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• Hacking on the Network Monitor Developer Tool (Part 2)

  In the previous post, Network Monitor Reloaded, we walked through the reasoning for refactoring the Network Monitor tool. We also learned that using web standards for building Dev Tools enables us to running them in different environments – loaded either within the Firefox Developer Toolbox or within a browser tab ...

  Posted June 15, 2017 by Jan Honza Odvarko

• Network Monitor Reloaded (Part 1)

  The Network Monitor tool has been available in Firefox since the earliest days of Firefox Dev Tools. It’s an invaluable tool for anyone who cares about page load performance and fast modern web pages. Now the monitor has been re-architected for a more modern web development workflow using standard web ...

  Posted June 15, 2017 by Jan Honza Odvarko

• Avoiding race conditions in SharedArrayBuffers with Atomics

  This is the third article in a 3-part series of code cartoons that explore SharedArrayBuffers in JavaScript and how they are used.

  Posted June 14, 2017 by Lin Clark

• A cartoon intro to ArrayBuffers and SharedArrayBuffers

  This is the second article in a 3-part series of code cartoons that explore SharedArrayBuffers in JavaScript and how they are used.

  Posted June 14, 2017 by Lin Clark

• A crash course in memory management

  This is the first article in a 3-part series of code cartoons that explore SharedArrayBuffers in JavaScript and how they are used. To understand why ArrayBuffer and SharedArrayBuffer were added to JavaScript, you need to understand a bit about memory management.

  Posted June 14, 2017 by Lin Clark