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  Llamafile’s progress, four months in

  When Mozilla’s Innovation group first launched the llamafile project late last year, we were thrilled by the immediate positive response from open source AI developers. It’s become one of Mozilla’s top three most-favorited repositories on GitHub, attracting a number of contributors, some excellent PRs, and a growing community on our Discord server.

  Posted on April 25, 2024

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  Porting a cross-platform GUI application to Rust

  In this blog post, we delve into the motivations for choosing Rust for our crash reporter, outline the unique challenges of designing an application that operates when the main browser has failed, and discuss the new architecture we've implemented. We also share insights into the technical nuances of the implementation, demonstrating how Rust's features are leveraged to handle crashes more effectively and securely.

  Posted on April 23, 2024
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  Prototype even faster with the Gradio UI for Figma component library

  In the fast-paced world of generative AI, staying ahead means moving swiftly and smartly. That's why we've embraced Gradio, the low-code prototyping toolkit from Hugging Face, as our go-to for bringing new ideas to life.

  Posted on April 11, 2024
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  Improving Performance in Firefox and Across the Web with Speedometer 3

  In collaboration with the other major browser engine developers, Mozilla is thrilled to announce Speedometer 3 today. Like previous versions of Speedometer, this benchmark measures what we think matters most for performance online: responsiveness. But today’s release is more open and more challenging than before, and is the best tool for driving browser performance improvements that we’ve ever seen.

  Posted on March 11, 2024
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  Announcing Interop 2024

  Following the success of Interop 2023, we are pleased to confirm that the project will continue in 2024 with a new selection of focus areas, representing areas of the web platform where we think we can have the biggest positive impact on users and web developers.

  Posted on February 1, 2024
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  Option Soup: the subtle pitfalls of combining compiler flags

  During the Firefox 120 beta cycle, a new crash signature appeared on our radars with significant volume. Engineers working on Firefox, explore the subtle pitfalls of combining compiler flags.

  Posted on January 29, 2024
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  Puppeteer Support for the Cross-Browser WebDriver BiDi Standard

  Puppeteer now supports the next-generation, cross-browser WebDriver BiDi standard. This new protocol makes it easy for web developers to write automated tests that work across multiple browser engines.

  Posted on December 12, 2023
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  Firefox Developer Edition and Beta: Try out Mozilla’s .deb package!

  A month ago,?we introduced our Nightly package?for Debian-based Linux distributions. Today, we are proud to announce we made our?.deb package available for Developer Edition and Beta!

  Posted on November 30, 2023
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  Introducing llamafile

  We're thrilled to announce the first release of llamafile, inviting the open source community to join this groundbreaking project. With llamafile, you can effortlessly convert large language model (LLM) weights into executables. Imagine transforming a 4GB file of LLM weights into a binary that runs smoothly on six different operating systems, without requiring installation.

  Posted on November 29, 2023
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  Mozilla AI Guide Launch with Summarization Code Example

  Mozilla has just launched the AI Guide, a collaborative hub for developers to join forces, inspire each other, and lead the way in groundbreaking generative AI advancements. The AI Guide’s initial focus begins with language models and the aim is to become a collaborative community-driven resource covering other types of models.

  Posted on November 16, 2023
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  Down and to the Right: Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023

  To deliver against our vision and enable a better online experience for everyone, we’ve been working hard on making Firefox even faster. We’re extremely happy to report that this has resulted in a significant improvement in speed over the past year.

  Posted on October 31, 2023

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