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Multiprocess Firefox | Bill McCloskey's Blog
https://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/multiprocess-firefox
Bill McCloskey's Blog. Just another WordPress.com site. Firefox Add-on Changes →. December 5, 2013. Since this January, David Anderson and I have been working on making Firefox use multiple processes. Tom Schuster (evilpie on IRC) joined us as an intern this summer, and Felipe Gomes, Mark Hammond and other have made great contributions. Now we’re interested to hear what people think of the work so far. Correction: Apparently IE 8 used multiple processes 6 months before Chrome was released.). Most perform...
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Answers and Questions » Blog Archive » Don’t Use Mozilla Persona to Secure High-Value Data
http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2014-02-11/dont-use-mozilla-persona-to-secure-high-value-data
Laquo; Mozilla Summit: Listen Hard. Use -debugexe to debug apps in Visual Studio. Don’t Use Mozilla Persona to Secure High-Value Data. The chain of trust in Persona has several attack points:. The Public Key: HTTPS Fetch. The Public Key: Attacking the IdP HTTPS Server. Signing: Accessing the IdP Signing System. What About Password-Reset Emails? One common defense of Persona is that email providers. Who Should Use Persona? For any site with high-value data, Persona is not a good choice. On bugzilla...
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asm.js in Firefox Nightly | Luke Wagner's Blog
https://blog.mozilla.org/luke/2013/03/21/asm-js-in-firefox-nightly
Luke Wagner's Blog. Programming, Mozilla and the Web. Optimizing JavaScript variable access. Asmjs in Firefox Nightly. March 21, 2013. I’m happy to announce that OdinMonkey, an asm.js. Optimization module for Firefox’s JavaScript engine, is now in Nightly builds and will ship with Firefox 22 in June. What is asm.js? Why are we doing it, and how are we getting to within 2x of native performance? After GDC, expect full coverage of these topics by Alon. Alon’s mloc.js slides. A nice Badass JavaScript post.
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