Rob Sayre just checked in bug 411365, which adds some global functions to JS for starting and stopping profiling using Shark on OSX.  This makes it extremely easy to get a clean profile for a specific testcase, especially if the action is deep in the UI or otherwise hard to isolate.  Shark is pretty awesome [...]

beltzner recently sent me an email asking for some background regarding dropping support for gtk1.  I didn’t think much of this — the decision was made before Firefox 2, based on the total utter lack of support for gtk1 from Linux and Unix vendors and the fact that gtk1 had been end-of-lifed for a while [...]

Does anyone out there have any idea how to force a specific SpeedStep frequency under MacOS X (specifically on a Core Duo and Core 2 Duo Mac Mini)?  We can do this under Windows XP using SpeedswitchXP, and under Linux using cpufreq, but I can’t find anything similar for OS X.  This is important for [...]

A while ago, I put together a presentation about the graphics architecture in Mozilla, and what we were working towards with Thebes and Cairo. It was supposed to be a video presentation, but I was never happy with the way the video turned out, so never put it up. After seeing John Resig’s post about [...]

Updated Add-On installation site, now hosted on addons.mozilla.org.  Compatible with post-3.0b5 Firefox nightlies.
About a year and a half ago, I demoed an early prototype of an OpenGL 3D context for the canvas element at XTech. There was a lot of interest, but due to time constraints I wasn’t able to spend as much time [...]