozilla.
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by soapdog 11y ago
You can sign the addons and distribute it on other channels. If you want to have it on AMO then it takes a while to review. The process is done by volunteers
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by soapdog 11y ago
the addons signage is an automated process.
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by soapdog 11y ago
WTF people. So much hate for Mozilla these days, this appear pitchfork group. Lets review what the article says: addons needed to be signed. The process is automated. It takes only seconds. It prevents some malware from spreading. You can s
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by soapdog 11y ago
Just for the curious, this is the current Master System they are selling http://www.tectoy.com.br/prod_interna.aspx?id=20 There is also the portable version which ressembles a controller and you plug directly to the TV htt
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by soapdog 11y ago
Heck, what I am posting is unrelated to the specific thread but every time I enter scripting.com and read some Dave Winer post I remember why I miss Userland Frontier. Wonderful piece of tech, my first exposure to RSS and XML-RPC and a wond
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by soapdog 11y ago
Hey, there more systems available for the users the better! :D Thanks for the kind words about Firefox OS. As soon as I get a hardware compatible with Plasma Phone, I am taking it for a spin :-D
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by soapdog 11y ago
Great project, can`t wait to play with it. Just a little nitpick, as far as I know Firefox OS is not using SurfaceFlinger but talking direct to the GL layer.
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by soapdog 11y ago
Mozilla Legal posted about the ToS here https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.governance/2PYq2w8te...
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by soapdog 11y ago
And they have been answered here https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.governance/2PYq2w8te...
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by soapdog 11y ago
Moz Legal posted about the ToS here https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.governance/2PYq2w8te...
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by soapdog 11y ago
You know what? You're right. Defaults are extremely powerful and I haven't thought about that angle. I too would have loved a public, federated and open API for a "read it later" feature but right now we don't have
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by soapdog 11y ago
I completely agree with using what feels comfortable with ones values and ideals. Can you tell me what browser you moved to? One thing that we can talk about is that Mozilla is the single browser vendor working in the open. The source code,
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by soapdog 11y ago
> Pocket was added internally and not as an extension because it was easier. > Not sure how it was easier, since there is already a Firefox extension for Pocket which could have been shipped as an extension installed by default (but r
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by soapdog 11y ago
Core values never changed. You can ask the Firefox development team at their mailing list why they decided to go with Pocket instead of building their own solution based on Firefox Sync (which is now called Firefox Accounts). If the ToS an
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by soapdog 11y ago
I agree with you on the Persona topic. I've heard that it was quite hard to maintain and it got no traction and thats why it was turned into a community project. Apparently the federation part was the hardest thing (federating identity

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