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  1. Project Silk

    • by • Featured Article, Firefox OS, Performance, Video • 23 comments

    Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this post appeared on Mason Chang’s personal blog. For the past few months, I’ve been working on Project Silk which improves smoothness across the browser. Very much like Project Butter for Android, part of it is finally live on Read more…

  2. An easier way of using polyfills

    • by and • HTML5, JavaScript, Node.js, Performance, Testing, Tools • 11 comments

    Polyfills are a fantastic way to enable the use of modern code even while supporting legacy browsers, but currently using polyfills is too hard, so at the FT we’ve built a new service to make it easier. We’d like to invite you to use it, Read more…

  3. Generational Garbage Collection in Firefox

    • by • Firefox, JavaScript, Performance • 14 comments

    Generational garbage collection (GGC) has now been enabled in the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine in Firefox 32. GGC is a performance optimization only, and should have no observable effects on script behavior. So what is it? What does it do? GGC is a way for the Read more…

  4. How fast is PDF.js?

    • by and • Canvas, JavaScript, Performance • 37 comments

    Hi, my name is Thorben and I work at Opera Software in Oslo, not at Mozilla. So, how did I end up writing for Mozilla Hacks? Maybe you know that there is no default PDF viewer in the Opera Browser, something we would like to Read more…

  5. jsDelivr – The advanced open source public CDN

    • by and • Performance • 37 comments

    This is a guest post by Dmitriy Akulov and his project jsDelivr. – Editor’s note. As a developer you are probably aware of Google Hosted Libraries. Google offers an easy and fast way to include 12 of the most popular js libraries in your websites. Read more…

  6. Optimizing your JavaScript game for Firefox OS

    • by , and • Featured Article, Firefox OS, Games, Performance • 12 comments

    When developing on a quad core processor with 16 gigabytes of RAM you can easily forget to consider how it will perform on a mobile device. This article will detail some best practices and things to consider for moving a game to Firefox OS or Read more…

  7. Performance with JavaScript String Objects

    • by • Featured Article, JavaScript, Performance • 31 comments

    This article aims to take a look at the performance of JavaScript engines towards primitive value Strings and Object Strings. It is a showcase of benchmarks related to the excellent article by Kiro Risk, The Wrapper Object. Before proceeding, I would suggest visiting Kiro’s page Read more…

  8. No Single Benchmark for the Web

    • by • JavaScript, Performance • 11 comments

    Google released a new JavaScript benchmark a few days ago called Octane. New benchmarks are always welcome, as they push browsers to new levels of performance in new areas. I was particularly pleased to see the inclusion of pdf.js, which unlike most benchmarks is real-world Read more…

  9. Getting snappy – performance optimizations in Firefox 13

    • by • Firefox, Firefox Beta, Performance • 61 comments

    Back in the fall of 2011, we took a targeted look at Firefox responsiveness issues. We identified a number of short term projects that together could achieve significant responsiveness improvements in day-to-day Firefox usage. Project Snappy kicked off at the end of the year with Read more…

  10. Firefox in 2011 – Firefox plans for 2012

    • by • Add-ons, Featured Article, Firefox, Firefox Aurora, Performance, SPDY • 140 comments

    A lot of people are interested in Firefox, the progress that is being made and what we plan to do. Therefore, I’d like to outline the things we accomplished with Firefox in 2011, and what we have already done, and plan to do, in Read more…