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karolg | 6 years ago | on: To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public

> Getting specific is harder on Google because it just omits or misinterprets my search query keywords quite often.

I have this problem too. Google often thinks that I made a typo and presents me results for things I didn't searched for or care about and I have no way to force it to search for things I really want.

karolg | 7 years ago | on: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

I'm not planning any physical assault :D and I don't think that any software is worth any assault. It is just a tool, if I don't like it, I modify it or change to a completely new tool.

The good thing is that I'm a programmer, I know the basics of c++ and js so I can just look around in firefox's source code and find interesting things that could make my web browsing experience better.

karolg | 7 years ago | on: Firefox 66 to block automatically playing audible video and audio

I hate autoplay so much that probably no one in the whole universe hates it more than me. This is the stupidest human invention ever. </rant>

I'm really grateful for customizability of firefox. I discovered "media.block-play-until-visible" in about:config some time ago and I hope that they don't have plans of removing that option in the future.

karolg | 7 years ago | on: Generate your document site in 3 seconds

It is explained in the next paragraph what "npx" is:

> Yep. cool? “npx” allows you to run a temporary package, which will be deleted right after each use. Use this command to try and experience how Fine works. Doesn’t hurt to try, huh?

karolg | 7 years ago | on: Service Workers

Actually, Firefox has UI for this. Click "Menu -> Web Developer -> Service Workers". This will open a special page "about:debugging#workers". It shows active service workers and allows you to unregister them. There is another even simpler UI at "about:serviceworkers".

karolg | 8 years ago | on: Where in Europe is electric car a good idea?

I agree that you can make significant savings with G12 tariff in which night usage is about 30% cheaper than during a day in comparison with fixed-price G11. But unless you have your own source of renewable energy your car will be charged with power from coal power plant. So maybe you can charge your car for less but you still use fossil fuel and it doesn't change much in amounts of emitted CO2.

karolg | 8 years ago | on: Firefox 55: WebVR and more

I use e10s for about a year and I have processCount set to 4. It worked almost flawlessly and content process crashed maybe 1-2 times in this time.

I enabled "Recommended performance settings" and Firefox changed processCount to 1. I have dual-core (4-thread) CPU so I think they don't use number of cores as base for this setting but make some A/B testing on users. Check in about:config 'e10s.rollout.cohort' and 'extensions.e10s' and you will see that every user is put in some kind of testing 'bucket'.

karolg | 8 years ago | on: Show HN: An interactive guide to compression basics

I'm probably getting old because I can't stand this new trend of putting useless gifs (or mp4's actually) every two paragraphs in every article on the web. Oh, and of course all of them have autoplay enabled because sole purpose of my laptop's fan is to happily spin at full speed. </random rant>

karolg | 8 years ago | on: Inside Mozilla: Firefox fights back

One of positive outcomes from this new firefox strategy is that I will finally learn how to make browser extensions because only one addon I use (uBlock Origin) will work in Fx57 so I have to find alternatives or do it myself.

karolg | 8 years ago | on: Mozilla launches voice search, file-sharing and note-taking tools for Firefox

Option to disable autoplay in background tabs exists in Firefox for so long that I forgot it isn't enabled by default.

Go to about:config and set: media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground = true

In older versions they used another config variable media.block-play-until-visible .

There is also media.suspend-bkgnd-video.enabled to stop decoding video in background tabs after set amount of time (10s default).

karolg | 8 years ago | on: Firefox marketshare revisited

AVG also started doing this recently. I get a lot calls from family members and friends who aren't tech-savvy and can't differentiate between browsers. They think their "bookmarks" disappeared but the true reason is Chrome was bundled with something (e.g. AVG) and replaced Firefox as default browser. I called AVG on twitter but their answer was just typical PR BS: "We're sorry for your inconvenience. Please remember that you can opt-out from this". Yeah, they have clean hands because they put very small checkbox in very small font in installer.
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