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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...
- Apple's Safari browser is still vulnerable to Spectre attacks
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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...
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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.
gecko-dev
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Making Web Component properties behave closer to the platform
You can see how Mozilla tests the compliance of their built-in elements in the Gecko repository (the ok and is assertions are defined in their SimpleTest testing framework). And here's the Web Platform Tests' reflection harness, with data for each built-in element in sibling files, that almost every browser pass.
- Widevine Content Decryption Module provided by Google Inc -- Never installs on any fresh Linux distro (see comments)
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Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years
The source is mirrored on GitHub here: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev
Code search is here: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/
- Firefox 113.0, New Features, Updates and Fixes
- -moz-box and -moz-inline-box removed at v113
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Pinch Zoom with Mouse Wheel is too Slow = How to Adjust Zoom Increments?
aWheelInput.mDeltaY looks like the increment setting used for this https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/9033e3e1200acfd4b8f8ae024c215b99d12b97bdTried "mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_y" and "mousewheel.with_control.delta_multiplier_y" without much luck.It may have something to do with https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1138704 although this case is about pinch zoom emulation.
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Why does firefox (at least waterfox) not support H.265?
You could add the feature by writing code to support is - https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/index.html
- A Quarter Century of Mozilla
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Why is building a UI in Rust so hard?
I checked Firefox monorepo, it has over 4x more C++ than Rust.
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Fetched and build the code of the "release" but it's produced Nightly version
Are you leaving steps out or is your OP exhaustive? If you just straight up cloned release and that's it, start all over and follow https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/index.html for your OS
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
Skia - Skia is a complete 2D graphic library for drawing Text, Geometries, and Images.
cname-trackers - This repository contains a list of popular CNAME trackers
nyxt - Nyxt - the hacker's browser.
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.
brave-core - Core engine for the Brave browser for Android, Linux, macOS, Windows. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues
uBlock-Safari - uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium, Firefox, and Safari. Fast and lean.
datastation - App to easily query, script, and visualize data from every database, file, and API.
firefox-ios - Firefox for iOS
ungoogled-chromium - Google Chromium, sans integration with Google