The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

Volunteer-driven episode guide for The Joy of Coding

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Episode 435: Apr 1st, 2026

Links

• Watch this episode on Air Mozilla
• Joplin Agenda

Topics

• Q: “could you please go over the about:config preferences for the Firefox Nova re-theme?”
  • browser.design-tokens.nova
  • browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.nova.enabled
  • browser.urlbar.nova.featureGate ?
• Review:
  • https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D289423
  • https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D291196
• Downloads sidebar exploration
  • Let’s first see how the modern sidebar works
  • We don’t want to use XUL here, so just framing about:downloads is not going to work
• Rate this episode

Chat

• Join us on Matrix!

Other

• Felicia Bacon
• npb hacks on the SpiderMonkey JS engine
• Compiler Compiler live stream
• Try out Mozilla VPN
• How mconley uses Mercurial
• Fission - Read more about it
• mozconfigwrapper - A Wrapper to keep different mozconfigs
• MyQOnly Mikes Addon for showing how many reviews are in your review queue - Source at Github
• Mike’s Firefox Color Theme
• Check if a service you are using, has been part of a breach via Firefox Monitor
• Codetribute - Help contribute to Firefox, good mentored bugs for You.
  • First, Create a Mozilla Bugzilla account.