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Ehsan Akhgari
Personal blog · ehsanakhgari.org/blogprogrammingweb
Ehsan Akhgari writes Home Page on Home Page, a personal blog at ehsanakhgari.org about programming and web. Since 2008, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “Firefox: Quantum Flow Engineering Newsletter #14”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Blog of Mozilla engineer Ehsan Akhgari, linked for its weekly Quantum Flow Firefox performance newsletters, a post on a Google account lockout, and a 2009 post on the Iran election.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Firefox: Quantum Flow Engineering Newsletter #142 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-23
- Future of editing on the web2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-08-31
- Building Firefox with Clang-Cl: A Status Update2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-30
- Quantum Flow Engineering Newsletter #252 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-09-22
- C++ Static Analysis Using Clang2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-08
- Don't Leave a Trace: Private Browsing in Firefox2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-11-05
What Hacker News says?
Many stories have been posted here over the years of people whose Google accounts got disabled for some unknown reason, with no way of contacting someone at Google to get the issue resolved. A quick web search turned up this example: https://ehsanakhgari.org/blog/2012-04-13/how-i-lost-access-m...
Comment linking /blog/2012-04-13/how-i-lost-access-my-google-account-today
on “Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook”Submitted How I lost access to my Google account today as a story · 272 points
HN discussionPrivate Browsing Mode is for browsing without storing information on your computer. It has nothing to do with websites tracking you; that's what the Do Not Track feature is. We do require that add-ons respect Private Browsing Mode, and our privacy team is working on a recommendation (not a requirement) that add-ons also honor the user's Do Not Track preferences. As the person who implemented Private Browsing describ…
Comment linking /blog/2008-11-04/dont-leave-trace-private-browsing-firefox
on “Firefox add-on with 7m downloads secretly tracks your browsing history”Submitted Building Firefox with Clang-Cl: A Status Update as a story · 15 points
HN discussionStrictly speaking, Stylo and WebRender fall under the Quantum project umbrella, as "Quantum CSS" and "Quantum Render", respectively. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum has details. (The names are definitely confusing!) Also, Quantum Flow is not so small! It's actually now the part of Quantum that's getting the highest priority and most resources. It doesn't involved any single component, but is rather a focused effort…
Comment linking /blog
on “WebRender newsletter”Submitted Firefox 15: updates are now more silent as a story · 12 points
HN discussionYou might want to give Nightly a try (upcoming Firefox 56) which improved a lot thanks to Quantom Flow project. I updated from Firefox Dev Edition (FF 55) to Nightly and the boast was obvious (there's also been a good boast recently in FF 54 thanks to multi-e10s). e.g. see the SpeedometerV2 benchmark differences at https://ehsanakhgari.org/blog/2017-06-23/quantum-flow-engine... So there is progress and thanks to Qua…
Comment linking /blog/2017-06-23/quantum-flow-engineering-newsletter-14
on “Reasons to Switch from Chrome to Firefox”Submitted The tale of creating a git mirror for Mozilla as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI'm rather skeptical about text editors implemented on top of the canvas element. Mozilla has already tried that with Bespin project and it failed miserably (huge code base, poor performance, limited accessibility). Wouldn't it be easier to just use div element with contentEditable attribute? Currently contentEditable has limited API and a lot of inconstancies across browsers, but in the longer run it seems to be th…
Comment linking /blog/2011-08-31/future-editing-web
on “Web Vi”Submitted Project SpiderNode as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYes, this is part of those efforts. The UI redesign and performance projects are part of a cross-functional group working on making Firefox faster. They've talked about how part of the reason for square tabs is that they're much faster to draw for example. Weekly newsletters about the "Quantum Flow" performance project here: https://ehsanakhgari.org/blog/2017-03-09/quantum-flow-engine...
Comment linking /blog/2017-03-09/quantum-flow-engineering-newsletter-1
on “Firefox 57: new Photon design screenshots”Submitted Future of editing on the web as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFirefox 57 has its share of detractors among the HN crowd, particularly those who want XUL extensions to continue to live on. I am not in that camp; I think Firefox is fighting for its future, and I like that my browser of choice is closing the performance gap with Chrome. The 57 release is chock full of great features and performance optimizations. Ehsan Akhagari manages a critical initiative, called Quantum Flow,…
Comment linking /blog/2017-09-01/quantum-flow-engineering-newsletter-22
on “Firefox Quantum DOM Cooperative Threading Design”Submitted Ehsan Akhgari: A glimpse of hope as a story · 4 points
HN discussionA Mozilla contributor in Iran posted his own response to the election news: http://ehsanakhgari.org/blog/2009-06-13/dark-days It's rather chilling.
Comment linking /blog/2009-06-13/dark-days
on a deleted threadSubmitted Why do people dislike online ads? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quantum Flow Engineering Newsletter #8 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quantum Flow Engineering Newsletter #25 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quantum Flow Engineering Newsletter #17 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building Firefox with Clang-Cl: A Status Update as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tab audio indicators and muting in Firefox Nightly as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Per-window private browsing support coming to Firefox as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Porting an OpenGL application to the web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't Leave a Trace: Private Browsing in Firefox as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On leveling the playing field and online tracking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Future of Quantum Flow as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firefox: Quantum Flow Engineering Newsletter #14 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Quantum Flow Engineering Newsletter #4 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++ Static Analysis Using Clang as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++ Static Analysis Using Clang as a story · 1 points
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