Mozilla: Privacy Violations, Privacy Rants, Development and More
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Mozilla's opt-out Firefox DNS privacy test sparks, er, privacy outcry
Mozilla's plan to test a more secure method for resolving internet domain names – known as Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) via DNS over HTTPs (DoH) – in Firefox Nightly builds has met with objections from its user community due to privacy concerns.
The browser maker's intentions appear to be beneficial for Firefox users. As Patrick McManus, one of the Mozilla software engineers conducting the test, explains in a note posted this week to one of the company's developer forums, DoH can make DNS communication more secure.
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Mozilla Statement, Petition: Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
The headlines speak for themselves: Up to 50 million Facebook users had their information used by Cambridge Analytica, a private company, without their knowledge or consent. That’s not okay.
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Enough is enough. Let’s tell Facebook what we want fixed.
I had one big loud thought pounding in my head as I read the Cambridge Analytica headlines this past weekend: it’s time for Facebook users to say ‘enough is enough‘.
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Crash-Stop, an extension to help handle crashes on Bugzilla
Crash-stop is a webextension I wrote for Bugzilla to display crash stats by builds and patch information.
The goal is to have enough information to be able to decide if a patch helped (hence its name) and, if needed, uplift it to the Beta/ESR/Release trains as appropriate.
This project was initially meant to assist release-managers but it’s been useful for developers who fix/monitor crashes or for folks doing bug triage.
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New features in Notes v3
Today we are updating TestPilot Notes to v3.1! We have several new user-facing features and behind the scenes changes in this v3 release. The focus of this release was discoverability, speed and a bit of codebase cleanup.
We heard your feedback about “Exporting notes…” and with this release we have added the first export related feature. You can now export the notepad as HTML using the menu. We are still playing around with Markdown and other exporting features.
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compare-locales 3.0 – GSOC
There’s something magic about compare-locales 3.0. It comes with Python 3 support.
It took me quite a while to get to it, but the writing is on the wall that I had to add support for Python 3. That’s just been out for 10 years, too. Well, more like 9ish.
We’re testing against Python 2.7, 3.5, and 3.6 now.
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Multilingual Gecko Status Update 2018.1
As promised in my previous post, I’d like to do a better job at delivering status updates on Internationalization and Localization technologies at Gecko at shorter intervals than once per year.
In the previous post we covered recent history up to Firefox 58 which got released in January 2018. Since then we finished and shipped Firefox 59 and also finished all major work on Firefox 60, so this post will cover the two.
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Bringing interactive examples to MDN
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March Add(on)ness: Ghostery (2) Vs Decentraleyes (3)
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