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Don't know if it is still true. DNS lookup didn't work correctly when ipv6 was enabled.
W..what? I don't think this has been true for any Firefox version, ever. Certainly I'm using v6 right now. (Not on hn of course, it's v4 only)
Basically, the DNS lookup lasted like 4-5 times longer than it did while opening the same site in Chrome.
BLOATWARE Disable 'Reader Mode': Why? I use this every day to pull the text out of frustratingly-formatted sites.
BLOATWARE Disable 'Reader Mode': Why? I use this every day to pull the text out of frustratingly-formatted sites.
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> PDF.js has fewer security vulnerabilities than desktop PDF readers. You can limit desktop readers with something like AppArmor (no network access, only allowed to read files, only allowed to open *.pdf files, etc). You can't (AFAIK) do that with PDF.js.
>only allowed to read files You just let through the vulnerability in PDF.js.
Also, no networking.
Why Reading mode is even considered "bloatware"?
Well it was added recently, during the same time as things like pocket and hello are being added. A lot of people will never use it, so it's fair for them to put it in the same bloatware category. I use it a lot on mobile, not so much on desktop. I didn't want to disable it. I'm not the biggest fan of hello in firefox, but I've gotten some light mileage out of it, so I guess I can't be too upset. Pocket though just r…
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Well it was added recently, during the same time as things like pocket and hello are being added. A lot of people will never use it, so it's fair for them to put it in the same bloatware category. I use it a lot on mobile, not so much on desktop. I didn't want to disable it. I'm not the biggest fan of hello in firefox, but I've gotten some light mileage out of it, so I guess I can't be too upset. Pocket though just r…
Reader mode was added in 2012-2013. Pocket and Hello were introduced in 2015.
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Reader mode was added in 2012-2013. Pocket and Hello were introduced in 2015.
Really ? Did they just add the url icon then ? I never noticed any of it before this year.
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The warning is a bit annoying, but without it attacks like this would be harder to spot: http://feross.org/html5-fullscreen-api-attack/ (it's just a proof-of-concept, no malicious payload)
Who are all these people who apparently run their browser maximized? Web pages generally get worse as the window gets wider. (Unless, of course, they control their own width, but that's its own obvious prompt to stop wasting all your screen space .)