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Firefox 41 will use less memory when running AdBlock Plus
Last year I wrote about AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage . The most important part was the following.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,855 posts.
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Firefox 22 released
Check out "Whats New" and "Known Issues" for this version of Firefox below. As always, youre encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .We'd also like extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to Firefox 22!
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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This blog site has been archived.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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Declarative Shadow DOM
We’re pleased to announce that support for the declarative shadow DOM API has been added and enabled by default in Safari Technology Preview 162.
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Lcl.host: fast, easy HTTPS in your local dev environment
Today we are launching lcl.host , a free devtool for web developers to quickly setup & use HTTPS locally. With lcl.host , you get a secure browser context in development that matches your production environment. Eliminate mixed asset issues, CORS errors, and secure cookie misconfiguration before they cause problems in…
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Ace, CodeMirror, and Monaco: A comparison of browser code editors (2021)
We compare and contrast the top code editors that you use in your browser.
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Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform
Signals the rebirth of Dart as a mainstream programming language for mobile and web development
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SOAP: The 'S' stands for simple (not really)
There has been a long running debate in the Application Platform Services Group here at Burton Group between the REST people on one side and the SOAP people on the other. For the most part it mirrors the external debate. In one recent exchange, while discussing the complexity of SOAP and the web services framework…
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React Native on the Universal Windows Platform
Today, Microsoft and Facebook announced at Facebook’s developer conference, F8 2016, that we’re adding Universal Windows Platform (UWP) support to React Native. This is provided as an open source, community-supported framework. The new UWP support extends the reach of these native apps to a new market of 270 million…
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New version of Apache HTTP Server released
World’s most popular Web Server powers nearly 400 million Websites across the globe Forest Hill, MD – 21 February 2012 – The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced version 2.4 of the award-winning…
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Moving towards a faster web
Speed has been one of Chrome’s core principles since the beginning - we’re constantly working to give users an experience that is instant a...
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Why are payment forms so complicated?
Expert insights on payment fraud, account takeover, chargebacks and digital trust from the team behind Sift's fraud prevention platform.
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Brave Search launches own image and video search
Brave Search's new independent image and video search feature protects your privacy and freedom to access information online.
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The life and death of email read tracking
This week we sunsetted read tracking ability from Missive. Years ago, after receiving many requests to...
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Gmailify: The best of Gmail, without an gmail address
If you use Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail/Outlook.com, you now have the option to Gmailify your inbox.
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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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Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default
With today's update, we are excited to announce that we have integrated Mixtral 8x7B as the default LLM in Leo, our privacy-preserving AI browser assistant.
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Element (Matrix) launches Chatterbox, end-to-end encrypted embedded chat
We’re outrageously pleased to launch Chatterbox, an end-to-end encrypted embedded chat built on Matrix!
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Faster Layouts with CSS Grid and Subgrid
CSS Grid has been available in most major browsers since early 2017, and it makes web layout more powerful than ever before. But complex-looking new syntax (line-names! grid-areas! minmax! fit-content! ...
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Animated Cursors
Tattoy is a text-based terminal compositor
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Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability
Last week, we published CVE-2025-29927 and patched a critical severity vulnerability in Next.js. Here’s our post-incident analysis and next steps.
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Qt for WebAssembly Technology Preview
Explore the Qt Blog for the latest insights on e.g. Qt Creator, your go-to source for cross-platform development tips and updates.
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How Shopify Uses WebAssembly Outside of the Browser
At Shopify, we’re keeping the flexibility of untrusted Partner code, but executing it on our own infrastructure with WebAssembly.
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Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)
Firefox and “save for later” All browsers support two functions: searching and revisiting. My research questions whether constructs like bookmarks really are the right model to support revisiting. I worked ...
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Making Elm faster and friendlier in 0.16
A delightful language with friendly error messages, great performance, small assets, and no runtime exceptions.
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A Real-World WebAssembly Benchmark
A WebAssembly benchmark for browser vendors to test a real-world production application.