What is it? crashstats-tools is a set of command-line tools for working with Crash Stats (https://crash-stats.mozilla.org/). crashstats-tools comes with four commands: supersearch: for performing Crash Stats Super Search queries supersearchfacet: for performing aggregations, histograms, and cardinality Crash Stats Super Search queries fetch-data: for fetching raw crash, dumps, and processed crash data for specified crash ids reprocess: for sending crash report reprocess requests v2.0.0 released! There have been a lot of improvements since the last blog post for the v1.0.1 release. Ne ..read more

When Mozilla’s Innovation group first launched the llamafile project late last year, we were thrilled by the immediate positive response from open source AI developers. It’s become one of Mozilla’s top three most-favorited repositories on GitHub, attracting a number of contributors, some excellent PRs, and a growing community on our Discord server. Through it all, lead developer and project visionary Justine Tunney has remained hard at work on a wide variety of fundamental improvements to the project. Just last night, Justine shipped the v0.8 release of llamafile, which includes not only suppo ..read more

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @ThisWeekInRust on Twitter or @ThisWeekinRust on mastodon.social, or send us a pull request. Want to get involved? We love contributions. This Week in Rust is openly developed on GitHub and archives can be viewed at this-week-in-rust.org. If you find any errors in this week's issue, please submit a PR. Updates from Rust Community Foundation Guest Blog: At ..read more

Extern types have been blocked for an unreasonably long time on a fairly narrow, specialized question: Rust today divides all types into two categories — sized, whose size can be statically computed, and unsized, whose size can only be computed at runtime. But for external types what we really want is a third category, types whose size can never be known, even at runtime (in C, you can model this by defining structs with an unknown set of fields). The problem is that Rust’s ?Sized notation does not naturally scale to this third case. I think it’s time we fixed this. At some point I read a prop ..read more

Firefox’s crash reporter is hopefully not something that most users experience often. However, it is still a very important component of Firefox, as it is integral in providing insight into the most visible bugs: those which crash the main process. These bugs offer the worst user experience (since the entire application must close), so fixing them is a very high priority. Other types of crashes, such as content (tab) crashes, can be handled by the browser and reported gracefully, sometimes without the user being aware that an issue occurred at all. But when the main browser process comes to a ..read more

Highlights The team is in the early stages of adding wallpaper support! This is still very preliminary, but you can test what they’ve currently landed on Nightly: Set browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabWallpapers.enabled to true in about:config Click on the “gear” icon in the top-right of the new tab page Choose a wallpaper! Note that you get different options depending on whether or not you’re using a light or dark theme. Set a new look for new tabs! Among other things, Firefox 125 is going to ship with support for the Popover Web API This should make it easier to create dropdo ..read more

This is a follow-up to a previous post on how a majority of US residents surveyed are now using an ad blocker, and how the survey found that privacy concerns are now the number one reason to block ads. Almost as long as online privacy tools have been a thing, so have articles from personalized ad proponents telling us not to use them, because personalized ads are good actually. But for such a data-driven industry, the advocacy for personalized ads comes with surprisingly little data to back that up. And it should be a simple hypothesis to test. If personalized ads are such an efficient way to ..read more

We’re excited to share an update with people running Linux on ARM64 (also known as AArch64) architectures. ARM64 Binaries Are Here After launching the Firefox Nightly .deb package, feedback highlighted a demand for ARM64 builds. In response, we’re excited to now offer Firefox Nightly for ARM64 as both .tar archives and .deb packages. Keep the suggestions coming – feedback is always welcome! .tar Archives: Prefer our traditional .tar.bz2 binaries? You can get them from our downloads page by selecting Firefox Nightly for Linux ARM64/AArch64. .deb Packages: For updates and installation via our A ..read more

Microsoft Exchange is a popular choice of email service for corporations and educational institutions, and so it’s no surprise that there’s demand among Thunderbird users to support Exchange. Until recently, this functionality was only available through an add-on. But, in the next ESR (Extended Support) release of Thunderbird in July 2024, we expect to provide this support natively within Thunderbird. Because of the size of this undertaking, the first roll-out of the Exchange support will initially cover only email, with calendar and address book support coming at a later date. This article w ..read more

How the Firefox User Research team crafted our mission statement Firefox illustration by UX designer Gabrielle Lussier Like many people who work at Mozilla, I’m inspired by the organization’s mission: to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. In thinking about the team I belong to, though, what’s our piece of this bigger puzzle? The Firefox User Research team tackled this question early last year. We gathered in person for a week of team-focused activities; defining a team mission statement was on the agenda. As someone who enjoys workshop creation and s ..read more