joshmoz

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by joshmoz 13y ago
Release notes include a link to a list of new contributors and their contributions. Never noticed that before. https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2014/02/03/firefox-27-new... Looked up some past numbers:
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Firefox 27 Released(mozilla.org)
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by joshmoz 13y ago
Firefox dev here. Sorry to hear you're having issues with Firefox. This has not been my experience, would love to know more specifics about apps that don't work in Firefox. Would be hugely helpful if you could file a bug (bugzilla
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by joshmoz 13y ago
Relevant reading... The author(s) of libjpeg-turbo on IJG priorities: http://www.libjpeg-turbo.org/About/Jpeg-9
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by joshmoz 13y ago
You guys (parent & parent) should realize you don't have nearly enough information to support your conclusions. You need to travel a lot more to generalize like that. You come off as jaded know-it-alls who think romantic viewpoints
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by joshmoz 13y ago
Study author here. For Y-SSIM and IW-SSIM we convert the images to grayscale (MATLAB 'rgb2gray') before running the scoring algorithms. We aren't running the algorithms on luma planes. See published code and methodology.
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by joshmoz 13y ago
The Rust language is being designed to be ideal for use in building a Web rendering engine. Mozilla's rust-based engine experiment is called Servo: https://github.com/mozilla/servo
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by joshmoz 13y ago
I worked on Camino quite a bit in the early 2000s, it was a great experience. It's funny to think that we really felt we were contributing greatly to the appeal of Mac OS X by providing the kind of browsing experience Apple should have prov
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by joshmoz 14y ago
Google pays to ship FoxIt's closed-source PDF engine with Chrome.
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by joshmoz 14y ago
Adobe was not paying Mozilla for anything like that. Chrome simply includes a paid closed-source product (FoxIt, iirc). This was and is not an option for Mozilla for multiple reasons. It took Mozilla a while to get here, which is unfortunat
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by joshmoz 14y ago
Firefox, Chrome, and Opera support SPDY. Apache, nginx, and Node.js support it. Large Google sites support SPDY (gmail), so does Twitter, and Facebook is working on it ( http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2012JulSep/... ). I d
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The Shumway Open SWF Runtime Project(blog.mozilla.org)
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by joshmoz 14y ago
At this point we are unlikely to switch to leveldb, work on that has stopped. During integration and testing for leveldb we made a lot of progress on sqlite optimzation and the leveldb advantage diminished significantly, if not disappeared.
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by joshmoz 14y ago
Not any time soon. However, presumably if/when our rust-based rendering engine is ready we'll use it for the Firefox OS.
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by joshmoz 14y ago
Why don't you help with Servo? We're always happy to have new hackers helping out.
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by joshmoz 14y ago
I'm short on time now and typing on my phone but I own Mozilla's Mac OS X code and would be happy to help you get involved. Email me at josh at mozilla dot com.
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Firefox vs. Chrome SPDY/3 Performance Test(japhr.blogspot.com)
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Tom's Hardware Web Browser Grand Prix VIII(tomshardware.com)
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Mozilla Public License (MPL) Version 2.0 Released(mpl.mozilla.org)
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by joshmoz 15y ago
The first answer that comes to mind is that our products are open source, and nothing gets our attention like fixing real bugs in our products. You can start with easy ones and learn at your own pace, with the help of other Mozilla develope
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by joshmoz 15y ago
Mozilla Corporation. We're global, we're hiring, we offer four weeks PTO plus your birthday. http://www.mozilla.org/careers
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by joshmoz 15y ago
We've been double checking bug reports and doing extra testing to make sure that Firefox is ready for World IPv6 day. If you find any problems with Firefox while testing IPv6 (or ever, really) please let us know at "bugzilla.mozilla.org"!