One of the biggest challenges for any software is to determine how changes impact user experience in the real world. Whether it’s the processing speed of video editing software or the smoothness of a browsing experience, there’s only so much you can tell from testing in a controlled lab environment. While local experiments can provide […]
Most developers spoil themselves with fun command line utilities to make their work easier and more efficient. One such command line helper allows developers to always show the git branch in the command line. How can you get the current branch? With this handy snippet: git branch –show-current It’s great to keep this snippet around […]
Visual Studio Code has taken the crown of most used text editor, at least in JavaScript spheres. VSCode is fast, feature-filled, and supports thousands of plugins to boost productivity. Developers can also tweak hundreds of settings to enrich functionality. One such feature is the autoSave feature. To autoSave files with VS Code, you can add […]
Protecting user privacy is a core element of Mozilla’s vision for the web and the internet at large. In pursuit of this vision, we’re pleased to announce new partnerships with Fastly and Divvi Up to deploy privacy-preserving technology in Firefox. Mozilla builds a number of tools that help people defend their privacy online, but the […]
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One of the best things that ever happened to t he user experience of the web has been web extensions. Browsers are powerful but extensions bring a new level of functionality. Whether it’s crypto wallets, media players, or other popular plugins, web extensions have become essential to every day tasks. Working on MetaMask, I am […]
Speedometer 3 is a cross-industry effort to build a modern browser benchmark rooted in real-world user experiences. Its goal is to focus browser engineering effort towards making the Web more smooth for actual users on actual pages. This is hard to do and most browser benchmarks don’t do it well, but we see it as […]
I work on the Firefox sync team at Mozilla. Four years ago, we wrote a blog post describing our strategy to ship cross-platform Rust components for syncing and storage on all our platforms. The vision was to consolidate the separate implementations of features like history, logins, and syncing that existed on Firefox Desktop, Android, and […]
Please create an employee account to be able to mark statistics as favorites. Then you can access your favorite statistics via the star in the header. Register now Currently, you are using a shared account. To use individual functions (e.g., mark statistics as favourites, set statistic alerts) please log in with your personal account. If […]
Please create an employee account to be able to mark statistics as favorites. Then you can access your favorite statistics via the star in the header. Register now Currently, you are using a shared account. To use individual functions (e.g., mark statistics as favourites, set statistic alerts) please log in with your personal account. If […]