You can find my new blog on github. Still rough around the edges, but I’m planning to improve this as I go.| Il y a du thé renversé au bord de la table
One of these days, using the Cloud of OpaqueCompany ™, I will be able to set the colour of my lightbulbs by talking to my TV. Somewhere along the way, my house will become a little bit more energy hungry and a little bit more dependent on the Cloud of OpaqueCompany(tm) . That’s the promise […]| Il y a du thé renversé au bord de la table
Comme toute la France, j’essaye encore de comprendre ce qui s’est passé le 13 novembre. Non pas qu’il s’agisse d’une réelle surprise, mais quand même. Contrairement à quelques charlatans à la mode, je ne prétendrai pas avoir réussi à comprendre, mais voici quelques notes que j’ai prises au fur et à mesure de mes lectures […]| Il y a du thé renversé au bord de la table
In part 1, we discussed the design of time measurement within the Firefox Performance Monitor. Despite the intuition, the Performance Monitor had neither the same set of objectives as the Gecko Profiler, nor the same set of constraints, and we ended up picking a design that was not a sampling profiler. In particular, instead of […]| Il y a du thé renversé au bord de la table
For a few versions, Firefox Nightly has been monitoring the performance of add-ons, thanks to the Performance Stats API. While we are waiting for the greenlight to let it graduate to Firefox Aurora, as well as investigating a few lingering false-positives, and while v2 is approaching steadily, it is time for a brain dump on […]| Il y a du thé renversé au bord de la table
School year 2014-2015 is ending. It’s time for a brief report. Session Restore As I announced last year, I am mostly inactive on Session Restore these days. However, I am quite happy to have landed « Bug 883609 – Make Backups Useful ». This has considerably improved the resilience of Session Restore against a variety […]| Il y a du thé renversé au bord de la table
A long time ago, XUL was an extraordinary component of Firefox. It meant that front-end and add-on developers could deliver user interfaces in a single, mostly-declarative, language, and see them adapt automatically to the look and feel of each OS. Ten years later, XUL has become a burden: most of its features have been ported […]| Il y a du thé renversé au bord de la table
Gerv’s recent post on the Jeeves Test got me thinking of the Firefox of my dreams. So I decided to write down a few ideas on how I would like to experience the web. Today: Identities. Let me emphasise that the features described in this blog post do not exist. Sacha has a Facebook account, […]| Il y a du thé renversé au bord de la table
Gerv’s recent post on the Jeeves Test got me thinking of the Firefox of my dreams. So I decided to write down a few ideas on how I would like to experience the web. Today: Beyond Bookmarks. Let me …| Il y a du thé renversé au bord de la table
I remember a time, not so very long ago, when Gecko powered 4 or 5 non-Mozilla browsers, some of them on exotic platforms, as well as GPS devices, wysiwyg editors, geographic platforms, email clien…| Il y a du thé renversé au bord de la table
