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My name is Jared Wein. I work for Mozilla on the Firefox browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

http://msujaws.wordpress.com http://msuja.ws

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msujaws··on Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul
When was the last major update where buttons got re-added? Are you speaking from actual experience or just postulating?
msujaws··on Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul
The native scrollbar style and bounce scrolling will be released with Firefox 23.

It's true that we've been behind on some of our OS X integration, but we're very hard at work fixing that situation. I hope you will like our future releases better.

If you want, you can test out Firefox 23 today by downloading Firefox Aurora, http://aurora.mozilla.org

msujaws··on Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul
Can you try "resetting Firefox"? You can go to about:support in your browser and click on the Reset Firefox button. This will fix most, if not all, lag issues you are experiencing.
msujaws··on Firefox 25 will get a major UI overhaul
Right-click on your Home button and uncheck the "Menu bar" :)
msujaws··on Camino browser reaches its end
We're actually very far along in implementing what you saw in those screenshots.

You can download a Nightly build of it (that auto-updates) at http://people.mozilla.org/~jwein/ux-nightly/

msujaws··on Why Do Chrome Extensions Need to Access All My Data?
Extensions found at https://addons.mozilla.org/ get reviewed by a human. If there are issues with the code (obfuscated, security risks, etc) the add-on is not approved.
msujaws··on Show HN: What's Your Browser's Age?
Um... it looks like it's open source :)

https://github.com/witoff/BrowserAge

msujaws··on Show HN: AllTheFavIcons.com - Weekend Project inspired by HN
And much thanks goes out to Apple for using arbitrary sizes for their favicons. The web compatibility community must love it...
msujaws··on GetUserMedia API lands on Chrome
What part of your app requires that it be "Chrome only"? There are tons of Javascript UI libraries that can handle date inputs cross-browser such as jQuery UI. http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/
msujaws··on GetUserMedia API lands on Chrome
Firefox got support for getUserMedia in July... https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/07/getusermedia-is-ready-to-r...

Using Nightly go to about:config and enable the media.navigator.enabled pref, then you can test it out at this page: https://people.mozilla.com/~anarayanan/gum_test.html

msujaws··on Isometric text with CSS3
This site fails to use unprefixed css properties when it uses the prefixed versions, so when newer browsers view the page they get a partial experience.
msujaws··on Firefox: Not A Good Citizen on OS X Lion
Yes, all of the above is true as well as smooth scrolling will be enabled by default in Firefox 13.
msujaws··on Firefox killing off favicon in nightly build
Yeah, this is a sensationalist title. We'll still have favicons in the Awesomebar suggestions, tabs, and bookmarks.
msujaws··on Mozilla may make Flash click-to-play by default in future Firefox
This is the original blog post that I wrote in case you are interested: http://msujaws.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/opting-in-to-plugins...
msujaws··on WordPress.com SOPA blackout page
They could have a larger reach if they blacked out all the blogs on the site, but I guess people would be mad about it?
msujaws··on Google: Chrome Page Will Have PageRank Reduced Due To Sponsored Posts
Searches for "browser" still show an advertisement for Chrome in the same spot as the top search result.

Shouldn't a demotion also apply to sponsored ads?

msujaws··on Microsoft decides to automatically update Internet Explorer for everyone
Hmmmm.... I wonder how other browser vendors are able to pull it off then?

This answer doesn't seem to carry much weight if Firefox and Chrome can do these things and still remain secure.

msujaws··on Be Part of the Mozilla Labs Apps project
This is the link to the Apps Preview. There are a limited number of slots for this preview: https://apps-preview.mozilla.org/
msujaws··on Full-screen API available in Firefox nightly
If you want to disable it in Firefox, you can go to about:config and set the pref for full-screen-api.enabled to false.

I'm not sure if Chrome has a similar way to disable the feature.

msujaws··on Barack Obama On Steve Jobs
why not just link to the actual whitehouse.gov page?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/10/05/president-obama-pa...

msujaws··on Mozilla Publishes Do Not Track Field Guide
Also news today is Mozilla's announcement of a special blog focusing on privacy: http://blog.mozilla.com/privacy/
msujaws··on Firefox on Mac textarea edit bug open since 2005
I don't think this is a fair comparison.

Simply because the software company operates in the open does not mean that they are more likely to let bugs sit for a while. I've worked on closed-source software that suffered from the exact same problems.

msujaws··on Firefox 5 is now officially released
I'm actively working on this issue. Feel free to add yourself to the CC list so you can be notified of any changes.
msujaws··on The (lack of) security at PayPal
Thanks for the comment, but I thought I was pretty clear that the original claims were indeed false.

There are other issues with PayPal that I covered, as well as their poor response to the false allegations.

msujaws··on The Internet in 1969
Didn't it seem odd that they also predicted moving to LCD's and away from CRTs? I'm calling shenanigans on this video.
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