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by past 9y ago
> and therefore did not liked it, when frequently changes broke their setup. Which is unfortunately an inherent problem with our legacy customization approach. And it is clearly not something the vast majority of users want, if they left
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by past 10y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, this has now been fixed.
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by past 10y ago
about:permissions was an incomplete experimental UI, but a fully functional replacement is high on our priority list. We are waiting on a new design from the UX team at the moment.
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by past 10y ago
This is exactly right that X means "close" or "hide this thing" and this is what it does in this case as well: it removes the non-default setting and hides the list item.
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by past 10y ago
There have been a number of user studies done by Mozilla and other browser vendors that clearly show end users only have a basic grasp of the security properties of the web. So yes, more details in main UI elements leads to confusion. It&#x
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by past 10y ago
Anonymous data is by definition not privacy-invasive. That's why it's called anonymous.
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by past 12y ago
You are pretty much describing the Firefox architecture. We are invoking Firefox UI code from scratchpad all the time when prototyping things. Some parts of the UI do not use standard Web APIs (e.g. XUL and XBL), as there are different opin
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by past 13y ago
Mozilla has been paying the main Firebug developer for a long time to work on it, but I've never heard of an open source project that would like to be "acquired", whatever that means. If hiring all of the project's devel
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by past 13y ago
This should actually already work if you are on Firefox 23. Please file a bug if it doesn't.
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by past 13y ago
This is actually in the latest stable Firefox release already (Firefox 23).
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by past 13y ago
As mentioned on the hacks post, ever since Firefox 23 the web console is actually working on the same context as the debugger, when execution is paused on a breakpoint or debugger statement. You can use all the familiar tools in there to ex
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by past 13y ago
This is already implemented in Firefox 22.
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by past 14y ago
Sorting and filtering are planned, yes.
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by past 14y ago
The inspector has a search box in Firefox 21 and above.
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by past 14y ago
Mozilla can't kill Firebug, even if they wanted, since it's a separate open source project and community. And the only people with two inspectors would be those that elected to have them both, by installing Firebug and using both tools.
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by past 14y ago
You can detach the developer tools window and put it anywhere you like.
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by past 14y ago
The profiler has a stackwalking mode that provides more accurate info: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Performance/Profili... You would need to use a nightly release to get that though, and only on the platforms that are currentl
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by past 14y ago
In order to get to that modal message, you first have to go and enable remote debugging, which is not something normal people would do. And in general, even though we can (and already have) come up with even more mitigations for the potenti
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by past 14y ago
Allowing websites to interact with the Debugger API is something we would like to do, but, as you note, the security implications require much more thought to get it right.
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by past 14y ago
Yes, since Firefox 15.
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by past 14y ago
This is fixed in Firefox 18.
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by past 15y ago
That comment taken out of context can be quite alarming, indeed. Firebug, until recently, had two developers who were paid to work full time on it (jjb from IBM and Honza from Mozilla) and a number of people who contributed in their spare t
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CloudBees acquires Stax Networks(cloudbees.com)
2 points by past 16y ago|0 comments
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Interview with James Gosling(basementcoders.com)
2 points by past 16y ago|0 comments
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by past 16y ago
Erm, narwhal actually uses rhino as its default engine. Perhaps you meant to say that you can now target the narwhal API, instead of waiting for rhino to expand its API offerings?
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by past 16y ago
Besides being an incredibly powerful combination of a functional and an object-oriented language, I just adore the fast redeployment cycle during development. With appenginejs, I test every change in the backend code by simply refreshing my
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by past 16y ago
Ah, the void of non-existence is certainly filled with emptiness. It's what happens to the living that matters, though. Put another way, is Schrödinger's cat alive or dead? Does it matter if you don't intend to open the box?
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by past 16y ago
Actually the recently announced austerity plan has been the hardest ever for the people here, at least since democracy was restored in 1974. And the soon-to-be-announced revised austerity plan mandated by the IMF is rumored to be the hardes
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by past 16y ago
I don't remember having seen his name for a long time in any technical discussion or decision involving Java, besides Closures, where he co-authored the BGGA proposal. Although it appears that Gafter and Bracha put more work in that one. Ev
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James Gosling leaves Oracle(nighthacks.com)
146 points by past 16y ago|63 comments

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