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WebKit | firefox-ios | |
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150 | 120 | |
7,327 | 11,916 | |
2.6% | 0.9% | |
10.0 | 10.0 | |
about 21 hours ago | 6 days ago | |
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WebKit
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HTML Streaming and DOM Diffing Algorithm
Since 2023 Chrome announced the View Transition API, and it looks like Safari is also going to support it soon.
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Towards memory safety with ownership checks for C
One heap per type.
Here’s an allocator optimized for that use case.
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/bmalloc/li...
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Bun, JavaScript, and TCO
To use this in Bun, you’d have to start Bun with the environment variable “BUN_JSC_useDollarVM=1” and then $vm.createBuiltin(mySourceCodeString)
When using this intrinsic, if any of the arguments are incorrect or it cannot otherwise enable it, the entire process will probably crash. In debug builds of JSC it will have a nicer assertion failure but that is not enabled in release builds
Example code: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/17351231b4dedb62d81721...
also happy to answer any questions about Bun
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Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)
Ah, good, let me introduce you to the wonderful world of the Chrome Devtools Protocol! (fka Chrome Remote Debugging Protocol)
I love this API for almost everything browser related. I built my RBI product atop this (BrowserBox: https://dosyago.com), and I think it's a drastically underrated API.
Also, it works out of the box in Edge, Brave, Chromium, and many parts of CRDP are supported by Firefox and Safari^1
1: See for example: https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/tree/main/Source/JavaScript...
- WebGPU now available for testing in Safari Technology Preview
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Disabling iOS Personalized Ads tells kernel to kill daemon every 3 seconds
No, it's unrelated.
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/064df1a9f395f8c6e32c...
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Replacing WebRTC: real-time latency with WebTransport and WebCodecs
It's being worked on now: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/17320
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iLeakage: Browser-Based Timerless Speculative Execution Attacks on Apple Devices
It is different. The cross-site navigation flag is a couple of years old. It was enabled by default for iOS in November 2018 for example https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/commit/e191fc8c412850cb9fd0...
Technology Preview versions 173 and newer [58].
[57] is https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/10169. At the bottom of it, an engineer continues to link ongoing hardening patches for window.open() + process isolation.
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Show HN: Firefox add-on to open YouTube videos in alternative front ends
> That's excessive scope creep. Adding site-specific workarounds for some sites feels uncomfortable.
Not to Google and its fellow corporations apparently.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29707078
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pa...
They have site-specific fixes for their own sites. Why can obviously apply the exact same strategy to dealing with every single website out there. If a website is broken or generally annoying to use, just fix it by providing a site specific version of the browser.
> Who decides what websites get "fixed", and how?
Whoever develops the browser or its extensions. Arguably the whole of uBlock Origin and its filter lists is just a database of site specific fixes. If people can maintain an extremely huge list of advertisers and blockers for every website out there, surely they can maintain something like this too.
> Also, remember how Mozilla is funded.
I remember Mozilla has about a billion dollars in the bank. Who cares about their Google funding? I doubt they're gonna drop them anyway. I bet they pay them just to ward off risk of antitrust lawsuits.
firefox-ios
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Platform issues which disadvantage Firefox compared to first-party browsers
Yeah, Orion's support for Firefox extensions is a big red flag. These 2 issues on the Firefox-iOS tracker[0,1] around extensions and content blockers have long mentioned Orion, but there's no response from Mozilla.
[0]: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/7374
[1]: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/9155
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last known version to work on ios 12?
https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/commit/686d36402c6a956f460abafc8f1fe19a7887a2f3 landed in v38, so it looks like v37 was the last to support iOS 12.
You can use this page to ask the developers about this.
- It's all just Chromium
- Recommendation for professional open source project where we can learn best practices, contribute and improve coding knowledge simply by looking at the code?
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How do I edit the shortcuts? (firefox for ios)
i filed a bug report and its being fixed in version 109 https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/pull/12579?
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Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS
I'm fine with calling Blink based browsers "Chrome skins" and WebKit based browsers "Safari skins" but only if we all understand that "skin" isn't just a cosmetic thing. Firefox on iOS has its own features, settings, history, bookmarks, sync system, and other stuff that can create real, noticeable differences. Even if you assume "skin" means just the UI behavior, wouldn't it make sense that there could be a Firefox-specific bug with the URL bar?
To answer the GP's question, this does seem to be a known issue that might be improved with a future update to the Places database: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/issues/11775
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Why are there so few Firefox addons on mobile?
It's being actively developed.
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Let’s talk about the state of Firefox for iOS.
When you find a specific bug (something broken or unexpected), you can report it on Github.
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Looking for unit-test open-source projects
Firefox for iOS
What are some alternatives?
chromium - The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
otter-browser - Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5
multi-account-containers - Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you keep parts of your online life separated into color-coded tabs that preserve your privacy. Cookies are separated by container, allowing you to use the web with multiple identities or accounts simultaneously.
temporary-containers - Firefox Add-on that lets you open automatically managed disposable containers
uBlock-Safari - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium, Firefox, and Safari. Fast and lean.
brave-ios - Brave iOS Browser
uBlock - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.
cname-trackers - This repository contains a list of popular CNAME trackers
fingerprintjs - Browser fingerprinting library. Accuracy of this version is 40-60%, accuracy of the commercial Fingerprint Identification is 99.5%. V4 of this library is BSL licensed.
gecko-dev - Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org. How to contribute: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html
wpt - Test suites for Web platform specs — including WHATWG, W3C, and others