A few months into a recent project, my software development team hit a bug that took much longer to diagnose than it should have. We were generating PDFs server-side — filling in form fields with data from our system, saving the document, and returning it to the user. In Adobe Acrobat, the fields looked perfect, […] The post 3 Reasons…
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17 Mar
7 Aug 2024
We’re pleased to announce that, as of version 23, the Puppeteer browser automation library now has first-class support for Firefox. This means that it’s now easy to write automation and perform end-to-end testing using Puppeteer, and run against both Chrome and Firefox. The post Announcing Official Puppeteer Support for Firefox appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
28 Mar 2024
Speed and performance might make you think of motorcycles with big shiny chrome parts, but that’s not what this post is about (apologies). Instead, it’s about the speed and performance of a secure Chromebook user experience. Today, we’re going to talk about the steps that educational institutions from preschool to graduate school need to take […] The post Go Big…
31 Jan 2023
Last March we announced the Interop 2022 project, a collaboration between Apple, Bocoup, Google, Igalia, Microsoft, and Mozilla to improve the quality and consistency of their implementations of the web platform. Now that it's 2023 and we're deep into preparations for the next iteration of Interop, it's a good time to reflect on how the first year of Interop has…
23 Sept 2018
This blog is mainly reserved for cryptography, and I try to avoid filling it with random “someone is wrong on the Internet” posts. After all, that’s what Twitter is for! But from time to time something bothers me enough that I have to make an exception. Today I wanted to write specifically about Google Chrome, … Continue reading Why I’m…
14 Nov 2014
I recently had a web page with a long list of Twitter names that were not linked, like @mattcutts. I thought that someone has to have made a Chrome extension that would “linkify” names so they would be clickable like @mattcutts. And with a little bit of searching, I found twlinkfy. It looked like a […]
26 Sept 2013
Someone recently asked me how I manage my to-do list, so I thought I’d write up the software that I use. Fundamentally I use Google Tasks as the backend, but with extensions and apps that improve on the basic functionality in Google Tasks. Chrome I use a couple different extensions for Chrome: – Better Google […]
13 May 2013
I started this blog post of Chrome tips in 2008. Even though this is a “hairball” post, some of these tips still work. – control-shift-V will paste your selection as plain text – control-shift-T will re-open the last tab you closed. You can repeat that to keep re-opening previously closed tabs. – Hover over a […]