Some of you may have noticed that the Firefox 3 nightly builds have felt a lot snappier since a few weeks ago.  There’s an interesting story in that, one that I finally have time to write up.  We’ve had a number of bugs on the Mac where people were complaining of bad performance compared to [...]

I’ve recently rediscovered Greasemonkey, and have used it to make two small fixes that have been annoying me for a while.  A few people have asked, so I thought I’d share the user scripts.  The first does some postprocessing of the tinderbox waterfall page, shrinking the Talos columns by making them use more of the [...]

So it turns out, now that Alice got the awesome nochrome tinderboxes up and running, that the Mac, on raw HTML layout, is about as fast as Windows.  However, on win32 and linux, when you add in the perf hit of drawing the full browser UI (the nochrome boxes just render the HTML in a [...]

One of the things that’s always been different between the Windows and MacOS X versions of Firefox is favicons on the bookmarks toolbar — Windows has ‘em, the Mac doesn’t.  I think the origins of this are from Safari’s decision to not include them, but I’m not really sure.  Either way, this drove me nuts… [...]

(or, “If I only had a nickel…”)
I needed a permanent Linux machine to do some recent bugs; I have a Mac Mini here that’s been a champion for the past few months, triple-booting between Linux, OSX, and Windows XP.  But, lately, I’ve been needing to switch between Windows XP and Linux quickly, so I decided [...]