Mozilla, Servo, Thunderbird, and Chromium

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 20, 2024

• Sean Conner ☛ “… and water is wet! Film at 11!”

  I then viewed the site on my desktop computer and … why? Why do I need a less-than-20-minute old browser to view seven images and some text? Why does it take 193 requests to even show the page? At a minimum, you have the HTML, CSS and seven images, so … nine requests? Okay, maybe some Javascript to do the animations designers are so fond of.

  But 193 files?

• Mozilla

  • Thunderbird ☛ January 2024 Thunderbird Community Office Hours: How To Join Us!

    We’ve been working on some significant (and what we think are pretty fantastic) UI changes to Thunderbird. Besides the new Cards View, we have some exciting overhauls to the Message Context Menu (aka the right-click menu) planned. UX Engineer Elizabeth Mitchell will discuss these changes, and most importantly, why we’re making them. Additionally, Elizabeth is one of the leaders on making Thunderbird accessible for all! We’re excited to hear how the new Message Context Menu will make your email experience easier and more effective.

  • Bogomil Shopov - Bogo: Use your Thunderbird OpenPGP key to set your Web Key Directory

    For my email communication, I rely on Thunderbird. That is why I generate my OpenPGP keys with their key manager, not through the gpg itself.

    This morning, I set up my Web Key Directory(WKD) so anyone with an email client that supports this can auto-discover my public OpenPGP  key without needing to look at any key server or rely on information from my website.

  • The Servo Blog: Tauri update: embedding prototype, offscreen rendering, multiple webviews, and more!

    Back in November, we highlighted our ongoing efforts to make Servo more embeddable, and today we are a few steps closer!

    Tauri is a framework for building desktop apps that combine a web frontend with a Rust backend, and work is already ongoing to expand it to mobile apps and other backend languages. But unlike say, Electron or React Native, Tauri is both engine-agnostic and frontend-agnostic, allowing you to use any frontend tooling you like and whichever web engine makes the most sense for your users.

• Chromium

  • Jamie Zawinski ☛ I am not, in fact, your music library

    Dear Lazyweb, any idea what bullshit Chrome extension keeps trying to load URLs on my site of the form: [...]