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MapGate 24 Sep 2012 | 02:42 am
I haven’t used iOS 6 in anger yet. I don’t know whether the maps are really that horrible. I just feel like a lot of entries on The Amazing iOS 6 Maps tumblr are a bit pathological, as if people have ...
A Mozilla and Open Source success story 14 Dec 2011 | 05:03 pm
There are many success stories like this in open source, but this is such a neat one, I have to call it out. It basically goes like this: Webdev makes awesome app (I have seen it. It’s is truly aweso...
My take on webOS and Mozilla 11 Dec 2011 | 05:31 pm
HP announced yesterday that they’re going to open source webOS. No matter what one may think of webOS (or HP), this is great news. It’s an opportunity, but it remains to be seen what HP and others wil...
The future of BarTab 2 Dec 2011 | 11:51 pm
BarTab has a faithful user base. Every day I get emails that look approximately like this: Thing is, I made BarTab when I was a grad student because it was something I and Firefox needed at the time....
Taking a break from Firefox Sync 2 Nov 2011 | 04:23 pm
It’s been a year and a half since I joined Mozilla and the Sync team. We’ve done exciting things since then: integrated Sync into Firefox, simplified the cryptography scheme to get rid of expensive RS...
Six months with the Nexus S 7 Jul 2011 | 02:59 pm
About half a year ago Mozilla bought me a Nexus S. It is a close cousin to the Samsung Galaxy S marketed by Google. The difference is a slightly different shell, the lack of a card reader, and a plain...
about:sync-log 17 Jun 2011 | 09:36 am
The past For a long time Firefox Sync has had the ability to write a continuous log of what it’s doing to disk which is pretty easily accessible via about:sync-log. In the Firefox 4 beta cycle, we d...
How to file a good Sync bug 14 Jun 2011 | 12:26 am
We always appreciate it when users let us know about problems they’re experiencing with Sync because it means we can improve it! Here are some guidelines on how to file a good Sync bug: Get the Sync ...
My first year at Mozilla 18 May 2011 | 09:42 am
Today exactly one year ago was my first day at Mozilla. I started it by joining IRC from my flat in Glasgow, where I had just given up a PhD position and a career as a physicist. Shortly after that I ...
JavaScript perf: avoid creating objects 9 Mar 2011 | 09:12 pm
Recently we analyzed Firefox Sync’s performance and found that it created a shockingly large number of objects during an initial sync, i.e. when all the data on the server is downloaded and applied lo...
