mconley
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
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 exposed to the web at large.
Comment · 8 years ago
> 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 focusing on lately?: https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/30/17800714/mozilla-firefox-...
Disclosure: I work for Mozilla on Firefox. I can say, without hesitation, that we definitely give a damn about protecting the user and protecting the health of the web.
Comment · 8 years ago
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 engineer!
...
Please note that while the Thunderbird project is a group of individuals separate from the Mozilla Foundation that works to further the Thunderbird email client, the Mozilla Foundation is the Project’s fiscal home. The Thunderbird Council, separate from Mozilla, manages the Project and will direct the software engineer’s work."
Comment · 9 years ago
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 me a performance profile.
Comment · 9 years ago
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://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Performance...
Feel free to email it to me if you don't want to post the link publicly. I'm mconley at mozilla dot com.
Comment · 9 years ago
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
Comment · 9 years ago
> * 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 on about:home about Net Neutrality for every Firefox user:
https://ffp4g1ylyit3jdyti1hqcvtb-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...
We've got a form here to make it easy to submit your comments to the FCC: https://advocacy.mozilla.org/en-US/net-neutrality-comments
We even voiced 9hrs worth of Net Neutrality comments that had already been submitted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=twksX_S3vkg
The most recent episode of the IRL Podcast is centered completely around Net Neutrality: https://irlpodcast.org/episode2/
Comment · 9 years ago
All good. Thanks for checking. :)
Comment · 9 years ago
Please cc me too. (mconley at mozilla dot com)
Comment · 10 years ago
> 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 certain we're actively working with the Tor Browser developers to get their patches merged into core (but preffed off) so that they don't have to maintain a stack of patches on top of Firefox.
(Disclaimer: Mozilla employee)
It seems like the HN submission form truncated the # from the end of the URL I linked to, which linked to the relevant comment. I'll try that here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1441918#c82
and
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1441918#c91