What you should understand about Mozilla
Disclaimer: Like usual, it’s just a little post from me (just some developer), not from Mozilla. Mozilla is a unique force in the browser market whose primary goal is to keep the web available for...
View ArticleResponsive panning and zooming
The Firefox release candidate for mobile is now out, and things are looking a lot zippier since 1.1. Improving panning and zooming was a huge focus during development. We’ve eliminated major delays...
View ArticleBugzilla Happy URLs
Ever accidentally copy-pasted a process_bug.cgi link? I’ve just written a quick extension that uses the history API to fix Bugzilla so that it shows the proper canonical URL for a resource after...
View ArticleWriting browser chrome mochitests
My fellow developers, You may already be writing good browser chrome tests that properly reset any side effects your test may have caused, but do you always clean up? Instead of manually cleaning up...
View ArticleShrinking startup time for Android
A few of us have started an effort to reduce startup time on Android devices. This is a critical aspect of Firefox’s user experience. More often than not, Firefox is killed in the background as you are...
View ArticleEvolution of the web
Fellow Mozillian and web hacker Atul Varma struggles with a recent streamlining of the Firefox interface, the removal of “http” from the address in the URL bar: …[B]rowsers have historically been very...
View ArticleBrainstorm session: what would you like writing tests to look like?
There’s a good thread about building features into Firefox on dev.planning. The recurring problem of writing quality frontend code came up, and I found myself ranting about our testing framework. Is it...
View ArticlePrevent text flashing on Safari
Two months ago, I left my job at Mozilla to tackle an emerging challenge on the web today: getting peer-to-peer video chat right. I have transitioned from C++ browser platform work back to web...
View ArticleObituary watch
Marco writes an obituary for Firefox: I’m a bit sad for Firefox. It used to be the fast, powerful, progressive browser that finally broke IE’s era of stagnant dominance and saved web developers’...
View ArticleRemove annoying onbeforeunload messages
Every day I use Gmail and Hipchat. They’re almost always open for me. Whenever I want to quit my browser, Hipchat always asks me if I’m absolutely sure I want to quit. Hipchat accomplishes this by...
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