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On Firefox’s Password Manager 21 Aug 2013 | 05:54 am
It’s been a while since I last blogged about Firefox’s password manager. No big deal, it really hasn’t fundamentally changed since since I rewrote it 6 years ago for Firefox 3.0. Well, ok, the storage...
Three and a Half 13 Aug 2013 | 06:27 pm
Well, Lil, I have some news for you: I think you’re an introvert. I don’t want to box you in, and anyhow it’s more of a continuum than a yes/no, but I see things I recognize. The way you play for an ...
Increasing Volunteer Participation on the Firefox for Android Team 7 Aug 2013 | 05:25 am
Over the past year, the Firefox for Android team has really seen increased volunteer participation. It’s been amazing to see our community grow, and I want to share some of the strategies we’ve been u...
changes to the list of Firefox reviewers 19 Jul 2013 | 03:26 am
I’ve made a few updates to the list of Firefox reviewers: Drew Willcoxon, Matthew Noorenberghe, Gijs Kruitbosch, Paolo Amadini, Mike Conley, and Mark Hammond are new additions. They’ve all been long-...
measuring Firefox responsiveness improvements with jydoop 17 Jul 2013 | 11:18 pm
One of the other cool things that came out of the Firefox Desktop work week that I mentioned in my previous post was increased exposure to a handy tool written by taras and bsmedberg: jydoop. Benjamin...
high-level introduction to Firefox front-end code 17 Jul 2013 | 05:09 am
At the end of June the Firefox desktop team held a Performance-themed work week Toronto, which included representatives from the Performance team as well as some other teams (QA, automation/testing, p...
FISL 14 16 Jul 2013 | 02:42 pm
Two weeks ago, almost the entire Mozilla community in Brazil assembled together in Porto Alegre to attend FISL, the largest free software conference in the country, which brings together about 7000 pe...
Firefox Performance Week 2 Jul 2013 | 11:35 am
Last week, the Firefox front-end team got together in Toronto to discuss various of our ongoing projects, with a special focus on performance-related goals. The performance team also joined us as ther...
Six years revisited 21 May 2013 | 09:00 pm
Two years ago I blogged about how it had been six years since I wrote my first patch for Firefox. Today I get to say that it’s been six years since I started getting paid to do what I love, … Continue...
Firefox now ships with the add-on SDK 16 May 2013 | 03:31 am
It’s been a long ride but we can finally say it. This week Firefox 21 shipped and it includes the add-on SDK modules. What does this mean? Well for users it means two important things: Smaller add-ons...
