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Comment About:telemetry exists since Firefox 19 (2012) (Score 1) 34

by corwin2 on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @01:49PM (#59689790) Attached to: Firefox Now Shows What Telemetry Data It's Collecting About You

I think the article has things a bit mixed up, the about:telemetry page exists since Firefox 19 shipped in 2012 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661881)

Comment Re:Builds are going from nightly to beta? (Score 1) 49

by corwin2 on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @02:54AM (#54254635) Attached to: Mozilla Kills Firefox Aurora Channel, Builds Will Move Directly From Nightly To Beta

Shouldn't only patches (which proved to be stable in the nightlys) be PORTED to beta? Moving a whole release just moves all the experimental features as well ...

Experimental features are behind feature flags which means that they get disabled with the merge to beta, here is an example from the source code: http://searchfox.org/mozilla-c...

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