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The official repository of Mozilla's Firefox web browser.

27 mentions on Hacker News by 26 people: 5 stories, 22 comments · first 2025-05-12 · latest 2026-10-12

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  1. …a non-widely-used OS or device, what website is going to approve its attestation credentials? [1] https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/8e9ac3e12bba...
    comment by nonfunctional · 2026-10-12 · in Passkeys are a trap
  2. Curiously, this makes Firefox display the default favicon (instead of no favicon): https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/raw/refs/heads/ma...
    comment by jwilk · 2026-08-30 · in Bug Blindness
  3. …address Mozilla's own recent controversy regarding AI authorship of commits to the Firefox repo ( https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/71cc24b6a4... ).
    comment by jprs · 2026-03-09 · in Owning Code in the Age of AI
  4. …runner for the actual testing, which is a separate crate: https://github.com/mozilla/memtest (see: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/main/toolkit... , which points to a specific commit in that repo - turns out to be tip of…
    comment by wging · 2026-03-06 · in 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
  5. …the Mozilla source, I would imagine [4] is what they're using as a tester when it crashes. [1] - https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/917c4a6bfa... [2] - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1762568 [3] -…
    comment by rincebrain · 2026-03-05 · in 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
  6. …because it's popular and having small integrations like this make the user experience better. [1]: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/1f43fe5ffadd... [2]: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/1f43fe5ffadd... [3]:…
    comment by gkbrk · 2026-02-24 · in Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
  7. https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox Rust isn't even mentioned in languages used.
    comment by TiredOfLife · 2026-02-23 · in Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
  8. …like the Firefox HTML5 parser is still maintained as Java to this day! Here's the relevant folder: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/tree/main/parser/... make translate # perform the Java-to-C++ translation from the remote #…
    comment by simonw · 2025-12-17 · in I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours
  9. …: C++ 74.0%, Java 8.8%, Objective-C++ 4.8%, TypeScript 4.2%, HTML 2.5%, Python 2.4%, Other 3.3% https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox : JavaScript 28.9%, C++ 27.9%, HTML 21.8%, C 10.4%, Python 2.9%, Kotlin 2.7%, Other 5.4% How…
    comment by vbezhenar · 2025-12-10 · in Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
  10. https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/FIREFOX_143_... # Use 17 for Ctrl, 18 for Alt, 91 or 224 for Meta, 0 for none. - name: ui.key.accelKey type: uint32_t #ifdef XP_MACOSX value: 224 #else value: 17 #endif // user.js…
    comment by guns · 2025-12-02 · in Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility
  11. …2025-01-24, where a commit removed this "pretend to be Windows even on Linux platforms" behavior. https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/eb2f90f870... This OS spoofing behavior was added in 2019-01-09 with this commit:…
    comment by gkbrk · 2025-11-02 · in AI scrapers request commented scripts
  12. …) and also ongoing upstream development in the Firefox repository https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/tree/main/gfx/wr
    comment by nicoburns · 2025-10-20 · in Servo v0.0.1
  13. > If Mozilla or Google were to make their code freely available on some git forge like GitHub https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox https://github.com/chromium/chromium
    comment by zrm · 2025-10-06 · in Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests
  14. …and token usage needed it's hard to not like. Which is a shame it's (somehow) such a drain. [0] https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/7b42e629fdef... exports a SmartTabGroupingManager, though how or why that is used without being…
    comment by yunruse · 2025-08-30 · in Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy
  15. …hub.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/65b2fb1c3c4d0e85ca3902... Mozilla has an in-house implementation at least: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/tree/5f99d536df02... It seems like the answer to the compat issue might be the MathML…
    comment by esprehn · 2025-08-19 · in "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec"
  16. …into Web Classic Mode and it pretty much only reaches these resources. Be the change you want: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox
    comment by reaperducer · 2025-07-30 · in The HTML Hobbyist (2022)
  17. …bit of work to do if we want to retire some of these C programs: https://github.com/nodejs/node https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox https://github.com/torvalds/linux https://github.com/python/cpython
    comment by mrkeen · 2025-06-28 · in Uncle Sam wants you – to use memory-safe programming languages
  18. …using regexes to solve production problems. The certificate code referenced here shows why: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/d5979c2a5c2e... Yikes.
    comment by timewizard · 2025-06-25 · in Getting ready to issue IP address certificates
  19. First commit: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/c4cc52826a... Hard to believe it's been 27 years. I remember when it was still in beta, and how exciting it was to have an open source alternative to Internet Explorer. Good…
    comment by kidsil · 2025-05-14 · in Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo
  20. Star Wars reference in a comment: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/917c73cfe1a5... Fun to get a glimpse into someone's thought process while they were working.
    comment by elmer007 · 2025-05-13 · in Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo
  21. …all PRs with a note that code should be submitted elsewhere), and all "other stuff" is disabled. https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox
    comment by SCdF · 2025-05-13 · in Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo
  22. …the only GitHub Workflow they have is actually for closing Pull Requests with a default response: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/main/.github...
    comment by xrdev · 2025-05-13 · in Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo