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• Introducing the Extension Compatibility Tester

  With Firefox’s move to a modern web-style browser extension API, it’s now possible to maintain one codebase and ship an extension in multiple browsers. However, since different browsers can have different capabilities, some extensions may require modification to be truly portable. With this in mind, we’ve built the Extension Compatibility ...

  Posted August 24, 2017 by Potch

• Inside a super fast CSS engine: Quantum CSS (aka Stylo)

  You may have heard of Project Quantum… it’s a major rewrite of Firefox’s internals to make Firefox fast. We’re swapping in parts from our experimental browser, Servo, and making massive improvements to other parts of the engine. The project has been compared to replacing a jet engine while the jet ...

  Posted August 22, 2017 by Lin Clark

• Essential WebVR resources

  With the release of the WebVR API v1.1, and WebVR support in Firefox 55, here's a collection of useful resources for WebVR development. From the landing page at vr.mozilla.org to the A-Frame website and community, here's everything you need to get started.

  Posted August 15, 2017 by Chris Mills

• A-Frame comes to js13kGames: build a game in WebVR

  It’s that time of the year again – the latest edition of the js13kGames competition opened yesterday, on Sunday, August 13th. Just like last year, and going back to 2012 when I started this competition. Every year the contest has a new theme, but his time there’s another new twist ...

  Posted August 14, 2017 by Andrzej Mazur

• Firefox 55: first desktop browser to support WebVR

  Firefox on Windows is the first desktop browser to support the new WebVR standard (and macOS support is ready now in Nightly!) You'll find many new features for developers, as well as underlying platform changes that make Firefox and the Web faster and more secure.

  Posted August 08, 2017 by Dan Callahan