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Front-End Performance: The Dark Side
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Launching Ignition and TurboFan
V8 v5.9 comes with a brand-new JavaScript execution pipeline, built upon the Ignition interpreter and the TurboFan optimizing compiler.
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Uncovering 2017’s Largest Malvertising Operation
The Zirconium group successfully created and operated 28 fake ad agencies to distribute malvertising campaigns through 2017, buying an estimate of 1 billion ad views throughout the year, and reaching
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An open letter to the W3C Director, CEO, team and membership
Dear Jeff, Tim, and colleagues, In 2013, EFF was disappointed to learn that the W3C had taken on the project of standardizing “Encrypted Media Extensions,” an API whose sole function was to provide a first-class role for DRM within the Web browser ecosystem. By doing so, the organization offered...
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Automating cookie consent and GDPR violation detection
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires websites to inform users about personal data collection and request consent for cookies. Yet the majority of websites do not give users any choices, and others attempt to deceive them into accepting all cookies. We document the severity of this…
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Behind the design of the fresh new Firefox coming June 1
A new Firefox is coming your way on June 1 with a fresh look designed for today’s modern life online. We pored over the browser’s user interface pixel
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The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable?
Hamburger menus are a more familiar pattern today than 10 years ago, but the same old best practices for hidden navigation still apply.
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Chrome 68 Released: HTTP Sites Marked as “Not Secure”
The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 68 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out ove...
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Nearly there
We’ve spent the past two weeks asking people around the world to think about our four refined design directions for the Mozilla brand identity. The results are in and the ...
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What's new in Firefox 10 (shipping this week)
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 .
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Private profiles are now generally available on GitHub
Private profiles (now generally available) enables users to turn their GitHub profile "private", which gives users control over features that share user data across the GitHub platform. When a profile…
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WordPress is now 13 years old
The first release of WordPress is now available.
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Mono and WebAssembly – Updates on Static Compilation
As you may know we have been working on bringing Mono to the WebAssembly platform . As part of the effort we have been pursuing two strategies; one that uses the new Mono IL interpreter to run managed code at runtime, and one that uses full static (AOT) compilation to create one .wasm file that can be executed…
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Goodbye to Painful Image Loads on Small Devices
We've been working in the responsive realm for a while now and one of the most painful parts of the process is dealing with images. Large images can cause extremely long load times on small devices that might not have a huge data bandwidth. There have been many "best practices for now" movements to deal with this.
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Django 4.0 alpha 1 released
Posted by Mariusz Felisiak on Sept. 21, 2021
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Supabase Storage v2: Image Resizing and Smart CDN
We're introducing new features for Supabase Storage: Image resizing and a Smart CDN.
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New Default WordPress Theme: Twenty Twelve
Every year the WordPress team proudly unveils a new default theme, increasing by one the collection now known affectionately as the Twenty Somethings. Serving as the flagship theme for a year, it h…
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Firefox Developer Tools, Part 2: Scratchpad and Style Editor
This is part two, out of five, focusing on the built-in Developer Tools in Firefox, their features and where we are now with them. The intention is to show you ...
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Locked and Loaded with New Cosmic DE Updates
System76’s COSMIC desktop environment gets a new lock screen, login screen, tiling applet, and important UI additions.
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Howler.js - Lightweight Javascript library for Web Audio and HTML5 Audio
[https://howlerjs.com]howler.js v2.0.0 Released [https://howlerjs.com] Browsers have come a long way over the years, and we are now able to achieve amazing results using all of the great new technologies often referred to as HTML5. However, generally speaking, audio still sucks. Thankfully, Google decided to create…
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Recent efforts in V8 and DevTools for Node.js
This blog post highlights some of the recent efforts to make Node.js better supported in V8 and Chrome DevTools.
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HTTPS Everywhere Version 5: Sixteen New Languages and Thousands of New Rules
This week we released the latest version of HTTPS Everywhere to all of our users. Compared to the previous major release, this version introduces thousands of new rules, translations of the interface into sixteen new languages, and support for "Block All HTTP Requests" in Chrome. If you already use...
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Inside Ember.js FastBoot: Faking the DOM in Node
As we announced in the inaugural blog post in our Inside FastBoot series, we have begun working on giving Ember.js developers the ability to run their apps in Node.js. Once complete,...
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