Category Archives: Mozilla

Exciting Stuff: Firefox 19′s Built-in PDF Viewer

Firefox 19′s built-in PDF viewer is pretty exciting — not just because Firefox (finally!) has a PDF viewer, but because it’s written in JavaScript. Why is that exciting? First, we’re always looking to extend the web platform’s capabilities. Writing a … Continue reading

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Mozilla Joining ISOC in Support of IETF Activities

Mozilla has been significantly increasing its participation in IETF working groups over the past couple of years. This has coincided with increasing investments in the networking layers of our software and the Web platform. Today we’re heavily involved in IETF … Continue reading

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Mozilla Removing Support for the ‘java’ and ‘Packages’ DOM Objects

We have removed direct access to Java from the DOM in Gecko. Specifically, we have removed support for the ‘java’ and ‘Packages’ DOM objects. These are not part of any web standards and we don’t believe they are good for … Continue reading

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IETF 83 (Paris), HTTP/2.0, and Encryption

I attended IETF 83 in Paris this past week with my fellow Mozilla networking team member Patrick McManus. This was my first IETF meeting, and it won’t be my last given how productive and enjoyable it was. Our primary goal … Continue reading

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Mozilla’s Networking Team in 2011

Mozilla created a networking team as part of the platform engineering group in April of 2011. There are nine of us now, spread out around the world, with me managing. We’re responsible for Gecko’s networking stack, including network protocol support, … Continue reading

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Improving DNS Performance in Firefox for Android

Mozilla has been working hard to improve Firefox on Android. The following is a guest post from Steve Workman of Mozilla’s networking team which describes an effort to improve DNS performance. – Josh It started with some crashes on Android … Continue reading

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Visiting the Mozilla Community in Indonesia

I visited Indonesia with fellow Mozilla engineers David Mandelin and David Anderson at the beginning of May. It was a great chance to explore a new place and get to know some of our Mozilla community members. After the 22-hour … Continue reading

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Firefox 4 for Mac OS X: Under the Hood

Firefox 4 will be an exciting release and we’ve made a number of improvements specific to Mac OS X. Users will benefit primarily in terms of speed, stability, and security. We’ve come a long way since Firefox 3 for Mac … Continue reading

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Goodbye iPhone, Hello Nexus One

I got an iPhone 3G two years ago and I loved it. It was fast, easy to use, and beautiful. Since then I’ve fallen out of love and every time it takes the phone 5-10 seconds to show a new … Continue reading

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Five Years with Mozilla

I started working for Mozilla in February of 2005, shortly before I graduated from college. I started full-time in June of 2005. Since then we’ve grown from around 20 employees, most of us in one room, to over 250. Firefox’s … Continue reading

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