Category Archives: Programming

Improving DNS Performance in Firefox for Android

Posted on December 18, 2011 by

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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Firefox 4 for Mac OS X: Under the Hood

Posted on November 10, 2010 by

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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Building 32-bit Firefox on Mac OS X 10.6

Posted on August 27, 2009 by

Building 32-bit Firefox for Mac OS X 10.6 is a little trickier than building on 10.5. This post will explain how to do it. Assume everything I don’t mention is the same as on 10.5. First, installing mercurial via MacPorts … Continue reading →

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Status Update: Gecko/Firefox for 64-bit Mac OS X

Posted on August 27, 2009 by

Since Mac OS X 10.6 is coming out tomorrow I thought I’d give an update on 64-bit Gecko for Mac OS X. Progress is tracked on Mozilla bug 468509. We’re very close to having running builds. We still need to … Continue reading →

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Firefox for Mac OS X and Filesystem-related System Calls

Posted on June 24, 2009 by

About a year ago I was looking at our Mac OS X XPCOM local file implementation in Gecko and I noticed that it is pretty inefficient in terms of the number of system calls it makes for some common operations. … Continue reading →

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Postbox Beta is Public

Posted on February 10, 2009 by

Check it out! Created by Mozilla developers Scott MacGregor and Seth Spitzer, among others. http://www.postbox-inc.com/

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Writing an NPAPI plugin for Mac OS X

Posted on October 24, 2008 by

Recently I have been doing some work to make life easier for NPAPI plugin developers. As part of that effort I started to revive our NPAPI SDK and rewrite some of our sample code. Today I’m going to explain how … Continue reading →

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Mozilla talk at Indy Hall, Philadelphia, PA, 9/17/2008

Posted on September 11, 2008 by

I’ll be giving a talk about the Mozilla project at Independents Hall in Philadelphia on Wednesday, September 17th, at 6:30 PM. The talk will include an overview of Mozilla’s software development process and our organization. Independents Hall is located at … Continue reading →

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NPAPI Plugin Bugs, Accessibility

Posted on September 11, 2008 by

I want to talk a little bit about Mozilla NPAPI plugin bugs 78414 and 93149. I’m surprised by the fact that more people don’t complain about them given how irritating they are, particularly on Linux and Windows. We have an … Continue reading →

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My Experience with OpenSolaris (NV build 82)

Posted on February 22, 2008 by

I have been using OpenSolaris instead of Ubuntu on my IBM T43 laptop over the past month. I use that machine to debug gtk2 Firefox and to browse and write email while I’m sitting in my living room. Most of … Continue reading →

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