Taras’ Blog

After I wrote prcheck, I was surprised by the errors it found. I expected to find lots of cases of prbool variables having integers assigned into them. Indeed there were some of those, but the most frequent offenders were things like NS_ENSURE_SUCCESS(rv,rv); in methods with a PRBool return value. In this case (and many similar  [...]

A couple of months ago Stuart casually asked me to investigate Fennec performance for moving about a page, zooming and loading pages in general. Beta 1 contains the result of that: There is little to no hardware graphics acceleration on mobile arm device. That combined with low memory bandwidth results in painfully slow screen updates [...]