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How Browsers Work

Introduction The browsers we will talk about The browser's main functionality The browser's high level structure Communication_between the components The rendering engine Rendering engines The main...

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What is SOPA and why should you care?

I have received a flood of emails today from people asking about what SOPA is and was surprised when I looked online and didn't see any places that explains why SOPA would be a very bad thing. The idea...

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What is it like to work as an engineer at Mozilla?

This question popped up on Quora recently. I have been working on the Developer Tools Team at Mozilla for over a year now and would love to let you all know what is it like. To see this from my...

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How well does your browser protect your privacy?

Having downsized my home a couple of times in the last year it is no understatement to say I have urgent space issues. I have power tools, large kitchen devices and surplus everything else. I looked...

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Firefox DevTools API

Hopefully, most of you are familiar with Firefox Developer Tools by now, if not then now is the time to get familiar! The DevTools Team recently met up in London to talk about, and generally hack on,...

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How to install Django on JustHost (and maybe other shared hosts)

If you search Google for "how to install Django on JustHost" you may be surprised to find tens of thousands of articles claiming that it can't be done and none claiming that it can. Well, it can and...

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Moving your Contacts and Calendar Away from Google

For the past few years I have used Google Contacts to store my contacts and Google Calendar to store my calendars. These services really are excellent, particularly because they allow me to keep my...

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The Application Cache is no longer a Douchebag

If you have ever used the application cache you will probably be familiar with how easy it is to break offline functionality and how difficult it is to work out why things are broken. With a large...

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Disable JavaScript option now available in Firefox Developer Tools

At the beginning of April Alex Limi decided that we should remove the Enable JavaScript checkbox from Firefox's preferences dialog. His reasoning was that clearing that checkbox breaks a huge amount of...

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Bugzilla Tips, Hacks and Etiquette

Even after a few years working for Mozilla I still occasionally come across a Bugzilla tip that I don't know about. This post is a attempt to gather Bugzilla tips from around the Internet whilst adding...

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Why it is awesome to work for Mozilla?

Since my post about what it is like to be a Firefox hacker lots of people have asked about why I chose to work for Mozilla. I had opportunities to work for Google or Facebook but I have always had a...

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The History of Firebug

When Joe Hewitt was seven years old his father wanted to become a computer programmer so he bought an IBM PCjr. Joe would often watch his father typing in programs from PC Magazine. He started learning...

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Debugging Thunderbird using Firefox Developer Tools

I recently discovered that it is possible to use Firefox Developer Tools with Thunderbird. Philipp Kewisch has done a fantastic job of his Google Summer of Code 2013 Project to bring Firefox Developer...

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Firefox Developer Tools Highlighter

When it comes to the Firefox Developer Tools Inspector one of our most common requests is that our highlighter should support box model highlighting. We are working on implementing this but before we...

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View DOM Events in Firefox Developer Tools

I recently realized that support for inspection of DOM events is very poor in pretty much all developer tools. Having seen Opera Dragonflies implementation some time ago I liked the way you could very...

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View jQuery and jQuery Live events in Firefox DevTools

A little while back we landed a feature that made it possible to interact with events from the markup panel of Firefox developer tools. A lot of people were excited about this but we soon realized that...

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Installing VPN from the Linux command line

To stop people snooping on what we are doing on the internet or when restrictive governments prevent people from accessing popular websites you can use a VPN to protect your privacy and allow you to...

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Running ESLint in Atom for Mozilla Development

Due to some recent changes in the way that we use eslint to check that our coding style linting Mozilla source code in Atom has been broken for a month or two. I have recently spent some time working...

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