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Letting users block injected third-party DLLs in Firefox
Users can now block poorly behaving third-party DLLs in Firefox to improve stability and performance.
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Dweb: Building a Resilient Web with WebTorrent
The web is healthy when the financial cost of self-expression isn’t a barrier. This installment of the Dweb series describes WebTorrent – an implementation of the BitTorrent protocol that runs ...
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Project Silk
Editor's Note: An earlier version of this post appeared on Mason Chang's personal blog. For the past few months, I've been working on Project Silk which improves smoothness across ...
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Firefox 4: CSS3 calc()
This article describes the CSS3 calc() value. This feature hasn't landed yet in any Firefox tree but work to implement it is underway. Firefox will support the CSS calc() value, ...
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Firefox will support VP8 (aka WebM)
Five important items of note today relating to Mozilla's support for the VP8 codec: 1. Google will be releasing VP8 under an open source and royalty-free basis. VP8 is a ...
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CRLite: Certificate Revocation Checking in Firefox
Firefox is now the first and the only browser to deploy fast and comprehensive certificate revocation checking that does not reveal your browsing activity to anyone (not even to Mozilla). ...
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Beyond HTML5: Database APIs and the Road to IndexedDB
IndexedDB is an evolving web standard for the storage of significant amounts of structured data in the browser and for high performance searches on this data using indexes. Mozilla has ...
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privacy-related changes coming to CSS :visited
For more information about this, have a look at David Baron's post, the bug and the post on the security blog. For many years the CSS :visited selector has been ...
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Reconciling Mozilla's Mission and W3C EME
May 19 Update: We've added an FAQ below the text of the original post to address some of the questions and comments Mozilla has received regarding EME. With most competing ...