Fennec - The Inside Story

No, I’m not dishing dirt on Stuart. I started to put together some Fennec front-end documentation. Fennec is similar to Firefox, but very different at the same time. Some background information and discussion of the internals is probably a good thing.

I also pulled in some performance related guidelines, most of which I discussed in this post. The document will become the core of my FOSDEM Fennec talk. If you’re thinking of attending that talk, read the document first and come prepared with questions.

I want to add sections on JavaScript APIs and events available in Fennec, as well as some of the process flow. Add-on developers, in particular, should have a solid understanding of the internals. It will make porting your code easier.