With the work going on to bring Firefox to mobile devices, and with desktop users demanding more and more from their web browser, memory usage is a concern.  Even with 4GB on desktop and laptops becoming commonplace, and 8GB, 12GB, 16GB etc. becoming not all that unusual, it’s unnerving to see a web browser eating [...]

Over the last few months, we’ve made some great progress on bringing Firefox to Android.  Michael Wu, Brad Lassey, Alex Pakhotin and I have been focusing on getting a build ready that’s usable by a broader set of people, and we’re now ready to get that build out there.  This build should be considered “pre-alpha”, [...]

After wrestling with OpenGL on Android for a bit, I was finally able to get Gecko on Android rendering using OpenGL.  This was needed to both simplify the build process, removing the need to have private Android headers and libraries available, and also to remove an expensive CPU RGB->BGR byte swap.  Michael Wu’s also done [...]

One of the issues with the Gecko port to Android is that, early on, I used some internals to tie in to the Android graphics system from native code.  This worked fine, but it complicated the build: you needed to pull in a bunch of headers and some libraries from the actual Android source to [...]

A while ago, Rob Arnold wrote a simple python caching proxy server for use with our Talos tests — the idea was that you’d run your test once against the proxy server in “record” mode, and then after that you can use the server for consistent local playback. I was giving some WebGL demos recently, [...]