Web Browsers/Web Servers Stories
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Nicolas Fränkel ☛ Random and fixed routes with Apache APISIX
My ideas for blog posts inevitably start to dry up after over two years at Apache APISIX. Hence, I did some triage on the APISIX repo. I stumbled upon this one question: [...
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Robert OCallahan ☛ So You Want To Build A Browser Engine
If you’re building a browser engine from scratch just for fun, stop reading now and I wish you the best. If you want to build an engine that’s competitive with Chromium, and surpasses it in some respects, here’s my advice.
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Mozilla
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Firefox profiles and Plasma launchers (X11)
I’m a heavy user of Firefox profiles. Apart from using different profiles for different activities, I also have a few extra profiles that all run in the Default activity.
This means that I need to have different icons shown in Plasma’s panel in order to be able to easily differentiate which profile a window belongs to.
Sure, I use the tasks applet which shows the window title instead of the icon-only one (I prefer usability to minimalism), but still, it isn’t enough as sometimes the active tab in a Firefox window might not have the most informative title.
Plasma seems to rely on the application name and the window class when choosing the icon it will show in the panel. Which means that, by default, all Firefox instances end up having the same icon.
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