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History of the browser user-agent string (2008)
In the beginning there was NCSA Mosaic , and Mosaic called itself NCSA_Mosaic/2.0 (Windows 3.1) , and Mosaic displayed pictures along with text, and there was much rejoicing.
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Private by Design: How We Built Firefox Sync
Firefox Sync by default protects all your synced data so Mozilla can’t read it. We built Sync this way because we put user privacy first. How it works is...
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Validating Leaked Passwords with k-Anonymity
Today, v2 of Pwned Passwords was released as part of the Have I Been Pwned service offered by Troy Hunt. Containing over half a billion real world leaked passwords, this database provides a vital tool for correcting the course of how the industry combats modern threats against password security.
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Yahoo Query Language will be retired on January 3
Measure, monetize, advertise and improve your apps with Yahoo tools. Join the 200,000 developers using Yahoo tools to build their app businesses.
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Building a professional design tool on the web
Our vision for the future of design tools is one where both the tool and the content are easily available to anyone, anywhere.
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Phoenix.LiveView: Interactive, Real-Time Apps. No Need to Write JavaScript
Phoenix LiveView is an exciting new library which enables rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML.
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Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack
Several recently-published research articles have demonstrated a new class of timing attacks (Meltdown and Spectre) that work on modern CPUs. Our internal experiments confirm that it is possible to use ...
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Sunsetting React Native
Due to a variety of technical and organizational issues, we will be sunsetting React Native and putting all of our efforts into making…
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Calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly are finally fast
At Mozilla, we want WebAssembly to be as fast as it can be. This started with its design, which gives it great throughput. Then we improved load times with a ...
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Cloudflare supports Privacy Pass
Cloudflare supports Privacy Pass, a recently-announced privacy-preserving protocol developed in collaboration with researchers from Royal Holloway and the University of Waterloo.
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You can now run WebAssembly on Cloudflare Workers
Today, we're extending Cloudflare Workers with support for WebAssembly. All Workers customers can now augment their applications with WASM at no additional cost.
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Modern JavaScript Explained for Dinosaurs
Learning modern JavaScript is tough if you haven’t been there since the beginning. The ecosystem is growing and changing so rapidly that…
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How to implement a basic ActivityPub server
Today we’ll be looking at how to connect the protocols powering Mastodon in the simplest way possible to enter the federated network. We will use static files, standard command-line tools, and some simple Ruby scripting, although the functionality should be easily adaptable to other programming languages. First…
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Beating JSON performance with Protobuf
Protobuf, the binary format crafted by Google, surpasses JSON performance even on JavaScript environments like Node.js/V8 and web browser...
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Microsoft Edge and open source collaboration
For the past few years, Microsoft has meaningfully increased participation in the open source software (OSS) community, becoming one of the world’s largest supporters of OSS projects. Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop to…
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Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default
Incredibly, it’s been nearly a decade since we launched the Chrome extensions system. Thanks to the hard work and innovation of our deve...
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Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0
Note: Read about improvements to this technology in recent blog posts about Intelligent Tracking Prevention, and the Storage Access API.
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Improving DNS Privacy in Firefox
Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the oldest parts of internet architecture, and remains one that has largely been untouched by efforts to make the web safer and more ...
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React Native at Airbnb
In 2016, we took a big bet on React Native. Two years later, we’re ready to share our experience with the world and show what’s next.
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A cartoon intro to DNS over HTTPS
At Mozilla, we closely track threats to users' privacy and security. This is why we've added tracking protection to Firefox and created the Facebook container extension. In today's cartoon intro, ...
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Building a fast Electron app with Rust
When I built Finda , I wanted it to be fast — specifically, to respond to all user input within 16 milliseconds.
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Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”
Posted by Emily Schechter, Chrome Security Product Manager For the past several years, we’ve moved toward a more secure web by strongly adv...
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WebAssembly’s post-MVP future
People have a misconception—they think that the WebAssembly that landed in browsers back in 2017—is the final version. In fact, we still have many use cases to unlock, from heavy-weight ...
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What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit
Security researchers have recently uncovered security issues known as Meltdown and Spectre.
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We are rewriting CodeMirror
In-browser code editor
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Requiring secure contexts for all new features
Since Let’s Encrypt launched, secure contexts have become much more mature. We have witnessed the successful restriction of existing, as well as new features to secure contexts. The W3C TAG ...
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Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked
Our Multi-Account Containers extension has been a game changer for many users, letting them manage various parts of their online life without intermingling
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Extensions in Firefox 59
Firefox Quantum continues to make news as Mozilla incorporates even more innovative technology into the platform. The development team behind the WebExtensions architecture is no exception, landing a slew of ...
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Update on Async Rendering
This blog site has been archived. Go to react.dev/blog to see the recent posts. For over a year, the React team has been working to implement asynchronous rendering. Last month during his talk at JSConf Iceland, Dan unveiled some of the exciting new possibilities async rendering unlocks. Now we’d like to share with…
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Transitioning Google URL Shortener to Firebase Dynamic Links
Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.