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Category Archives: Firefox
Boom goes the dynamite
This weekend bug 758812 landed on mozilla-central. So begins a long, slow process of splitting up browser.js into smaller pieces. “What’s the deal with browser.js, anyway?” It’s big. Too damn big. For those unfamiliar with it, browser.js basically contains a … Continue reading
Posted in Firefox, PlanetFirefox, PlanetMozilla
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Unowned Reviews
I was feeling a little bit ornery today, and decided to take a look at unowned reviews in Bugzilla (aka patches with a review request “to the wind”, instead of requesting review from some specific person). After a bit of … Continue reading
Posted in Firefox, PlanetFirefox, PlanetMozilla
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Firefox flowers
I was at IKEA the other day (for the first time ever!), and juuust as I was about to make it out the door with minimal expense I saw their assortment of fake flowers, and knew what had to be … Continue reading
Posted in Firefox, Fuzzy Friends, PlanetFirefox, PlanetMozilla
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Speaking of Community
In my last post I mentioned how super satisfying it is to be part of a community working together to make Firefox better. This morning someone new dropped into #fx-team on IRC, asking about a reproducible problem and how to … Continue reading
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Community participation
(First, let me note that there will be no flame-farting robots in this post.) Now that’s out of the way, let me refer you to this post by Notch, creator of the wildly-successful indy game Minecraft. Someone tweeted me about … Continue reading
Posted in Firefox, PlanetFirefox, PlanetMozilla
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Seven Things
“Seven Things” is the hip new, err, thing that all the kids are doing these days. I got pinged, so here’s my 7. Hey, let’s do this David Letterman style. *drumroll* TOP SEVEN THINGS ABOUT JUSTIN DOLSKE! 7. Has a … Continue reading
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Browsing without Flash
I’ve been browsing with a Flash-less Firefox 4 for the past week. I just upgraded to a new laptop, and rather than install Flash (and Flashblock :-) right away, I figured I’d try to go without for a while to … Continue reading
Posted in Firefox, PlanetMozilla
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Firefox is made of Lego
I don’t remember exactly how it began. Six months ago, something got me thinking about making a Lego mosaic. Maybe it was an example of one on Reddit, or just inspiration from popular 8-bit “pixel art”. But the end result … Continue reading
Posted in Firefox, PlanetMozilla
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A little mouse hack
A major theme of the upcoming Firefox 4 release is improving speed and responsiveness, especially in the user interface. It’s easy to see issues where responsiveness is on the order of seconds (like waiting for an update to apply, or … Continue reading
Posted in Firefox, PlanetFirefox, PlanetMozilla
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Status update
One of these things I did not actually work on: JavaScript / js-ctypes implementation of WeaveCrypto Migration and replacement of localstore.rdf with a .json backing store Rickrolling Fligtar’s new dashboard Tab-modal dialogs proof-of-concept Fix multiple master-password dialogs with session restore … Continue reading
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