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C++ deleting destructors 11 Dec 2012 | 12:14 pm
Recently during a code review, Benoit pointed out a strange linker error, that neither of us expected. Here’s what the situation roughly looked like: $ cat test.cpp #include class Base { public: vi...
Per-window private browsing ready for testing now! 30 Nov 2012 | 06:45 am
One of the most often requested features in the private browsing support for Firefox has been the ability to open a private window without needing to close the entire session. Over the past 19 months,...
Protected: Per-window private browsing ready for testing now! 28 Nov 2012 | 05:38 am
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How I started reviewing patches faster 25 Oct 2012 | 08:19 am
The discussion about whether and how we should do patch reviews faster has been brought up for a few years now. Here is the story of how I decided to stop being lazy start to actually review patches ...
Data about people’s contribution to the Mozilla code base 11 Oct 2012 | 08:55 am
Tonight I was talking to Josh and he mentioned how he’s interested in getting data on people’s recent contributions to different parts of the Mozilla code base. He basically wanted to get a list of...
Renaming directories in Mercurial by just changing the case 5 Oct 2012 | 04:31 am
Today we experienced a new way in which Mercurial can fail you. I’m not talking about performance, twisted workflows, etc. This time we’re talking about Mercurial being unable to handle things that ...
mozilla-central git mirror back up again 14 Sep 2012 | 10:17 pm
When the IonMonkey project merged their history to mozilla-central on Tuesday, my scripts responsible for updating the mozilla-central git mirror happily picked up that huge merge of more than 2000 ch...
So long Drupal, hello WordPress 4 Sep 2012 | 08:25 am
About four years ago, I made a decision to start a blog. I researched the various CMS solutions available back in the day, and I chose to use Drupal. That was a huge mistake, and today I finally fix...
Git mirror of mozilla-central 31 Aug 2012 | 08:28 am
A while ago I spent some time in order to generate the perfect git mirror of mozilla-central, and it's now up on github. Here's the story behind the repository. If you're not interested in history ...
Firefox 15: updates are now more silent 28 Aug 2012 | 08:31 am
Firefox 15 will be releaed tomorrow. Among many new features implemented in this release is background updates. This feature allows Firefox to download the update in the background, apply it alongsi...
