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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 4th of January 2020 10:20:46 PM Filed under
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  • Karl Dubost: Week notes - 2020 w01 - worklog - First week

    After 10+ days of holidays, the first morning is going through the pile of bugs and emails. I had cleaned my desk before leaving for holidays on December 21. So starting this morning was like a fresh breeze. I'm on diagnosis rotation. Let's discover the effect of holidays on the pile. I'm pleasantly surprised. Ah I see! Ksenia did the hard work. Cool.

    [...]

    The webcompat-bot was not only suspended by GitHub, but also all the issues with it in the repo. It means hours of work just gone. We probably need to prepare for this again. And we need to have a reliable backup of all issues (and comments) and probably events, labels, etc.

    Basically we need a static version of the issues we have been working on.

    In the meantime we are keeping track of the events in a detailed incident report (non public) and some information in public. We also deployed a landing page for webcompat.com/issues/new.

    Once we know what it was about I would detail a bit more things.

  • Karl Dubost: Week notes - 2019 w51 - worklog - Last week

    At the end of this week, I will be out of work until January 2nd. I'm looking forward the next 10 days from 21 to 31. But first… work!

  • Tip Top Tips: Move Firefox 71's Tab Bar BACK To The Bottom

    It seems like about every six releases or so, Mozilla's Firefox developers change the format (or change something in the format) for the userChrome.css file that allows users to customize their Firefox interface. Then, Firefox users who have tweaked the Firefox interface to be **just right** for their use have to start all over again and try to figure out the new changes to get their customizations back. The last change to the userChrome.css occurred with Firefox 65.

    Right on cue with Firefox 71, Mozilla's Firefox developers have done it again. Yep. They have altered SOMETHING in the userChrome.css file that renders previous userChrome.css file iterations ineffective and rather useless.

    So, this month's tip comes from Ramchu, where he shows us how to move Firefox 71's tab bar BACK to the bottom-most spot on the Firefox toolbar, where many users prefer it to be, and where many users feel it should be. Color me (Paul Arnote, the magazine's chief editor) a believer of both. At LEAST give us a choice, amongst all the other choices users are presented with to easily make the desired change.

  • Short Topix: Mozilla Removes Avast, AVG Firefox Extensions Over Snooping Claims

    In its "infinite" wisdom, Google has now blocked certain Linux web browsers from accessing its services, according to an article on BleepingComputer. These Linux web browsers include Falkon, Konqueror and QuteBrowser. All but QuteBrowser are in the PCLinuxOS repository. Google asserts that they "may not be secure" ... as if logging into any Google service is like logging into some kind of fortress of security and privacy.

    The issue was reported on Reddit by u/onedoer. Ironically, there are also several replies in the Reddit thread of other users who have had no problem using the aforementioned Linux web browsers.

    BleepingComputers, in their independent tests, were able to confirm -- on multiple machines -- the inability to log into Google services on both Falkon and Konqueror. Clicking on the "Learn More" link reveals a number of reasons that Google provides for the possible block. They could include lack of support for JavaScript or having JavaScript support turned off, having unsecure or unsupported extensions installed, the use of automated testing frameworks, or the browser is embedded in a different application.

    There is only speculation about why the web browsers work for some users, but not others. Google has not yet responded to a query from BleepingComputers with an answer of any kind. Imagine that.

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