Mozilla News Archives


416 Mozilla open-source and Linux related news articles on Phoronix since 2006.

Mozilla's Push For Super Fast CSS With Quantum/Stylo

Since the end of July Stylo has been available via Firefox Nightly as the Rust-written Servo CSS style system. For those curious about this modern CSS system and the broader effort as part of bringing Servo/Quantum components to Firefox, Mozilla has out an interesting blog post.

22 August 2017 - Quantum CSS - 57 Comments
A Look At Async/Await JavaScript For Firefox 52

While Chrome 55 has JavaScript async/await support, the Firefox support isn't coming until the Firefox 52.0 stable release in March while currently it's available in the latest Firefox Developer Edition and early alpha builds.

7 December 2016 - async/await JS - 12 Comments
Boot 2 Gecko Being Stripped From Mozilla's Codebase

At the end of 2015 Mozilla effectively put an end to Firefox OS / Boot 2 Gecko by concluding things weren't working out for Mozilla Corp and their commercial partners to ship Firefox OS smartphones. All commercial development around it has since stopped and they are now preparing to strip B2G from the mozilla-central code-base.

27 September 2016 - B2G Stripping From Mozilla-Central - 18 Comments
Pale Moon Browser 27 Alpha Released

The first alpha of Pale Moon 27 was released this weekend. Pale Moon continues to serve as a Mozilla Firefox derived open-source web-browser that sticks to the older Firefox user-interface and also uses a fork of the Gecko layout engine.

18 July 2016 - Pale Moon 27 Alpha - 26 Comments

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