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Login Forms over HTTPS, Please
Pretty much everyone who uses the web has used a password to log into something. And pretty much everyone who has used a password has put that password at risk by entering it into an insecure form. In Firefox 46 Developer Edition, we display a prominent warning to developers about this risk. When a page […]
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Google Analytics, Privacy, and Event Tracking
Many of us use Google Analytics (GA) or similar third-party services to keep track of how people interact with our websites; telling us things like when people visit and what they click. This data can help us make important decisions, such as when to schedule maintenance or if a feature can be removed. Because these […]
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Web Push Arrives in Firefox 44
Have you ever wished that a website could notify you when something important happened, even if you didn’t have the site open? Maybe you’ve got an incoming WebRTC call, an instant message, or a financial update. Perhaps your city just declared an emergency snow plowing schedule. Sometimes you just want to know when something happens. […]
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WebGL Off the Main Thread
We’re happy to announce WebGL in Web Workers in Firefox 44+! Using the new OffscreenCanvas API you can now create a WebGL context off of the main thread. To follow along, you’ll need a copy of Firefox 44 or newer (currently Firefox Developer Edition or Firefox Nightly). You’ll have to enable this API by navigating […]
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Firefox and the Web Speech API
Speech Synthesis and recognition are powerful tools to have available on computers, and they have become quite widespread in this modern age — look at tools like Cortana, Dictation and Siri on popular modern OSes, and accessibility tools like screenreaders. But what about the Web? To be able to issue voice commands directly to a […]
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Building games for Firefox OS TV
With Firefox OS focused on a world of connected devices, it’s a good time to start building games for new and different displays. Panasonic offers a variety of Firefox OS-powered TVs — in this article we’ll outline how developing HTML5 games for huge television screens differs from the smartphone approach.
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Trainspotting: Firefox in 2015
Trainspotting is a series of articles highlighting features in the lastest version of Firefox. A new version of Firefox is shipped every six weeks- we at Mozilla call this pattern "release trains". The year is coming to a close, and even as the coals of 2015 fade to a soft orange, we've got Firefox releases […]
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Developer Edition 45 – Animations, Memory Tools and More
Firefox Developer Edition 45 has improvements to DevTools that will help you track down memory usage, dig into CSS animations, and more. In this post we’ll cover some of these changes – be sure to download the latest Developer Edition to try them yourself. CSS animation tool++ The animation tool has many additions: When you […]
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Beyond Offline
This is my first post on Mozilla Hacks and despite my personal blog, it is my first post as a mozillian (yay!). During this month I’ve been working in the Service Worker Cookbook project —part of the Web Application Developer Initiative (WADI)— which gives me the opportunity to put my expertise in Service Workers into […]
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Compiling to WebAssembly: It’s Happening!
WebAssembly is a new binary format for compilation to the web. It is in the process of being designed and implemented as we speak, in collaboration among the major browser vendors. Things are moving quickly! In this post we’ll show some of our recent progress with a deep dive into the toolchain side of WebAssembly. […]
