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Firefox 50.0
We'd also like to extend a special thank you to all of the new Mozillians who contributed to this release of Firefox!
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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 3,855 posts.
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Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141
After years in development, we will be releasing WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141! WebGPU gives web content a modern interface to the user’s graphics processor, enabling high-performance comp…
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OAuth for all
Self-Managed OAuth is now available to all developers on Cloudflare. Here's how we executed a zero-downtime migration of our core OAuth engine to make it happen.
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Firefox takes a bite out of the canvas ‘super cookie’
The Sophos Blog
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YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters
Last week, Google announced that its Youtube service would default to using HTML5 video instead of Flash. Once upon a time, this would have been cause for celebration: after all, Flash is a proprietary technology owned by one company, a frequent source of critical vulnerabilities that expose...
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Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again
With the change of administrations comes a new website, and this morning the all-new Whitehouse.gov debuted. Like its predecessor, the site is powered by WordPress – but this version carries many differences and modern out-of-the-box features that we’re glad to see used on a site of this magnitude. Dave Amirault…
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Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks
Bringing Google Play — the most popular app store in the world — to Chromebooks.
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Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading
Today, after three years of development, we are launching version 1.0 of Uppy,
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Gmail and Yahoo’s 2024 inbox protections and what they mean for email programs
Gmail and Yahoo announce transformative updates to come in 2024. The updates impact senders but implementing the changes is easier than you think. Are you ready?
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Tor Browser 12.0
Tor Browser 12.0 is now available. This new release updates Tor Browser to Firefox Extended Support Release 102.
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Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild
The Stable channel has been updated to 145.0.7632.75/76 for Windows/Mac and 145.0.7632.75 for Linux, which will roll out over the coming d...
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Firefox 79
Firefox 79 offers a new Promise method, more secure target=_blank links, logical assignment operators, tooling improvements for better JavaScript debugging, and many other updates of interest to web developers. In ...
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Spaces launch in Element
Spaces rethink grouping rooms and people, fundamentally improving Element and Matrix to better group conversations instead of viewing all rooms all of the time.
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Closing a 30 pixel gap between native and web
We talk a lot about Progressive Web Apps (PWA) in the context of mobile devices, but they have an enormous potential on desktop operating systems that's only beginning to materialize. Recently, with many new web capabilities in the Chromium browser
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Browsers, not apps, are the future of mobile
Proclamations of an all-native mobile app world ignore the fact that browsers and the web are fast becoming the mobile operating system of the future.
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Previews of software updates designed for people with disabilities
Apple today announced powerful software features designed for people with mobility, vision, hearing, and cognitive disabilities.
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An experimental Android WebView Media Integrity API early next year
We’re piloting an experimental Android WebView Media Integrity API with select embedded media providers early next year.
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Plan Your Route Privately: DuckDuckGo Now Has Driving and Walking Directions
We're excited to announce a big step forward with the introduction of route-planning directions on DuckDuckGo Search – private, as always.
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Microsoft Edge and open source collaboration
For the past few years, Microsoft has meaningfully increased participation in the open source software (OSS) community, becoming one of the world’s largest supporters of OSS projects. Today we’re announcing that we intend to adopt the Chromium open source project in the development of Microsoft Edge on the desktop to…
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Ember.js 2.0 Released
Ember 2.0 is not a traditional major release. After thirteen point releases in almost two years, we're taking a turn to focus entirely on sweeping out built-up cruft as a...
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How We Built the GitHub Globe
GitHub is where the world builds software. More than 56 million developers around the world build and work together on GitHub. With our new homepage, we wanted to show how…
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