This project has been a tremendous amount of effort. It started some time
around April last year, I think. This should help fix one of the major
cases where Gecko's performance currently can suffer quite a lot compared
to other engines on certain pages.
Thanks a lot for pushing things through to
Hi everyone,
As of Firefox 65 I intend to turn the Storage Access API on by default on
all desktop platforms. It has been developed behind the
dom.storage_access.enabled preference. Other UAs shipping this or intending
to ship it are Safari 12.
*Bug to turn on by default*: link to main relevant b
The JS engine now supports allocating multiple global objects (also known
as "realms") in a single compartment [0]. We are working on using this
mechanism for our chrome code (one compartment for most of our
system-principal sandboxes [1] and windows [2]). I'm hoping that part will
land relatively
The un-shipping didn't stick this time, either. After just a few days of
Nightly testing, we had three reports of significant breakage that were
caused by this un-shipping (on zimbra[1], blogger[2], and a demo page for a
webapp framework[1] which may have legacy instances deployed). So, I
backed
This is an FYI so you don't get surprised in the near future.
The extensions API includes support for an "incognito" entry in the
extension manifest where an extension may opt-out of running in private
browsing windows. Chrome has since made that the default, and requires
an opt-in by the use
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