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Fathom: a framework for understanding web pages
Meet Fathom, a mini-language for writing semantic extractors, that you can use client- or server-side to extract meaning from the content of a web page. Scoop up all those ideas ...
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Firefox 72 – our first song of 2020
2020 is upon us, folks. We'd like to wish everyone reading this a happy new year, wherever you are. As you take your first steps of the new year, figuring out what your next move is, you may find it comforting to know that there's a new Firefox release to try out! Version 72 to be exact.
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Building the Firefox browser for Firefox OS
As soon as the Boot to Gecko (B2G) project was announced in July 2011 I knew it something I wanted to contribute to. I'd already been working on the idea ...
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Building Cordova apps for Firefox OS
Update: In addition to the Cordova integration described below, Firefox OS is now supported in the 3.5 release of Adobe PhoneGap. If you're already building apps with PhoneGap, you can ...
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Quantum Up Close: What is a browser engine?
A web browser is a piece of software that loads remote files and displays them locally, allowing for user interaction. Quantum is the code name for an project we’ve undertaken ...
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Designing the Flexbox Inspector
CSS Flexbox is an increasingly popular layout model that helps in building robust dynamic page layouts. However, it has a big learning curve! The new Flexbox Inspector, created by Firefox ...
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Lots to See in Firefox 93
Firefox 93 comes with lots of lovely updates including AVIF image format support, filling of XFA-based forms in its PDF viewer and protection.
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Simplifying Firefox Release Channels
Streamlining our release process and quickly getting stable new features to users and developers is a priority for Firefox. Taking a close critical look at our release channels, it became ...
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Debugging WebAssembly outside of the browser
WebAssembly has begun to establish itself outside of the browser via dedicated runtimes like Mozilla’s Wasmtime and Fastly’s Lucet. While the promise of a new, universal format for programs is ...
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Firefox Developer Tools: Break on DOM Events, Edit as HTML, Codemirror
Firefox 27 was just uplifted to the Aurora release channel which means we are back to report on new features in Firefox Developer Tools. Below are just some of the ...
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Matchstick Brings Firefox OS to Your HDTV
The first HDMI streaming stick powered by Firefox OS has arrived. It’s called Matchstick and we’re looking for your help to create apps for this new device. Background Matchstick ...
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FlyWeb – Pure Web Cross-Device Interaction
FlyWeb is an experimental project we’ve been prototyping from within the depths of Mozilla’s platform division. It started as a side-project late last year, and since then a small, ad-hoc ...
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Developer Tools Update – Firefox 22
This is the first in a series of posts published on or about the time a new Firefox version graduates from 'Nightly' status and becomes Firefox Aurora. We think that ...
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Powerful New Additions to the CSS Grid Inspector in Firefox Nightly
CSS Grid is revolutionizing web design. It’s a flexible, simple design standard that can be used across all browsers and devices. That's why we built CSS Grid Inspector. We’ve been ...
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So You Wanna Build a Crowdfunding Site
The tools to get funded by the crowd should belong to the crowd. That's why I want to show you how to roll your own crowdfunding site, in less than ...
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Very impressive CSS3 demo: CSS3 Planetarium
O hai pixel lovers! Check out this gorgeous CSS3 demo: Planetarium, by the LittleWorkshop team (@glecollinet & @whatthefranck). Screencast: Youtube link. Gorgeous Animations The principal feature show-cased in ...
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New Features of Firefox Developer Tools: Episode 25
Firefox 25 was just uplifted to the Aurora release channel which means we are back to report about new features in Firefox Developer Tools. Here's a summary of some of ...
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DASH playback of AV1 video in Firefox
Bitmovin and Mozilla, both members of the Alliance for Open Media (AOM), are partnering to bring AV1 playback with HTML5 to Firefox as the first browser to play AV1 MPEG-DASH/HLS ...
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Shiva – More than a RESTful API to your music collection
Music for me is not only part of my daily life, it is an essential part. It helps me concentrate, improves my mood, distracts me and/or helps me relax. This ...
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Firebug and DevTools Integration
You might have already heard about our effort to unify native Firefox Developer tools (DevTools) and Firebug. We’ve been working hard to port all favorite Firebug features into native DevTools, ...
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ES6 in Depth: Destructuring
ES6 In Depth is a series on new features being added to the JavaScript programming language in the 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6 for short. Editor’s note: An ...
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Add-Ons Outage Post-Mortem Result
We've been conducting an ongoing post-mortem on the add-ons outage that occurred earlier this year. There was a lot more digging to do than we expected. In addition to this ...
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ES6 in Depth – Symbols
ES6 In Depth is a series on new features being added to the JavaScript programming language in the 6th Edition of the ECMAScript standard, ES6 for short. Note: There is ...
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Firefox Developer Tool Features for Firefox 23
Another uplift has left the building and it's time to take a look at what's in Firefox Developer Tools in Firefox 23 currently Aurora, our pre-beta channel. You can download ...
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Multi-user VR experiences with A-Frame (2017)
Salva de la Puente describes the sharedspace component he's built, which brings the power of WebRTC to A-Frame users. The component provides a collaboration model where participants can join or ...
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Web Audio API comes to Firefox
We have been working on implementing the Web Audio API in Firefox for a while now, and we currently have basic support for the API implemented on Firefox Nightly and ...
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An easier way of using polyfills
Polyfills are a fantastic way to enable the use of modern code even while supporting legacy browsers, but currently using polyfills is too hard, so at the FT we've built ...
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Improving Performance in Firefox and Across the Web with Speedometer 3
Today’s Speedometer release is more open and challenging than before and is the best tool for driving browser performance improvements.
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Firebug 3 and Multiprocess Firefox
Firebug 3 alpha was announced couple of weeks ago. This version represents the next generation of Firebug built on top of Firefox native developer tools. There are several reasons why ...
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A WebAssembly Milestone: Experimental Support in Multiple Browsers
WebAssembly is an emerging standard whose goal is to define a safe, portable, size- and load-time efficient binary compiler target which offers near-native performance—a virtual CPU for the Web. WebAssembly ...