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It uses add-on gating similar to what they do for Web MIDI, so it's not exposed to users unless they specifically opt into it.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/web-serial-support-in-fire...

Obviously it'll make the developer more efficient to spend more time twiddling his thumbs waiting for his code to compile rather than creating a simple build performance win that allows him to, you know, spend more time improving Firefox. Not to mention all the other developers who stand to benefit from faster builds.

Can you share a link to a crash report from about:crashes? Sounds like some kind of shutdown hang getting force-killed maybe?

It's available for testing in Nightly builds at the moment.

Firefox also does a lot of media decoding in a separate process.

Google Play also limits APKs to 100MB maximum size while AABs have a higher limit.

See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1894735#c15. It was code specifically targeting Firefox on Windows to blame.

Common Voice is part of the Mozilla Foundation, not the Mozilla Corporation responsible for shipping Firefox. I.e. what donations to Mozilla actually go towards.

Notably, MV3 extensions are now supported.

Isn't openssl included in the oss-fuzz project? If hanno caught it this quickly with his fuzzer, would seem to be surprising if they didn't also.

Mozilla occasionally rolls out features in the current release via remote mechanisms. So it's rolling out to existing v101 installs now. I would assume that v102 will also ship with it on by default.

Citation needed.

Also, they've specifically called that out in the advisory when they're aware of that being the case. See the last out-of-band security update they released for example:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2022-0...

These are just the pwn2own vulnerabilities. Nowhere did Mozilla ever say they were being exploited in the wild.

The article goes out of its way to quote a Google engineer but doesn't bother talking to anyone at Mozilla outside of quoting bug comments?

It was Cylance made by Blackberry.

They received a MOSS grant once upon a time.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/04/10/mozilla-awards-3650...

That said, given Mozilla's current financial troubles, it seems pretty unlikely they'd be in a position to hire.

Looks like they've fixed the link now: https://blog.mozilla.org/community/2020/12/15/the-new-faces-...

Firefox only uses Freetype on Linux (the system-installed version) and on Android, and the vulnerable code path was only reachable in Firefox with a non-default pref set (gfx.downloadable_fonts.keep_color_bitmaps).

This is coming from the Foundation (i.e. where the donations go), not the Corporation (which ships Firefox).

Looks like they're normally uploaded to Github, but the last release with them there is 80.1.2.

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/releases/

Incorrect, that was abandoned and pdf.js is very-much what's being used.

If revenue from Firefox isn't enough to pay the bills anymore, then not funding R&D is cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Firefox Quantum was a pretty significant investment in Firefox. It made literally zero impact on their market share decline.

Yes, the company that laid off 7% of its workforce back in January and still has people on edge about pay cuts and layoffs is secretly rolling in the NSA dough. Makes perfect sense.

Web platform tests have overtaken them at this point.

Firefox ESR updates on the same frequency as the mainline release, they're just more limited in scope (i.e. mostly just security & stability fixes).

Mozilla's own public data shows an ongoing decline in usage.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

Firefox switched to CoreAnimation in v70, which made a big difference.

https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/dramatically-red...

Looks like they've been updated now to mention that the fix was included in beta 2. I guess they're reading this thread :)

Google pays Mozilla Corporation to be the default search engine in Firefox. I wouldn't classify that as a donation, though.