The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

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Episode 308: Nov 23rd, 2022

Links

• Watch this episode on Air Mozilla
• Joplin Agenda

Topics

• Extensions update
  • firefox-dev mailing list that you can subscribe to
    • Blog post about MV3 and Unified Extensions
    • Follow Planet
    • Follow Planet@fossdon
    • Standards position
    • Privacy analysis of floc
• Back to WindowsJumpLists!
  • Goal: I want the JumpListManager to only ever be accessed off of the main thread, so that the main thread in the parent process never has to await a lock.
    • Get rid of maxListItems, since it doesn’t appear to be used
    • Get rid of isListCommitted
    • Make .available return a Promise
    • Make abortListBuild return a Promise
    • Make deleteActiveList return a Promise
    • Make SetAppUserModelId return a Promise
    • Add WebIDL for JumpListShortcutDescription and add populateJumpList method to JumpListBuilder.
    • Figure out how to make the above testable.
    • Make populateJumpList work to create jump list items all in one shot
    • Implement clearJumpList
    • See if the above works. If it does, get rid of old changes that we don’t need and merge patches down
    • Update WindowsJumpList.jsm to use the new API instead of the old one.
    • Update WindowsJumpList.jsm to be simpler so that it doesn’t try to do so much lazy stuff since now it’s all off of the main thread
    • Remove the old implementation! Hooray!
    • Migrate off of dedicated lazy thread to background thread pool
• Question: How does the nightly blog schedule work, because sometimes there is a blog post every week and sometimes there is radio silence for a month, like right now.
  • Blog
  • It’s based on the Firefox Desktop meeting that happens
  • That meeting happens (usually) every 2 weeks
  • 2 weeks ago, meeting was cancelled due to Low Meeting Week
  • Expect similar turbulence as we enter the holidays.
• Rate this episode

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Resource Links

• Felicia Bacon
• npb hacks on the SpiderMonkey JS engine
• Compiler Compiler live stream
• Try out Mozilla VPN
• Firefox Source Code Documentation
• mozconfigwrapper: A Wrapper to manage different mozconfigs
• MyQOnly: Mike's addon to track your review queues on Mozilla Phabricator
• Mike's Firefox Color Theme
• Firefox Monitor: Stay informed on new data breach of services you're using online
• Create a free Bugzilla account
• Codetribute: Find a good first bug to start contributing on a Mozilla projects (Firefox, Thunderbird, and more). See the above link for creating a Bugzilla account first!
• Nathan Baggs livehacking / reverse engineering
• Alessandro Castellani has been streaming himself livehacking on Thunderbird
• Emilio hacking on Firefox