Archive for June, 2008

June 20, 2008 15

Firefox Keeps You Safe In Ways Other Browsers Don’t

By morgamic in Mozilla

You might know about some of the more glamorous Firefox 3 security features, but behind the scenes Firefox is protecting you from malicious extensions and plugins through its blocklisting service.
Depicted below is a diagram of how Firefox talks to its blocklist service. This is how it works:

Every day Firefox downloads an XML document from [...]

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June 12, 2008 6

Profiling PHP with Xdebug and Webgrind

By morgamic in Mozilla, Technology

Using Webgrind and Xdebug, you to tack on ?XDEBUG_PROFILE=true to any URL and view profiling information for that particular URL instantly.
One of the main criticisms of profiling PHP applications has been how difficult it is to manage different kcachegrind or wincachegrind windows — assuming you’re a pro at pointing them to your Xdebug output directory [...]