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Deb’s excellent post about Firefox 3’s bookmarking system hit Digg today, on our shared server, which reminded me that I needed to install some WordPress caching software. No sweat; wp-super-cache, I thank you.

As Mike and John announced, Mike Schroepfer is going to be moving on from the Mozilla Corporation, and I will be taking over as our interim VP Engineering. It’s impossible to deny that Mike’s absence will be felt, even though Mozilla is the strongest it’s ever been (in no small part due to his [...]

Yesterday I was granted the rare and spectacular privilege of receiving an honorary degree at Seneca College. It was an amazing affair, flawlessly and warmly executed, at least until the guy giving the convocation address started blubbering at the mic. It’s a cliché that it’s an incredible honour to be recognized this way, but it’s [...]

Tomorrow, a tremendous honour will be bestowed upon me by Seneca College. I’m grateful and flattered to the point of speechlessness, which may pose a problem as I deliver the convocation address tomorrow. Thanks are due to many people for the wonderful time I’ve had working with Seneca, but one person stands out even in [...]

Hard to believe that it was a whole year ago (only a year ago) that we met Claire for the first time. It has been an incredible, wonderful, galactically amazing adventure learning to be her daddy; I can’t wait to see what’s next. (I’m about 6 months behind on posting pictures; I’ll try to be [...]

Video is a big part of the modern internet, whether it’s used to communicate, educate, or entertain my daughter. We’re building robust support for video (and audio) into Firefox 3.1, making it straightforward for authors to incorporate audio and video media into their pages and applications. We believe that it’s vital to the [...]

OK, Deb, you win. I should be doing something else, but until the Dayquil kicks in I’m not likely to be able to do so. The Rules Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post. (see above) Share seven facts about yourself in the post. (see below) Tag seven people at the end of [...]

[Update: Hi, interwebs! Had to block my blog for a little bit to deploy the full power of wp-super-cache, everything should be fine now.] A couple of articles have now been written about the unpleasant behaviour that people encounter with Firefox 3 in certain Linux configurations, related to the flushing of I/O and system lag [...]

Busy times, busy times. You guys see this browser from Google? A few people sent me that link today, definitely interesting stuff. They have a spiffy new JS engine, which has some genuinely cool stuff in it; I’m enjoying reading through the code, and I think I’m learning some Smalltalk along the [...]

Over the past year, JavaScript performance on the web has undergone a striking revolution. Virtually every browser has improved its engine to produce significant gains in execution speed; Firefox is about 3 times faster than Firefox 2 in various JavaScript benchmarks, for example. But of course, developer and user demand for performance is [...]