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Dietrich Ayala
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Dietrich Ayala writes dietrich.ayala, a personal blog at autonome.wordpress.com about programming and web. Since 2010, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dietrich Ayala's Mozilla engineering blog as a source on Firefox performance and startup time, and on Firefox OS devices. Commenters cite its posts as evidence for their points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2013/01/15/firefox-os-devices-and-dark-matter/3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-01-18
What Hacker News says?
> When I first read about Firefox OS I thought I would have the experience as described above. I would buy ANY phone, donwload the Firefox OS, install it and enjoy mobile life from a different perspective. Someone has to write the drivers AND have an incentive. [1] [1] https://autonome.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/firefox-os-devices...
Comment linking /2013/01/15/firefox-os-devices-and-dark-matter/
on “Firefox OS devices officially released”Submitted Mozilla Jetpack: The 0.3 SDK and a peek at what’s coming next as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> The fundamental problem with Mozilla is that it is trying to do database queries in its UI loop, and it wants every single piece of state safely on disk after every single click No, this is not true. Since Firefox 3.5 they have avoided this entirely: https://autonome.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/front-end-performa... This approach has been largely replaced with asynchronous queries off-the-main-thread, since the tempo…
Comment linking /2009/05/05/front-end-performance-in-firefox-35-and-beyond/
on “Dear Mozilla: Fix Your Damn Browser”Submitted Building Firefox in the Post-Browser Age as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt doesn't: https://autonome.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/firefox-os-devices...
Comment linking /2013/01/15/firefox-os-devices-and-dark-matter/
on “Firefox OS 1.3”Submitted Firefox, Android and ARMing the World with the Open Web as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSo building from source is pretty trivial. Start here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/... And we do have nightly builds for the desktop emulator: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/b2g/nightly/latest-mo... "Expanding device count" requires quite the bit of engineering and working with device manufacturers. If you think it's easier than I claim, here's a starting reference and we acce…
Comment linking /2013/01/15/firefox-os-devices-and-dark-matter/
on “Building Firefox OS”Submitted Firefox, Extensions, and Performance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt is dead easy to install Firefox OS on _some_ commonly available Android phones, see [0]. Also, see [1] for the commonly used devices to develop and use Firefox OS with a top notch experience. [0]: https://autonome.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/firefox-os-devices... [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/...
Comment linking /2013/01/15/firefox-os-devices-and-dark-matter/
on “Tizen - new Android competitor”Mozilla is working on performance, and shipping improvements in every release. Here are pointers to some of the performance improvements in Firefox 11: https://autonome.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/firefox-11-is-smal... Check out https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Snappy for more details...
Comment linking /2012/03/14/firefox-11-is-smaller-and-faster/
on “Developer Tools in Firefox 11 - 3D DOM Inspector and Live Style Editor”An ongoing project was started after Fx3.5 to improve startup time: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/Startup_Time_Impro... You can also read the blog of the lead engineer working on startup time improvement: http://autonome.wordpress.com/
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on “Firefox 3.6 Released”Here are the design mockups for how Firefox 4 should eventually look by default on Mac OS X: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/4.0_Mac_Theme_Mockups These designs are not fully implemented in current nightly builds, and are subject to change. Also, here are the Windows and Linux mockups: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/4.0_Windows_Theme_Mockups https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/4.0_Linux_Theme_Mockups There are quite…
Comment linking /tag/startup/
on “Firefox 4 Nightly”One of Mozilla's focusing with Firefox 3.6 was improving the startup times (see: https://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2010/01/21/f... http://autonome.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/firefox-3-6-perform... ). I believe they're going to continue to focus on this in future too -- I remember reading that some patches improving startup times have been completed but didn't land in time for 3.6, but I don't have a cita…
Comment linking /2010/01/21/firefox-3-6-performance-startup-and-snappiness-improvements/
on “20 Percent Of TechCrunch Readers Are Already Browsing With Chrome”
