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Published on Tux Machines (http://www.tuxmachines.org) Home > content > Mozilla/Firefox: MDN Web Docs, Recommended Extensions and TenFourFox FPR23 for Intel Mozilla/Firefox: MDN Web Docs, Recommended Extensions and TenFourFox FPR23 for Intel By Rianne Schestowitz Created 12/06/2020 - 5:32am Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 12th of June 2020 05:32:58 AM Introducing the MDN Web Docs Front-end developer learning pathway[1] The MDN Web Docs Learning Area (LA) was first launched in 2015, with the aim of providing a useful counterpart to the regular MDN reference and guide material. MDN had traditionally been aimed at web professionals, but we were getting regular feedback that a lot of our audience found MDN too difficult to understand, and that it lacked coverage of basic topics. Fast forward 5 years, and the Learning Area material is well-received. It boasts around 3.5?4 million page views per month; a little under 10% of MDN Web Docs? monthly web traffic. At this point, the Learning Area does its job pretty well. A lot of people use it to study client- side web technologies, and its loosely-structured, unopinionated, modular nature makes it easy to pick and choose subjects at your own pace. Teachers like it because it is easy to include in their own courses. Recommended extensions ? recent additions [2] When the Recommended Extensions program debuted last year, it listed about 60 extensions. Today the program has grown to just over a hundred as we continue to evaluate new nominations and carefully grow the list. The curated collection grows slowly because one of the program?s goals is to cultivate a fairly fixed list of content so users can feel confident the Recommended extensions they install will be monitored for safety and security for the foreseeable future. Here are some of the more exciting recent additions to the program? DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials provides a slew of great privacy features, like advanced ad tracker and search protection, encryption enforcement, and more. Cameron Kaiser: TenFourFox FPR23 for Intel available [3] Ken Cunningham figured out the build issues he was having with the Intel version and has updated TenFourFox for Intel systems to FPR23, now up to date with the Power Mac version. As always, there is no support for any Intel build of TenFourFox; do not report issues to Tenderapp. You can get it from SourceForge. Ken's patches have also been incorporated into the tree along with a workaround submitted by Raphaël Guay to deal with Twitch overflowing our JIT stack. This is probably due to something we don't support causing infinite function call recursion since with the JIT disabled it correctly just runs out of stack and stops. There is no way to increase stack further since we are strictly 32-bit builds and the stack already consumes 1GB of our 2.2-ish GB available, so we need to a) figure out why the stack overflow happens without being detected and temporarily disable that script until we do. It's part B that is implemented as a second blacklist which is on unless disabled, since other sites may do this, until we find a better solution to part A. This will be in FPR24 along with probably some work on MP3 compliance issues since TenFourFox gets used as a simple little Internet radio a lot more than I realized, and a few other odds and ends. Source URL: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/138670 Links: [1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/06/introducing-the-mdn-web-docs-front-end-developer-learning-pathway/ [2] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/06/11/recommended-extensions-recent-additions/ [3] http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2020/06/tenfourfox-fpr23-for-intel-available.html.

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