Reminder - no plan survives breakfast.
- Feel free to send pull requests to the repo!
- Here’s a contributing guide!
- Here’s the guide for creating pull requests that smurfd used and recommends!
Today
- Welcome to today's spOOooOOooOoky episode at a spOoooOooOoky alternative time!
- Celebrating 20 Years of Firefox!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mz8xJW4CNE
- Wireframes:
browser.history.collectWireframes - Preferences redesign: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/firefox-settings-design-share-your-input/m-p/66254
browser.tabs.groups.enabled
- Wireframes:
- Thunderbird for Android: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/thunderbird-for-android-8-0-takes-flight/
- Q: I saw the promotion of an upcoming Firefox Tab Groups feature, was hoping you (and maybe Danny Colin if he is watching the stream) could advise how/whether this will play nicely with Multi-Account Containers as I imagine there would be a lot of UI/UX overlap between them?
- Let's quickly look at this stuff
- It doesn't look like the existing Tab Groups UI work does anything special with containers
- CustomizableUI
Chat
- Join us in the Livehacking room on Mozilla’s Matrix instance! Here’s documentation on how to join. I’m only sorta monitoring the Twitch chat. A bot will try to bridge Matrix and Twitch (joc-bridgebot).
Links
- Felicia Bacon
- nbp hacks on the SpiderMonkey JS engine
- Alessandro Castellani has been streaming himself livehacking on Thunderbird
- emilio hacks on Firefox!
- Compiler Compiler - watch a Mozilla engineer hack on the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine!
- How mconley uses Mercurial
- Andreas Kling hacks on a custom browser engine for a hand-rolled OS called SerenityOS
- The Joy of Coding: Community-Run Episode guide
- Feel free to send pull requests to the repo!
- Here’s the guide for creating pull requests that smurfd used and recommends!
- I've been mirroring the episodes to YouTube
- Code Therapy with Danny O’Brien
- Watch a developer put together a Windows game from scratch (no third-part engines) - really great explanations: https://handmadehero.org/
- /r/WatchPeopleCode for more livehacking!
Glossary
- BHR - “Background Hang Reporter”, a thing that records information about when Firefox performs poorly and sends it over Telemetry
- e10s ("ee ten ESS") - short for Electrolysis, which is the multi-process Firefox project
- CPOW ("ka-POW" or sometimes "SEE-pow") = Cross-Process Object Wrapper. See this blog post.
- Deserialize - "turn a serialized object back into the complex object”
- Serialize - "turn a complex object into something that can be represented as primitives, like strings, integers, etc
- Regression - something that made behaviour worse rather than better. Regress means to “go backward”, more or less.
- l10n - localization
- a11y - accessibility
- i18n - internationalization
- k8s - kubernetes
Feedback
- @mconley@mozilla.social on Mastodon
- @mike_conley on Twitter
- You can chat with me on Matrix at @mconley:mozilla.org
- mikeconley.ca/blog
- mconley at mozilla dot com