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Episode 261: Sep 8th, 2021
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- Exploring about:unloads
- aboutUnload
- aboutUnloads.js
- aboutUnloads.html
- Part of Firefox :: Tabbed Browser in Bugzilla
- Maybe fact: URLs is a subset of URIs
- URI: “about:home”, “about:about”, “viewsource:https://google.ca”, “https://mikeconley.ca”
- URLs: “https://mikeconley.ca”, “https://example.com”, “http://badssl.com”
- OOM small (Out Of Memory)
- OOM large (Out Of Memory)
- OpenSearch
- Bug 1674827 - Re-enable startup_about_home_paint_cached Talos test
- Feedback:
- People are digging the questions. Going to keep doing that. Thanks for the feedback!
- Question time!
- As a normal user: What other products of Mozilla (e.g. Pocket, Mozilla VPN, Firefox Relay, Thunderbird) do you use on a daily basis? What are the features of Firefox you can’t live without (e.g. Containers, Picture-in-Picture etc.)?
- Firefox
- Picture-in-Picture
- uBlock Origin
- AwesomeBar
- Tabs!
- Password generation
- Knowing that it’s got my interests at heart
- Mozilla VPN
- Pocket
- Thunderbird on one of my desktop machines
- Fenix
- Have used Relay in the past, but don’t often create aliases
- Lockwise
- Can you describe your day of work? (eg. do you have special time to read emails, bugzilla, catch up with slack/matrix, etc.) - what changes when you work on a bigger project vs during a normal day?
- Every day is different, because (at least at this point in my career), I get roped into lots of different meetings.
- Try to have concentrated blocks of working time
- The first thing I do in the morning, is go through what happened since the last time I was around.
- Look at my calendar for the day, look at my task list, and then try to plan a route
- Can you walk us through your previous jobs? (some general things, interesting stories etc.) - how do they differ from your current job?
- Dishwasher
- Music store clerk, guitar lesson teacher
- Quality assurance clerk at a salvage firm
- Greenhouse, lifting, moving, planting, watering, pruning, etc.
- Gardener
- Web application developer for a school board
- TA
- Mozilla (contractor)
- Mozilla (full time)
- Have you ever made / co-developed add-ons, or is it not your cup of tea?
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