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No, simpler software is not accepted by the general public. For a few years Firefox rejected EME/Widevine. When Netflix does not work then they will just use a browser that works.

First initial last name at gMail is one.

Trello sold to Atlassian. Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow sold to Prosus FogBugz sort of lives on at https://ignitetech.ai/softwarelibrary/fogbugz but it looks like one of those …

It is the MZLA Technologies Corporation a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Corporation a wholly owned part of the Mozilla Foundation.

I regularly have doppelgangers that sign up for services with my email address. I've been added to door/visitor notifications. I have received medical information for them. Retirem…

They are used for large scale landings or when a project needs to track trunk development but will churn a lot. https://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseEngineering/DisposableProjec...

That is the Oath Verizon/Yahoo search contract settlement.

That is more or less how Thunderbird works. Donations fund a development. Members of the community elect the Thunderbird Council. It would take a huge rework of MoCo (Firefox, Sync…

Tabs state management is simpler and more battle tested. Split pane browsers will need to relearn some of the same problems/security found when tabed browsing was introduced. They …

OS window managers do a better job of that. Split view inside the browser has some thorny issues around making sure the user knows what resource they are interacting with. There is…

Ctrl + right click may allow you to work around it.

Roadbed settling and concrete curing are two long term inactive construction projects. Practical Engineering videos on road construction and public works https://www.youtube.com/wa…

The paper is from 2012 if the visualization is from that era JS makes sense.

There is no need to go to about:config. Firefox 3 dot menu -> Settings -> Accessibility -> Zoom on all websites

Looks like a variation of the Netscape bookmark format. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/...

Use the search filters. > Add ^ to show only matches in your browsing history. > Add * to show only matches in your bookmarks. > Add + to show only matches in bookmarks you've tagg…

30k is a awful price for a non working version. The Questionable Garage picked up one for 3.5k. Aging Wheels and some people who are EV1 collectors work on getting a S10 back runni…

By the time FirefoxOS first demise was announced in the Florida all hands Telefonica, ZTE, Sony and every other partner said they were pulling funding. I don't see what else the bo…

I expect this would still be a problem for this .deb. The package manger is doing the updating which is what causes the problem for Firefox. The restart notice provides a way for F…

The popcorn button is his most popular video of this year @ 3.7 million views. His one pedal brake video is next @ 3.5 M. If his most popular video only has an audience of the US m…

It is closer to 20 years. She was a founding member of Mozilla. Look back at the early financial statements, in a vacuum a few 100k to several 100k sounds like a lot. When you comp…

The people investigating this claim that much of this is undocumented. I don't speak Polish nor have access to any of the primary documentation for the train. We may see more info …

This train DRM is crazy. At the beginning of the month they found geofences > We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains w…

'to say that...' is discussing which of the statements in the article is a better interpretation, 7 vs 60. It is not making any claims about the reasonableness of the 7 days to dow…