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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Firefox.html
Firefox.html is an experiment: trying to re-implement the Firefox UI in HTML. Firefox.html →
Debugging Chrome using the Firefox Debugger
Developing across multiple browsers and devices is the main issue developers have when building applications. Wouldn’t it be great to debug your app across desktop, Android, and iOS with one tool? We believe the Web is powerful enough to offer a Mobile Web development solution that meets these needs. Enter an experimental Firefox add-on called […]
WebIDE – In-browser editing for Firefox
WebIDE helps you create, edit, and test a new Web application right from your browser. It lets you install and test apps on Firefox OS devices and simulators and integrates the Firefox Developer Tools for seamless debugging and inspection across those devices. This is a first step towards debugging across various platforms and devices over […]
The Application Cache is no longer a Douchebag
A new command for the Firefox Command Line (part of the Developer Tools) named appcache to manipulate/inspect the appcache. As someone commented on the original post: Somebody has recently pointed out that the appcache is still a douchebag but at least Firefox now has a way to tell us why. The Application Cache is no […]