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Are we small yet? 12 Apr 2012 | 08:32 am
Lately, Asa Dotzler posted to dev.apps.firefox regarding the download size of Firefox: “This evening I noticed that my full win32 mar update for Firefox was 21MB. That caused me to look at what our f...
One year at Mozilla 10 Apr 2012 | 10:40 am
You may already know the story of how I became a Firefox contributor. Back in early April of 2011, having volunteered full-time for three months (a rather short time compared to other core contributor...
Fighting DocShell and DOMWindow leaks 28 Feb 2012 | 10:14 am
In my post Leak hunting in browser-chrome mochitests I wrote about the measures we were considering to prevent regressing efforts to get rid of leaks in Firefox. Now that bug 683953 has landed we fina...
Help us test the New Tab Page! 11 Feb 2012 | 03:02 am
Over the last weeks we worked hard on getting the New Tab Page into Firefox. It’s not quite ready yet but we need your help testing it. We enabled it by default on Nightly and decided to give it a wee...
How I became a Firefox contributor 20 Jan 2012 | 04:23 am
December 2009. I’ve been a freelancer for quite some time now and decided to dedicate some weeks to something that always fascinated me: contributing to a big open source project. I started some small...
Firefox Add-on: WebSockets for IRCCloud 8 Dec 2011 | 01:36 am
If you don’t know IRCCloud, check it out. It’s become a very important tool for my every day work and I really don’t want to miss it. The one thing I never liked about it is that is currently uses a F...
Firefox Add-on: Facebook Auto-Logout 29 Oct 2011 | 10:37 pm
While talking to a friend of mine recently I got to know that he really dislikes that Facebook hides the Logout link in a sub-menu. He told me that he even uses a separate browser only for Facebook be...
Leak hunting in browser-chrome mochitests 10 Sep 2011 | 08:47 am
Some weeks (even months) ago Dão Gottwald started the hunt for leaked DOMWindows and DocShells while running our browser-chrome mochitest suite (see bug 658738). That means that there are some expensi...
Firefox Electrolysis 101 (part 1) 11 Aug 2011 | 07:55 am
You probably have all heard of this weird new thing called Electrolysis (a.k.a. e10s). Basically it’s all about running the browser UI and its tabs in separated processes. I recently rewrote a part of...
7 things (you may not know) about me 5 Aug 2011 | 01:53 am
My name is Tim Taubert (ttaubert on IRC and Twitter). I work as a Firefox Engineer for Mozilla, based in Berlin, Germany. Here are the rules for this particular meme: Link to your original tagger(s)...
