Re: SpiderMonkey Newsletter #1

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 7:08 PM Jan de Mooij wrote: > (This newsletter is also available on our blog > .) > Does this mean http://blog.mozilla.org/javascript will not be used anymore? Kind regards, Dirkjan

Re: Intent to remove: Fennec

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 10:51 PM wrote: > As a happy Fennec end user with no direct involvement with Mozilla, I'm > decidedly unhappy about the direction Mozilla seems to be going here. I > don't expect this complaint to have any effect on plans, but FYI. > Have you actually tried Fenix

Re: ThunderBird Development Environement

I'm afraid this is the wrong mailing list for Thunderbird development support. Have a look here: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/get-involved/ (Mailing lists are at the bottom.) Kind regards, Dirkjan On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 1:50 PM muhammed ismail wrote: > Could you please any one give me

Re: Intent to Ship: Show an indicator for insecure HTTP in the URL bar

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 20:12 Johann Hofmann wrote: > I tried embedding it in my email but email is apparently complicated, so I > also attached it to the bug: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1562881#c8 > > Thanks for letting me know :) > Thanks! >

Re: Intent to Ship: Show an indicator for insecure HTTP in the URL bar

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 19:52 Johann Hofmann wrote: > The bug where this change will be made is bug 1562881 > . Is there a screenshot showing how it will change? I looked at the bug but didn't see anything there.

Re: Fennec moving to extended support

On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 3:11 AM Ryan VanderMeulen wrote: > If you have any questions about this plan, don’t hesitate to reach out and > I will do my best to follow up. Also, a more detailed project plan is > available at the link below: > As a nightly Fennec user, I'd much rather start running

Re: Duplicate dependency policy for Rust in mozilla-central?

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 15:39 Andreas Tolfsen wrote: > However, I want to talk a little bit about _why_ we see so many > duplicate crates and what causes it. It is my experience that far > too many dependencies are defined on exact version numbers, e.g. > "log = 0.3.9", which effectively forces

Re: Rust version required to build Firefox ESR versions

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 3:44 PM Nathan Froyd wrote: > Given Rust's compatibility guarantees, you may be able to build ESR > with later Rust releases, but your best bet is using the specific Rust > version that we're using. > A related question: is there some place where I can follow along with

Re: Phabricator/Lando update, November 2017

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Masatoshi Kimura wrote: > I went to the 2FA preference on BMO. For me, the only authentication > option was TOTP that requires a smartphone. I do not have a smartphone > like Mark. > TOTP doesn't require a smartphone at all, even though that

Re: Browser Architecture Newsletter 5

Hi, The coherent thinking and communication about Browser Architecture is a really good change from before, thanks for that. On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 9:47 PM, Dave Townsend wrote: > We’ll be meeting to talk in more detail about the roadmap, the present, > and the future

Re: Changes to tab min-width

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 7:38 AM, wrote: > 57 is unusable for me..I keep 35-50 tabs open at any given time and I used > Custom Tab Width legacy extension to prevent scrolling. I CANNOT stand > scrolling thru tabs. I don't need to read the tab- I KNOW where they are. > It

Re: Changes to tab min-width

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 10:36 PM, Jeff Griffiths wrote: > 1. do you prefer the existing behaviour or the new behaviour? > 2. if you prefer a value for this pref different than 50 or 100, what > is it? Why? > Like others, I really like ~75 pixels. This allows me to see the

Re: JSBC: JavaScript Start-up Bytecode Cache

On Jun 13, 2017 11:55, "Nicolas B. Pierron" wrote: The JavaScript Start-up Bytecode Cache⁰ is a project which aims at reducing the page load time by recording the bytecode generated during the last visits and by-pass the JavaScript parser. So this is about

Re: Intent to disable service workers and push in 52 ESR

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Ben Kelly wrote: > Last I checked we do this all the time for new and potentially unstable > things. For example, AFAIK we do not enable e10s on ESR. I have not heard > if that will change for 52 ESR. I would expect not, though, since we are

Re: Intent to disable service workers and push in 52 ESR

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 4:49 PM, Ben Kelly wrote: > While things have stabilized since then we are in process of making a major > architectural change in order to support multiple content processes > (multi-e10s). This will make it very difficult to uplift fixes. Once the >

Re: What is the big picture view of where the Mozilla/Firefox platform is going?

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Bobby Holley wrote: > My 1000-ft take on big-picture direction: > * Platform wants to pivot from implementing Platform things in C++ (which > is prone to memory hazards) and JS (which is weakly typed, has runtime > overhead, and various

Re: Nightly Only Containers Feature

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Tanvi Vyas wrote: > If this capability interests you, please try out the feature and provide us > with feedback[1]. We want to ensure that the OriginAttributes What's the proper Bugzilla component for bugs/feature requests related to this? I

Re: What is "Process Type = content" in "mozilla crash reports"?

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 11:28 PM, Tobias B. Besemer wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE2 Hi Tobias, I applaud your enthusiasm in wanting to contribute to this effort. However, in doing so, you've

Re: Decreasing quality?

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Till Schneidereit t...@tillschneidereit.net wrote: That seems likely, yes. Being responsible for this particular regression, I can say that neither is it at all related to the other bugs mentioned, nor can it reasonably be interpreted as a sign of decreasing

Re: Decreasing quality?

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Mike Hoye mh...@mozilla.com wrote: For what it's worth, living on Nightly + e10s + a multiscreen setup has been pretty hard on the soul for a couple of months now, but I don't think that's a sign of decreasing attention to quality or detail. That's just the

Decreasing quality?

Hi all, I have an anecdote, and was wondering if others can corroborate: it seems to me that Nightly's quality has been getting worse recently (this is on latest OS X, rMBP). I'm specifically talking about the past two to three weeks, where I was on holiday and as such spent less time in Firefox

Re: Busy indicator API

On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote: Is there a reason we shouldn't expose a hook for this? On the one hand, this seems really useful. On the other hand, I'm pretty worried about the UX implications here. I wouldn't want a dozen flashing/spinning/moving

Re: Voting in BMO

On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Mark Côté mc...@mozilla.com wrote: To that end, I'd like to consider the voting feature. While it is enabled on a quite a few products, anecdotally I have heard many times that it isn't actually useful, that is, votes aren't really being used to prioritize

Re: Project Silk on Desktop

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Mike Conley mcon...@mozilla.com wrote: Perhaps its worth talking to comms to get their input on whether or not it's a good time. But I have to agree with Jared and Mike - I think showing progress, especially on the part of performance (perceived or not) can

Re: Permission UI

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:40 PM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote: I'd like to ask that we start investigating how to best present these to the user, including their persistence and implications. As well as strongly considering updating about:preferences to reveal how much we store for

Re: after NPAPI ?

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:20 AM, rayna...@gmail.com wrote: My plugin is a link between web page and sound processing. I record the voice, apply some math, and inject in real time in the headset. It's a like a guitar effect but for the voice. Do you know how I could interface C++ and Web?

Re: after NPAPI ?

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:28 PM, rayna...@gmail.com wrote: If I read correctly, asm.js execute code in a sandbox. I don't think a sandbox let me access to the wasapi drivers of the soundcard. Why do you need to access those drivers/what are you using them for? Cheers, Dirkjan

Re: e10s is now enabled by default for Nightly!

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Gijs Kruitbosch gijskruitbo...@gmail.com wrote: Right, it's that last part that is very much not the case for me. I looked for a bug for a while and decided to just file one: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1095407 My experience upgrading to

Re: Git - Hg workflows?

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com wrote: In the current world, there are enough hg and git users that I think Mozilla should consider supporting both as first class citizens. The proper way to do that would be deploying a git push server which eliminates

Re: Intent to implement: Disabling auto-play videos on mobile networks/devices?

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Nick Alexander nalexan...@mozilla.com wrote: In general, I'm in favour of not autoplaying at all on mobile devices. Me too! Anecdotal: recently I woke up my wife when I was trying to overcome sleeplessness by browsing my phone a little bit (a questionable method

Re: Depending on libnotify

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 1:41 PM, David Rajchenbach-Teller dtel...@mozilla.com wrote: Which library do you suggest? Take a look at watchman: https://github.com/facebook/watchman Cheers, Dirkjan ___ dev-platform mailing list

Re: What are the most important new APIs to document in Q3/Q4?

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:40 PM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com wrote: I can think of EME, the Mobile ID API, and WebCrypto which are missing from this list off the top of my head. Your mention of EME made me think of MediaSource, which I actually think might be more important? Tracker

Web Replay

This may be a stupid question, but I just saw this on the webkit mailing list: a way to capture network/user input events (with negligible overhead) for debugging purposes. https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2014-January/026062.html I didn't find any bugs about this; it seems

Re: Can we teach the updater to download and install multiple partial updates?

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 4:17 AM, Geoff Lankow ge...@darktrojan.net wrote: Has this been discussed before? If so, what was the outcome? Are there bugs filed? I didn't find any but I don't really know what to search for. There's also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353804, which I

Re: java click to run problem on Firefox

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone here played around with the toolchain I describe above? I have looked into this briefly. There is a java compiler that targets llvm somewhere which I can't find a link to right now, but it's unmaintained

Re: Mac OSX 10.7+ lion style scroll bars landed on m-i

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Stephen Pohl sp...@mozilla.com wrote: This is a quick heads up that Mac OSX 10.7+ lion style scroll bars (bug 636564) have landed on mozilla-inbound with https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/0c513ba74137. Once merged to mozilla-central expect

Re: Proposal for an inbound2 branch

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com wrote: In git, the only way to have something in your history is for it to be reachable by a ref (for example, a branch name). When you convert an hg repo with a multi-headed branch to git, you can only choose to represent

Re: Moz2D Repository Creation

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Bas Schouten bschou...@mozilla.com wrote: As the next step in moving towards these goals and optimally supporting them the proposal is to move Moz2D into its own repository. We would use hg subrepos for this purpose, you can read more about this here

Re: reproducing bug 808466

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.org wrote: Bug 808466 is about changes in selection sometimes not being rendered in a timely manner. Basically you select something and the selection doesn't show up immediately. It will usually show up after some delay. I

Re: UA string: Touch or Tablet again

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Gervase Markham g...@mozilla.org wrote: Can we quickly revisit the question of whether to have one of Touch or Tablet in our UA string under some circumstances? We need to work out how Windows 8 Metro fits into our plans (bug 787786), plus the new pile of

Re: Minimum Required Python Version

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Paul ADENOT p...@paul.cx wrote: The next Ubuntu release will include Python 3, and not Python 2.x (on a default install). However, as you note, Python 2.7 will be available as a separate package. I just wanted to mention that, considering the number of people