New Firefox HTTP cache now enabled on Nightly builds
Yes, it’s on! After a little bit more than a year of a development by me and Michal Novotný all bugs we could find in our labs, offices and homes were fixed. The new cache back-end is now enabled on...
View ArticleHeadless Fedora 20 and VNC with autologin
“Oh no! Something has gone wrong” message is all what you get when you VNC to Gnome 3 in Fedora 20 on a box without any physical monitor attached to any of the video outputs with enabled autologin and...
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NGC 7000, NGC 6974, IC 1318 a okolí + IR
Dvě téměř zapomenuté fotky z lokace jižně od Prahy, focené loni v létě v noci z 16. na 17. června. Velmi krátká noc, slunce definitivně zapadlo snad až před jedenáctou a po druhé už zase začalo...
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HTTP cache v1 API disabled
Recently we landed the new HTTP cache for Firefox (“cache2″) on mozilla-central. It has been in nightly builds for a while now and seems very likely to stick on the tree and ship in Firefox 32. Given...
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Částečné zatmění slunce 2015
Je to hodně z ruky, selhala dálková programovatelná spoušť a na focení po přesných intervalech jsem byl prostě líný Aligning není úplně přesný, ale mě se to líbí i tak. Stativ, Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF...
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New Gecko performance tool: Backtrack
Backtrack aims to show a complete code path flow from any point back to its source, crossing asynchronous callbacks, threads, processes, network requests, timers and any kind of implementation specific...
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Unseen astronomical phenomenon discovered
A new bright nebula found very close to a water surface. Who recognize what this actually is? The post Unseen astronomical phenomenon discovered appeared first on mayhemer's blog.
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TCPSocket.js/TCPServerSocket.js IPC mess captured
TCPSocket implemented in Javascript is a DOM technology providing web pages a direct access to TCP network sockets. We support both outgoing connections and listening to incoming connections via a...
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String parsing made simple with mozilla::Tokenizer
I can see FindChar, Substring, ToInteger and even atoi, strchr, strstr and sscanf craziness all over the Mozilla code base. There are though much better and, more importantly, safer ways to parse...
View ArticleINACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE on Windows 10 boot after update of the Intel Rapid...
Have a BSOD after you’ve installed the latest version of Intel RST, 14.6.0.1029, from Intel’s download center? During the boot, staring at the Windows logo and the spinning wheel, after a minute or two...
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Filter out errors out of mozilla build on command line
I wrote a small filter script that lists all build errors once again at the bottom of the whole build log, so that you don’t have to look for them like for a needle in a haystack. Something I wanted...
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Backtrack meets Gecko Profiler
Backtrack is about to be a new performance tool, focused on revealing and solving scheduling and delay problems. Those are big offenders of performance, very hard to track, and hidden from...
View ArticleIllusion of atomic reference counting
Most people believe that having an atomic reference counter makes them safe to use RefPtr on multiple threads without any more synchronization. Opposite may be truth, though! Imagine a simple code,...
View ArticleMoz logging (former NSPR logging) file now has a size limit option
There are lot of cases of mainly networking issues rare enough to reproduce making users have their Firefox run for long hours to hit the problem. Logging is great in bringing the information to us...
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Intel Rapid Storage Technology disappears on Windows 10 and more
This started with the INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE doom I wrote about before. But here I want to treat the story after that.When I solved the above mentioned problem, I ended up with 14.6 version of the...
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Automatically attaching child and test-spawned Firefox processes in Visual...
Did you ever dream of debugging Firefox in Visual Studio with all its child processes attached automatically? And also when being started externally from a test suit like mochitest or browsertest?...
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Mozilla Log Analyzer added basic network diagnostics
Few weeks ago I’ve published Mozilla Log Analyzer (logan). It is a very helpful tool itself when diagnosing our logs, but looking at the log lines doesn’t give answers about what’s wrong or right...
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Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains
Firefox Quantum – version 57 – introduced number of changes to the network requests scheduler. One of them is using data of the Tracking Protection database to delay load of scripts from tracking...
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