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Firefox 3 Beta 3 Add-ons Manager and Add-ons API

Yesterday the beta 3 of Firefox 3 was released to the world.  This beta contains the new Add-ons Manager, and people seem to be liking it so far – ArsTechnica says One of the most promising and...

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Foxes

We have a litter of fox kits in the back field at our house.  Today we managed to catch them on film.  Please enjoy our very own foxkehs.  Edited to add: Some people apparently don’t know Foxkeh…for...

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Socorro: Mozilla’s Crash Reporting System

(Cross-posted from the Mozilla WebDev blog.) Recently, we’ve been working on planning out the future of Socorro.  If you’re not familiar with it, Socorro is Mozilla’s crash reporting system. You may...

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Moving Socorro to HBase

This post first appeared in the Mozilla Webdev Blog on July 26 2010. We’ve been incredibly busy over on the Socorro project, and I have been remiss in blogging. Over the next week or so I’ll be...

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The future of crash reporting

This post first appeared in the Mozilla Webdev Blog on August 5 2010. In recent blog posts I’ve talked about our plans for Socorro and our move to HBase. Today, I’d like to invite community feedback on...

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Rapid releases: one webdev’s perspective

People still seem to be very confused about why Mozilla has moved to the new rapid release system. I thought I’d try and explain it from my perspective. I should point out that I am not any kind of...

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Ship it: a big week in Webtools

They say multi-tasking is hard. They also say DevOps is hard. Let me tell you about a bunch of engineers who think “hard” means “a nice challenge”. Last week was an amazing one for the Webtools family....

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A billion crashes: 2012 in review

In 2012, on the Socorro project, we: Collected more than one billion crashes: more than 150TB of raw data, amounting to around half a petabyte stored. (Not all at once: we now have a data expiration...

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