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What can you do when your browser is 7 times faster?
22 August 2008Andreas Gal, Brendan Eich, Dave Anderson, Mike Shaver, and a whole host of other super-smart folks at Mozilla have been working hard to bring a Trace-tree based Just-in-time compiler to Firefox. I was a little curious about what sort of things you could do with this new found speed - so I hacked [...]
Great performance improvements coming for Firefox 3.1
20 August 2008We know one of the things folks love about Firefox 3 is the huge performance improvements made over Firefox 2. We knew we could do a whole lot more - which is one of the reasons we decided to do a quick Firefox 3.1 release.
Boris Zbarsky landed support for querySelector[All] just before Firefox [...]
Building the world we want, not the one we have
8 August 2008Thanks to the hard work of Chris Double, Robert O’Callahan, Johnny Stenback, and many others the <video> and <audio> tags along with native support for Theora video and Vorbis audio are currently enabled in the Firefox nightly builds. This will ship in Firefox 3.1 Beta 1 coming later this year.
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New Adventures
28 July 2008I’m moving on from my role at Mozilla Corporation to head up the front-end and platform development at Facebook. I’ll be here for at least a few weeks after the summit so we’ll have plenty of time to catch-up before I go.
It really has been a singular honor to have been part of Mozilla and [...]
Where are we with Firefox 3?
9 June 2008Thanks to the hard and dedicated work of the Mozilla community Firefox 3 Release Candiate 2 (RC2) shipped last week in an unbelievable 48 languages! RC2 is 15th major milestone on the way to Firefox 3 final release:
At the beginning of 2007 we had approximately 25k daily users of the early FF3 builds, that number [...]