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CSS Grid Level 2 – subgrid is coming to Firefox
The subgrid feature which is part of Level 2 of the CSS Grid Specification is not yet shipping in any browser, but is now available for testing in Firefox Nightly. ...
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Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default
It’s been several weeks since I was promoted to Senior Vice President of Firefox, responsible for overall Firefox product and web platform development. A
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Urql: a GraphQL client library
Analysis for enterprise leaders from Nearform on AI-native delivery, spec-driven development, AI ROI, governance and modernisation.
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Block Fingerprinting with Firefox
Browser fingerprinting is a hidden way websites and third parties can identify your web browser based on a mix of device details, settings, and system characteristics. Firefox helps prevent browser fingerprinting with built-in protections designed to reduce that tracking and give you more control over your online…
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Choosing Ruby on Rails for web development project in 2019
Everything you need to know about adding Ruby on Rails to your technology stack. An all-in-one guide by Ideamotive - team of Ruby on Rails development experts!
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W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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How Fragmented Is Android?
Android is deeply deeply fragmented. The Android ecosystem is split between at least 1,728 combinations of OS - Brand - Device Model (Data).
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Static web – back to the roots?
Exploring the shift back to static site generators to sanitize web development practices
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Firefox brings smooth video playback with the fastest AV1 decoder
With this week's release of Firefox 67, the new high performance royalty-free AV1 video decoder dav1d is now enabled by default on all desktop platforms (Windows, OSX and Linux) for ...
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Privacy-Preserving Ad Click Attribution for the Web
A typical website is made of numerous components coming from a wide variety of sources.
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Tor Browser 8.5
Tor Browser 8.5 includes our first stable release for Android plus many new features.
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Google HTML/CSS style guide suggests omitting head and body tags
Style guides for Google-originated open-source projects
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Firefox 67.0 Released
We'd like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
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Graphics Team ships WebRender MVP
After many months of hard work and preparation, I’m pleased to announce the general availability of WebRender for selected Windows 10 devices. WebRender is a major rewrite of the Firefox rendering …
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Stealing Downloads from Slack Users
Stealing Downloads from Slack Users I’m going to go over an interesting feature abuse that could have been used to steal and even manipulate downloads from Slack users using the Slack desktop app …
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Virtual DOM is pure overhead (2018)
Let’s retire the ‘virtual DOM is fast’ myth once and for all
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Better HTTP/2 Prioritization for a Faster Web
Advancing the state of the art of HTTP/2 to deliver a faster user experience. See why it matters and how much of a differenc
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Use links not keys to represent relationships in APIs
While links aren’t widely used in APIs, some very prominent web APIs use links based on HTTP URLs to represent relationships, which has several advantages. This post shows you why.
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ClojureScript: Graal.js REPL Environment
The :npm-deps compiler option now defaults to false . Previously, :npm-deps defaulted to true .
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What to Expect from Marzipan
It’s clear that this year’s WWDC is going to be a doozy. We’ve written here previously with our thoughts about Dark Mode, now it’s time to talk about iOS apps coming to the Mac. Of course I’m talking about Marzipan, a technology Apple introduced with few details during last year’s Keynote. We knew that some […]
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Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage
Recently, Firefox had an incident in which most add-ons stopped working. This was due to an error on our end: we let one of the certificates used to sign add-ons ...
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Amazon S3 Path Deprecation Plan – The Rest of the Story
Update (September 23, 2020) – Over the last year, we’ve heard feedback from many customers who have asked us to extend the deprecation date. Based on this feedback we have decided to delay the deprecation of path-style URLs to ensure that customers have the time that they need to transition to virtual hosted-style…
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HTTP headers for the responsible developer
Guide to using HTTP headers for a better web. Learn about HTTPS, HSTS, CSP, Cacheable, immutable resources, serving WebP images, Feature-Policy and more.
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Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
Today marks an important milestone for the Flutter framework , as we expand our focus from mobile to incorporate a broader set of devices and form factors. At I/O, we’re releasing our first technical preview of Flutter for web , announcing that Flutter is powering Google’s smart display platform including the Google…
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Improving privacy and security on the web
In 2008, we launched Chrome with the goal of building a speedy, simple, secure and stable web for everyone, everywhere. Ten years later, use...
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ProtonMail is dropping support for Internet Explorer 11
If you still use Internet Explorer, you will need to switch to a more secure, modern web browser to access Proton Mail.
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WordPress 5.2: Mitigating Supply-Chain Attacks
We wrote a cryptography library entirely in PHP to make your WordPress site secure against supply-chain attacks.
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From Dead Code to Company: The FullCalendar JavaScript Lib Turns 10
I’ve been working on the FullCalendar for a really long time.