Additional Work: Index

This folder collects the smaller patches I shipped during the Firefox internship — work that doesn’t carry a folder of deep-dives on its own but that filled out the surface area of the privacy team’s responsibilities. The four heavy folders (Tracker Performance Cost Model, Privacy Dashboard, ETP Configuration Pipeline, Browser Engine Security Patches) cover the load-bearing work. The pages below are everything else.

SmartBlock Shims

Main article: Tracker Block Shims.

Click-to-load placeholders for tracker-blocked content. A Facebook post shim that fills in the gap when ETP blocks the Facebook SDK, plus two smaller followups (Fluent localization for the SmartBlock header, Glean probe expiry extension).

Notification Permission Telemetry

Main article: Notification Permission Telemetry.

My first patch on the team. Seven Glean events instrumenting the full lifecycle of notification permission prompts: icon shown, icon clicked, prompt shown, prompt blocked, prompt interaction, revoked via toolbar, revoked via preferences.

URL Tracking Parameter Stripping

Main article: URL Tracking Parameter Stripping.

Three patches extending Firefox’s strip-on-share rules: adding the Google Analytics _gl linker parameter, extending Amazon and Audible rules to cover international domains, and adding a preference that flips “Copy Clean Link” to be the default copy behavior.

Privacy Settings Dialog Modernization

Main article: Privacy Settings Dialog Modernization.

Removing the old clear-data dialog — 2,645 lines across 46 files, eight reviewers across six subteams. Plus a followup catching references the first patch missed, and a loading spinner on the new dialog because the cookie-size calculation was leaving users staring at a blank checkbox grid.

Mozilla Toronto Engineering Talks

Main article: Mozilla Toronto Engineering Talks.

A March 2026 event I organized at Mozilla’s Toronto office, bringing 30+ UofT students together with four Mozilla engineers across mobile, desktop, and privacy. I was one of the four speakers.

Index

• SmartBlock Shims: Click-to-Load Placeholders for Blocked Tracker Content. A Facebook post shim, localization for the SmartBlock header, and an extension to Glean probe expiry on SmartBlock telemetry.
• Instrumenting Firefox's Notification Permission Lifecycle with Glean. Seven Glean events covering the full notification permission lifecycle, from icon display through revocation.
• Tracking-Parameter Stripping in Firefox's Copy Clean Link. Three patches extending Firefox's strip-on-share rules: Google Analytics, Amazon/Audible internationals, and a pref to make clean-copy the default.
• Removing 2,645 Lines of the Old Clear Data Dialog. Deleting an XHTML dialog across 46 files and eight reviewer groups, then adding a loading spinner to the replacement.
• Mozilla Engineering Talks + Networking. 30+ students from UofT Blueprint and UofT AI visited the Mozilla Toronto office for engineering talks and networking.