No, this is not yet another alternative to JavaScript, instead Rust is a new programming language designed for desktop applications.According to the Rust website "Rust is a curly-brace, block-structured expression language. It visually resembles the C language family, but differs significantly in syntactic and semantic details. Its design is oriented toward concerns of “programming in the large”, that is, of creating and maintaining boundaries – both abstract and operational – that preserve large-system integrity, availability and concurrency."Currently Mozilla has no plan to rewrite Firefox in Rust, rather they intend to use Rust "as a platform for prototyping experimental browser architectures" and to develop a new browser that has better...

Nearly every browser has an integrated suite of developer tools that can help debug and develop websites, but Firefox has been lacking in that area by default. Firefox didn't need an integrated suite of web development and debugging tools since it was quite extensible, and had a powerful add-on for all who needed development tools, FireBug. FireBug is still available, and popular, and continues to be developed for each new Firefox release. But if you were always excited to learn about how the web works, now Firefox will put the tools straight in your hands.So why does Firefox need its own set of developer tools? The intention of Firefox developers is to have a better alternative to traditional developer tools such as FireBug, Opera Dragonfly, and other similar developer tools available...

Last time we looked at Desura, they had launched a Linux version of their client and opened their store to Linux games in addition to Windows. They were also looking to open source their client software so it could attract developers from outside their own company, which has just one developer involved in making a Linux port.Well now they have open sourced their client under the GPL3 licence, and put it up on GitHub so other people can contribute code to it. The approach they have taken is similar to what Google has done with Chrome. Google has an official version of the browser branded as Google Chrome, while the name of the open source project is Chromium. Anyone can create a Chromium build and include modifications to it, however only Google can release Chrome. Similarly, Desura will...