yoasif

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Since 2022, Mozilla has been in an active process evolving what we do – and renewing our leadership. Today we announced several updates on the leader

 

In the open source world, there’s a saying that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” At Bugzilla, we’ve taken this principle to heart with our belief that “bugs are ...

 

What is the Firefox Profiler? The Firefox Profiler is a performance analysis tool designed to help developers understand and optimize the performance of websites and Firefox itself. It allows you ...

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

Not true, Firefox never overtook Internet Explorer.

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is fine and all if you have some low-end device without gapps, but... run Firefox Nightly. 😉

 

Google Chrome may be a mainstay on Android smartphones, but thanks to its flaws, it's not my default browser and never will be.

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

They likely need a monetization model in order to pay developers.

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago

And then later I learned it was a cooperative effort, just not under the same name

Source?

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They developed the "privacy sandbox" together.

Yeah that's not true.

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You have to remember that sometimes when that shiny new CSS feature comes out, it is underspecced, with unhandled corner cases -- "just do what Chromium does" is not a standard -- or is it? Having multiple implementations of a spec prove that it is interoperable - without that, you might have a good spec, or you might have a spec that says "whatever Chrome does is what is expected". Not sure that is what we want from new CSS (or any) features.

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago

The 2FA thing sounds like it's all on the Dropbox side if you are just entering a code you got from an authenticator app. The Google login issue may be a real issue -- did the Google login specifically work on another browser?

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago

There is nothing about MV3 that stops you from improving things.

What about this stuff?

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Uhh, that doesn't seem normal at all. Is this a default config? Any extensions in use?

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Probably simpler to just "Forget" the site from the site's context menu in the history sidebar.

 

We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

 

Google is weakening ad blockers as part of their MV3 extension standard and this will trickle down into all Chromium browsers. Built in ad blockers lack features compared to uBlock Origin as well.

 

We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

 

We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

 

We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

 

We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

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