On the utility of filing bugs

During my five years working at Mozilla, I’ve been known to ask people to file bugs when they encountered an issue. Most of the time, the answer was that they didn’t have time to do so and it was useless. I think it is actually very valuable. You get to learn from that experience: how to file  […]

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Electrolysis without tabs underlined

Electrolysis has been re-enabled in Nightly. It brings lots of end-user benefits but it also brings a new style for tabs. I guess this underlining is to help users easily notice the difference with a non-Electrolysis build. But you can easily disable that: Locate your profile Go into the chrome  […]

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Adopting Omnifocus and GTD

I've tried to adopt the Getting Things Done method a few times already. Every time, it wasn't a success. I wasn't applying most principles and fell back to noting things down on a collection of small papers. This time, I had a huge advantage: at work, I'm sitting next to Étienne, a big proponent of  […]

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My first patch in Gecko

A couple of weeks ago, I decided to try and fix a Gecko bug (Gecko is the rendering engine of Firefox). So I hoped onto the list of mentored bugs and found one that I thought would improve the Web Platform and looked easy enough for my skills. I found this one : add support for background-size in  […]

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