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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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The most popular blog posts about web & frontend on Hacker News. 3,855 posts.
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Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center
Our push this year has been building privacy-centric features in our products that are on by default. With this move, we’re taking the guesswork out of h
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Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com
Facebook.com launched in 2004 as a simple, server-rendered PHP website. Over time, we’ve added layer upon layer of new technology to deliver more interactive features. Each of these new features an…
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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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Bootstrap 4 alpha
Today is a special day for Bootstrap. Not only is it our fourth birthday, but after a year of development, we're finally shipping the first alpha release of…
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macOS Big Sur
macOS Big Sur, the latest version of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system, is now available to Mac users as a free software update.
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Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
Today marks an important milestone for the Flutter framework , as we expand our focus from mobile to incorporate a broader set of devices and form factors. At I/O, we’re releasing our first technical preview of Flutter for web , announcing that Flutter is powering Google’s smart display platform including the Google…
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Wikipedia is getting a new look
This is the first blog in a series about desktop improvements coming to Wikipedia. Wikipedia has remained a critical and widely-used resource for knowledge across the world for the past two decades…
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Camera and microphone require HTTPS in Firefox 68
As of Firefox 68—releasing next week—camera and microphone will require an https connection to work. Access from insecure http will cease to work, matching how Chrome works. Camera and microhone are powerful features, and Firefox will now only expose them in secure contexts, a security and privacy improvement. Largely…
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WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard
A brief overview of the history, architecture, use cases, and future of WebRTC.
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Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers
Cap'n Web is a new open source, JavaScript-native RPC protocol for use in browsers and web servers. It provides the expressive power of Cap'n Proto, but with no schemas and no boilerplate.
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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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Why is OAuth still hard in 2023?
We implemented OAuth for the 50 most popular APIs. TL;DR: It is still a mess.
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Bootstrap 5 alpha
Bootstrap 5's very first alpha has arrived! We've been working hard for several months to refine the work we started in v4, and while we're feeling great about…
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Firefox got faster for real users in 2023
We’ve been working hard on making Firefox even faster and we’re extremely happy to report that this has resulted in an improvement in speed.
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Svelte 3: Rethinking Reactivity
It’s finally here
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Why we chose Vue.js
Why GitLab went with Vue.js
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Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out
We are excited to share that vertical tabs and a new sidebar experience are now available in Nightly 131. This update has been highly anticipated and requested by the community, ...
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Io.js 1.0.0
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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How Browsers Work
This comprehensive primer on the internal operations of WebKit and Gecko is the result of much research done by Israeli developer Tali Garsiel. Over a few years, she reviewed all the published data about browser internals and spent a lot of time reading web browser source code. She wrote:
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HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly
Guest Post: What problems HTTP/3 solves, how it performs, why it’s seen such swift adoption, and what limitations it is still working to overcome.
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Firefox 73
Today we’ve released Firefox 73, with useful additions that include CSS and JavaScript updates, and numerous DevTools improvements. We’ve added to CSS logical properties, pushed performance forward in the Console ...
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MDN Plus
Today, we are launching MDN Plus, our first step to providing a personalized and more powerful experience.
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Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in Firefox Nightly and Beta
We have added a feature to block fingerprinting and cryptomining in Firefox Nightly as an option for users to turn on.
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Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data
Posted by Zoe Piepmeier, Software Engineer Having access to your data and being able to take it with you is important, especially if tha...
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Leaflet 1.0 – A JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps
Today marks the final release of Leaflet 1.0. It’s a culmination of several years of work by dozens of contributors from all over the world. This is the fastest, most stable and polished Leaflet release ever.