Hacker News: rebelwebmaster

New comment by rebelwebmaster in "Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox"

rebelwebmaster — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:52:55 +0000

It uses add-on gating similar to what they do for Web MIDI, so it's not exposed to users unless they specifically opt into it.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/web-serial-support-in-fire...

New comment by rebelwebmaster in "How to make Firefox builds 17% faster"

rebelwebmaster — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:11:10 +0000

Obviously it'll make the developer more efficient to spend more time twiddling his thumbs waiting for his code to compile rather than creating a simple build performance win that allows him to, you know, spend more time improving Firefox. Not to mention all the other developers who stand to benefit from faster builds.

New comment by rebelwebmaster in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

rebelwebmaster — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:41:48 +0000

Can you share a link to a crash report from about:crashes? Sounds like some kind of shutdown hang getting force-killed maybe?

New comment by rebelwebmaster in "Still using Firefox – but not because of its vision"

rebelwebmaster — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:13:45 +0000

It's available for testing in Nightly builds at the moment.

Libxml2 Officially Unmaintained

rebelwebmaster — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:25:04 +0000

Article URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/9c80a89af2fdf4f853892f84e46580f4902658ba

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46201527

Points: 13

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New comment by rebelwebmaster in "FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs"

rebelwebmaster — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:25:22 +0000

Firefox also does a lot of media decoding in a separate process.

New comment by rebelwebmaster in "Maintaining an Android app in Google Play Store is a lot of work"

rebelwebmaster — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:30:01 +0000

Google Play also limits APKs to 100MB maximum size while AABs have a higher limit.

Keeping GenAI technologies secure is a shared responsibility

rebelwebmaster — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 20:59:00 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/keeping-genai-technologies-secure-is-a-shared-responsibility/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40590537

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rebelwebmaster in "Google rolls back reCaptcha update to fix Firefox issues"

rebelwebmaster — Fri, 03 May 2024 20:51:04 +0000

See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1894735#c15. It was code specifically targeting Firefox on Windows to blame.

Option Soup: the subtle pitfalls of combining compiler flags

rebelwebmaster — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 15:57:44 +0000

Article URL: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/01/option-soup-the-subtle-pitfalls-of-combining-compiler-flags/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39191611

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Mozilla expands extension support for Firefox for Android

rebelwebmaster — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:58:48 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/new-extensions-youll-love-now-available-on-firefox-for-android/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38644608

Points: 551

# Comments: 239

New comment by rebelwebmaster in "Mozilla Launching a Public Voice Dataset"

rebelwebmaster — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 22:09:28 +0000

Common Voice is part of the Mozilla Foundation, not the Mozilla Corporation responsible for shipping Firefox. I.e. what donations to Mozilla actually go towards.

State of Mozilla 2023

rebelwebmaster — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:09:57 +0000

Article URL: https://stateof.mozilla.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38519909

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Chrome Removing Theora Support

rebelwebmaster — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:42:12 +0000

Article URL: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/qqDdLkeyk7Y/m/ajHePzglAwAJ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37989815

Points: 143

# Comments: 114

Mozilla ending support for Windows 7

rebelwebmaster — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 22:22:07 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2023/07/06/firefox-support-for-windows-7-8-and-8-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36659573

Points: 62

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New comment by rebelwebmaster in "Firefox 109 Release Notes"

rebelwebmaster — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 15:48:24 +0000

Notably, MV3 extensions are now supported.

State of Mozilla 21-22

rebelwebmaster — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:18:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2021/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33641091

Points: 7

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New comment by rebelwebmaster in "The latest OpenSSL vulns were added fairly recently"

rebelwebmaster — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 16:56:58 +0000

Isn't openssl included in the oss-fuzz project? If hanno caught it this quickly with his fuzzer, would seem to be surprising if they didn't also.

New comment by rebelwebmaster in "Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users"

rebelwebmaster — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:26:18 +0000

Mozilla occasionally rolls out features in the current release via remote mechanisms. So it's rolling out to existing v101 installs now. I would assume that v102 will also ship with it on by default.

Selena Deckelmann Joining Wikimedia Foundation

rebelwebmaster — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:15:19 +0000

Article URL: https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/06/13/wikimedia-foundation-welcomes-selena-deckelmann/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31739839

Points: 4

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