Project Tofino was an attempt by Mozilla to develop a new web browser. Richard Newman and I were responsible for designing and implementing a data storage layer to back Tofino. To meet Tofino’s needs we built Project Mentat, a data store designed for embedded client applications. This blog post explains the forces that resulted in us proposing Mentat to meet Tofino’s data storage needs.

Right now, a Mac OS X Desktop Firefox builds takes about 20 minutes on fast hardware. By downloading pre-built binary artifacts, we get a functioning Mac OS X build in about 2 minutes. The resulting "artifact build" allows to quickly develop the JavaScript, XHTML, and CSS parts of the browser (but not the compiled C++ parts of the browser).

Never build libxul again!

I found writing my goals for the Firefox 36 cycle personally helpful, so I thought decided to repeat the exercise. Then I thought, "Why not share what I’m doing more widely?" In that spirit, here’s what I intend to work on during the Firefox 38 cycle.

I found writing my goals for the Firefox 36 cycle personally helpful, so I thought decided to repeat the exercise. Then I thought, "Why not share what I’m doing more widely?" In that spirit, here’s what I intend to work on during the Firefox 38 cycle.