Category Archives: Firefox

So, I finally got around to watching this video which has been been making the rounds as of late (not a Rickroll, I swear to god! WHY DOES NO ONE TRUST ME?! :-). I fired it up the 1080p version … Continue reading →

The URL shown here is making the rounds. WARNING: don’t visit this URL unless you’re prepared to have your browser crash (the screenshot is from a current trunk nightly, which survives the Flash crash due to Out Of Process Plugins … Continue reading →

Yesterday I landed bug 538910, which introduces some new UI for when a plugin crashes. This builds on top of the fantastic Out Of Process Plugins (OOPPs) work from the Electrolysis team, which allows the browser to keep running even … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →