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Sam Macbeth
Personal blog · sammacbeth.eu/blogprogrammingsystems
Sam Macbeth writes Extending Privacy, a personal blog at sammacbeth.eu about programming and systems. Since 2019, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Buildig a Firefox Fork”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link his 2019 post on GeckoView extensions, which argues that full Firefox extension support may not take much work. It is cited as support in discussion of Mozilla's Manifest v3 changes.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sam Macbeth’s blog
Most-linked posts?
- Buildig a Firefox Fork2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-04
What Hacker News says?
Perhaps interesting: this post that implies that implementing full extension support might not be that much work: https://sammacbeth.eu/blog/2019/09/04/geckoview-extensions.h...
Comment linking /blog/2019/09/04/geckoview-extensions.html
on “Mozilla’s Manifest v3 FAQ”Submitted Buildig a Firefox Fork as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI appreciate your initiative on creating a fork of Firefox and trying to innovate on it. The following criticism of the project is well intentioned, even if harsh: > We have been moving further away from privacy and towards developing/iterating on features faster That is fine but what have you done on the Privacy aspect? I tried out your alpha and immediately on startup it tries to connect to location.services.mozil…
Comment linking /blog/2020/12/27/firefox-fork.html
on “Pulse Browser – An experimental Firefox fork”Submitted Install Dat protocol support in Firefox as a story · 1 points
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