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Introducing the ‘mozjpeg’ Project

[Mozilla announces a quest to fully-optimize JPEG compression with their own open source encoder.][link]

Snark: But why don’t they just contribute to [WebP][webp]?

[link]: https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2014/03/05/introducing-the-mozjpeg-project/ “Introducing the ‘mozjpeg’ Project | Mozilla Research”
[webp]: http://www.webpimages.com “WebP – The Google Image Format”

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Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on Next Generation Web Browser Engine

[I’d like nothing more than to see this succeed][link], and I agree with John Gruber’s [simple assessment][df]:

>It would be a win for everyone if Servo did to WebKit what WebKit did to Gecko.

I will, however, be very disappointed if the logo doesn’t somehow evoke the image of Tom Servo from MST3k.

[link]: http://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/04/03/mozilla-and-samsung-collaborate-on-next-generation-web-browser-engine/ “Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on Next Generation Web Browser Engine | The Mozilla Blog”
[df]: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/04/03/servo “Link to Daring Fireball post”

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Code Rush, A Documentary About the Beginning of the Mozilla Project, Now in Creative Commons

[Thanks to the efforts of Andy Baio][link].

[link]: http://waxy.org/2009/07/code_rush_in_the_creative_commons/ “Code Rush in the Creative Commons – Waxy.org”

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Mozilla Labs Jetpack

[Extending Firefox with open web technologies like jQuery, HTML and CSS][link]. I am thinking of it as the next generation of Greasemonkey.

[link]: https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/ “Mozilla Labs Jetpack | Exploring new ways to extend and personalize the Web”