Tux Machines
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 23, 2023
=> Free Software: FOSS Weekly, Some Applications, and Linux Foundation | Audiocasts/Shows: Linux Out Loud, TWIL, and "UNIX is Everywhere"
=> ↺ Microsoft aggressively trying to keep Chrome downloaders using Edge
Microsoft sees its browser as an important aspect and entry point for the new Bing. Microsoft Edge on Windows is now showing a rather aggressive ad on the Chrome download page to dissuade people from switching.
=> ↺ Google Chrome Now Uses Less Memory on Linux
Google Chrome 110 is rolling out to users across all platforms this week and there's a notable new feature included.
=> ↺ FOSSDA Launches to Celebrate FOSS Month
I am thrilled to announce that, with generous support from Mozilla and the Apache Foundation, we have officially launched FOSSDA, the Free and Open Source Stories Digital Archive. It's time to tell the story of the free and open source movement!
=> ↺ Firefox UX: People do use Add to Home Screen
Last week Apple added a bunch of capabilities for web apps added to an iPhone or iPad home screen. This includes the ability for 3rd party browsers, like Firefox, to offer Add to Home Screen from the share menu and to open home screen bookmarks if it’s the default browser. I’d love to see us add this to our iOS app. It looks like a contributor did some investigation and this might be easy.
=> ↺ Last week Apple added a bunch of capabilities for web apps added to an iPhone or iPad home screen. | ↺ a contributor did some investigation
=> ↺ Mozilla Performance Blog: Announcing side-by-side videos for performance regressions
Early in the fall, I was talking about integrating the side-by-side tool in Continuous Integration (CI). This started as a script for generating a side-by-side comparison between two page load test runs, and emphasizes the visual differences. Using this tool, you can see more clearly which metrics have regressed, and how they might be experienced by a user. The first milestone was to have a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
=> ↺ talking
The page load tests measure the performance of Firefox (and competitors) browsers and run in Taskcluster (which is our CI) which are then visualized in Treeherder. Perfherder is our tool for catching performance regressions. When a regression bug is filed, the author of the regressing commit is needinfo-ed and asked for a fix. Sometimes the issue is not obvious and additional debugging information is needed, in which case the side-by-side comparison is very useful to help preview the impact the regression would have on the end-user.
=> ↺ Treeherder | ↺ Perfherder
=> ↺ talking | ↺ Treeherder | ↺ Perfherder
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