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Mozilla Will Reportedly Launch a Paid Version of Firefox

A premium version of Firefox, offering a VPN and secure cloud storage, is expected to launch by October. - http://amp.gs/OktG

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Safari Web Inspector Now Includes A New CPU Usage Timeline

...that lets devs measure a page’s CPU usage, estimate its energy impact, and more easily investigate sources of script execution that may be contributing to poor energy utilization. - http://amp.gs/Orx8

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Google Wants to Make The 25-Year-Old robots.txt Protocol An Internet Standard

Google has outlined plans to turn robots exclusion protocol (REP) — better known as robots.txt — into an internet standard after 25 years. - http://amp.gs/ryS0

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Google to Deprecate FTP Support in Chrome

By version 82, shipping in Q2 of 2020, all FTP support will be removed from Chrome. This is expected to affect around 0.1% of users though if you do still offer downloads in an FTP-only form, now is the time to upgrade. - http://amp.gs/NFtQ

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Apple Just Shipped Web Components to Production and You Probably Missed It

Apple just launched a Web-based client for their Apple Music service and several developers noticed what tech they’re using to make it tick - http://amp.gs/AlWi

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In A Swipe At Chrome, Firefox Now Blocks Ad Trackers by Default

Firefox 69, as released this week (above), enables Enhanced Tracking Protection by default, which blocks cryptominers and certain types of third party cookies designed to track users for advertising purposes. - http://amp.gs/AhtT

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The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JS Interpreter in Firefox 70

JIT (Just-In-Time) compilation was once all the rage for speeding up JavaScript but a faster interpreter can result in significant performance improvements on modern workloads and here’s how it works. - http://amp.gs/Ag8O

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Supreme Court Hands Victory to Blind Man Who Sued Domino's Over Site Accessibility

Back in August we shared news that pizza company Domino’s was requesting for a lawsuit, requiring its website to be accessible to blind people, to be shut down. The Supreme Court has now denied that petition — a significant win for disability advocates. - http://amp.gs/qdxR

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GitHub Shakes Up Pricing, Makes Most Core Features Free

One of the good consequences of Microsoft acquiring GitHub seems to be that they want to open it up to everyone without any barriers, so now you can use GitHub for private development with unlimited collaborators for free, and even the enterprise features are cheaper now. - http://amp.gs/3mnf

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How a Few Lines of Code Broke Lots of Packages

Just under a week ago, people were reporting that create-react-app was broken. The culprit? A tiny change in a tiny dependency: is-promise. Luckily a fix was out very quickly and the creator of is-promise reflects on what happened here.
- http://amp.gs/3551

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How One Developer Passed $100K/yr on GitHub Sponsors

GitHub’s Sponsors program has opened up an interesting new funding model for many open source developers. Of course, not everyone can do it to this level, but it’s an inspirational story and Caleb shares lots of useful points, particularly if you want to fund your own work this way too. - http://amp.gs/w7IV

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Changing World, Changing Mozilla (But Laying Off 250 Employees)

Very sad news from Mozilla, creators of Firefox, this week as they’ve laid off a signficant number of their employees driven by commercial necessity. There’s been extensive discussion on Hacker News about this. - http://amp.gs/XCai

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Apple Bringing Face ID and Touch ID to the Web

Multi-factor authentication has taken off online in a big way, but can often require clumsy mechanisms like text messages or third party apps to work. So Apple is bringing its native Face ID and Touch ID mechanisms to the Web on top of the Web Authentication API. - http://amp.gs/akNX

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What To Know About iPhone 12 Screen Sizes

The 2020 iPhone release brings four new models with three new device sizes including a 5.4” mini. Here’s a recap of what you need to know to update your apps for the new devices. - http://amp.gs/avSf

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Apple Unveils M1, Its System-on-a-Chip for Mac Computers

Apple has unveiled its first ARM-based ‘Apple Silicon’ Macs (the Air, 13” Pro and Mini) built around a chip called the M1. Dev reactions have been mixed with a 16GB memory limit notable to those heavily using VMs or Docker. The perf and efficiency improvements seem good and many developers are sure to adopt these systems in due course. - http://amp.gs/o8Bs

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Internet Explorer To Be Retired in 2022

Internet Explorer will be retired from 2022 in favor of Edge which can now provide compatibility for legacy websites and applications. - http://amp.gs/jI1JZ

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JavaScript Developer Breaks Two Popular npm Packages

The creator of Faker.js and colors.js, two packages we’ve mentioned quite often, made some unorthodox commits to his projects recently that caused them to either disappear or break in interesting ways which resulted in GitHub suspending his access at one point. To be blunt, you want to be finding alternatives. The Register’s writeup is, perhaps, one of the more colorful. Dependencies continue to be risky and this story will surely trundle on. - http://amp.gs/jm48k

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