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• Build the Virtual Reality Web with A-Frame

  The WebVR team at Mozilla (MozVR) set out over a year ago asking, “what would virtual reality (VR) on the Web look like?” Today we click on links to jump from page to page, one day we will walk through portals to jump from world to world. Unfortunately, there are ...

  Posted March 03, 2016 by Kevin Ngo

• Introducing the WebVR 1.0 API Proposal

  2016 is shaping up to be a banner year for Virtual Reality. Many consumer VR products will finally be available and many top software companies are ramping up to support these new devices. The new medium has also driven demand for web-enabled support from browser vendors. Growth in WebVR has ...

  Posted March 01, 2016 by Casey Yee

• Introducing DevTools Reload

  As a way to encourage more open source developers to contribute to the evolution of Firefox Developer Tools, the DevTools team has built DevTools Reload, an add-on that removes some common barriers to entry. It’s not unusual for mature Open Source projects to have large code bases. This can act ...

  Posted February 24, 2016 by Soledad Penadés

• Implementing Content Security Policy

  The add-ons team recently completed work to enable Content Security Policy (CSP) on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). This article is intended to cover the basics of implementing CSP, as well as highlighting some of the issues that we ran into implementing CSP on AMO. What is Content Security Policy? Content Security Policy ...

  Posted February 16, 2016 by April King

• Smoother scrolling in Firefox 46 with APZ

  Have you ever been on Facebook or Twitter, merrily scrolling down the page, when all of a sudden, the browser appears to freeze? For several long seconds it just hangs there, and you’re not sure if it’s going to crash or not. Then, finally, something gives way, and the page ...

  Posted February 09, 2016 by Kartikaya Gupta