State Partitioning is an interesting privacy feature shipping with Firefox 86. With State Partitioning, shared state such as cookies, localStorage, etc. will be partitioned (isolated) by the top-level website you’re visiting. In other words, every first party and its embedded third-party contexts will be put into a self-contained bucket. Applies to every embedded third-party resource …
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How to enable HTTP3 in Chrome / Firefox / Safari
Mattias recently tweeted that his website can now be served over HTTP/3 “even though no browser supports it yet”. While it’s true that no browser supports it out of the box right now, there are options to enable HTTP/3. Here’s how. 🧪 As with all experimental technolgy/features: things might break! Be warned! ~ Google Chrome …
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Tweet from the Firefox Address Bar by adding a Bookmark
In succession to Tweet from the Chrome Address Bar by adding a Custom Search Engine, you can also do this in Firefox. Simply define a bookmark (containing a %s wildcard) with a linked keyword and you’re good to go: Name: Compose Tweet Location: https://twitter.com/compose/tweet?text=%s Keyword: tweet You can now use the tweet keyword to start …
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Firefox 72: Individual CSS Transform Properties
New in Firefox 72 is the ability to individually define CSS Transform Properties. You can now separately define scale, rotate, and translate CSS properties, instead of having to chuff them all into one single transform property. The translate, rotate, and scale properties allow authors to specify simple transforms independently, in a way that maps to …
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Mozilla Hacks: Designing the Flexbox Inspector
With the upcoming release of Firefox 65 (due January 29tgh), its DevTools will sport a new shiny Flexbox Inspector. The new Flexbox Inspector, created by Firefox DevTools, helps developers understand the sizing, positioning, and nesting of Flexbox elements. Victoria Wang details how they UX challenges that came with this tool were tackled. Built on the …
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On “Secure Contexts” in Firefox, HTTPS for local development, and a potential nice gesture by Chrome
👋 This post also got published on Medium. If you like it, please give it some love a clap over there. Earlier today, in a post entitled Secure Contexts Everywhere, it was announced on the Mozilla Security Blog that Firefox from now on will only expose new features such as new CSS properties to secure …
Inside a super fast CSS Engine: Quantum CSS (aka Stylo)
Great writeup on how Firefox’s new CSS Engine “Quantum CSS” works. Also sports a clear and in-depth explanation of the rendering pipeline, with some nice illustrations to go along. You may have heard of Project Quantum… it’s a major rewrite of Firefox’s internals to make Firefox fast. We’re swapping in parts from our experimental browser, …
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Using Immutable Caching To Speed Up The Web
Firefox shipped with support for Cache-Control: Immutable: The benefits of immutable mean that when a page is refreshed, which is an extremely common social media scenario, elements that were previously marked immutable with an HTTP response header do not have to be revalidated with the server. No more 304‘s for those resources, because the browser …
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Date/Time Input Types coming to Firefox
Date/Time Input Types are coming to Firefox, and I must say they look quite good too (as a reference: here’s how Chrome implemented this): The implementation also looks familiar, doesn’t it? 😉 The date/timepickers are currently locked behind a flag in Nightly. Change dom.forms.datetime in about:config if you want to try them out already. Date/Time …
Google Chrome, Firefox Address Bar Spoofing Vulnerability
Turns out one single right-to-left character in a URL can make the omnibox (Address Bar) freak out, and render it wrongly: Placing neutral characters such as “/”, “ا” in filepath causes the URL to be flipped and displayed from Right To Left. In order for the URL to be spoofed the URL must begin with …
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