Mozilla: Privacy, Firefox 65 Beta 10 Testday, VR and Servo Development

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TIL: Firefox has a little-known feature to spare your blushes on the new-tab page
For many of us, our browsers' new-tab pages are something of a liability. Whichever browser you use, they all follow a fairly similar style: a bunch of boxes linking to the sites that we use and visit regularly. This is great when your regular sites are Ars, Gmail, and Twitter. But all too often, sites of a less salubrious nature find their way onto our new-tab pages, disclosing to the world our dirty habits when nobody's watching. While we can, of course, clean up our new-tab pages by Xing out the buttons for the offending sites, a moment of inattention can all too easily expose our pornographic predilections to the world.
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Firefox 65 Beta 10 Testday, January 11th
We are happy to let you know that Friday, January 11th, we are organizing Firefox 65 Beta 10 Testday. We’ll be focusing our testing on: Firefox Monitor, Content Blocking and Find Toolbar.
Check out the detailed instructions via this etherpad.
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Mozilla VR Blog: Navigation Study for 3DoF Devices
Don’t touch the camera. The camera is part of the users head. Don’t try to move it. All apps which move the camera induce some form of motion sickness. Instead use one of a few different forms of teleportation, always under user control.
The ideal control for me was teleportation to semantically meaningful locations, not just 'forward ten steps'. Further more, when presenting the user with a full 360 environment it is helpful to have a way to recenter the view, such as by using left/right buttons on the controller. Without a recentering option the user will have to physically turn themselves around, which is cumbersome unless you are in a swivel chair.
To help complete the illusion I suggest subtle sound effects for movement, selection, and recentering. Just make sure they aren't very noticable.
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This Week In Servo 122
In the past three weeks, we merged 130 PRs in the Servo organization’s repositories.
Congratulations to Ygg01 for their new reviewer status for the html5ever repository!
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