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This past April 1st, Cloudflare rolled out a new DNS service that touts both speed and improved privacy. The reasoning for a new DNS service is that the company is on a march to ever improve the Internet by means of security, privacy, and speed. DNS is commonly described as the phone book for the Internet.  It allows users to reach websites by way of a human-readable name that is translated to the series of numbers that the underlying network protocol uses.  In the way that Cool Dude's telephone number might be 123-456-7890, the web address for "cooldude.com" might translate to 123.123.321.321. By default, ISPs expect routers and other devices to be configured to use their DNS service, but there's no technical reason that any DNS server can't be used.  Both Google and OpenDNS offer alternative services as well. Some folks are reporting various issues in the comments of the announcement, but Cloudflare seems to have been expecting some of this for thin

For the Vue.js developers out there that also still dig using Firefox , you may be pleasantly surprised to learn that Vue.js devtools is now available for Firefox as well as Chrome . The tools extension has only been available for Chrome and the comments on the page for the Firefox add-on indicate that it's been available for a while now.  Each browser is indicating being updated as of January 15th, and they share the same version number (4.0.1). The assumption here is that they are indeed the same toolbox, and the availability of these tools for Firefox users is, no doubt, made possible by Mozilla's move to using its WebExtensions API as its means of extending the browser by third parties.