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Jun 25, 2010

Android IRC clients

I recently went looking for an IRC client for my Nexus One and couldn’t find any good information to narrow the field based on some quick google searches. So I downloaded 4 from the market to give them a try. Since others may also be looking for this sort of info I figured I’d share my…

Brad Lassey in blassey

Jan 10, 2015

unsafe CPOW usage

Cross Process Object Wrappers (aka CPOWs) are at the same time amazing and terrible. They are amazing in that they make things Just Work™ in Electrolysis (e10s). One of the major issues with converting Firefox code to work under e10s is chrome code that runs in the chrome process and would…

Brad Lassey in blassey

May 15, 2011

How do you get the visible area of an Android View?

Most Android keyboards show what’s called an “extracted text view” when they’re in landscape mode, where it takes over the whole screen hiding the underlying application. However, you can use the EditorInfo.IME_FLAG_NO_EXTRACT_UI flag with…

Brad Lassey in blassey

Apr 12, 2011

Roll your own DynDNS with DreamHost’s APIs

As I tweeted last week, DynDNS killed my account again but this time I was in California for 2 weeks, leaving me without access to my home network. That was less than convenient. So, on my to-do list for when I got home was trying to figure out a more…

Brad Lassey in blassey

Oct 1, 2012

Five years at Mozilla

As I write this I’m sitting on a Virgin flight to SFO from Boston. Strangely enough, exactly 5 years and a day ago I was also on a Virgin flight to SFO from London. Back then I was flying out to start my new job at Mozilla. Earlier that year I had started to get antsy in my previous job…

Brad Lassey in blassey

Mar 28, 2011

Firefox for Mobile Performance Overview

There are many things that can fall into the broad category of “performance.” The flavor of the month, as of late, has been “JavaScript performance,” perhaps because it’s so easy to get numbers from various test suites that can be used to compare browsers. The…

Brad Lassey in blassey

Jul 18, 2010

ccache configure option for mozilla

On Friday I landed a patch for bug 577636, which adds an option to mozilla-central’s configure to use ccache for your build. You can just add — with-ccache=<path to ccache> to your mozconfig to begin building with ccache. Or you can just use — with-ccache=ccache if…

Brad Lassey in blassey

Feb 24, 2015

Detecting slow add-ons

As we have been progressing towards a multi-process Firefox we have seen many bugs filed about slowness that after investigation turned out to be related to add-ons interacting poorly with the way multi-process Firefox now operates. This doesn’t necessarily mean that the add-on author has…

Brad Lassey in blassey

Jan 22, 2008

Non-touch screen browser UI

On Friday I posted a few screen shots and descriptions of my proposed user interface for non-touch screen phones. The assumption is that these devices will have QVGA screens (240x320 pixels), a 5-way directional pad and two soft keys. The discussion page is here, please feel free…

Brad Lassey in blassey

Jun 19, 2014

New Android Widget Peer

I’m happy to announce that James Willcox, better known to many as snorp, is now an Android Widget peer. James has been doing reviews and acting as a de-facto peer for a while now so it is about time to make it official.

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