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Open Engineering 23 Jan 2013 | 04:46 am
Mozilla builds software very differently than any other company, because, well, we are not a company. Mozilla is an open-source project backed by a not-for-profit foundation for the public benefit. Fo...
Why the Web is going to win Mobile 9 Jan 2013 | 06:09 am
On July 25, 2011 Chris Jones and I, with help from Mike Shaver and Brendan Eich, for the first time publicly talked about our vision to build a smartphone based on the Web. The announcement didn’t com...
Boot 2 Gecko @ JSConf US 2012 1 Apr 2012 | 10:35 pm
The Boot 2 Gecko team is attending JSConf US 2012, including B2G’s tech lead Chris Jones and the Gaia (Phone UX) lead Vivien Nicolas. We have a bunch of devices with us, so flag us down if you have an...
Mozilla Project vs Mozilla Corporation 13 Mar 2012 | 05:38 pm
We went through a lengthy thread on hardware-decoding and H.264 on dev-platform today. It was heated but mostly civil. We are all pretty passionate about open standards, so an intense debate was to be...
Boot 2 Gecko at Mobile World Congress 2012 22 Feb 2012 | 09:39 pm
Mozilla and the Boot 2 Gecko team are attending Mobile World Congress 2012. Visit us at our booth (7B96) in Hall 7.
pdf.js: Rendering PDF with HTML5 and JavaScript 16 Jun 2011 | 02:21 pm
Update: I updated the links again. pdf.js has moved to a new location on github. Why? While traveling to the Firefox 4 launch parties in Seoul and Taipei all the way from California, we killed a lot...
User data in the cloud: Lessons from the Sony debacle 2 May 2011 | 07:07 pm
Two weeks ago our friends at Sony managed to get personal information of 70 million users stolen from them. I got one of the notification emails a couple days ago myself (I must have signed up for the...
Compartments 14 Oct 2010 | 12:26 pm
Heap We have implemented a major change to the way Firefox manages JavaScript objects. JavaScript objects include script-instantiated objects such as Arrays or Date objects, but also include JavaScri...
Narcissus/Zaphod JavaScript Research VM for Firefox 4 18 Sep 2010 | 06:58 am
Zaphod Our research intern Tom Austin released the first version of the Narcissus JavaScript Virtual Machine for Firefox 4. Narcissus is a JavaScript virtual machine written in JavaScript. Tom’s Fire...
TraceMonkey vs V8 3 Sep 2008 | 09:09 pm
Update: I got a lot of comments on my post. I am trying to answer them as they come in, so check back after you leave a comment. Brendan Eich and Mike Shaver have posted an update on our progress on ...
