Re: The news about 'Mozilla China had been discovered to 'do some evil', our policy toward customized build of Firefox by local MoCo

2013-12-17 Thread Chris Peterson
On 12/9/13, 6:32 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: If there are companies out there modifying Firefox links to include affiliate identifiers to that they get extra money, how does it hinder or stop them for us to engage in the same behaviour? If we engage in this behaviour, it seems like this is less "

Re: Subthread in The news about 'Mozilla China ...

2013-12-19 Thread Chris Peterson
On 12/19/13, 12:48 PM, Asa Dotzler wrote: I introduced my concern -- that Mozillians in the West often drop in to discussions like this with little or no local context and propose that other Mozillians in other radically different areas of the world should "just do what we do in California and it

Re: sponsored new tab tiles - please tell me this is a (bad) joke

2014-02-12 Thread Chris Peterson
On 2/12/14, 9:23 AM, David Flanagan wrote: Wow. You're completely right: this announcement is a total turnoff. Mostly this is because Darren's audience is not Firefox users, but " content creators whether they are publishers or marketers." And if he's writing for publishers and marketers, of co

Re: MozStumbler - new module request

2014-04-07 Thread Chris Peterson
. Name: Mozillla Stumbler (MozStumbler) Description: The Mozillla Stumbler (MozStumbler) allows you to collect wireless information for crowd-sourcing location positioning.. Owner: “Doug Turner” , “Chris Peterson mailto:cpeter...@mozilla.com)> Peer: https://github.com/mozilla/MozStumbler/ Source

Re: Is that true? If yes, some answers are necessary!

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Peterson
On 4/14/14, 4:35 PM, Kyle Huey wrote: The blog author appears to be this guy https://plus.google.com/102972851928663490169/posts judging by the little logged in Google Plus bit from the screenshots from Google News on his blog. I've never heard of him, and he's not listed as an employee of the

Re: Engaging the public

2014-04-17 Thread Chris Peterson
On 4/17/14, 2:59 PM, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: As you may have noticed, the Mozilla blog never allows comments. I'm pretty sure it never has. The Mozilla blog should just remove its comment section. That the comment section exists but is (always) disabled causes confusion or people to s

Re: Mozilla and DRM

2014-05-15 Thread Chris Peterson
On 5/15/14, 1:07 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: Some obvious bits that jumped out at me: * The CDM not having unmediated access to the network, the hard drive, or any other part of the user's computer. * The CDM being available on Linux. If the CDM can run while completely sandboxed from network a

Re: Evolving the Mozilla Project Meeting

2014-05-22 Thread Chris Peterson
On 5/22/14, 5:54 AM, Larissa Shapiro wrote: Til, I’d missed this before, and hearing that you did watch and value this is good to know - makes me redact my previous statement. I’d love to see data about how many folks like you are out there - while other sources have not shown me that the pro

Re: Malware Detection in Firefox and privacy

2014-07-25 Thread Chris Peterson
On 7/24/14 5:31 AM, Rubén Martín wrote: Is this request sent to Google servers directly or Mozilla is going to have a intermediate server to protect users privacy? Do Google's terms of service allow Mozilla to insert an anonymizing (and possibly caching) proxy server between Firefox users and

Change of ownership for the Mozilla Stumbler ("MozStumbler") module

2014-11-23 Thread Chris Peterson
e projects. The MozStumbler library is also integrated with Firefox for Android. MozStumbler's module description is on the module wiki [1]. The app is available from the Google Play Store [2] and the F-Droid FOSS repo [3]. Chris Peterson [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Modules/All [2] htt

Re: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox

2015-06-08 Thread Chris Peterson
On 6/7/15 5:30 AM, kevi...@gmx.de wrote: - "Bitte noch Thunderbird und Sunbird integriegen..." - "Now please go on by integrating Thunderbird and Sunbird..." (goes on about how we will end up at Netscape Naviagtor and/or a web suite, being the primary reason why Firefox exists and that we h

Re: Remove Pocket Integration from Firefox

2016-04-15 Thread Chris Peterson
On 4/15/16 12:19 AM, Laurențiu Nicola wrote: When I last looked into this, the plan seemed to be to change Pocket into a "super-extension" that's not visible in the UI, cannot be disabled and which can be updated at any time, without any notification to the user and outside of the release cycl