A incredible performance optimisation for WebAssembly in Firefox!

(via https://korben.info/firefox-accelere-execution-webassembly-75-fois.html)

For example, the compilation time of the WebAssembly module used by Adobe Photoshop online was reduced from 4 minutes to just 14 seconds. Similarly, a test module for the JetStream 2 benchmark saw its compilation time reduced from 2.8 seconds to 0.2 seconds.

Tips du jour: dans Firefox, il y a le raccourci clavier «'» (quote simple, touche 4 du clavier). Ça ouvre un menu de recherche rapide de lien dans la page. On tape du texte, ça cherche les liens qui contiennent ce libellé, et il suffit de valider pour suivre le lien. Ça permet une navigation rapide sans quitter le clavier des mains !

Ok ok

The UI is not directly tested but each element has a unique ID.
We can then check the state of each element to ensure they are correct.

During the Pwn2Own competition. From the outside, this competition seems crazy: so much vulnerabilities are found.

So it seems that the word's out, there will be layoffs at Mozilla. What is maddening about this is that the company is in a very good spot financially speaking. Just check the last public audited financial statement: assets.mozilla.net/annualrepor

Expenses have been significantly lower than income and the company has significant assets that could cover Firefox development expenses for years.

Also Mozilla Corporation has no investors to cater to, it doesn't pay dividends to anybody, nobody gets a bonus for this. It makes absolutely no sense.

The big issue here is, Desktop browsers are irrelevant. Same for people that may read this is on Mastodon.

The vast majority of browser activity is coming from young people (12-25), which use their mobile device for browsing. And, believe it or not, these folks click way more content in a minute than I do.

Still, it would be nice to have 100% FF users on my blog, at least if they are using Linux. But even there it is 50/50.

More and more of the traffic comes from mobiles and the young are the majority of this browsing activity. It is different for companies though!

These bugs highlight the risk of unknown unknowns, i.e. stability issues in our stability monitoring itself that we are blind to

Avec le pass culture de la BCN (en lien avec https://shaarli.lyokolux.space/?XsLbsA), il est possible de consulter le contenu des journaux avec cette extension.

This new release is quite neat.

I am also anxious about this situation

Smoothen the fork of Firefox