very impressive
Firefox 25 is released
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This is great! Thanks :) Anyone know of any other open source projects that one can contribute to?
KDE is usually very nice, and (believe it or not) the Linux Kernel (Just make sure you know EXACTLY how to send patches and so on). Although lately I haven't worked in anything, would like to hear about more great opensource projects.
Both Django and Rails are very inviting. There's also Plenrt of libraries for many languages that can provide a smaller, more specific place to start (it's often easier if you work with it regularly).
With many projects though, some conflate "my patch was rejected" for "they're jerks" without understanding the impact of their fix/suggestions. Feature bloat, backwards compat, API verbosity, etc all add up.
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Alternatively, you could wait for the folks over at PortableApps to update: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable
Uh, no thanks. That site does not readily provide hashes for their binaries (MD5, SHA512, whatever), and the page is smeared with ads. There's no way to know if the site is trustworthy. And, anyway, where would I get the trustworthy hashes? They'd need to be communicated to me, directly from the horse's mouth. I'd need to visit ftp.firefox.com, to find out what the correct hashes are in the first place, and then chec…
I think you literally jumped the gun with your assessment of portableapps platform. :)
Take a look again over the weekend. They are completely FOSS and all their bundling and bundled packages are transparent.
The entire project is voluntary, and it usually takes a day or two from the official release dates, before the volunteers bundle, test, and release the portable application to the general users.
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The plugin is quite dangerous, an "aggressive" stance sounds reasonable to me. In the interest of fairness I keep a similar stance with IE/ActiveX.
The plugin is quite dangerous, an "aggressive" stance sounds reasonable to me. But what would persisting with claims that Java plug-ins are always dangerous have achieved? By a similar argument, the Firefox team fixes several security vulnerabilities they themselves describe as "critical" in each new six-weekly release, so they ought to have advised users not to run Firefox either. Software has bugs, and security fla…
And some software has almost an order of magnitude more vulnerabilities while simultaneously being unnecessary for most folks.
Oracle has been issuing ~50 per quarter recently, an incredibly long time to wait for critical fixes. In security, less is more. Now that Windows has become safer, the big targets are Java and Flash. It continues to be good practice to avoid standing behind big targets.
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#215I do like the release schedule for Firefox. However, I haven't used it in years, except for testing. Philosophically, I agree more with Mozilla than Google, but I just can't seem to get past three things: 1) Chrome gets out of my way. The UI is unobtrusive. Firefox is still bulkier here. 2) For whatever reason, more websites render oddly in Firefox/Gecko than in Chrome/Webkit. 3) Chrome, being a part of the Google ec…
Try Tree Style Tab and you'll see how hard it is to leave Firefox.
Long time lurker but I had to comment on this.
Just yes. God yes.
It's absolutely must-try if you are the can't live without TabMixPlus type. Mission critical if you do any kind of ticket management/research at work. I frequently convert coworkers with the combo.
Bonus: https://addons.mozilla.org/EN-us/firefox/addon/context-searc...
Re: Firefox 25 is released
#216> Search bar is no longer shared between tabs
Wait, is that a new feature? Well let's file a bug.
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Tree Style Tab? Now I'm curious.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... It puts tabs on the side, where they take up low-value horizontal screen space instead of high-value vertical screen space. And you can read the tab titles them even if you have lots of tabs open. And it groups them into trees -- links opened with a middle-click from one tab become children of that tab -- and you can collapse/expand trees. Try it, you wo…
Wow, just trying it now. So much better than existing tabs. I suspect it's going to take a lot to rewire my brain to use this, but it's clearly worth it.
Any tips on how best to use it?
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#218Re: Firefox 25 is released
#219I've been a FF enthusiast for years now. Don't never really use chrome at all anymore (although I do use torch browser for downloading and site unblocking). I find that for standard browsing, nothing works better and quicker than Mozilla.
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#220With All of their effort shifted to Firefox OS. Dont expect much improvement with Desktop Firefox in the short run.
Its worth mentioning that Firefox OS and Desktop Firefox share gecko, a huge amount of the improvements for Firefox OS will be relevant for desktop, Especially regarding the performance and memory improvements. (Also that there are definitely still people working on improvements solely to desktop, see the upcoming redesign)
Yes, but not everything is applicable to Desktop Firefox. And the porting back takes time.
We have already been told dont expect e10s until early 2015. That in Mozilla calendar is telling me it will be around by the end of 2015.