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Yes, you should block apps that you don't want to see. They are (per your reasonable definition) badly behaved, and you should exclude them from your stream. I think that's exactly…

Can you give me an example? Sites get entered in there if they try to install malware on people's machines. I think it's straight-up ridiculous to say that FB's text there is an at…

You're right, of course. While I believe that the MPEG-LA's enforcement practices are not non-discrimatory as it's claimed to be, that's a different discussion, and it wasn't appro…

No, but this is a common misconception. Though the summaries talk about "sold to users", the license itself defines "sale" in such a way as to include zero-cost distribution: "Sale…

No, it's noncommercial (really not user-monetized) streaming of video that's free. Shipping H.264 hardware requires paying licenses regardless of whether it's a commercial situatio…

It definitely needs nightly. I'm not sure what's up with salmanapk's setup, will need to dig into it.

Use and distribution of implementations requires a license (though, curiously, x264 seems to get a pass), so using the decoder will require a license as with using a closed-source …

Brendan's demo was running at 30fps, I believe on a Macbook Pro (I'll find out). Some content will run slower right now, which is true of all codecs AFAIK but is more so for this s…

You need Firefox nightly for it to run well, because it depends on the hybrid static/dynamic type inference work and some other optimizations. I believe that Brendan was demoing it…

John's a sweetheart, for sure.

I wonder how one would ever see that it was necessary. Seems a hard hypothesis to falsify, if you will.

This is a FAQ; I should finish writing the FAQ, clearly. We’re currently aiming at mobile/tablet devices rather than a notebook form factor. We’re looking to expose all device capa…

Firefox on Android uses very little in the way of the Java APIs, it's virtually all NDK code. That said, it will certainly require some meaningful adaptation.

"Also, the web platform isn't ready to be the only platform available for applications." That's the whole point. The web wasn't quite ready to subsume PDF, until people went and tr…

MSRC didn't say it's not worth it. They said it couldn't survive the SDL process or be securable, which is the standard for technologies they deploy. Given that they deploy those p…

The shader models in XNA D3D and WebGL are pretty similar. One travels as pre-compiled bytecode and the other as text, and there are some differences in how loop constructs work, b…

Based on face-to-face conversations with senior people at GPU manufacturers, I do, yes. You should absolutely decide for yourself; I said what our belief was, and what it was based…

The post wasn't from the IE team, but from MSRC, the company-wide security research group.

My point is that those technologies have been added to browsers, and we've been able to deal with the security surface. Microsoft's position is that WebGL is inherently unsecurable…

[Disclosure: I work at Mozilla, and have been closely involved in the JS engine for some time.] For a while (3.5 and 3.6, I think), Linux distributors shipped 64-bit builds of Fire…

What would an RSS reader good enough for Kroc's grandmother and 419,999,999 other Firefox users look like? I would be genuinely interested in his designs for one. Of the many diffe…

I'd be interested in two things (well, quite a few, but these two especially): any change in FF4b8, and a link to your code or (better) a bug report on the performance issue; we'll…

tl;dr: Mozilla is hiring, and we have many different kinds of positions open. Main offices are in Mountain View, Toronto, Auckland, Paris; remote work very much a possibility, esp …

Neil is one of the world's quietly great people. I had the good fortune of knowing him in high school, and working with him at my first job (Ingenia Communications, running Canada'…

The URL for this item points to my lightly hacked version, but the real thing is at http://www.quasimondo.com/StackBlurForCanvas/StackBlurDemo.h... . (I just made it update when th…