Code coverage statistics are very useful. They tell you how much of your code never gets executed during the unit tests. So you always know what to write unit tests for, because 100% coverage doesn't exist. And sometimes you can't cover all code. That's why normally you are happy, if the coverage is above a …
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Recently Mozilla restricted access to ftp.mozilla.org, instead you can download nightlies from archive.mozilla.org. Sadly this broke existing methods to download Firefox nightly for automated unit tests on Travis CI. I've written a node module, that takes care of downloading nightly versions of Firefox desktop and Android. .travis.yml for Desktop Update: I changed the export commands …
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Firefox for Android has an interesting homescreen: it's divided in multiple panels (or tabs), which by default contain your history, bookmarks, recently closed tabs, reading list, synced tabs and the new-tab tiles. Since a while extensions can add their own panels. Even though the API is pretty simple it's not as comfortable as Add-on SDK …
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It's been a while, since I last poset a gig of beardy, and this one's pretty great. Distractions Tour, E-werk, Erlangen, 2014 by Beardyman. https://soundcloud.com/beardyman/distractions-tour-e-werk-erlangen-2014