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mohoon Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links

The author got banned from github and gitlab after DMCA takedowns. The code used to be available in those, but I guess he got tired of starting over?

Anyway, extensions are just signed zip files. You can extract them and view the source. BPC sources are not compressed or obfuscated. The extension is evaluated and signed by Mozilla (otherwise it wouldn't install in release-channel Firefox), if you put any stock in that.

mohoon Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015

In case the author happens to read these - final statement in native CSS nesting is no longer true.

"The only small difference from Sass: for element selectors you need the & prefix. In Sass you could write a { color: red } inside a parent, but native CSS requires & a { color: red }."

It was true for a bit, but fixed within 2-3 releases iirc. You can now freely nav { a { color: red; } }

mohoon Don't Download Apps

Installing extensions from file is available on the release build as well, after enabling dev options.

I think the only difference is nightly allows installing unsigned extensions, which I don't personally have a need for (as getting a personal/non-published extension signed is very easy).

mohoon Don't Download Apps

While you're there flip general.aboutConfig.enabled to true so you won't have to use the silly config.xhtml URL again.

mohoon Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States

As did Thailand

mohoon About Google Chrome's "This extension may soon no longer be supported" (2024)

uBO never had the ability to do CNAME decloaking in Chrome though, the required API (browser.dns/chrome.dns) wasn't there even in MV2. It was always a Gecko-only feature (and a big one!). IIRC Brave rolled its own CNAME decloaking mechanism in its Shields blocker, without exposing a chrome.dns API.

mohoon Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after reneging on promises to not sell their data

Mull has been officially discontinued by DivestOS back in December, along with most of their other projects. A fork by the name IronFox emerged but it's too new to know whether it's a real contender.

mohoon Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after reneging on promises to not sell their data

You can access about:config on mobile FF (all versions, including release channel) at this very intuitive URL: chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml

mohoon All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

Super useful, thanks.

In my case ctrl+shift+j opens a dumb console that only shows messages and doesn't take any input. I had to go to about:addons, hit F12 for the Dev Tools and paste it in the console there. Worked well.