tomate 🍅When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
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The only LAN party I ever went to wasn't for gaming; we were rendering visual effects!
Firefox for Web DevelopersSomething that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.
We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.
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Okay, internets, you know what to do:
Name this airline!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/12/10/dhs-deport-boeing-contract/
The main reason why about:config isn’t exposed in Firefox for Android is because of its GeckoView architecture: Gecko wants to be the app framework, but the modern Android implementation inverts that: it’s an Android View that hosts Gecko. To get things to play nicely, many about:config prefs need to be set to specific values; changing them would literally break the binding between the view and the rendering engine.
As a result, those “secret prefs that Mozilla engineers don’t want you to know about” guides that are years old can be outright detrimental to the user experience. And if it’s not obvious, nobody at Mozilla is maliciously trying to hide stuff from end users. The support cost is not negligible, especially n the face of underlying architectural changes.