Pulling JPEGs out of thin air
This is an interesting demonstration of the capabilities of afl ; I was actually pretty surprised that it worked! $ mkdir in_dir $ echo ' h...
New Search Strategy for Firefox
Ten years ago, we built Firefox to keep the Internet in each of our hands — to create choice and put people in control of their lives online. Our focus h
Firefox Developer Tools – Editable box model, Sublime Text keys
A new set of the Firefox Developer Tools features has just been uplifted to the Aurora channel. These features are available right now in Aurora, and will be in the ...
Introducing the ‘mozjpeg’ Project
Today I’d like to announce a new Mozilla project called ‘mozjpeg’. The goal is to provide a production-quality JPEG encoder that improves compression while maintaining compatibility with the vast majority ...
Moving Atom to React
We are archiving Atom and all projects under the Atom organization for an official sunset on December 15, 2022.
CSS Shapes Editor for Chrome
CSS Shapes allow web designers to wrap content around custom paths, but authoring them is not trivial.
Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage message
So HackerNews is currently down. It happens, we’ll probably find out why when it returns. For a while yesterday, all HN URLs were returning error messages from CloudFlare, apparently their CD…
This POODLE bites: exploiting the SSL 3.0 fallback
Today we are publishing details of a vulnerability in the design of SSL version 3.0. This vulnerability allows the plaintext of secure conn...
Choose Firefox Now, Or Later You Won't Get A Choice
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI
A non-artsy primer in digital aesthetics
Portia, an open-source visual web scraper
As you can see, Portia allows you to visually configure what’s crawled and extracted in a very natural way. It provides immediate feedback, making the process
Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose
It's official: the last holdout for the open web has fallen. Flanked on all sides by Google, Microsoft, Opera, and (it appears) Safari's support and promotion of the EME DRM-in-HTML standard, Mozilla is giving in to pressure from Hollywood, Netflix, et al, and will be implementing its own third-...
New Developer Tools Features in Firefox 34
A new set of Firefox Developer Tools features has just been uplifted to the Aurora channel. These features are available right now in Aurora, and will be in the Firefox ...
Safari to Include DuckDuckGo as a Built-In Search Option
Link to: http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/apps/
Skype group video calling becomes free
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Cookie Bomb or Let's Break the Internet
TL;DR I can craft a page "polluting" CDNs, blogging platforms and other major networks with my cookies. Your browser will keep sendin...
To close or not to close – Void HTML elements
A blog about web and frontend development, design, 3d and music — by Mat Simon.
A new day for Google Calendar
Posted by Ian Leader, Product Manager Today we’re introducing a brand new Google Calendar app. It’s designed to be a helpful assistant, so...
Django 1.7 Released
Posted by James Bennett on Sept. 2, 2014
Another Big Milestone for Servo: Acid2
Servo, the next-generation browser engine being developed by Mozilla Research, has reached an important milestone by passing the Acid2 test. While Servo is not yet fully web compatible, passing Acid2 ...
How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast
Over the past six months we deployed a new technology that sped up Wikipedia’s backend application, reducing the median page-saving time for editors from about 7.5 seconds to 2.5 seconds.