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Back in the day, I worked on this API in Firefox. It's a very old API that was speced before promises were a thing. Once you ship an API, sites start using it, and if you change be…

I have the TP-Link AV2000 and found them good. My office has a bunch of metal laundry appliances and concrete walls between my desk and the wifi router, so wifi signal is terrible …

Smells like a sandboxing issue to me.

Dear Apple... I will pay $200 extra for the option of a keyboard with physical function keys and no touchbar. Sincerely, Disappointed Customer.

My bicycle helment saved my life. You'll never convince me they're a bad idea.

Mozilla has an office in New Zealand, you could come work with us... :)

This is not surprising at all. But I'm a dog person. I can identify most of the dogs that live on my street by their barks/howls.

It depends. You'll get better integration into the browser if you transcode. But if you're doing the "YouTube testcase", just using a Flash player fallback (without transcoding) wo…

Note H.264 support in Firefox is only available on Windows 7, and soon Vista. So if you want to support Windows XP, you will still need WebM, Ogg, or Flash fallback.

What about the link between sports and aggression? I've seen more fights at sports games than I've seen at lan parties.

You can install Cinnamon (the window manager used by Linux Mint), and it's very good. It behaves "traditionally" (i.e. like Windows 7), and it's much prettier than XFCE.

Your video fallback behaviour seems superfluous. If you want fullscreen on a video, why don't you just request fullscreen on the video rather than its container? Having the fullscr…

The best JS library for fullscreen that I've found is https://github.com/toji/game-shim It's good because it shims the W3C specified fullscreen API; you only have to learn the spec…

The comments on that article looks bogus...

Since we're in the mood to call an end to unrealistic portrayals of people's fantasies, I think it's about time we demanded an end to romance novels.

Game doesn't work for me in Firefox.

This won't fly in the real world. If an academic writer includes a link to their code in their paper, when it goes through peer review before being published, it will no longer und…

No, you need to have units on your data. Without units, numbers mean nothing. You select a country, and then you're presented with a list of other countries and some numbers. It's …

I'm amazed by the number of 20 and 30 year olds who'd rather comment about how crap Firefox is rather than working on a patch to make it better!

I hear these open source projects accept patches...

I had wondered if this was the angle Google's legal team were taking, given that they only made a half hearted attempt in the Nortel patent auction.

Sounds worked for me in the latest Windows nightly build.

The money Google pays Mozilla is a split of the ad revenue. Google keeps renewing the contract because it's profitable for Google! They also don't want 25% of the web switching to …

That's the last straw. I'm switching back to Lynx and Mutt!