Category Archives: PlanetFirefox

Unicorns and Mozilla

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Justin Dolske

Let’s file this under “reasons I love working at Mozilla”. Because, well, that’s true and I can’t think of a better place for it! Months ago (months!), I ran across an amazing, amazing thing for “Unicorn Poop Cookies”. I’ve had … Continue reading →

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Boom goes the dynamite

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Justin Dolske

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 →

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Too long for Twitter

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Justin Dolske

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue … Continue reading →

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Unowned Reviews

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Justin Dolske

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 →

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Firefox flowers

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Justin Dolske

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 →

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Speaking of Community

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Justin Dolske

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

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Justin Dolske

(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 →

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Seven Things

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Justin Dolske

“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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A little mouse hack

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Justin Dolske

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 →

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Status update

Posted on April 25, 2010 by Justin Dolske

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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