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TL;DR: Windows Defender had a bug that made certain system calls expensive on CPU cycles when Defender's Real-time Protection feature is enabled. After discovery, Mozilla reported …

As the article mentions, Firefox is not currently implementing the Picture-in-Picture Web API that you linked to. Firefox's implementation is a browser feature only, and not expose…

> They are simply no longer willing to disrupt the status quo, even to help their users. This is just false. I guess you're not aware of the content blocking work we've been focusi…

This title is inaccurate. Mozilla is _not_ hiring a developer to work on Thunderbird full-time. See below: From the post: " The Thunderbird Project is hiring for a software enginee…

Hi! Firefox engineer here. Check out this reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15371068 If you're interested in helping me figure out what's going on here, feel free to send…

Hi! Firefox engineer here, and I want to understand why your Firefox is misbehaving. Would you be willing to provide us a performance profile? Instructions are here: https://develo…

If you enter customize mode, you can: 1) Choose one of the compact themes, which have square tabs instead of curved and 2) Re-enable the title bar

> * Mozilla: Nothing. Really not sure what you're talking about here. Along with this blog post: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/07/11/defending-net-neutr... There's a snippet o…

All good. Thanks for checking. :)

Please cc me too. (mconley at mozilla dot com)

> This is because the Mozilla Foundation refused to accept the Tor Project's commits to enhance privacy in the browser. Actually, I'm pretty sure this is untrue. I'm reasonably cer…

> What sets Apple apart from Googles and Facebooks is that it's the only company that stores the data in way that Apple itself cannot read it. FWIW, Mozilla does the same thing for…

Review Board works with GitHub and allows you to publish your review when you're ready.

> But people donate, and the people living off that money choose arbitrarily to spend those resources on IOS, that is just plain irresponsible. Note that when people donate, they'r…

contributor/employee at Mozilla here. Thank _you_.

Electrolysis ("e10s") has been enabled by default on the Nightly and Developer Edition* channels, if you'd like to help test it. * Although we're currently running an A/B test to m…

That blocksite looks pretty annoying, but according to our Add-on Dev Relations Lead (jorgev), since the tracking in blocksite is "opt in", it doesn't actually violate any of the A…

(Full disclosure - I'm an engineer that's working on multi-process Firefox). > Add-ons come in two flavors, "old" and "new" (Jetpack). This feature is only available to "old" add-o…

This was not intentional. I've filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1136300 .

You might enjoy http://codefirefox.com/ .

> I've never seen anyone dig through VCS history to gain a better understanding of code. I'm actually going through the ancient CVS history of Mozilla Firefox in order to learn abo…