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by 6a68 7y ago
Hi, Lockbox desktop dev here. Some thoughts: > if there isn't a Chrome plugin, it's not going to be of much use to me Working on it! We have to get the webextension working in Firefox first, then we'll branch out to other
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by 6a68 8y ago
> I don't understand why the default behavior isn't to isolate every website from every other website? Why is least privacy the default? Default privacy settings are tough to manage. Some people want privacy, and will accept b
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by 6a68 9y ago
I dunno, it seems like the learning process of putting together a series of unsuccessful promo packages might be the exact training you need to become "senior". If the (good) work you did wasn't reflected in the metrics, then
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by 6a68 9y ago
It sounds like you were away from coding for a really long time (10 years!), then you got back into it, picking an area you didn't know much about, expected it to be easy , maybe didn't put in the time outside of work...this ap
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by 6a68 9y ago
Want to get some production experience with react? Tons of webdev projects are using it at Mozilla. Come on over and find yourself a good first bug :-)
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by 6a68 9y ago
I dunno about all that :-) MITI is Mozilla trying to keep the internet credible as a source of news and information. This is in keeping with Mozilla's core principles. Give the blog post a careful read, as it might change your mind: h
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by 6a68 9y ago
Yeah, this is a legit concern. Screenshots is implemented as a WebExtension. Unfortunately, the WebExtensions framework in Firefox currently appends items to the bottom of the context menu--so you'll notice this with other WebExtension
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Screenshots is Shipping in Firefox 56(medium.com)
20 points by 6a68 9y ago|4 comments
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by 6a68 9y ago
The code's on github, so you could definitely just stand up your own copy: https://github.com/mozilla/send
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by 6a68 9y ago
Just FYI, this has already been done with emscripten a while ago, and it does work. See: http://pypyjs.org/
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by 6a68 10y ago
Hey Bill! Thanks a lot :-) I know, the name thing, what can you do? I worked on Persona before this, so I guess I'm not surprised by the Mozilla enthusiasm for reusing project names. Have you tried the Activity Stream add-on? Captures
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by 6a68 10y ago
Test Pilot isn't happening at the cost of stability and performance improvements. It's a complementary program that helps us ship better features through data-driven iteration. I hear your concerns, though. The platform and deskto
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by 6a68 10y ago
Yeah, the site is templated client-side using Ampersand (though lmorchard keeps threatening to rewrite it in React as a weekend project). Should work fine with tracking disabled, but won't work at all without JS.
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by 6a68 10y ago
A 'doorhanger' is this bit of UI: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8yivzcq2gw63pqq/Screen%20Shot%2020...
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by 6a68 10y ago
Thanks for editing your post :-) I agree, it's tough to understand much about the project based on the testpilot.firefox.com landing page. That page is tightly focused around the 'sign up' call to action. You can get more con
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by 6a68 10y ago
Hey there! Our wiki has a list of bug trackers: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Test_Pilot#Found_a_bug.3F You can also talk with us in #testpilot on Mozilla IRC.
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by 6a68 10y ago
Are you talking about the doorhanger that appears when you try to install the add-on? Firefox always shows a warning doorhanger if an add-on is installed from a website other than addons.mozilla.org. What you're seeing is a Mozilla web
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by 6a68 10y ago
The Test Pilot website explains that you install the add-on after creating an account and signing in. It's actually super easy, give it a try :-)
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by 6a68 10y ago
You need to have JavaScript enabled to use the site
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by 6a68 10y ago
I hear your frustration; people inside the company found some of those changes frustrating, too. Test Pilot is a step in a new direction that's more participatory and inclusive of the community, and injects a lot of data into the decis
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by 6a68 10y ago
pull requests welcome: https://github.com/mozilla/testpilot
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by 6a68 10y ago
The bug I linked was just assigned last month: it's being worked right now. There are definitely some 10 year old bugs, just like there are funny, off-topic, celebratory bugs ( https://bugzil.la/1000000 ). Like callahad
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by 6a68 10y ago
Hey, that's actually the wrong link for the search add-on. What you've downloaded is a deprecated earlier prototype that may not work at all--you're looking at the wrong github repo. (I just took down the built add-on, so oth
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by 6a68 10y ago
You'll be happy to know that somebody recently started working on the date/time input types bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=888320 If you have a bugzilla account, you can CC yourself on the bug t
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You Can Help Build the Future of Firefox with the New Test Pilot Program(blog.mozilla.org)
9 points by 6a68 10y ago|2 comments
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by 6a68 11y ago
I think of it like this, roughly: "Full-stack engineer" describes a person's technical knowledge: comfortable doing front-end or server work, maybe comfortable designing whole things from scratch. "Product engineer"
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by 6a68 11y ago
> How else is one supposed to react to this other than with cynicism? How about empowerment instead of cynicism? Maybe it's possible to build browsers and advertising and mobile devices that don't relentlessly erode privacy. I
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by 6a68 11y ago
Exploding offers are a standard move in the VC startup playbook. You're probably going to get a standard "just an engineer" startup experience. Is this what you want? Here, read this and think it over: https://al3x
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by 6a68 12y ago
I think it would have been cool to ping one of the MLB.com developers, not write a blog post and laugh at them publicly/without warning. Just sayin'.
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by 6a68 13y ago
Well, fuck you very much. This is unbelievable.

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