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Plugin Checker Launched
Today we launched a Plugin Checker to help people find and update their plugins. Why is this important to you? Crashes are the number one concern for Firefox users, and we are listening. At least 30% of all Firefox crashes are caused by third-party plugins. Many major security vulnerabilities exploit out of date plugins. Why is this important to... »
Graph Server Re-Write
Over the past few months the Graph Server team and I have been hard at work re-writing the back end for the Graph Server and it’s finally come to fruition. For those that don’t know, the Graph Server is used to display performance test data of Firefox builds reported by Talos. Our work initially started... »
The Curious Case of the Giant Scrollbar
Recently I fixed bug 439269 (”AMO theme has unnecessary scrollbar at the bottom”) and thought it was an interesting bug for a few reasons. To summarize the issue, for no apparent reason in right-to-left languages a really long scrollbar would appear at the bottom of the window. Even though there was a scrollbar, when you scrolled... »
