Firefox Articles
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Firefox 4: Better performance with Lazy Frame Construction
This is a re-post from Timothy Nikkel’s blog. Lazy Frame Construction is new to Gecko and allows many DOM operations (appendChild, insertBefore, etc) to not trigger immediate reflows. This can vastly improve the interactive performance of very complex web pages. If you want to test this out, you should get a Firefox Nightly. Lazy frame […]
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Firefox, YouTube and WebM
Five important items of note today relating to Mozilla’s support for the VP8 codec: 1. Google will be releasing VP8 under an open source and royalty-free basis. VP8 is a high-quality video codec that Google acquired when they purchased the company On2. The VP8 codec represents a vast improvement in quality-per-bit over Theora and is […]
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Firefox 4: -moz-any() selector grouping
This is a re-post from David Baron’s blog. This feature has landed in Mozilla Central (trunk) and only available with a Firefox Nightly Build for the time being. Last night I landed support for :-moz-any() selector grouping. This allows providing alternatives between combinators, rather than having to repeat the entire selector for once piece that’s […]
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Getting involved with Account Manager
It’s been a couple of weeks since we originally posted about Account Manager and we’ve gotten a lot of feedback. We’ve got a few opportunities for people to get more involved with the project, listed below. Join us at the Account Manager Meet-up or at IIW We are hosting an Account Manager Meet-up on Friday, […]
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Firefox 4: the HTML5 parser – inline SVG, speed and more
This is a guest post from Henri Sivonen, who has been working on Firefox’s new HTML5 parser. The HTML parser is one of the most complicated and sensitive pieces of a browser. It controls how your HTML source is turned into web pages and as such changes to it are rare and need to be […]
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Revitalizing Caching
Apparently, there are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation and the naming of things (or so Phil Karlton’s dictum goes). Earlier this month, we invited representatives of Twitter, Facebook, SproutCore, Palm’s webOS, Microsoft’s “Office On The Web”, Yahoo, and Google to talk to us about the former problem (amongst other things), though […]
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Beyond HTML5: experiments with interactive audio
This is a re-post of an important post from David Humphrey who has been doing a lot of experiments on top of Mozilla’s extensible platform and doing experiments with multi-touch, sound, video, WebGL and all sorts of other goodies. It’s worth going through all of the demos below. You’ll find some stuff that will amaze […]
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Account Manager coming to Firefox
Update: The Account Manager is no longer maintained. Building on this experiment, we have conceived BrowserID. Please consider using it instead. Last month Mozilla Labs announced a new concept series on online identity. As part of this exploration, we developed the Account Manager. The Account Manager makes it incredibly easy for users to create new […]
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a series of updates on what's coming in Firefox 4
Over the next couple of weeks, people like Paul Rouget and I are going to post a series of updates on a bunch of technologies that are part of our next release. That release, likely called Firefox 4, was underway before the release of Firefox 3.6 and already includes a bunch of new features, bug […]
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mozilla developer preview 4 ready for testing
Note: this is a re-post of the entry in the Mozilla Project Development Weblog. There’s some juicy stuff in here for Web Developers that need testing. In particular, this is the first build with the CSS history changes. As part of our ongoing platform development work, we’re happy to announce the fourth pre-release of the […]
