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Firefox 37 brings more encryption to the web through opportunistic encryption of some http:// based resources. It will be released the week ...

The Internet is chirping loudly today with news that draft-17 of the HTTP/2 specification has been anointed proposed standard. huzzah! Some ...

Next week Firefox 35 will be in general release, and Firefox 37 will be promoted to the Developer Edition channel (aka Firefox Aurora). HT...

HTTP/2 provides a mechanism for a server to push both requests and responses to connected clients. Up to this point we've used that as ...

There have been a bunch of interesting developments over the past few months in Mozilla Platform Networking that will be news to some folks....

I participated for two days last week in the joint W3C/IETF (IAB) workshop on Strengthening the Internet against Pervasive Monitoring (aka S...

Recently the IETF working group on HTTP met in Berlin, Germany and discussed the concept of mandatory to offer TLS for HTTP/2, offered by Ma...

One of the more interesting networking papers I've come across lately is Reducing Web Latency: the Virtue of Gentle Aggression . It deta...

This past week saw IETF 87, in Berlin Germany, come and go. As usual I met a number of interesting new folks, caught up with old acquaintanc...

Lots of interesting stuff in this paper: Understanding the latency benefits of multi-cloud webservice deployments . One of the side angles...

Robert Koch's Masters Thesis about websockets security and adoption is linked . One interesting tidbit - he surveyed 15K free apps fr...

Thanks to Google's amazing Pat Meenan, Firefox nightly has been added to webpagetest.org - just make sure to select the Dulles VA locati...