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mnoorenberghe

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    Comment #36147556

    Google announced on December 9 that this timeline was paused: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensio...

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    Comment #34676137

    The functionality is (mostly) built into Firefox now so there’s little need for a separate app. You can enable native app autofill for both Android and iOS. There are a few things …

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    Comment #34066123

    It uses a PRNG with no site-specific seed, it just stores that result temporarily so it can be filled it password confirmation fields or login forms during the same session to ensu…

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    Comment #34066037

    I believe you can right click in any type=password field to bring it up with the heuristics didn’t detect it as a new password field.

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    Comment #33943208

    Firefox and Safari are continuing to support HTML pages to run the background code in rather than forcing developers to use service workers with no DOM access.

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    Comment #22025475

    > You can use more than one autocomplete value at a time too. If your username is also an email address you can give the browser and any associated password managers a hint with ‘a…

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    Comment #21326624

    This is incorrect AFAIK. The sync toggle for a data type is for the whole account, not per-device.

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    Comment #21326611

    Yes, it can now import logins/passwords from Chrome/Chromium on macOS, Windows support already existed for some years. > Passwords can now be imported from Chrome on macOS in addit…

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    Comment #21240131

    There are more than 20 different valid field name tokens in the spec, not just “on” and “off”[1]. If web developers actually used the other values correctly then user agents wouldn…

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    Comment #21012906

    If you’re suggesting each subscriber gets a static IP then that’s much worse for privacy.

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    Comment #20593561

    > Now they write this. This page was written Apr 11, 2011

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    Comment #20592012

    Are you on macOS or Linux? Passwords can be imported from Chrome/IE/Edge on Windows.

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    Comment #20461576

    Press reports that this is shipping in Fx69 were incorrect.

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    Comment #19381632

    Reinstalling Firefox on a Mac is not the same as doing a Firefox Refresh. The former only touches the executable while the latter cleans up cruft in your Firefox data (potentially …

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    Comment #16174881

    The after action report (AAR) can be found at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Persona_AAR

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    Comment #11784415

    It's linked right in the article: http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/05/26/055699.f...

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    Comment #7669408

    Actually the page can only be notified when you type a certain message in the address bar and it's limited to ONE message in a browser window so it can't try to watch for a list of…

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    Comment #7667905

    Hello, I'm one of the developers of the tour module on the Firefox team. The whitelist preference adds the whitelisted domains to the permission database when the application is up…