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> 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?…

No, but there is atom ( https://www.figma.com/blog/feed/atom.xml ) and jsonfeed ( https://www.figma.com/blog/feed/feed.json )

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 …

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?

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 l…

> In a short time we'll read a statement -- released on a Friday afternoon -- stating the EOL for blocking webRequest Good grief, only the HN Mozilla-haters could take an announcem…

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 th…

> 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 tim…

(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 recen…

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://develop…

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…

Not sure why you have that impression. Chris Beard, the previous CEO served from 2014 until December.

Its being worked on: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1080682

> 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 t…

> 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 performanc…

Firefox has: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Taking_screen...

> 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 javascr…

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, …

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 b…

This is a moronic argument -- "if you fix this vulnerability used by malware, the malware authors will find another vulnerability so there's no point removing the vulnerability".

> ..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…

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...…

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…

> 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 ha…

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 stud…