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Category Archives: PlanetMozilla
Handy trick
If you’re involved with developing on Mozilla, odds are you’ve got at least one or two (dozen? :) profiles for testing. Some used regularly, some created-and-forgotten for one-off testing, some you’ve forgotten what they’re for. And you probably jump through … Continue reading
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Observations from a Comcast outage.
I use a Comcast cable modem at home… I’ve been satisfied with the service; it’s fast enough for my needs and is generally dependable (brief glitches happen once in a while, which quickly fix themselves). However, for the past two … Continue reading
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Be prepared.
How I plan to survive next week’s MoCo all-hands meeting: 3 liters (aka a double magnum or jeroboam) of Stone Brewing’s Double Bastard Ale. Mmmm, I can’t wait. Team Firefox will drink well!
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Mega status update
I’m terrible at remembering to send out regular status updates, so here’s a belated list of things I’ve been up to recently in Firefox-land… * CrashKill. We’ve been making a big push to reduce Firefox crashes. I’ve largely been working … Continue reading
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Sneaky software installs
The Mozilla Plugin Check page was released today, so I loaded it up to see the latest changes. “Looks good,” I thought, and skimmed the list of plugins it displayed for me. Quicktime, Silverlight, Flash, and… Woah, wait. Silverlight? On … Continue reading
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Making progress
If you’re running nightly builds of trunk or Firefox 3.6, you may notice a smoother progress bar while installing the nightly updates… The old progress bar behavior had always seemed a bit odd to me — it would do nothing … Continue reading
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Is the tree REALLY green?
While sheriffing yesterday, I was a bit confused when dbaron asked if I was looking into all the orange. The tree (http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/Firefox/) looked mostly green, except for a handful of earlier Talos oranges. So, yadda yadda, it turns out that … Continue reading
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Experimenting with build times
I got a new Windows desktop last week, and was curious if enabling disk compression would have any effect on build times… The theory being that source code compresses well (binaries too, to a lesser degree), so less disk IO … Continue reading
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Ahoy, mateys!
Yarrr! Talk Like A Pirate Day be comin’ up. Ye sprogs that been usin’ isthetreegreen.com for tinderbox status should join the rest of us gentlemen ‘o fortune at me new site, bethetreegreen.com. It even be usin’ a pirate CSS @font-face! … Continue reading
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Device orientation
Doug just posted about the device orientation support he recently landed. Sitting here with my MacBook Pro, I just had to play with it — resulting in this little demo. Orientation + CSS Transforms FTW!
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