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I really hope this type of payment system become a standard and adopted by other browsers. It's really close to what Ted Nelson tried to do.

It's sad that Mozilla's excuse when responding to the Pocket integration was that Pocket wouldn't affect Firefox if you you use it. Now why don't they say the same for RSS? The "ne…

Internet Archive is getting it. Yay!

Google is no angel themselves. What they did to Windows Phone is no different than Amazon's behavior. I'd imagine Windows Phone might as well died even if there were Google apps on…

I hope Firefox goal isn't archiving speed at the cost of cpu usage. I've been experiencing high cpu usage from Firefox ever since they turned on their multiprocess. Thus I'm still …

I've been using a replacement of network>Proxomitron proxy filter tool called Proxydomo available on github. God bless the guy that reverse engineered the original. [1] https://git…

One of my favorite things on Bing: https://www.bing.com/search?q=speed+test

How long until the ABP guys stop their generosity and either 1) incorporate its acceptable ads into EasyList (which they maintain) or 2) block every other ad-blocker from leeching …

Stucked in time: http://www.excite.com/

This kills the Firefox.

Article is from Jan 25th. Trump walked back on this issue: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/us/politics/black-site-pr...

It's a solution nobody asked for.

This reminds me of when Mozilla bough a beach design studio and hired designers to redesign the Firefox UI. Then nothing of worth of production value came out of it. Instead we got…

Flagging abuse aside, I think the text transcript is actually a really good idea to refine their STT system. The automatic transcript that YouTube uses has improved to about 80% wh…

I'm interested in the stuffs behind Bing rather than the search part. Deep learning, AI, translations, cognitive, etc. I hope Microsoft open up more of their Bing apis.