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Category Archives: PlanetMozilla
On analysts and reality
Saturday: “Piper Jaffray Senior Research Analyst, Gene Munster, on Saturday said he believes Apple sold between 600-700 thousand iPads on the first day.” Monday: “Apple announced this morning that they had sold over 300,000 iPads on the first day.”
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Fun hack of the week
I recently wrote an interesting solution to a problem, and thought I’d share… The Problem. I have multiple DOM nodes, scattered across multiple pages and windows, which I may want to modify in the future. Code already runs once per … Continue reading
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Not quite smooth as buttah…
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
Posted in Firefox, PlanetFirefox, PlanetMozilla
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No big whoop
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
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Crashed Plugin UI
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
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Colorize that build!
If you’ve ever built Mozilla from source or run the unit tests, you’ll know that doing so can generate a lot of console output. When errors happen, it can take a bit of scrolling to figure out exactly what failed, … Continue reading
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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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