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
- Q: https://www.firefox.com/en-GB/firefox/150.0/releasenotes
states "Backing up a profile to a file is now available to all Windows 10 and 11 users..."
but the linked page https://support.mozilla.org/kb/firefox-backup "Last updated: 1 week ago"
states "Note: The ability to create backup files is currently only available to users on Windows 10..."
however the functionality to create a backup file locally seems to work on Windows 11 with Firefox 150.
Could you please clarify which is correct, is the only outstanding functionality now adding this for macOS/Linux? - Q: "do you think i contribute code to firefox even if i never worked on a browser before and dont really do much low level coding?"
- https://codetribute.mozilla.org/
- https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/index.html
- https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/contributing_code.html
- Let's keep building out / creating tests for our DownloadsViewItem implementation
- FOR NEXT WEEK:
- Where are those spans going? Where is the progress going?!
- Build fluent migration for the strings we moved
- Fix button styling to match existing button behaviour
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
- Nathan Baggs
- 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!
- 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
- https://fosstodon.org/@mconley/ on Mastodon
- You can chat with me on Matrix at @mconley:mozilla.org
- mikeconley.ca/blog
- mconley at mozilla dot com