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How Firefox Got Fast Again
Over the past seven months, we’ve been rapidly replacing major parts of the engine, introducing Rust and parts of Servo to Firefox. Plus, we’ve had a browser performance strike force ...
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 320 posts.
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Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award
MIT Professor Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has won the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award. Often referred to as “the Nobel Prize of computing,” the award comes with a $1 million prize provided by Google.
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Firefox 57.0 Released
Brace yourself for an all-new Firefox. It’s fast. Really fast. It’s over twice as fast as Firefox from 6 months ago, built on a completely overhauled core engine with brand new technology from our advanced research group, and graced with a clean, modern interface. Today is the first of several releases we’re calling…
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Documenting the Web together
Today, we’re excited to share some big news for developers around the world wide web: We’re committing our resources towards making MDN Web Docs the best place to go for web API reference. To kick things off, today we started redirecting over 7,700 MSDN pages to corresponding topics in the MDN web docs library powered
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How We Built r/Place
Brian Simpson, Matt Lee, & Daniel Ellis (u/bsimpson, u/madlee, & u/daniel) Each year for April Fools’, rather than a prank, we like to create a project tha
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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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Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency
Dash knows your context, your team, and your work, so your team can stay organized, easily find and share knowledge, and keep projects secure, all from one place.
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Chrome 56 will mark HTTP pages with password fields as non-secure
Posted by Emily Schechter, Chrome Security Team [Updated on 12/5/16 with instructions for developers] Developers : Read more about how to ...
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Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
Engines are important, both in cars and in browsers. That’s why we’re so revved up this morning – we’re releasing the Beta of a whole new Firefox,
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The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank
The Firefox Quantum release is getting close. It brings many performance improvements, including the super fast CSS engine that we brought over from Servo. But there’s another big piece of ...
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Firefox Multi-Account Containers
Our new Multi-Account Containers extension for Firefox means you can finally wrangle multiple email/social accounts. Maybe you’ve got two Gmail or Instag
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Saying Goodbye to Firebug
The most popular and powerful web development tool. Firebug has been a phenomenal success. Over its 12-year lifespan, the open source tool developed a near cult following among web developers. ...
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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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DRM’s Dead Canary: How We Lost the Web, What We Learned, and What to Do Next
EFF has been fighting against DRM and the laws behind it for a decade and a half, intervening in the US Broadcast Flag, the UN Broadcasting Treaty, the European DVB CPCM standard, the W3C EME standard and many other skirmishes, battles and even wars over the years. With that long history behind us...
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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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Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly
Historically, running native code on the web required a browser plugin. In 2013, we introduced the PNaCl sandbox to provide a means of bui...
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Introducing Lottie: Airbnb's tool for adding animations to native apps
Our new open-source tool makes adding animation to native apps a snap.
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Next.js 2.0
Next.js 2.0 comes packed with performance improvements and extensibility features
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Annotation is now a web standard
Over the years, many have tried to bring us web annotations. On 23 February 2017, things took a giant leap forward when the W3C, the standards body for the web, standardized annotation. Yesterday, on February 23, things took a giant leap forward when the W3C, the standards body for the Web, standardized annotation…
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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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Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API
Apple’s WebKit team today proposed a new Community Group at the W3C to discuss the future of 3D graphics on the Web, and to develop a standard API that exposes modern GPU features including low-level graphics and general purpose computation.
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WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers
While Mozilla has been preparing to launch Firefox Quantum, its fastest browser yet, some notable developments have happened with WebAssembly, the binary f
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