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chuckharmston

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About chuckharmston

Sr. Engineer, Firefox Test Pilot.

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    Comment #16658887

    There is: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection

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    Comment #15397380

    Mozilla isn't neutral politically, though there isn't a specific political alignment that is endorsed. That is, it's issue-focused, rather than partisan. We have a strongly-worded …

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    Comment #13718472

    Followup: after using Snooze Tabs personally for a few days, it struck me that this is actually a pretty natural feature for Snooze Tabs. Filed a bug for that: https://github.com/b…

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    Comment #13708821

    Test Pilot team member here. I don't think that such an experiment is being considered right now, but we definitely take pitches! Our Discourse would be a great place to do give on…

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    Comment #13428380

    It should be available in the next month as they finish off the brand guide. The partner type foundry is also expanding to include Cyrillic and Indic character sets.

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    Comment #12719557

    The roadmap includes support of a number of additional video providers: https://github.com/meandavejustice/min-vid/issues/6 Additionally, they're looking at supporting any old HTML…

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    Comment #11854618

    You can check the compatibility of popular add-ons here: https://www.arewee10syet.com/

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    Comment #11671040

    A doorhanger is a term for this sort of warning notification: http://i.imgur.com/huWjWjq.png As 6a68 mentioned, Firefox presents this doorhanger whenever any site other than addons…

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    Comment #11670480

    I agree, it is a daunting problem. Another problem is that it's hard to experiment in the browser; the stakes are very high when bugs or poorly-conceived ideas quite literally brea…

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    Comment #11670348

    Potentially! The simple story is that the current tabbing model in was designed to save you from needing half a dozen browser window open. It just doesn't scale well past a dozen t…

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    Comment #9842942

    Hmm...that doesn't sound like normal behavior; my uneducated guess would be that there's a specific webpage or extension with a leak. Next time it happens, it'd be fantastic if you…

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    Comment #9842924

    Firefox itself is quite fast [1]; if you're having issues, there's a good chance that it's due to an add-on [2]. A (historically; I'm unsure if this is still the case) particularly…