A few months into a recent project, my software development team hit a bug that took much longer to diagnose than it should have. We were generating PDFs server-side — filling in form fields with data from our system, saving the document, and returning it to the user. In Adobe Acrobat, the fields looked perfect, […] The post 3 Reasons…
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17 Mar
7 Aug 2024
We’re pleased to announce that, as of version 23, the Puppeteer browser automation library now has first-class support for Firefox. This means that it’s now easy to write automation and perform end-to-end testing using Puppeteer, and run against both Chrome and Firefox. The post Announcing Official Puppeteer Support for Firefox appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
30 Nov 2023
A month ago, we introduced our Nightly package for Debian-based Linux distributions. Today, we are proud to announce we made our .deb package available for Developer Edition and Beta! The post Firefox Developer Edition and Beta: Try out Mozilla’s .deb package! appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
31 Oct 2023
To deliver against our vision and enable a better online experience for everyone, we’ve been working hard on making Firefox even faster. We’re extremely happy to report that this has resulted in a significant improvement in speed over the past year. The post Down and to the Right: Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023 appeared first on Mozilla…
30 Mar 2023
In Firefox 110, users now have the ability to control which third-party DLLs are allowed to load into Firefox processes. Let’s talk about what this means and when it might be useful. The post Letting users block injected third-party DLLs in Firefox appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
22 Nov 2022
We break down how we reduced Firefox out-of-memory crashes on Windows with a simple trick. Poorly behaving web pages and apps are no longer capable of crashing the browser by exhausting memory. The post Improving Firefox stability with this one weird trick appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.