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canuckistanion Linux sandboxing improvements in Firefox 60

No.

Sorry about that. Photon is a Design and User Experience refresh for Firefox 57, currently available in nightly builds.

canuckistanion Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?

( to be 100% crystal clear, I do think we'll ship things that use servo down the road )

canuckistanion Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?

Two things:

1. the largest part of the work on the "major rewrite" - do you mean quantum or servo? If the former, most of the bits we really care about will get shipped on Nov. 14th, and some other things like webrender will get shipped over the winter.

If you mean servo, you're right, that is a longer-term strategic project, but has recently provide useful as a source for innovation in Gecko with things like stylo and webrender, and especially Rust's capabilities as a language.

2. Mozilla is self-funded and has a very different governance model than perhaps you're used to - we are a US Corp ( and subsidiaries ) owned entirely by a US-based Not-for-profit.

canuckistanion Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?

That's true, we can't hire everywhere.

canuckistanion Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?

...and, yes there is a legacy problem with old code bases, but one trade-off for interns, contributors, junior developers is that you get to make an impact on a codebase used in a commercial project by hundreds of millions of people. Terrible tools written in anger in 2003 are still in use, sure, and terrible architectural decisions have been made, re-made, then made again over the years. It's the kind of messy any codebase eventually gets to.

This codebase still has life in it though, and the proof is in how far Gecko has come in the last year. Go run Nightly for a bit, compare it to Chrome or current Firefox. It's a big deal.

canuckistanion Ask HN: What's it like to work at Mozilla these days?

We are getting better at killing projects more quickly if they aren't working.

canuckistanion The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

This isn't his main profile ( well I hope not any way ), it's a profile used to test extreme startup performance issues.

canuckistanion Firebug and DevTools Integration

Here are two articles from last year articulating Mozilla's view on Firebug:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/12/firebug-3-multiprocess-fir...

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/10/firefox-developer-tools-an...

canuckistanion Firebug and DevTools Integration

Platform support has landed in Firefox 44 and we're working on a prototype extension: https://github.com/firebug/websocket-monitor

Soon!

canuckistanion Firebug and DevTools Integration

Thanks for voting - I agree this is a critical gap but I have high hopes to get it fixed very soon.

canuckistanion Firebug and DevTools Integration

Jan Odvarko, the author of this post, is a Mozilla employee working on Firebug and related projects. He has worked for Mozilla for 4+ years and is paid to maintain / improve Firebug.

canuckistanion Firebug and DevTools Integration

Which ones? Curious :)

canuckistanion New Performance Tools in Firefox Developer Edition 40

Firebug takes over f12 from Devtools.

Ed: you should try ( and provide feedback to ) Firebug 3, they're dong exactly what you described - implementing Firebug UX on top of Firefox Devtools:

https://github.com/firebug/firebug.next

canuckistanion New Performance Tools in Firefox Developer Edition 40

Man, that was 7 versions ago! WOuld love to get your impressions of Dev Edition 40. FYI it will create and use a separate profile from your main Firefox profile, so there is no risk in trying it out.

canuckistanion Firefox Developer Edition

Safari on iOS is currently working for Mac & OS X, but we plan to ship and support Windows as well.

canuckistanion The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming

We have no plans to remove the tools from Firefox release.

canuckistanion The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming

I'm glad you got the reference.

canuckistanion The First Browser Dedicated to Developers Is Coming

That's correct, the devtools will remain in mainline Firefox ( source: I'm the PM ). We are starting to add in guards against things lke self-xss in mainline though, and dev edition will not have these sorts of things.

canuckistanion Firefox Add-on Enables Web Development Across Browsers and Devices

Thanks - we're definitely interested in Windows support and will take a look at this.

canuckistanion WebIDE lands in Firefox Nightly