aswan

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by aswan 1y ago
> Figma was born out of founder’s need to find a proof of concept test case for real-time collaboration JavaScript engine they created. They stumbled on this idea. citation needed? The article discusses adding collaboration to an existin
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by aswan 3y ago
No, but there is atom ( https://www.figma.com/blog/feed/atom.xml ) and jsonfeed ( https://www.figma.com/blog/feed/feed.json )
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by aswan 4y ago
Is "I'm perfectly fine with a specific extension that does something against the AMO rules and want to install it" a thing that happens in practice? (this is an honest question, I haven't come across extensions that I w
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by aswan 4y ago
Can you say more about why this is "nonsense"? Do you understand why it exists and disagree with the reasoning? If so, can you elaborate?
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by aswan 5y ago
In addition to the proportion of interest decreasing over time as the principal is paid down, there's an additional factor: the mortgage payment is fixed for the full term of the loan at purchase time. So suppose you take out a 30 yea
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by aswan 6y ago
You can use open search -- if you load a page that provides an open search description of itself (such as startpage.com) and then click on the "Page actions" menu (the 3 dots in the url bar), one of the options there is "Add
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by aswan 6y ago
> at least temporarily mozilla could have introduced some sort of opt-in by extension developers to avoid this scenario without gatekeeping Yep, I agree completely. In the mean time, there is https://github.com/mozilla-m
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by aswan 6y ago
(disclosure: I am a former member of the Mozilla addons engineering team. I haven't been a Mozilla employee for more than a year and don't have any internal information about recent developments) Regarding Android: As many folks
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by aswan 6y ago
The webRequest api uses javascript, but with code that runs in the context of the extension, not code that is injected into web pages. You can read a bit more here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla&
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by aswan 6y ago
Chrome has a beta extension API that does this: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/declarativeNetReques... However, this API could be used to optimize some of (not all of) the networking filtering that uBO does.
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by aswan 6y ago
Not sure why you have that impression. Chris Beard, the previous CEO served from 2014 until December.
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by aswan 6y ago
Its being worked on: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1080682
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by aswan 6y ago
> Competition in any space is extremely valuable. Sure, no argument there. But the original comment said that in this case it is "much needed", suggesting something more specific than just "competition is generally good&q
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by aswan 6y ago
> I'm glad to see uBlock Origin getting some much needed competition, Why does uBO need competition? It appears to me that it offers the best combination of features and performance out there. Moreover, the choice to implement as a
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by aswan 7y ago
Firefox has: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Taking_screen...
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by aswan 7y ago
> To be clear, this is more of a criticism to Mozilla Firefox's security model, not to this particular extension. It's a fair comment, but this extension works by injecting javascript into every page the browser loads. If this
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by aswan 7y ago
There's some good information here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g... If you want to jump right in and look for bugs that match your skills/interest, try: https:/
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by aswan 7y ago
You can see what is gathered by opening about:telemetry. That page also has links to dashboards derived from telemetry data. You can read the policies that apply to what data may be collected at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Fir
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by aswan 7y ago
> ..which have nothing to do with the Open Web, Which, in turn, has nothing to do with the origin article. Read it again, it is only about how search engines are defined inside add-ons.
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by aswan 7y ago
What are you crying about? Both Firefox and Chrome support a common format for defining search engines from add-ons: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web... https://de
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by aswan 7y ago
There's a very good point here about the limits of using usage telemetry -- given a question of the form "should we invest in improving feature X?", it's a mistake to decide not to simply on the basis of low usage. Low
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by aswan 7y ago
> How much of a performance improvement does this make? For a user with an SSD, perhaps not much. But there are still a lot of users out there with magnetic hard drives. Firefox has to do a decent amount of I/O at startup, and unn
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by aswan 7y ago
If that's what best for you, its trivial to change it in about:preferences (in the "Home" section). What's "best" for everybody is hard to define, I would bet that Mozilla has studied this significantly more t
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by aswan 7y ago
The issue isn't about having a sufficiently scary warning. It is that the browser has to store the fact that the user has agreed to this warning somewhere (ie, presumably in the user's profile). That means any other software run
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by aswan 7y ago
> You're telling me that the intended behavior is that FF allows add-ons signed by an expired cert? The leaf certificate is specific to a particular instance of an addon. Firefox has a separate, more flexible capability called the
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by aswan 7y ago
You can choose the level of risk. If you want to run unsigned extensions, use Developer Edition or Nightly.
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by aswan 7y ago
(disclosure: I am a Mozilla employee but not commenting in any official capacity) "Give me control over what code I run on my computer" (meaning "provide a switch to disable the requirement that extensions be signed") ke
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by aswan 8y ago
The technique of attemping to load web accessible resources does not work in Firefox. For starters, Firefox uses moz-extension: instead of chrome-extension:, that's obviously trivial to adapt to, but Chrome then uses the extension&#x2
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Firefox, Chrome and the Future of Trustworthy Extensions(blog.mozilla.org)
6 points by aswan 8y ago|0 comments
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by aswan 9y ago
> In a sandbox even I, as the owner of the computer, can't let them out of. That's not cool. If you want unsandboxed extensions, you can install Nightly or Dev Edition and flip the extensions.legacy.preference. The basic probl

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