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• Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox

  Chrome and Firefox will reach version 100 in a couple of months. This has the potential to cause breakage on sites that rely on identifying the browser version to perform business logic.  This post covers the timeline of events, the strategies that Chrome and Firefox are taking to mitigate the impact, and how you can help.The post Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.

  Posted Tuesday, February 15, 2022 by Karl Dubost

• Improving the Storage Access API in Firefox

  Before we roll out State Partitioning for all Firefox users, we intend to make a few privacy and ergonomic improvements to the Storage Access API. In this blog post, we’ll detail a few of the new changes we made. The post Improving the Storage Access API in Firefox appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.

  Posted Tuesday, February 8, 2022 by Benjamin VanderSloot

• Retrospective and Technical Details on the recent Firefox Outage

  On January 13th 2022, Firefox became unusable for close to two hours for users worldwide. This incident interrupted many people’s workflow. This post highlights the complex series of events and circumstances that, together, triggered a bug deep in the networking code of Firefox. What Happened? Firefox has a number of servers and related infrastructure that […]The post Retrospective and Technical Details on the recent Firefox Outage appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.

  Posted Wednesday, February 2, 2022 by Christian Holler

• Hacks Decoded: Adewale Adetona

  Adetona Adewale Akeem, more popularly known as iSlimfit, is a Nigeria-born revered digital technologist and marketing expert. He is the co-founder of Menopays, a fintech startup offering another Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) option across Africa. We chatted with him about founding Menopays and the impact of tech solutions developed in Nigeria. The post Hacks Decoded: Adewale Adetona appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.

  Posted Monday, January 31, 2022 by Xavier Harding

• Contributing to MDN: Meet the Contributors

  If you’ve ever built anything with web technologies, you’re probably familiar with MDN Web Docs. With about 13,000 pages documenting how to use programming languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript, the site has about 8,000 people using it at any given moment. MDN relies on contributors to help maintain its ever-expanding and up to date documentation. We reached out to 4 long-time community contributors to talk about how and why they started contributing, why they kept going, and ask what advice they have for new contributors.The post Contributing to MDN: Meet the Contributors appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.

  Posted Tuesday, January 18, 2022 by Francesca Minelli