@overholt

VP of Engineering, Firefox

 Toronto
Joined March 2009
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Andrew Overholt retweeted
Firefox 🔥
@firefox20 Dec 2024
Thank you to our community for an incredible year!
Background of Firefox logo with text that is describing all of the accomplishments in 2024 including.

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I'm happy we could continue the tradition!
Kyle Pflug@kylealden6 Jul 2022
“There’s a long tradition of sending cakes for major browser releases. This time, it’s a release into the great beyond.” - @jbodner09 Thanks @firefox!
A large cake featuring the IE6 logo and the text “You were the IE6ing on the cake.”

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Tom Ritter@TomRittervg12 May 2022
Thousands of hours of work has finally come to fruition as Firefox ships win32k lockdown in FF 100 - hacks.mozilla.org/2022/05/im…

Improved Process Isolation in Firefox 100 – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

Firefox uses a multi-process model for additional security and stability while browsing. Web Content is rendered in separate processes.

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Andrew Overholt retweeted
Bobby Holley@bhology23 Mar 2022
I've worked at Mozilla for almost fourteen years. This is why I'm still here: blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/…

The web is for everyone: Our vision for the evolution of the web | The Mozilla Blog

Over the last two decades, the web has woven itself into the fabric of our lives. What began as a research project has become the world’s most important

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The tradition of web browser vendors sending each other cakes continues with our friends at @googlechrome congratulating @Firefox for shipping (on desktop) Fission, our site isolation project on desktop! h/t @miketaylr
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Of course I have a typo 🙄. Fission is for everywhere, just shipped on Desktop so far 👍
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Andrew Overholt retweeted
SpiderMonkey@SpiderMonkeyJS5 May 2021
After nearly 25 years.... we have a logo. And a new website! spidermonkey.dev/

Home

SpiderMonkey is Mozilla’s JavaScript and WebAssembly Engine, used in Firefox, Servo and various other projects. It is written in C++ and Rust.

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A new Mozilla newsletter for our JavaScript engine: Spidermonkey Newsletter #1 mozilla-spidermonkey.github.…
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He’s a Staff Engineer at Mozilla, co-chair of W3C’s WICG and the Web Applications WG, and passionate about keeping the web safe, free, and open for all — our Person of the Week is... Marcos Cáceres. Thank you for helping the web advance, dear @marcosc! #smashingcommunity
The Person of the Week is Marcos Cáceres.

ALT The Person of the Week is Marcos Cáceres.

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Henri Sivonen@hsivonen3 Dec 2018
I wrote about encoding_rs background, API design, internals, and performance: hsivonen.fi/encoding_rs/ (encoding_rs is the character encoding library used in Firefox since version 56.)
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Mozilla is once again looking for a C++ developer to join us and improve Firefox's JavaScript engine, SpiderMonkey. The last time I mentioned a job on this team, @tschneidereit said "You should apply for this job as it is amazing"! careers.mozilla.org/position… #firefox #mozilla
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The @googlechrome and @polymer teams very kindly sent the @Firefox team a bottle of "Shadow Dom Perignon" for shipping Shadow DOM and Custom Elements in Firefox 63. Thanks!
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Mozilla is looking for an experienced C++ developer to join our DOM team. This team is involved with defining web standards and making Firefox even better. Please apply if you're interested careers.mozilla.org/position…
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Henri Sivonen@hsivonen28 Jul 2018
Saddened to learn that @Gerv has passed away. Condolences to his family.
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I'm hiring a software engineering manager in Mozilla's wonderful #Toronto office. I'd love to hear from you if you think you might be interested! careers.mozilla.org/position…
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Nature’s heartbeat: Gross primary productivity of the biosphere shown as a cartogram animation, created in collaboration with @oxfordgeography’s @ymalhi for #ATBC2018 worldmapper.org/natures-hear… #maps #cartograms #cartography #ecology #environment #nature #geogif #worldmapper
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Andrew Overholt retweeted
Nutrient
@nutrientdocs5 Jul 2018
The WebAssembly team @mozilla was awesome to work with and really helped to make our benchmark more predictable - especially the interaction between baseline and optimized compilers and background threads. Thanks! 🙏 xitter.cf/tschneidereit/status/1…
Till Schneidereit@tschneidereit5 Jul 2018
Thanks to the @PSPDFKit team for being very responsive and doing a great job at integrating our feedback to improve the real-world applicability of this benchmark! xitter.cf/PSPDFKit/status/101489…
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