Articles by Mozilla Hacks
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Ten Things Developers should know about the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN)
Editor’s Note: This blog post is way out of date. The Mozilla Developer Network has grown a lot and changed its name to MDN Web Docs. In 2017, more than 8,000 developers contributed to 80,000 pages of content on the Mozilla Developer Network. Mozilla also teamed with Microsoft, Google, and other industry leaders to greatly […]
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Firefox 7: Telemetry
Based on a blog post originally posted here by Taras Glek, Firefox Developer. Firefox 7 marks a turning point in how we measure Firefox performance. Traditionally we measured Firefox performance on individual developer machines and our build & release infrastructure. However it turns out synthetic benchmarks do not correspond to real-world Firefox usage: it is […]
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Direct2D Azure hits Firefox 7
Based on a blog post originally posted here by Bas Schouten, Firefox Developer. Hrm, Azure, what’s that again? You can find out all about Azure other blog posts, there’s an introduction from Joe Drew and there’s several more in detailed posts discussing the Direct2D Azure backend and the performance implications to be found on my […]
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Firefox 7 is lean and fast
Based on a blog post originally posted here by Nicholas Nethercote, Firefox Developer. tl;dr Firefox 7 now uses much less memory than previous versions: often 20% to 30% less, and sometimes as much as 50% less. This means that Firefox and the websites you use will be snappier, more responsive, and suffer fewer pauses. It […]
