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by mconley 3y ago
TL;DR: Windows Defender had a bug that made certain system calls expensive on CPU cycles when Defender's Real-time Protection feature is enabled. After discovery, Mozilla reported this issue to Microsoft. Microsoft is releasing a patch
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Firefox engineers discover a Windows Defender bug that causes high CPU usage(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
630 points by mconley 3y ago|215 comments
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by mconley 7y ago
As the article mentions, Firefox is not currently implementing the Picture-in-Picture Web API that you linked to. Firefox's implementation is a browser feature only, and not exposed to the web at large.
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by mconley 8y ago
> They are simply no longer willing to disrupt the status quo, even to help their users. This is just false. I guess you're not aware of the content blocking work we've been focusing on lately?: https://www.theverge.
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by mconley 9y ago
This title is inaccurate. Mozilla is _not_ hiring a developer to work on Thunderbird full-time. See below: From the post: " The Thunderbird Project is hiring for a software engineer! ... Please note that while the Thunderbird project
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by mconley 9y ago
Hi! Firefox engineer here. Check out this reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15371068 If you're interested in helping me figure out what's going on here, feel free to send me a performance profile.
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by mconley 9y ago
Hi! Firefox engineer here, and I want to understand why your Firefox is misbehaving. Would you be willing to provide us a performance profile? Instructions are here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla
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by mconley 9y ago
If you enter customize mode, you can: 1) Choose one of the compact themes, which have square tabs instead of curved and 2) Re-enable the title bar
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by mconley 9y ago
> * Mozilla: Nothing. Really not sure what you're talking about here. Along with this blog post: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/07/11/defending-net-neutr... There's a snippet on about:ho
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by mconley 10y ago
All good. Thanks for checking. :)
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by mconley 10y ago
Please cc me too. (mconley at mozilla dot com)
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Mozilla partners with SauceLabs to help you with cross-browser testing(hacks.mozilla.org)
2 points by mconley 10y ago|0 comments
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by mconley 10y ago
> This is because the Mozilla Foundation refused to accept the Tor Project's commits to enhance privacy in the browser. Actually, I'm pretty sure this is untrue. I'm reasonably certain we're actively working with the
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NoScript author on WebExtensions(hackademix.net)
16 points by mconley 11y ago|0 comments
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On the Right Fix, and Why the Bugzilla Breach Made Me Proud(bholley.net)
2 points by mconley 11y ago|0 comments
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by mconley 11y ago
> What sets Apple apart from Googles and Facebooks is that it's the only company that stores the data in way that Apple itself cannot read it. FWIW, Mozilla does the same thing for Firefox Accounts sync data - it's an opaque bl
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by mconley 11y ago
Review Board works with GitHub and allows you to publish your review when you're ready.
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by mconley 11y ago
> But people donate, and the people living off that money choose arbitrarily to spend those resources on IOS, that is just plain irresponsible. Note that when people donate, they're donating to the Mozilla Foundation, an entity that
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by mconley 11y ago
contributor/employee at Mozilla here. Thank _you_.
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by mconley 11y ago
Electrolysis ("e10s") has been enabled by default on the Nightly and Developer Edition* channels, if you'd like to help test it. * Although we're currently running an A/B test to measure performance differences with
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by mconley 12y ago
That blocksite looks pretty annoying, but according to our Add-on Dev Relations Lead (jorgev), since the tracking in blocksite is "opt in", it doesn't actually violate any of the AMO policies. Note that I haven't actuall
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by mconley 12y ago
(Full disclosure - I'm an engineer that's working on multi-process Firefox). > Add-ons come in two flavors, "old" and "new" (Jetpack). This feature is only available to "old" add-ons. The direction
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by mconley 12y ago
This was not intentional. I've filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1136300 .
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by mconley 12y ago
You might enjoy http://codefirefox.com/ .
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by mconley 12y ago
> I've never seen anyone dig through VCS history to gain a better understanding of code. I'm actually going through the ancient CVS history of Mozilla Firefox in order to learn about a relatively poorly understood piece of code
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by mconley 12y ago
Viva la resistance!
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by mconley 12y ago
Hey, post-author here. I would argue that they're not non-essentials. They may not be functional essentials, but they certainly add to the experience of running a polished, smooth browser. You'll be happy to note that I've be