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Google to launch the early access program of the .dev domain, a dedicated space for developers

Bhagyashree R

18 Feb 2019

3 min read

Last year in November at the Chrome Dev Summit keynote, Google introduced .dev, a domain dedicated to developers and technology. The registration process has already started on Feb 16 and the team is set to launch its Early Access Program. The registration process has already started on Feb 16. According to the timeline shared at the Chrome Dev Summit, the Early Access Program will start on Feb 19th at 8:00 am PST to February 28th at 7:59 am PST. Under this program, users can register available .dev domains by giving an extra fee. This fee will decrease as we get closer to the General Availability phase, which starts February 28 onwards. After registering the domain, users will be required to pay $12/year cost for .dev domains. In addition to a dedicated space for developers, this domain will provide built-in security, as it is included on the HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) preload list. This essentially means that all the connections to .dev websites and pages will be made using HTTPS. Looking at Google’s track record of killing its products over time, some Hacker News users were little skeptical about this service. One user commented, “I wouldn't lease the domain through Google domains. Use a different registrar --- if possible, one that you'll be able to trust. That registrar will work with the registry of the TLD, which would be google in this case, and has a much better chance of actually resolving issues than if you were a direct customer of Google Domains.” Another user said, “They have a well-established track record of enthusiastically backing exciting new projects way outside of their core competency just to dump them like hot garbage several years later...It doesn't seem like a smart move to lease a domain from a politically active mega-monopoly that might decide to randomly become your competitor in 2 years.” Countering this argument, one of the Google developers from the team launching .dev said, “You'll be glad to know that TLDs can't simply be discontinued like other products might be. ICANN doesn't allow it. The procedures in place preventing a live TLD from shutting down are called EBERO.” Read more about the .dev domain on its official website. Chromium developers propose an alternative to webRequest API that could result in existing ad blockers’ end Google Chrome developers “clarify” the speculations around Manifest V3 after a study nullifies their performance hit argument Regulate Google, Facebook, and other online platforms to protect journalism, says a UK report

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Mozilla releases Firefox Beta for Windows 10 on Qualcomm Snapdragon Always On, Always Connected PCs

Bhagyashree R

12 Apr 2019

2 min read

Last year in December, Mozilla announced its collaboration with Qualcomm to create an ARM64-native build of Firefox targeting Snapdragon-powered Windows 10 ‘Always On, Always Connected’ PCs. Yesterday, it shared that this Firefox build is now available in their Beta release channel. This release builds on top of Firefox Quantum, which is designed to efficiently work on multiple core processors. With this release, Mozilla aims to take this multi-paradigm one step further by making Firefox Quantum efficient for octa-core CPUs available from Qualcomm. To give users “a fast, personal, and convenient experience”, it takes advantage of Rust’s safe concurrency property to divide browsing tasks across the cores Qualcomm processors are being widely used in smartphones. At the Snapdragon Tech Summit 2018, the company shared that they are now moving into the PC space. They introduced the Always on, Always Connected PC category that aims to provide users smartphone-like features on a PC. These features include continuous connectivity and lightning-fast LTE speeds, multi-day battery life, location awareness, among others. Along with this, Qualcomm also announced that they are working with developers to bring a wide range of software applications that will be natively supported in these PCs and one of them was Firefox. Chuck Harmston, Mozilla's senior product manager for the Firefox Arm project, said, "One of the most compelling features of Windows laptops using Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset is the battery life it enables, measured in days, rather than hours. We've been working hard to take advantage of that, offloading discrete tasks to small chips to use less power ... This was a big project that spanned the Firefox organization, touching almost every part of the browser." Developers are encouraged to try this latest Firefox beta release on their Snapdragon Windows 10 devices and submit bug and crash reports to Mozilla. To know more, check out the official announcement by Mozilla. Mozilla developers have built BugBug which uses machine learning to triage Firefox bugs Mozilla adds protection against fingerprinting and Cryptomining scripts in Firefox Nightly and Beta Mozilla is exploring ways to reduce notification permission prompt spam in Firefox

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