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It's used for things like pop-up menus, (i.e. things that can't be done with HTML) and was recently used in some obscure parts of the UI e.g. certificate viewer (however I'm not ev…

When the decision was made to use Mercurial, Git for Windows wasn't a viable option. If you wanted to develop on Windows, the choices were Mercurial or SVN. Edit: I work for Mozill…

Firefox, Chrome and Safari all dropped support for FTP. I suspect the Register is referring to the domain name of the server rather than the protocol: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/f…

I don't know if http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/j... is representative of all the implementations of bitCount in Java, but it's probably obvious that it'…

WeakReferences are elsewhere e.g. [1] My understanding of SoftReferences is that they sound like they're going to be useful in implementing caches, but then cacheing is hard, and g…

In Our Time (BBC R4) did a recent episode called "P vs NP" [1] which talked about graph isomorphism, and might serve as an introduction to this. There's an MP3 download at the link…

Copyright law with fonts is strange. 'Looking like' isn't a copyright vilation, but if you take copy a font and tweak it slightly then it probably is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

To be fair on NICE, from the same page: "NICE currently does not recommend that homeopathy should be used in the treatment of any health condition" "Some homeopathic remedies may c…

I'm the author of the blog post. I've updated it to add that Mihai died recently.

We moved the button and a number of the tabs in Firefox devtools to be more like the order in Firebug and Chrome devtools. Here's a screenshot from current Nightly: https://i.imgur…

Can you explain how we're doing that? I'm not aware of any of our tools that are Mac only.

I'm not sure that anyone has a definative answer to that question right now. The new tools are interesting because they do things in a different way, but there is a lot they don't …

Firebug isn't 'owned' by Mozilla, and hasn't ever been, however Mozilla has contributed financially to it's development for some years, and still is. In addition to supporting Fire…