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Eradicating Start Up Dialogs


I’m starting up a new project, which from the title is rather self describing. Firefox’s purpose is to let you access the Web, but it unfortunately often blocks users from accessing the Web until they have responded to some form of question. This is particularly ironic given the massive amounts of time and [...]

Feedback on Scrolling Changes for Windows


The acceleration based scrolling model on Windows has been landed in the nightly builds for a little over a week now, so I wanted to get a post up for people to provide feedback on how well they think the current implementation is working, now that everyone has had some time to acclimate to the [...]

What’s Next for the Perception of Performance?


The title isn’t a rhetorical question. Now that Margaret’s acceleration based scrolling model has landed for feedback, we are trying to figure out what perception of performance improvement we should target next.
You can check out the full list of ideas on the mozilla wiki. If you have ideas on other things we should [...]

Sure it’s Fast, But How Does it Handle?


From the Firefox 3.5 video by community member Vineel Reddy
Currently all the browser vendors are engaged in a pretty exciting race to see who can engineer the fastest Web browser. A lot of different aspects come into play when you are focusing on raw performance, including top speed (captured by a range of different [...]