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[JavaScript Engine] SpiderMonkey Newsletter (Firefox 94-95) spidermonkey.dev/blog/2021/1…

SpiderMonkey Newsletter (Firefox 94-95)

SpiderMonkey is the JavaScript engine used in Mozilla Firefox. This newsletter gives an overview of the JavaScript and WebAssembly work we’ve done as part of the Firefox 94 and 95 Nightly release...

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It is with great joy that I watch the Firefox Platform Graphics team tear out the old Layers system in Nightly now that WebRender is on for everybody there.
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Work with me on protecting user privacy on the web in Firefox! My team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer and a Student Worker. careers.mozilla.org/position… careers.mozilla.org/position… More details in 🧵
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Folks who use German UIs: Which of these two menu designs works better for you?
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After going through a few rounds of feedback, I have two new menu variants that I'll be testing. 1: "Save to" row (with labeled bookmark action) 2: "Save to" sub-menu (with two paths to bookmark) Feedback welcome here or on github.com/mozilla-mobile/fe… —V
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I'll also be testing this grid menu concept. Pros: Compact, and the more spatially oriented design might be quicker to use after you get used to it. Cons: Less text-scannable, possible feeling of mystery meat icon overload.
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✨ Toolbar menus update: Here's the latest design, pending further feedback and user testing. See github for more info: github.com/mozilla-mobile/fe… —@violasong
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Update! Sadly, I have no mockups to share at this time because us UX folks are working on long-term planning and designs which need more time to bake. Most of our engineers are currently bug fixing, but there are also improvements to the address bar in the works. —@violasong
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We have enabled Warp, a significant update to SpiderMonkey, by default in @Firefox 83. 🕸️ SpiderMonkey is the JavaScript engine used in the Firefox web browser. 🌐 @jandemooij explains how Warp works and how it made SpiderMonkey faster. hacks.mozilla.org/2020/11/wa…

Warp: Improved JS performance in Firefox 83 – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

We have enabled Warp, a significant update to SpiderMonkey, by default in Firefox 83. SpiderMonkey, the JavaScript engine used in the Firefox

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A small change in the works: 🔎 We can simplify the address bar by making the search engine logo a button for switching search engines. Feedback welcome! —V github.com/mozilla-mobile/fe…
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The latest Firefox for Android Nightly includes an override that allows you to install extensions listed on addons.mozilla.org via the Collections feature. Check out our blog for configuration instructions: mzl.la/3kYupwq
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Firefox handles YouTube better than Google's own browser on Android. It has a simple "Open in app" menu item to open a video in the native app. With Chrome, opening in native app is somewhere between complicated to impossible.
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Replying to @FirefoxPreview
You should recommend play.google.com/store/apps/d… & play.google.com/store/apps/d… it is giving dev builds and get security updates ;)
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Bookmarks Friday: making @Firefox_Android 's bookmarks UI a little more usable!
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📯 Feedback wanted: New Firefox for Android home screen designs! This design gives you easy access to Bookmarks and History, and moves the top sites to within thumb's reach. (See github.com/mozilla-mobile/fe… for more info) —@violasong
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RE: Toolbar menu reading direction: @nactgl pointed out that the app's bottom-to-top menu animation causes him to read from bottom to top. For me, the animation is fast enough that I read top-to-bottom. Still, showing a static image for the survey may be misleading 🤔 —V
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Betsy Mikel talks about content strategy for the new Firefox for Android - blog.mozilla.org/ux/2020/09/…
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🏠 I've started working on the homescreen, which will be done in two phases as explained here. github.com/mozilla-mobile/fe… A question for folks who loved the old Android app: Was there anything *bad* about the tabbed homescreen approach? 🙂 I mean, could it have been improved? —V

[UX] [Meta] Make the most useful content easily accessible on the homescreen · Issue #12065 ·...

User Story As a user, I want my browser homescreen to show me content that is most relevant and useful to me, such as my frequently-accessed types of content (bookmarks, history, recent tabs, top s...

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Any survey I make will also be shared on Twitter/Reddit, with the results funneled into a special power-users bucket :). (With @firefoxdevtools, I used to only use Twitter/Reddit for surveys because the audience was representative enough)
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🧪 For the Toolbar Menu task, I'm working with rad social scientist @RosanneScholl as well as data scientists. I need 2 types of data: • Telemetry stats for menu items sorted by most-accessed • Results from a mini survey which I'll launch via a research recruitment service
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