On this week's episode: Todd co-hosts the show with the threat of killer bees invading his home despite David's advice to sell his house and seek alternate shelter. Luke Crouch from Mozilla's Privacy and Security team joins the guys to talk browsing privacy, advertising, tracking, and a number of initiative that Mozilla takes to make the browsing experience more secure for its users. You'll be using Firefox containers in no time!
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MooTools has always gotten a bit of grief for not inherently using and standardizing namespaced-based JavaScript classes like the Dojo Toolkit does. Many developers create their classes as globals which is generally frowned up. I mostly disagree with that stance, but each to their own. In any event...
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There's nothing like a subtle, slick website widget that effectively uses CSS and JavaScript to enhance the user experience. Of course widgets like that take many hours to perfect, but it doesn't take long for that effort to be rewarded with above-average user retention and...
Interesting topic!
https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2017/10/03/update-firefox-containers/