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SUPERSEDED by https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox. Read-only Git mirror of the Mercurial gecko repositories at https://hg.mozilla.org

80 mentions on Hacker News by 69 people: 4 stories, 76 comments · first 2013-11-26 · latest 2025-05-15

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  1. …isolated secure platform. Here is quick search just on "chrome" keyword on source code repo. https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/search?q=chrome&unscope...
    comment by hrgiger · 2019-12-30 · in Switching from Chrome to Firefox
  2. …la.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/A... [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582271 [2] https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/master/media/ffvpx...
    comment by ihuman · 2019-12-03 · in Firefox 71
  3. This is a pretty nice comment from the source that explains how it works: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/11d9c7b7fa82fdfb8a... ``` // Recording and replaying works by controlling non-determinism in the browser: //…
    comment by inglor · 2019-11-28 · in Firefox Replay
  4. ▲ 1
    Browsers paint the screen and detect mouse hits
    story by felipetavares · 2019-11-23 · 0 comments
  5. …the other replies said, feel free to eyeball the code required to embed SpiderMonkey in Firefox at https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/tree/master/dom/binding... . It's rather large and complex.
    comment by KonkeyDong69 · 2019-11-17 · in Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web
  6. …they check beyond just the dNSName constraints. Here's the unit test making sure it stays working: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/b8157dfaafc42deb3b...
    comment by jack12 · 2019-07-18 · in MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan
  7. https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/28fa74680f4a3d2c... I think they're using skia all the time since 2016.
    comment by szczepano · 2019-06-15 · in Chromium and the Browser Monoculture Problem
  8. …they were collaborating on IRC or something instead. [1] GitHub mirror to not stress their infra: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/1d1260c7615f1d9a...
    comment by mook · 2019-05-04 · in Update Regarding Add-Ons in Firefox
  9. …after just browsing the two, but please compare for yourself https://github.com/chromium/chromium https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev
    comment by no_wizard · 2019-02-27 · in We Need Chrome No More
  10. …this too, playing host of the Mozilla git mirror, which also has a relatively large number of refs: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev
    comment by auscompgeek · 2018-05-19 · in Introducing Git protocol version 2
  11. …already include other TLDs which are in the HSTS preload list (like .bank, .google, and .foo). [0] https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/master/security/ma...
    comment by Klathmon · 2018-05-01 · in Introducing .app, a more secure home for apps on the web
  12. …I just did this simple experiment: 1) hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/ 2) git clone https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev.git 3) (cd mozilla-central && time hg log dom/base/nsDocument.cpp) 4) (cd gecko-dev && time git log…
    comment by bzbarsky · 2018-04-11 · in Why SQLite Does Not Use Git
  13. …to put the MP4 parser written in Rust right next to the CSS engine, for example. I believe that https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev is a mirror of the repo in question, and so we can use Github's search function to find every file that it…
    comment by kibwen · 2017-09-30 · in It’s time to give Firefox another chance
  14. Yep, here’s the relevant commit (well, the Github mirror of it): https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/4746493e724546d2...
    comment by robin_reala · 2017-09-26 · in Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
  15. …the 90s mindset. I mean I just went to the github repo and opened a random file and look at this : https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/master/widget/Text... or this : https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/master/dom/base/At...…
    comment by jcelerier · 2017-08-17 · in When did software go off the rails?
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    Bug 1387254 – Update Firefox Nightly Branding
    story by kibwen · 2017-08-09 · 1 comment
  17. C and Rust? Firefox looks like a ton of C++ to me: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev
    comment by mbel · 2017-07-10 · in 24-core CPU and I can’t move my mouse
  18. …that go well past the TodoMVC level of detail. Looks like the source for the Network Monitor is at https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/tree/master/devtools/cl... . (Also, will throw out a pointer to my React/Redux links list at…
    comment by acemarke · 2017-06-17 · in Firefox Network Monitor Reloaded – Part 1
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    Bind sacrificial goat to ephemeral port
    story by tanrax · 2017-04-05 · 0 comments
  20. …https://github.com/torvalds/linux , - LibreOffice https://github.com/LibreOffice/core , - Firefox https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev
    comment by glandium · 2017-02-22 · in The Impact Github is Having on Your Software Career
  21. https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/cba49f2392f772a0...
    comment by ivank · 2016-11-30 · in Javascript exploit actively used against TorBrowser
  22. …you might want the action to inspect the value that it was resolved with. We use this in tests: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/master/devtools/cl... Tests can wait for an action to be dispatched and the promise is resolved with…
    comment by jlongster · 2016-04-13 · in Two Weird Tricks with Redux
  23. …a use case using the "action" that's sent to "request.run", or is it passed just because it can be. https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/master/devtools/cl...
    comment by dyscrete · 2016-04-13 · in Two Weird Tricks with Redux
  24. …While those string types continue to get a lot of use, the closest analogue to the STL is MFBT: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/tree/master/mfbt
    comment by pcwalton · 2016-02-13 · in Electronic Arts Standard Template Library for C++ Open Sourced
  25. …hromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink/+/master/So... Gecko also seem to have a lot of custom stuff: https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/tree/master/xpcom/strin... Doom3 idLib: https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM-3-BFG/tree/master/neo/id.…
    comment by albertzeyer · 2016-02-13 · in Electronic Arts Standard Template Library for C++ Open Sourced
  26. …the API still exists. But the API implementation seems to have required fixes as well. [1] [2] [1] https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/2e67509c8a3cefe8... [2] https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/commit/8b7f7bde8f21bd71...
    comment by pjtr · 2015-08-13 · in Firefox Under Fire: Anatomy of latest 0-day attack
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    Year Handling in JavaScript
    story by scott_o · 2015-06-16 · 0 comments
  28. …you wont for the first bunch of patches) it is totally fine to use git, the github mirror is at https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev and you can just upload patches for review
    comment by daleharvey · 2014-07-22 · in I made a patch for Mozilla, and you can do it too
  29. …Chrome [1] and Firefox [2]. [1] https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/net/http/tr... [2] https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/master/security/ma... Trusting the SSL certs is another thing though.
    comment by jakub_g · 2014-03-18 · in GCHQ Used Fake LinkedIn Pages to Target Engineers (2013)
  30. This is a mirror that was being personally maintained, its been replaced by https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev , the maintainer sent an email saying the mirror was shutting down and people should move to the maintained version, this…
    comment by daleharvey · 2013-11-26 · in Determine why mozilla/mozilla-central has been removed from service by GitHub