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Edward Lee
Personal blog · ed.agadak.netwebgames
Edward Lee writes edilee, a personal blog at ed.agadak.net about web and games. Since 2008, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's posts on Firefox features: a 2008 post on the AwesomeBar and a 2015 post explaining how Firefox's suggested new-tab tiles fetch data. Comments cite them as background.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Edward Lee on Nintendo, Firefox, and more - helping you feel more edilee today.
What Hacker News says?
I wrote a proposal for an extension that could passively solve the porn+awesomebar problem in the same way that AdBlock Plus passively solves the ad blocking problem. Since I am not a coder, I can’t whip up an alpha proof of concept, but perhaps someone else can take a crack at it. (I pitched it to Wladimir Palant a while back, but he wasn’t interested). http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/2/5/43412/24669 Apparently,…
Comment linking /2009/02/hiding-history-with-userchrome
on “Porn collection put people off upgrading to Firefox 3”Submitted Mr. AwesomeBar Runs for Congress as a story · 1 points
HN discussionRelevant: http://ed.agadak.net/2015/04/whys-and-hows-of-suggested-tile... Key quote: "to summarize, Firefox makes generic encrypted cookieless requests to get enough data to decide locally in Firefox whether content should be added to the new tab page."
Comment linking /2015/04/whys-and-hows-of-suggested-tiles
on “Firefox will show ads on the new tab page based on browsing history”Submitted Touching Firefox - Firefox for OS X gets Multi-Touch Gestures as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSammme. Remember all the hullaballo about the AwesomeBar in Firefox 3? https://ed.agadak.net/2008/03/beyond-awesome Truly amazing stuff, in 2008.
Comment linking /2008/03/beyond-awesome
on “Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin”