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1 points·by ericlaw·2 yıl önce·0 comments

Blocking content in Chrome Manifest v3

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Beware: URLs Are Pointers to Mutable Entities

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ericlaw
·9 ay önce·discuss
The October 2025 Patch Tuesday patches locked down previews of files in the Windows Explorer shell. This post explains why.
ericlaw
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Mistakes and Successes in building the Fiddler web debugger
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·3 yıl önce·discuss
Almost everybody knows this, yet most of us don't think through the implications, leading to some surprising results.
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·3 yıl önce·discuss
There is no visible "OK" button on a SmartScreen reputation warning.
ericlaw
·3 yıl önce·discuss
.com files still work fine on Windows; Visual Studio installs devenv.com, for example (IIRC, it's there for a somewhat wacky reason. See %PATHEXT%)
ericlaw
·8 yıl önce·discuss
Many "irrational" decisions are related to interactions with anti-bot/anti-fraud logic.

I worked on IE in the days when there were many crazy conspiracy theories about silverlight and IE collaborating to ruin the open web. This sounds similar.