Category Archives: PlanetFirefox

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 →

(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 →

“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 →

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 →

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 →

tl;dr: fa20ae35b8ac53b28dde4fc333aba21f :-) Up until now, Mozilla’s Weave add-on has been living with an awkward implementation detail: a binary component. When I wrote Weave’s current cryptographic component back in 2008, in order to use the crypto code that’s already in … Continue reading →

A bit of stuff I’ve been up to lately: CSS Transitions for videocontrols. Finally got around to landing this. There’s really no visible change, but it replaces and simplifies a whole bunch of Javascript-driven animation code. CSS Transitions are really … Continue reading →

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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 →