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Inside a fast CSS engine
Project Quantum is a major rewrite of Firefox’s internals to make Firefox fast. We’re swapping in parts from our experimental browser, Servo, and making massive improvements to other parts of ...
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Introducing Android 8.0 Oreo
The next release of Android is officially here and comes with some superhero powers to help you get the most from your device.
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How JavaScript works: inside the V8 engine
PlaybookUX is an all-in-one software that allows you to recruit, conduct and analyze both qualitative and quantitative research, enhanced by AI.
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Vue.js and Brunch: Webpack Alternative
Do you develop your Vue.js app in a lo-fi ES5 environment without cool features like single-file components? Or do you use Webpack and spend forever on config? Brunch is a simple build tool that provides a happy medium.
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Startups should not use React
That is, if you ever hope to be acquired by a larger company
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Latency matters
A month ago, danluu wrote about [terminal and shell performance](https://danluu.com/term-latency/). In that post, he measured the latency between a key being pressed and the corresponding character appearing in the terminal. Across terminals, median latencies ranged between 5 and 45 milliseconds, with the 99.9th…
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Why I'm not a React Native developer
Many people are currently assessing React Native as a platform to develop their next mobile app on. This is no trivial matter. Switching your software development platform involves a high setup cost and will profoundly impact your daily programming workflow. It is also one of the costliest decisions to reverse after…
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Firefox Focus – A new private browser for iOS and Android
Firefox had a baby and named it Focus! Firefox Focus is the new private browser for iOS and Android, made for those times when you just need something simp
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E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-Click patent
In September of 2017 Amazon's patent on the 1 click checkout is expiring. This will open the door to any site that wants to improve their checkout.
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Towards a JavaScript Binary AST
In this blog post, I would like to introduce the JavaScript Binary AST, an ongoing project that we hope will help make webpages load faster, along with a number of other benefits. A little background Over the years, JavaScript has grown from one of the slowest scripting languages available to a high-performance…
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WebRender newsletter
The Quantum Flow and Photon projects have exciting newsletters. The Quantum graphics project (integrating WebRender in Firefox) hasn’t provided a newsletter so far and people have asked for i…
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Google AMP is bad for e-commerce
If you are thinking of using Google AMP for your e-commerce site, it might not be the best decision. With our tests, the cons seem to win.
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64-bit Firefox is the new default on 64-bit Windows
Users on 64-bit Windows who download Firefox can get our 64-bit version by default. That means you get a more secure version of Firefox, one that also crashes a whole lot less . How much less? In our tests so far, 64-bit Firefox reduced crashes by 39% on machines with 4GB of RAM or more.
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Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs
It might sound silly if you’re not a heavy user of browser tabs, but I am convinced that the lack of favicons is holding back Safari’s market share.
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Ad blocking is under attack
Well, this is huge, so I'd like to draw your attention to what's happening right now. This is a very alarming case, and it concerns every ad blocker user.
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Implementing Font-Size in Servo: An Unexpectedly Complex CSS Property
font-size is the worst. It’s a CSS property probably everyone who writes CSS has used at some point. It’s pretty ubiquitous. And it’s super …
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Hello WebAssembly
We have been experimenting with a couple of approaches to bring Mono to the web using WebAssembly - a technology that can efficiently and safely execute code in web browsers without being limited to Javascript. Running code written in C or C++ inside the browser has been a big motivator, but most major programming…
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WebAssembly: A New Hope
What is WebAssembly, and what does it mean for the web?
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JavaScript for People Who Hate JavaScript
Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.
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Firefox 55: WebVR and more
Firefox on Windows is the first desktop browser to support the new WebVR standard (and macOS support is ready now in Nightly!) You'll find many new features for developers, as ...
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Porting a Chrome Extension to Firefox
Shing Lyu's blog
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JetBrains Web UI components open-sourced
Please welcome Ring UI, an open-source library full of Web UI components!Ring UI library gives you the power of complex UI controls that have been developed at JetBrains over the years. It con
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‘This’ in JavaScript
Master JavaScript 'this' keyword: Learn six contexts where 'this' changes value. Essential for OOP and frameworks.
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Languages Which Almost Became CSS
When Tim Berners-Lee announced HTML in 1991 there was no method of styling pages. How a given HTML tag was rendered was determined by the browser, often with significant input from the user’s preferences
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