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These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 5

Highlights

Contributor(s) of the Week

Project Updates

Content Handling

Electrolysis (e10s)

  • More patches have landed which should, in theory, help with tab spinners. At the very least, they remove synchronous messages, which is good for performance in general
  • A new Telemetry probe has landed to measure how long it takes to paint an entire tab from the perspective of the content process

Firefox Core Engineering

Form Auto-fill

Platform UI and Other Platform Audibles

Privacy / Security

Quality of Experience

Search

Sync / Firefox Accounts

Storage Management

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3 comments on “These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 5”

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  1. tapper wrote on

    Thanks for these updates.

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  2. Gerd Neumann wrote on

    Really great to see all these things happening. Thanks for writing it up!

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  3. klop*cz wrote on

    Thanks for update. I like reading of it very much.

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